Pooh, I see you learned a few new cool words over the past year, eh.. shmuck? .. hmmmm.
I know this word before that actually. :tongue:
To say Amr Diab is crap is ridiculous. I am not one of his fans, far from it, in fact I don't like most modern Arab singers. But to claim that he is crap is strange. If he is crap, he wouldnt be Rotana's most valued singer. He may be crap on one condition, that he is the best of the crap out there (which most likely is the truth). Of all modern Arab singers, he is one of the very few who can come up with something new everytime. It may be an imitiation like you claim (the example you gave is silly, PEPSI chooses who does what, not Amr Diab. If they want him to look like Ricky Martin its their problem), but at least he's good at imitating someone. Others try to imitate and they still suck at even that. For example, Ragheb Alama hasnt changed his style since "ana kol mashta2 eleiha".. Nawal El Zoghby is still stuck in 1995.. the remaining ones make one good CD and 10 other silly ones.. and the likes of Nancy Ajram, Haifa, and Rouby aren't even worth a mention.. On the other hands, Amr Diab's CDs have always sold very well everywhere in the ME.
Being Rotana's most valued singer dose not prove your point. Nancy Ajram, Haifa Wahbi and Ruby are most valued singers to other channels, dose that make them good? Absolutely NO! I agree with you though that he comes with new things, new styles of imitating which is good compared to other crap imitaters out there. However, I did not say that I am fan of Nawal nither Ragheb even though the latter has some nice songs in the 80's.
Your claim about Amr Diab's CD's being sold very well the ME is just an assumption. Here in Jordan singers like Kazim, George, Mohammed Abdo, Wael Kaffouri are much more populare than Amr Diab because they are the ones that can come up with new things and not imitating western singers even in their hair cuts like Amr Diab did once and imitated Eminem's hair cut, god, he was like HELLO, LOOK AT MY NEW HEAD, I HAVE STOLEN IT! He is an imitater and even when he tries something new he just fails to do.
Worst comes to worse, Amr Diab's video clips are not as explicit as Jad Choueri's, Maria's, Nancy's, Haifa's, Roubi's, etc.. So maybe you ought to attack them first. Imitating Ricky Martin is the least of our worries right now compared to a Maria video clip for example.
Ditto and I will give him that. He is clean and class when it comes to vedio clips, still this was not the issue with Amr Diab, I was talking about the quality of his singing and music.
This is a typical Arab discussion.. Everyone is feeling a little self-righteous and blaming everyone else, yet no one is doing anything. I am confident that 90% of you guys DO enjoy listening to Amr Diab's music.
I am not an Arab, so whats your point? Other Arabs here have the right to bash who deserves the bashing for the level the Arabic music has stooped to and you can not take this right away from them as long as they are reasoning their discussions. Actually it is a discussion of how we can get rid of those new imitaters and clowns and not who is good or bad because they are all crap.
The fault isnt Melody's or Mazika's or Rotana's, you know why? Because you've all got them on dish back home, or your relatives have got them, or you've got them at the cafe you visit all day. The media caters to the population. If the population wasnt retarded with nothing more useful to do than to smoke shisha, listen to music, and send highschool style sms's, those channels would have been long out of business.
You have got porno channels too, so what?! As long as I do not watch these channels I am on the safe side. I agree that some young dudes must get a life but they think they are having fun sending these SMS's and MMS's after a long working day, I doubt those kind of people are working thoug.
If you're unhappy with the state of Arabic music, do something about it. Don't tune in to any music channel, ask your relatives to cancel their subscriptions, don't buy their CDs.
Well I do not buy their CD,s. As I have stated in one of my recent posts that I only bought albums for three singers in the recent three years, Diana Karazon, Melhem Zien and Kazim El-sahir, I have downloaded songs for Elias Karam, Wael Kaffori and Wael Jassar too. You can measure a high percentage of young gusy here who actually have the same taste as mine and they only love the new female singers as sexy bodies no more no less.
I sold my TV and cancelled my ART subscription because its a major waste of time. Can you do the same? Or can all you do is call Amr Diab a shmuck while his "Allem Alby" is playing in the background?
I can not sell the TV because its not mine.
I have no clue where you come up with all these silly assumptions Sabry! I change the channel if there is any shmucks like Amr Diab on it so how would I find any of his songs playing since nobody in my house, nighbours or even in the next street play them?!
I hope you are not imagining other ME countries same as Egypt. Actually I know loads of Egyptians who do not like him, not the way I do but still they are not fans of his music if its right to say "HIS" music, the reason Egyptians feel sympathy for him is simply because he is EGYPTIAN
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