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Tenda Biru

An older Indonesian song by the actress and singer Desy Ratnasari that went viral again in 2016, when it became attached to the Mannequin Challenge in Indonesia. The record's entry for a back-catalogue track drafted into a new format.

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Desy Ratnasari, Indonesia; revived online in 2016
Life & death · 2015–2027
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PEAK 2016
BORN · 2016
NOW · 2026

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Definition @buffering_bea · Archivist 22 Oct 2016

The song did not change. What changed was that a global freeze-frame format needed a soundtrack, and in Indonesia this was the one it got.

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Memory @packet_loss · Poster 18 Oct 2016

I heard it under a frozen office video from Jakarta before I had ever heard it as a song. That is backwards and it is also normal.

Correction @wayback_wanda · Archivist 29 Sep 2016

It is not a 2016 release. The song predates its viral moment by years, and the singer is better known in Indonesia as an actress than as a meme.

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