Bernadya, Emotional Validation, and the Courage to Lament Life

Bernadya Becomes the Most Listened-to Singer on Spotify Indonesia in a Day

Everywhere these days you can hear Bernadya’s songs screeching in the air around us. At coffee shops, in campus environments, on public transportation, reading rooms, city parks, shopping centers, to the alleyways in a densely populated settlement, echoing songs performed by Bernadya. People will unconsciously open their mouths and recite the lyrics as the music plays.

If you can call it, the Bernadya congregation will form a choir that combines in accompanying the song played from the loudspeaker. Listening to Bernadya’s songs is sentimental and makes the corners of the heart rustle. The lyrics written by Bernadya are successful in capturing the anxiety of today’s society. Raising topics that are relevant to the conditions of people’s lives, this singer from Surabaya has successfully stirred the emotions of her fans.

Bernadya’s song is magical and can touch the deepest recesses of the listener’s heart. As of October 6, 2024, the music video for the song Lama-Lama has been viewed 10 million times and is ranked as the 38th most popular music video. On other song playback platforms such as Spotify, Bernadya’s songs are also perched at the top of the standings. In Bernadya’s Spotify profile, the song Satu Bulan, for example, has been played more than 172 million times.

This is one of Bernadya’s hit songs, titled “Untungnya, Hidup Harus Tetap Berjalan”.