HAIL AMIR : WAJAH KESAYANGAN HAMBA

Dangdut to the fore

Whenever the fasting month arrives, dangdut clubs will be lively the sort of celebrating without any of time considerations of which, for it can be the very first day of ramadhan but the very night would find hari raya ditties already played innermost. Girls would dress in their best baju kurungs the likes of Raya gonna be tomorrow and not a full month down the road. Club folks would even be greeting selamat hari raya even though the auspicious event can never be felt when the days reaching are still considerable. Major things can change in a day let alone four weeks ahead. Yet dangdut joints live a life on their own wherein the celebrations are there to be exulted wholesomely whence things have come and a full Ramadan is Hari Raya even though Hari Raya is meant for a day of release after a month of fasting.But in dangdut's own cosmology as per Kay El (Kuala Lumpur) experience, The Blessed Fasting Month is Hari Raya somewhat Saturnalia or Saturn worship is winter solstice and not of any other time. Saturnalia connects unimaginable orgies when hari raya is a day to reflect and feel deep in the heart the elation of having gone through the sublimed maker's command to restrain - food and drink and bad thoughts and unsatisfactory deeds and misdeeds for a full lunar solar month. A concrete situation of puasa of fasting compared to a rather licentious and pagan like ancient practice. Yet dangdut could combine both if only for the sake of profit and money - mostly - blatant and vile : seemingly. Dangdut makes its own philosophy, one neither liberating nor critical although existential to its own, in that it tries to celebrate its own forceful meaning but meaningless all in all. Much like some who want to portray localised logic compared to universal schemes of thought however globalising each term and epithet can not but become. Not unlike things inadvertently turn to imitate God ness yet God ness cannot be anything other than immutable. We are all susceptible to becoming but approaches day by day to the one that cannot become. Perhaps we each can only philosophize to our own and personal - experiences and histories. This calls for an accompanying song and the one above - of boy admiring girl - so innocent, so naive but soothing so soothing and for a magical while..Hohohohohohoho!