
Bingkai Karya – Indonesian band MALIQ & D’Essentials, with members Angga, Widi, Indah, Jawa, Lale, and Ilman, is back with a new single titled “Kita Bikin Romantis.” The song became a surprise hit on TikTok even before its official release on March 8th, 2024.
A 30-second snippet of the song exploded on TikTok, used in over 250,000 videos by March 10th. The official audio pre-release even coincided with the wedding of one of the band’s vocalists, Angga.
“We’re thrilled with the response to the ‘Kita Bikin Romantis’ snippet,” said Widi Puradiredja. “The fan-made content perfectly captures the song’s message: true happiness often lies in simplicity, not grand gestures.”
To celebrate the song’s virality, the band is creating an official visualizer compiled from TikTok videos featuring the song. Fans can watch it on the MALIQ & D’Essentials YouTube channel.
“As a thank you to our fans, we’re sorting through over 250,000 TikTok videos to use in a multi-part visualizer,” explained Angga Puradiredja. “We’ll release everything along with the already-out lyric video for sing-alongs, a behind-the-scenes look at the song’s creation, and finally, the official music video directed by our favorite, Anton Ismael.”
“Kita Bikin Romantis” is the band’s second single since reuniting with Warner Music Indonesia. Their previous song, “Aduh,” released in November 2023, has racked up over 24 million streams on Spotify and 3 million views on YouTube for its music video.
Before their time with Organic Records, MALIQ released their first four albums with Warner Music Indonesia. During that period, several of their hit songs were covered by Warner Music artists, including “Untitled” by Rahmania Astrini, “Dia” by Eclat, and “Heaven” by Rafi Sudirman.