'AHMED AND MONA AND END OF THE FILM' song stars EGYPT'S 'LAST BELLY DANCER': DINA [red dress] appears with SHA'ABI SINGER: SA'AD SUGHAER [yellow shirt] and his brother: MOHAMMED ATAYA [blonded hair] from the 2009 Egyptian Musical SHA'ABI Film: 'ALA AL TARAB BI THALATHA' ['I SWEAR I WILL SING']. The song is actually a PARODY of a song from a classic black and white Arabic movie called, 'AGLA MIN AL HAYAT' ['MORE VALUABLE THAN LIFE'] where actor SALAH ZULFAKA and heroine SHAADIA shout, "Ahmed...Mona" over a mountain top to each other to sing a love song. This SHA'ABI pop belly dance song of that old song is a kitsch, colourful and bit of fun of that old melodramatic song.
SHA'ABI MUSIC
The music style here is SHA'ABI, 'sha'abi' meaning people, so the music form means a kind of URBAN FOLK MUSIC. SHA'ABI MUSIC may have originated with singers like AHMED ADEWEYAH in the 1970s during the waning years of the serious lyric oriental CONCERT STYLE Egyptian music like OUM KHILTHOUM, WARDA, NAGAT, etc. ADEWEYAH brought a more FOLKY style, initially with DRUMS and STRINGS but with more rhythmic and silly words. Over time and decline of sales of Egyptian Music the SHA'ABI MUSIC has become just KEYBOARD and maybe traditional drums. The SINGING style is RAW RURAL and words are nonesense or like RAP, obscene or impolite. SHA'ABI MUSIC is 'the music of the people' and Post Revolution Egypt's streets are filled with the sound of SHA'ABI MUSIC, even though the music is not permitted to be sold in shops by law due to its UNDERGROUND LYRICS and STATUS.
SHA'ABI CINEMA
SHA'ABI FILMS are Egyptian Cinema mimicking the 'sha'ab' in grotesque SATIRES of low class behaviour and middle class polite society corruption. On the surface SHA'ABI CINEMA entertains 'the masses' with Cairo slum dwellers and rural mad cap antics in Upper Egypt. A deeper analysis can maybe reveal an intentional or unintentional FARCE of serious corruption and entrenched problems and bad behaviour in Egyptian Society all pointed at indirectly through hilarious merciless comedies of the everyday behaviour seen of people in Egypt.
BI'A...'LOW ENVIRONMENT' SHA'ABI
"Bi'a" is the word that many will attack SHA'ABI with, meaning 'low culture' for 'low class people'. SHA'ABI MUSIC and CINEMA are generally loathed by the aspiring middle class due to the harsh countryside voices, simplistic lyrics, simple and 'belly dance' nature of the media plus the comedy made of the Middle Class, Religious Groups and Government direct and implied.
MUSICAL ANALYSIS of 'AHMED & MONA & INAHAYA' SONG
The song is based upon Western pop song FORM [sections over time]
INTRO [names unaccompanied + names & accompaniment]
CHORUS [names in MALE & FEMALE CHOIRS]
VERSE A [MOHAMMED ATAYA solo - electronic effect on voice for: style? poor voice?]
VERSE B [MALE & FEMALE CHOIRS together with SOLOIST join at times for variety]
CHORUS
BRIDGE 01 [DRUM MACHINE, SIMPLE BASS NOTES, ACCORDIAN, PERCUSSION]
VERSE A
VERSE B
BRIDGE 02 [TRADITIONAL DANCE PERCUSSION relief from ELECTRONIC SOUNDS]
VERSE A
VERSE B
CHORUS
CODA [mix of BRIDGES, ELECTRONIC & ACCOUSTIC DRUMS & ACCORDIAN SOLO]
The ENSEMBLE [group of vocalists and instruments] is not that large or greatly skilled. The song is sequenced on computer and recorded cheaply track by track on MULTI-TRACK RECORDER with electronic drums and BASS NOTES to 'warm' but this is NOT HARMONY, it is LAYERING effect to thicken the MONODY [single melody and drums] to make it more powerful for the CINEMA MEDIA.
ACCOUSTIC [live] instruments like TRADITIONAL PERCUSSION [instruments you hit] and the CHOIRS and soloists are all DOUBLE-TRACKED [they record their parts more than once then play it back to make five performers sound like fifteen to save money and add TONE MASS [thickness of tone].
MOHAMMED ATAYA'S voice has been heavily FLANGED and EFFECTED [USA Cher used this technique in the 1990s on her songs for a while]. This makes the voice more 'striking' and 'thicker' but also maybe sounds 'cheap' or 'artificial'. But it fits with the song, the comedy and gives TONE MASS POWER to the song to blast it through cinema speakers.
The ACCORDIAN player is talented and plays some instinctive fills, licks, small tunes and harsh CADENCES [musical full stops] at the ends of phrases and sections. The ACCORDIAN is a European squeeze-box organ with Western EQUAL TEMPERAMENT [a mathematical unnatural tuning system developed in the West dividing the scale into 12 equal half notes]. The ACCORDIAN has a distinctive sound and plays in DETUNED OCTAVES.
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