WHY YOUNG PEOPLE PREFER TO LISTEN INDIE MUSIC?

In this era, music is very important for everyone. A lot of people listen to music to regulate

mood, to achieve self and as an expression of social reelatedness. In music, there are so many

genre in music. For example hip hop, jazz, r&b, pop, And etc. And one of music that young

people really is Indie music.

Indi music have the sound that melodic, the instrument are simple and easy to make,

but well textured. To make this music more harmonize, they also use guitar layerred to

complement, and bass, and also simple drum beat, and sometimes they also use keyboard or

violin or something else. The lyric of this music is really emotional but, they don’t talk about

their live sucks. Music for misfits: the story of indie, it explores how the artist broke away

from majors in the 1970s, they starting to doing by themself, setting their avenue of

production, distribution and artistry. They want the music is not too mainstream, and what

form independence takes now in our digital era. And in 1980 this is when indie culture was

built, and sustained and trasformed through 1990s.

Indie music in Indonesia, are grow in 1990s, it still small, and it is not really popular

than other geenre of music. Agus Sebia, as the chairman of Indonesia’s Indie Musician

Community (Askomindo) says that the extremely important occasion for outside the box

music in Indonesia accompanied a move of the audience members who progressively

observed standart music overwhelmed by the pop type. And the reason why young people

like to listen indie music are because the music is not mainstream, and lyric of this music

simply shallow, and indie music tends to be much more socially consious.

The example of indie band in Indonesia is like payung teduh, their song is really

famous, when they do a tour, the visitor will know about the liric of their song and they will
sing it together with them, and then Danilla, she is the most talented woman that sing indie

music. Young people in Indonesia will be know about her, the song that is singing by her is

beautiful. And there are so many band that have indie music Genre.

References

- https://nowjakarta.co.id/art-and-culture/music/indonesia-s-indie-music-scene

- Schafer, Thomas. The Physological Function of Music Listening.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/article/pmc3741536/

- Rivkan, B., Bromwich, K and Rogers, J. (2015). Sound, Style or Spirit-What does Indie

today : Theguardian.com

- Comen, D. (2015). How Indie Rock Change The World : theatlantic.com.