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Bernadya crafts work that rejects the easy genre categorizations that dominate most mainstream music ecosystems, a creative choice that aligns perfectly with the flexible classification of Music/Other that frames the Indonesian artist’s sound, Tolong Bilang Ini Mimpi. For too long, recorded music has been sorted into rigid buckets that assume all creative output can be boiled down to a handful of pre-defined sonic identities, ignoring the vast range of experimental, cross-cultural, and personally rooted work that artists create when they refuse to limit their vision to fit what audiences or industry systems expect. Classifying a work as Music/Other is not a dismissal of its artistic merit, nor a sign that it lacks clear creative identity; instead, it is an acknowledgment that some sounds cannot be contained by the generic labels that were built for a narrow slice of the world’s musical output.
