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11/07/2005
The girl with the breasts.....
My posts are all very decent, nothing pornographic is allowed but heck, I just
couldn't resist the headline...or title! Cause man oh man oh man, how can you
resist the tempatation to write anything like that when you just found out that
the name Inul Daratista means 'the girl with the breasts'. Well, not actually,
cause Inul is her name...and Daratista (Dara means breasts)...well, goes
without saying.....
I was
curious about this young Indonesian singer who tried to hold a concert here in
Malaysia some time back and asked my maid (live-in house helper) who she is. I
mean, since Inul is such a sensation there (and the fact that her concert is
banned here) prompted me to ask her who this gal is. And my maid say, "Oh
my god, her dancing is like nothing else on this planet. Everyone
in Indonesia thinks she is crazy!".
Aha. We're on to something here. I am thinking along the lines of Shakira or
Mariah Carey...maybe Beyonce or something.
Then we finally found her VCD and I watched it with......'keen interest'. My
husband stood there with his mouth open and my kids started 'jogetting' around
gyrating their butts to the rhythm of the music. I am like "Eeek! Aaccckkk!!
Ppphhhfffttttt!". For someone who's been around the 'gyrating disco' scene, I
have to admit that my first impression about Inul sucked! I mean, this is porn
disguised as music, man!!
And then I discovered that:-
1. She's appeared in the TIME magazine before (I mean, like wow!!)
2. She's never had a single recorded album out in the market...EVER!
3. She's only 24-years-old
4. That the kind of dancing and singing that she does is common where she was
born and bred
5. She's been through hell just to hold her concerts
6. That each single concert zaps her energy like crazy
7. She used to earn $0.40 per concert (I am assuming USD$0.40)
8. Her concert in Malaysia and many other parts of the world has been
banned
I
now look at her, Inul Daratista, in a very different light!
I mean, she's pretty and although some people think she can't sing for nuts but
in my personal opinion, if she didn't have to gyrate as much on stage, she
might have a better chance to sing PROPERLY. But because she is known for her
gyrating, NOT GYRATING is no longer an option!
To be frank, I really expected a more decent form of dangdut from her - nothing
quite so extreme (at some points in the concert, she was shaking and shoving
her rear end into the audience and you can imagine the kind of screaming and
euphoria that was going on during the concert). But I say, let the girl do her
stuff. Those who want to go and watch, go. Those who don't, stay home and watch
your 'FRIENDS'.
You
see...this is what I think....the more you tell the Indonesian people NOT to
watch her show, the more Inul Daratista will try to get into shows. The more
she tries, the more desperate (and some people call it 'curious') to watch it.
Many high class elite people will just shake their heads and cluck their tongue
when her picture is plastered over newspapers and magazines. They turn their
heads and shoo their kids into their rooms when the TV is showing her
performance. And then they sneak into their drivers' rooms and whisper to
them..."Tomorrow, go get me a VCD on that Inul Daratista in concert, ok?"
I mean, what's the point. Let the girl sing and perform. And accordingly, there
are hundreds, if not thousands of Inul Daratistas slam-dancing and bumping and
grinding in the East Java province of the country. And what...you're going to
stop ALL OF THEM??
The government should focus on how to keep Indonesia a safe and happy place
instead and let Inul sing her song...and grind her butt in whatever fashion she
wants.....
Judging from
the kind of response that her fans have started up (gyrating and drilling,
grinding in public places), the Government will be pretty helpful in their
effort to snuff out the flame that Inul has started. Besides, let's compare her
dangdut dancing to those performed by African tribes...not much difference
there. And besides, they are also performing very sensual acts that they call
DANCING. Didn't we all know that dancing is a very 'objective' thing?
A person could be flapping his arms around like a chicken and he could call it
'dancing' if he wants. If a person squats, stands, squats, stands...and if she
thinks that dancing....by golly, that MUST be dancing too. So, you see, to Inul
Daratista, dancing is gyrating her butt and grinding her rear end in cicles.
Sure, it makes us blush (and some men wonder if they can get a bit of the
action - or maybe get their wives to do that kind of bumping and grinding) but
to Inul, it's dancing all the same, aint' it?
Here are some links you should look at:-
TIME magazine interview
Official Inul Daratista
website
Common Dreams Newscenter
Coverage by Greatreporter.com
Devil Dancer
Sigh, gyrating off.....
Marsha
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any update?
Posted by: fan | 09/03/2007