This is how Mr. Jad Choueiri decided to fight the usual stereotype of Arabs in the West !!
When I first saw this on Youtube , I was like saying “WTF” !!
“Funky Arabs” is the latest release by Jad Choueiri and Melody music which is owned by Gamal Marwan ,the grand son of Gamal Abdel Nasser ,who is surely is very proud in his grave by his grandson’s view towards Arab nationalism !! “Gamal is the son of Ashraf Marwan and it was a strange scene to see Choeuiri along with Shabaan Abdel Rahim attending Marwan’s memorial service” with Omar Soliman !!! “
I do not watch Melody anymore , in fact I do not follow modern pop Arab music except for singers like Amr Diab and Mohamed Monier so I did not know about the new masterpiece of Jad except when I read its press release in May Egyptian and Pan Arab life style magazines !! According to the press release :
The idea of Funky Arabs is to give another impression of the Arabs from what is shown in the western media !!
What another impression exactly !!!? I watched this video twice actually to find the message he is trying to deliver and if we are taking Mr. Choueiri seriously ,we will find that he is representing a very narrow segment or a social class that imitates the west in its worst forms ever !!
The video is disgusting to be honest ,full of sexual suggestions as it is the habit of Mr. Choueiri in his music videos. It is interesting so much because the video despite claiming that it gives another impression of the Arabs from what is shown in the Western media , it confirms the impression that the Arabs are sex maniacs , the oldest impression about Arabs in the Western media!!
But again this is a Jad Choueiri’s music video. Jad’s fame whether as a director or as a singer is based upon cultural shocks, it is not about being influenced by western culture but about depending on cheap ways to create buzz.
Jad is bad singer,composer ,musician and director , yes he is a bad director ,he is not good as Nadine Labaki.
Thank God he stopped singing in Egyptian accent , this is the only thing good in the “Funky Arabs” . Oh God I wish someone would punch him in his big mouth !!!
Not sure what to think of the video in all honesty! Here comes another sleazy stupid song imitating the Dog style ones we see in the US. But then again, I paused! You're right, he is extreme, his depiction of us arabs is not only sleazy, but also very skewed! But then again, if it is one way to show that not all Arabs are terrorists, maybe people will stop and think again and realize we lie somewhere in the middle between the two worlds! After all, that is the truth!
ReplyDeleteWhen I first saw this video I was completely horrified. Not only is it a disaster musically (bad lyrics, bad beat, bad pretty much everything)... it is such a failed attempt to put on the pretense of "modernity" that it's simply embarrassing.
ReplyDelete1) If Jad was planning on looking 'Westernized' or whatever his aim was, he should've learned the pronunciation of the word "Bombers". It has a silent b. It is not bomBers.
2) A Madonna tattoo ceased to be a sign of a 'rebel' circa 1990? So did the use of the word "funky" to describe anything other than a funny smell.
3) He seems to have been attempting to portray Arab not as terrorists but as 'party people'... honestly I think either stereotype is just as bad as the other
This video and the lyrics of the song make me feel ashamed to be an Arab, and angry that he has taken it upon himself to put out this representation of Arabs that I do not think is any better than what's already out there, if not worse.
hahahahaha!!! Nowadays singers are like mushrooms and you dont know who they and from where! everyday new faces with a lousy voice and songs! It is sad to see the Arab are following the west and thinking this will make them famous instead of keeping the Arab identity and video are mostly disgusting! What we have now are mostly about body and beauty but no voice!
ReplyDeleteI tried to step over the disgusting scenes and find any meaningful message (like black pops, Latinos..etc) but... I am so sorry.. you are right in every word you wrote, it is not just the obscenity, he could have used the tool (since his ethics do no prevent him from using it) and render a scream agains racist against Arabs like African Americans did, but he is just an immitating monkey
ReplyDelete'he is just an immitating monkey'
ReplyDelete100% right!
@anonymous , Arabs are not terrorists but they are not what he is presenting too !!This has nothing to do with impressions and perceptions I am afraid Jad loves to shock his audience , already I doubt if this video clip will make it to MTV so it would reach its target viewers as he claims !!
ReplyDelete@anonymous#2 when he used the word Funky at first I was amazed because I thought that I will see some video related to 1970s but again you can't expect Jad to have this kind of simple knowledge whether in language or in music in general , the man is terrible in everything
@anonymous#3 I do not see body or beauty at all nowadays , I see silicon valleys instead
@Nawra , my dear Nawra you can't expect someone like Jad to express for important topics like racism against Arabs in the media because he he is too shallow and too ignorant to do this and if he is going to do something like that one it is because his idols Madonna or Michael Jackson had did.As you described him he is an imitating monkey
You do not expect someone who presented Maria, Tina...etc to think other than this way
Already I remember now that he directed a song once for Nicole Saba where she used to love some black model and Jad said that it was his message to fight racism in Lebanon !!?? Of course when I saw the video I could not see this , it was not like Mariah Cary's song through the rain , it was terrible as usual !!
@anonymous#4 , he is 100% imitating monkey
agree with you totally
ReplyDeletethat was a terrible, discusting video. he has the guts to say he wants to improve the arabic image, by using a steryotype that was before the terrorsit one. The "alf leyla w lyala" one. where all girls are there just to dance for men. is that really what arabs are???!!!!!
ReplyDeleteGuys, no one asked you to listen or watch the video, just change the channel and enjoy your time with somthing else !
ReplyDelete@Khaled, thanks
ReplyDelete@anonymous, it is Arabian nights meet with 50 cents nights !!!
@anonymous, believe me I do this with the same kinds of videos but I could not ignore the fact that this gentleman claims that this video will enhance our image in the west !!!
Well i agree that the video was a complete dissaster and YES thats not what arabs are like!!
ReplyDeleteatleast they have some dignity!!! But in one way or another he actually ddid "TRY" to show the word that arabs were not terrorists and th were so called"party people", even though he failed in his atempet shouldnt we atleast congratulate the guy for trying?
i mean i have never seen/heard an arab singer trying to post an english song showing english people that we ain terrorosis!
dont u agree?
(with ALL my respect to the opinions ubove =D )
HE IS ME***K
ReplyDeleteWE ALL MUST HATE HIM AS HE SPREAD SEXUAL CULTURE .WE MUST REMEMBR THAT WE ARE MUSLIMS
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