Tich Button by Kulwinder Billa

Few songs from 2018 have held their ground as well as Tich Button, a track that keeps finding new audiences. The Boss sets the tone from the very first bar — it is clear from the opening notes that this song means business.

Kulwinder Billa brings a warmth to Tich Button that no production choice could manufacture — it has to be felt, and here it is. For fans of Kulwinder Billa, Karamjit Anmol, Harby Sangha, Sardar Sohi, Hobby Dhaliwal, Malkit Rouni, Parkash Gadhu, Raj Dhaliwal, Tich Button is one of those songs that immediately conjures specific scenes and emotions.

Released in 2018, it arrived at a time when Punjabi music needed exactly this kind of sincerity. Some music is background. Tich Button demands attention — not aggressively, but in the way a good conversation does.

The 3:27 runtime feels perfectly judged — long enough to develop its ideas, short enough to compel a second play. Songs like Tich Button are the reason people fall in love with Punjabi music and never quite fall out of it.