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Metallica deserves ‘all the love’ from ‘Stranger Things’ bump, Jokowi says
Jokowi, who made the time as Jakarta governor to attend a Metallica concert at the Bung Karno Sports Complex in August 2013, said the new generation of fans should celebrate the metal band’s music and that the new interest in "Master of Puppets" was proof that Metallica remained one of the best in the business.
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Danish Prime Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen gives President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo a box set of Metallica’s ‘Master of Puppets’ album during a visit to Bogor Palace on Nov. 28, 2017. (Antara/Rosa Panggabean)
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resident Joko "Jokowi" Widodo, a self-professed metalhead, said on Wednesday that the American band deserved all the fresh attention it had been getting from younger fans who had encountered the group’s 1986 hit "Master of Puppets" in the Netflix series Stranger Things.
Jokowi, who made the time as Jakarta governor to attend a Metallica concert at the Bung Karno Sports Complex in August 2013, said the new generation of fans should celebrate the metal band’s music and that the new interest in "Master of Puppets" was proof that Metallica remained one of the best in the business.
"There's no one like them, and as far as I know, there's no band from the new generation that can write music as good as theirs," President Jokowi said, responding to a question from The Jakarta Post at the Presidential Palace on Wednesday.
Jokowi said Metallica, Megadeth, Lamb of God, Slayer and Napalm Death were part of a golden generation of metal bands whose music would continue to resonate with new audiences.
"I don't hear much from new music today, the kind of music that they play. But again, I don't listen to much new music these days," he said.
"Master of Puppets" was used in the climactic finale of Stranger Things, in which one of the show’s protagonists, Eddie Munson, plays the song on his electric guitar. After the episode was released, a number of fans sought out the 36-year-old metal anthem on music streaming services.
In the week after the episode premiered, on-demand streams of the 1986 metal classic were up 650.3 percent, according to Luminate, which collates data for the Billboard charts.
