About this Song
Wali, the Indonesian creator of Yang Penting Halal, contributes to the expansive, intentionally unconfined category of Music/Other, a classification that exists to hold the creative works that resist the rigid, often limiting boxes that structure most mainstream music cataloging and distribution systems. For decades, the global music industry has operated under the unspoken assumption that every recorded sound can be sorted into a small set of familiar, marketable genres, each with its own assumed audience, distribution path, and critical framework. These categories were rarely built to account for the full breadth of global creative expression, often sidelining works that draw from Indigenous, regional, or cross-cultural traditions that don’t align with the Western-centric frameworks that shaped most popular genre labels in the 20th and 21st centuries.
Yang Penting HalalSajid Umar
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