Arabic Music Video Fun

Everybody needs a little pop-tart MTV bellydancing: YouTube - Arabic Music Video - Noura - Noura (Bellydancing).

The wonders of YouTube. Made my day...

Here's another one by the Four Cats, sort of the Spice Girls of the Arab world. I'll have to look up what "Antar" means - it's an epithet they're calling the man in question. "In the evening when he comes home, he tells me my (back) is broken!" The wife is slaving away at the chores, she dolls herself up for his return, covers herself in rose petals, the husband is a player in a white suit, winking and flirting with ladies on the street, but as soon as he comes home to the delicious dish, he turns tail and runs.

A little clip at the end indicates that this is a remake of an old pop song - a brassy diva in a Scarlett O'Hara dress sings it on what looks like 1970s television.

I have some purist friends who might roll their eyes, but this stuff makes me happy.

Comments

[Alb Sayed]

Antar is the name of the character in the famous Arabic folklore tale "Antar and Abla".

He was very passionate and hot tempered, the embodiment of the "macho man". Basically the song is about how a man acts tough and macho when out, while at home he's not so tough.

[Leila]

Thanks, Alb Sayed - I knew of the Antar and Abla tale but I didn't know the literary association, how people understand the reference (it's similar to a European calling a man a Don Juan - there's a story involved and you have to understand the context)