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Sinta and Jojo's “Keong Racun” a Certified YouTube Hit
Jakarta Globe | July 30, 2010

West Java teenagers Sinta and Jojo gains online popularity after their lip-sync video became a hit. West Java teenagers Sinta and Jojo gains online popularity after their lip-sync video became a hit.
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diggah
7:14pm Jul 31, 2010

Good on you girls for putting some fun back into Indonesian life, don't stop now continue to have fun and give hope to all other young Indonesians. So that they can pursue their dreams and the chance to have a chance to live a fulfilling and enjoyable life, being and doing what teenagers and young people do world wide have fun and discover the things that matter to them and make their lives worthwhile.

diggah
6:08pm Jul 31, 2010

Finally some young people having some fun and sharing it with us, may be this is the beginning of the Javanese reclaiming their culture from the narrow and bigoted, well done girls! Life is to be enjoyed to offer hope and prospect for a future of promise not endless Fatwas and edicts that serve no purpose other than alienating large parts of the Indonesian population. Let the MUI live by their fatwas, while the rest of the population has some fun and enjoys life free of the stifilling dogma and hypocracy.


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Jakarta. Two teenagers from Bandung, West Java, have captured the attention of the local online community after uploading a video of themselves lip-synching a dangdut song. “Keong Racun” (“Poisonous Snail”), which they posted on YouTube, has garnered more than 1.2 million hits since it was uploaded a month ago.

It has also consistently become the No. 1 trending topic on microblogging site Twitter for the past three days. The teenagers, Sinta and Jovita “Jojo” Adityasari, are both 19 years old. In an interview with TV station RCTI, Jojo said that she and Sinta never expected their video to be such a big hit. “Sinta and I have been best friends since senior high school.

Last month, we heard of the dangdut song “Keong Racun” from a friend. We downloaded the song. We like it because the lyrics are funny,” Jojo said.

“We taped us lip-synching at the living room of my parents' house. We had originally meant to upload the video on Facebook, but the file size was too big,” Jojo added.

One of their friends suggested that they upload it on YouTube. “Keong Racun” was written by Buy Akur, a songwriter and musician from Bandung.

The song was originally sung by a local singer named Lisa. It only become popular, however, after Sinta and Jojo uploaded their version on YouTube. The song is about a sleazy man who shamelessly asks a girl he just met out on a date.

The duo's video created a buzz among Indonesian Twitter users and was linked by Facebook users and other online forums. Even politicians like House of Representatives deputy speaker Pramono Anung said he was a fan.

Pramono wrote on his Twitter account that watching the video had cheered him up. “Per your request, I just watched 'Keong Racun' and it has cheered me up,” Pramono tweeted, adding that the teenagers “made me laugh so hard.”

Jojo said that she and Sinta had received offers from recording companies to record an album and star in sinetron.

“But we turned all of them down because we know we have no talent,” Jojo said. However, they agreed to star in a music video.

“Charly, the vocalist of [band] ST12 asked us to be in his [music] video. He will be singing his version of 'Keong Racun' and we said yes,” Jojo said. As a result of the video's success, Jojo, a student of international relations at Bandung's Pasundan University, has been asked to be her campus icon and will be given a full scholarship.