New York dec 15 (NME) Malaysian band Terrer have dropped a music video for their debut single \u2018Hang Loklaq\u2019, which the rockers say is a \u201cstatement of pushback against religious hypocrisy\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The band shared the satire-laden song and music video on Sunday (December 12). \u2018Hang Loklaq\u2019 will appear on their forthcoming EP \u2018Kaum Lelaki\u2019 (\u2018Mankind\u2019).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The video clip, directed by Liew Seng Tat and produced by Moonasar, sees the all-male band perform in drag, donning the traditional\u00a0baju kurung<\/em>\u00a0dresses typically worn by Malay women. <\/p>\n\n\n\n In northern Malaysia, \u2018Hang Loklaq\u2019 is a term often used to describe \u2018strange\u2019 or \u2018creepy\u2019 behaviour, frontman Faiq Syazwan Kuhiri told NME<\/em>.about:blankjavascript:void(0)javascript:void(0)<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIt\u2019s colloquial, I spent my [secondary school] years in [the northern state of] Kedah and we would use it whenever someone was acting perverted, weird or kurang siuman<\/em> [mentally unwell]. So that\u2019s how we use the word in our song,\u201d he told NME<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIt is satire and playful humour but also a statement of pushback against religious hypocrisy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Faiq said the \u2018Kaum Lelaki\u2019 EP will contain five songs and should be released sometime in January. Its connecting theme, he added, is \u201cthe experience of what it\u2019s like to be a Malay man in our society today\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Kuala Lumpur-based Terrer \u2013 whose members also include guitarists Arman and Abel, bassist Azlan and drummer Helmi \u2013 started out as a band in 2018 and recorded \u2018Hang Loklaq\u2019 the following year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The \u2018Hang Loklaq\u2019 music video was also shot in October 2019, but the band postponed the release of the single and visual due to the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" New York dec 15 (NME) Malaysian band Terrer have dropped a music video for their debut single \u2018Hang Loklaq\u2019, which the rockers say is a \u201cstatement of pushback against religious hypocrisy\u201d. The band shared the satire-laden song and music video on Sunday (December 12). \u2018Hang Loklaq\u2019 will appear on their forthcoming EP \u2018Kaum Lelaki\u2019 (\u2018Mankind\u2019). …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1497,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[317,33],"tags":[354,355,353],"class_list":["post-1498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","category-malaysia-news","tag-band","tag-hang-loklak","tag-terrer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unclekentang.com\/bi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unclekentang.com\/bi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unclekentang.com\/bi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unclekentang.com\/bi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unclekentang.com\/bi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1498"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/unclekentang.com\/bi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1500,"href":"https:\/\/unclekentang.com\/bi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1498\/revisions\/1500"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unclekentang.com\/bi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unclekentang.com\/bi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unclekentang.com\/bi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unclekentang.com\/bi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}