This is a great post And proves once again that change in a society comes from the young, whenever they get a chance to express themselves against the repressive mores of their elders. It happened in the West also, in the 1960s. It is not always a good thing, but it is a necessary thing if any social progress is to be made at all.
The new singers in Arabic pop are mostly crap anyways. I listen to Arabic music, but it usually tens to be the older stuff, like Fairouz, who didnt feel the need to dress like a slut or to have a dozen plastic surgeries. The modern Arabic music I listen to mostly like Natacha Atlas, who really mixes east and west, old and new, and her songs dont all sound the same.
The writer can call it whatever he / she wants. It is not a rise in “Islamic extremism.” If anything, I see people rejecting that.. it’s a rise in public piety. More young people listening to the Qur’an instead of the crap pop music that Rotana churns out. Or perhaps listening to that crap, but still bringing the Qur’an into their lives. Putting on hijab… young ‘Hip” guys praying in the masjid…
Those channels are a disaster. They take up at least 25% of the satellite channels we get free-to-air here on Nilesat and Arabsat (that’s the whole Arab world). I think we have four or five Rotana channels alone.
The thing is that all these writers see it as a revolution, but it’s not. In terms of the text messaging, first of all, ALL the channels except the news ones have that, including the Islamic ones (where people txt dua’s). The other thing is that this element of star worship has been present here for a LONNNNNG time (see: Abdul Halim — women were jumping out of buildings when he died, Um Kulthum, Fairouz, M. Abdul Wahab, tec)… the only difference is that they’re putting out MORE of it than in the olden days and it doesn’t have any quality or poetry to it at all. Bleah.
This is a great post
And proves once again that change in a society comes from the young, whenever they get a chance to express themselves against the repressive mores of their elders. It happened in the West also, in the 1960s. It is not always a good thing, but it is a necessary thing if any social progress is to be made at all.
Ya Haqq!
If what has happened in America is called social progress I will take regression.
Its social decay. Shaytan is very patiently working what works best. Sex and music.
The new singers in Arabic pop are mostly crap anyways. I listen to Arabic music, but it usually tens to be the older stuff, like Fairouz, who didnt feel the need to dress like a slut or to have a dozen plastic surgeries. The modern Arabic music I listen to mostly like Natacha Atlas, who really mixes east and west, old and new, and her songs dont all sound the same.
Salaam ‘Alaikum
The writer can call it whatever he / she wants. It is not a rise in “Islamic extremism.” If anything, I see people rejecting that.. it’s a rise in public piety. More young people listening to the Qur’an instead of the crap pop music that Rotana churns out. Or perhaps listening to that crap, but still bringing the Qur’an into their lives. Putting on hijab… young ‘Hip” guys praying in the masjid…
Those channels are a disaster. They take up at least 25% of the satellite channels we get free-to-air here on Nilesat and Arabsat (that’s the whole Arab world). I think we have four or five Rotana channels alone.
The thing is that all these writers see it as a revolution, but it’s not. In terms of the text messaging, first of all, ALL the channels except the news ones have that, including the Islamic ones (where people txt dua’s). The other thing is that this element of star worship has been present here for a LONNNNNG time (see: Abdul Halim — women were jumping out of buildings when he died, Um Kulthum, Fairouz, M. Abdul Wahab, tec)… the only difference is that they’re putting out MORE of it than in the olden days and it doesn’t have any quality or poetry to it at all. Bleah.