Lebanese singer Amal Hijazi recently met with Salem El Hindi, manager of Rotana, to discuss the details of her upcoming single and album. She announced that she has a new Saudi-dialect single coming out soon on Rotana channels. Amal said that her fans from the Gulf have been asking her to sing in the Khaliji dialect for a long time, and she felt it was the right time to repeat the experiment. The meeting with Mr. Salem, while dominated by discussions about the album, also warranted a few suggestions about the style of the drums from him, and the drums were re-recorded in the UAE.
Amal has already filmed the video clip for the single with director Tony Qahwaji, whom he she has worked with previously in “Akher Gharam” and “Einak Einak”. She added that the video clip has a Western air, mixing a Khaliji tune with a Western atmosphere.
Amal said that her album will be her most diverse yet, with many different songs. She mentioned also that among the names she will work with are Mahmoud Khayami, Haytham Zayad, Elias Nasser, Hadi Sharara, Jean-Marie Riachi, and Michel Fadel. She noted that she will have a song on the album that is neither Lebanese, Egyptian, nor Khaliji (Moroccan maybe?), that may cause some controversy in the music industry. Could this be another “Bayaa El Ward” dilemma?
By Ahmed
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“Bayaa El Ward” dilemma??
Can anyone plz tell me about it?
Dear aline,
In the song Bay3 El Ward, which is a fantastic song, Amal was accused off promoting h***sexuality. People critised her because she was wearing a t-shirt that came from a gay shop.
Hijazi denied the allegations but critics argued that, the T-shirt she was wearing in the mucic video had several symbols imprinted on it, which belonged to a garment manufacturer that specializes in clothing for h***sexuals. At a press conference she held in Dubai to announce the launch of her album, Hijazi clarified that she did not know what the symbols on the shirt meant or that she never thought to find out when she chose to wear it.
Critics argued that Hijazi had gone to the extreme and cut her hair shorter than that of an ordinary woman. They accused the video of being unorthodox because Hijazi cuts her hair off and drowns herself at the end out of depression over the guy who left her.
Despite of the heavy controversy behind the video,"Bayaa al Ward" is considered Hijazi's finest album both by fans and the casual listeners, although it is not as famous as Zaman. Despite of her fame, Amal, however, still remains an underrated artist at Rotana and has previously complained about the second-rate treatment she received from them. (Source: wikipedia)
Good luck to Amal and I wish her succes with her upcoming album!!!
Faysal.
Thanks for the info faysal.
It kinda angers me that critics bashed her look in the “Bayaa El Ward” video. The fact that some actually said that she cut her hair "too short for a woman" is the most sexist thing I've ever heard. There's more to a woman than the length of her hair. They were just too stupid to get the deeper meaning of the video. This video was by far the best video I have seen. It had substance and it was very dramatic and made you think. It chronicled a downward spiral of a woman who was at the end of her rope and didn't care about normal things like her hair and living anymore. All the critics saw was that she cut her hair and she accidentaly wore a shirt with a symbol they didn;t approve of . Makes me wonder who gave these idiots a job as critics in the first place.