'MONKEY!' is an ORIGINAL EGYPTIAN-STYLE COMIC 'SHA'ABI' song COMPOSED and SUNG by KHAARTOUM. But this SHA'ABI, or 'MUSIC OF THE PEOPLE', is not ARABIC, but in ENGLISH dedicated to WORLD POLITICIANS past and pr…
'MONKEY!' is an ORIGINAL EGYPTIAN-STYLE COMIC 'SHA'ABI' song COMPOSED and SUNG by KHAARTOUM. But this SHA'ABI, or 'MUSIC OF THE PEOPLE', is not ARABIC, but in ENGLISH dedicated to WORLD POLITICIANS past and present whose 'GETTING TOO BIG FOR THEIR BOOTS' and MEGALOMANIA actually COSTS LIVES, CAUSES MISERY and KILLS THE PLANET.
SHA'ABI is a AKIN to ARABIC STYLE 'RAP'. It has the SAME FUNCTION of SATIRE and PROTEST of CORRUPTION and HYPOCRISY in the SOCIETY. SHA'ABI is both MUSIC and CINEMA in EGYPT. SHA'ABI MUSIC is CHARACTERISED by CRAZY WORDS and CRAZY VOICES. The LOUD and RASPING VOICES REPRESENT SHA'ABI in its REJECTION and ANTI-CULTURE to EXTREME SAUDI WAHABISM that was SET UP BY the BRITISH EMPIRE along with HOUSE OF SAUD. WAHABIS try to 'PUT A CAGE OF RELIGION' around the PEOPLE as the 100 YEAR PLAN to DIVIDE and RULE plus DAMAGE the IMAGE of ISLAM by BRITISH EMPIRE. SHA'ABI rejects this CAGE OF RELIGION by BREAKING OUT of the parables like "Don't raise your voice to the braying of a donkey" of Fundamentalists and actually they do the OPPOSITE. SHA'ABI RAISES its VOICE HIGH and SCREAMING to OPPOSE WAHABI DEMANDS for EXTREME RELIGIOUS APPEARANCES. SHA'ABI says, "You will not put this cage of religion around us. If we wish to dance or scream or pray, we will, it is our personal choice".
SHA'ABI ORCHESTRATION in CONTRAST to TURKISH ARABESK POP which is CENTRED on VOCALS, WORDS and ORCHESTRATION on PATTERNS of CRYING. SHA'ABI is CENTRED on the EGYPTIAN MENTALITY of 'DON'T CRY OVER SPILT MILK' or 'Ma'alish' ['Never mind']...The WORDS are CRAZY and SHOW EXTREMITY. The ORCHESTRATION is on PATTERNS of LAUGHTER. A SINISTER IRONIC SATIRICAL LAUGHING at 'BIG MEN' and their 'BIG IDEAS' that are just the BLINK OF AN EYE to the EGYPTIAN RIVER FARMERS who have been on the BANKS of the NILE for 4000 years...They have seen the ANCIENT EGYPTIANS, COPTIC CHRISTIANS, TURKISH EMPIRE, FRENCH, BRITISH EMPIRE and now the AMERICAN EMPIRE...All come...And go... SHA'ABI is LAUGHTER at these 'BIG MEN' and their 'BIG IDEAS' in a UNIVERSE of TIME...
The SONG FOCUSES on the HUMAN PROBLEM of VANITY, POWER, GREED and the CORRUPTION these BRING.
The ROMAN EMPIRE MODEL of DECADENCE and DECLINE seem to MIRROR our MODERN AGE of CONSUMERISM and NARCISSISM. CALIGULA the most INSANE of the ROMAN EMPERORS serves well from the BBC 1976 epic production of the FALL of the ROMAN EMPIRE: 'I CLAUDIUS' with the Late John Hurt playing the INSANE CALIGULA marrying and murdering his SISTERS, making his HORSE a STATESMAN, MURDERING at WHIM, and 'BECOMING A LIVING GOD'...All of these MIRROR our MODERN AGE POLITICIANS and MODERN POPULATIONS quite well as the PROVERB GOES:
"The higher the monkey climbs the tree the more he shows his arse"
MEANING in METAPHOR that as people RISE in POWER their BAD BEHAVIOUR and BAD CHARACTERISTICS become MORE PRONOUNCED until they UNDO THEMSELVES with their MADNESS. The METAPHOR gives the IDEA of a MONKEY ASCENDING a PHYSICAL TREE will show its ARSE to any person LOOKING UP at it. The ARSE being the BAD CHARACTERISTICS.
Another ANALOGY is the answer to the question:
"Why do such evil people become so famous and important"
The wise man replied:
"God chose them to become famous so all of their bad behaviour can be suspended high up above the people so that everyone can see how terrible they really are to a wide audience"
