Singing about harsh realities of life


Ready to rock: Mother Bank drumming on claypots and sashaying along kampung dirt paths as they croon about borrowing money at high interest rates from blood-sucking moneylenders. — The Straits Times/ANN

It’s not every day that a girl band made up of middle-aged Indonesian housewives takes the Internet by storm with folk tunes about the everyday struggles of village life.

But Mother Bank have done just that, beginning with their hit, Jalan-Jalan, in which they croon about borrowing at high interest rates from blood-sucking moneylenders, and the struggle to repay the debt.

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