Maya Diab Tattoo Is Going Lady Gaga Weird

Maya Diab is a popular chick, a singer, a product promoter, and a TV hostess. She is a celebrity not non for anything in particular. But she seems to have seen a surge in popularity the past three years. She has been around for more than a decade now, but her time is now.

Her latest weirdness is a whole body tattoo done by an artist where it took him hours to do. This was a marketing stuns for makeup lines, more than 120 makeup artists took part of this show. Together they draw up/worked on more than 30 models. Maya Diab was the guest of honor as she is the sportsperson for that brand. Thanks the now infamous tattoo, the entire Arab world now knows of the brand--which I won't name here.

This is insane to see such events in the Arab world, such events are weird around the globe, they were received with mixed feedback. No wonder they chose the city of Beirut where tolerance is high as long as you can is art. Tattoo is a popular art from around the world, yet the religious communities in the Middle East and some here in the states continue to shun it.

I am happy they had the freedom to hold such bizarre show in downtown Beirut, still I think it;s weird what they are doing      

مايا دياب تغطّي جسدها بالوشم

With Game Over Shitty Egyptian Movies Are Not Over

Every time I like to give Egyptian cinema some credit for making good movies and to their credit they have done better movies, I get cold feet. Here's why these shitty movies keep coming, they are cheap to make and they do not have to have a decent plot, just big names and three jokes and song. And that's what it takes to bring down an entire culture.

And yes, of course producers now worry about not making their money back as Egypt shifts shapes every minute. But my beef is with two leading females who accept to be in such silly movies...Game Over is the name of the movie where Yosra and Mai Ezdeen would star along one another and duke it out.

While those are two super stars from two different eras, I am baffled by their role...did they really need that paycheck this bad? Worse, their song to promote the movie is auto-tune for insane people. All that aside, the movie is one long stereotypes about women jealousy and getting in the gutter to bring back one gigantic ghetto movie. No wonder Yosra has been on the attacks in defense of Freedom of Expression, that's her way of wanting to make lame movies.


Haqi Baraqabti - Mai Ez El Din ft.Yosra حقى برقبتى - مى عز الدين ويسرا

Wael Kfoury "Arrab Laye" The Song NAMBLA Would Like

This was supposed to be a romantic song until they brought a baby with a hairy Lebanses singer in a wife beater. The song is about love and it mentions no babies or such. This was a popular song in the early 2000s, and the look Wael Kfoury went for felt like a page from the Godfather movie.

But the director found it cool to bring a little boy into the music video. There was a time when using babies as props was too popular in Arabic music videos, but no more. Even Haifa terrorized one in her Bos El Wawa SNAFU song.

I do not like baby sin music videos, and I certainly do not like to think of Wael as a child molester. But then again, he just had a bay of his own

P.S. Wael just has singed again with Rotana after three years of talks, talks and some more talks. This would be his first album in five years.
Wael Kfoury - Arrab Laye

Bishara Sakhnini's Fans Are Weird

I am used to guys showering dancers with cash, not dudes showering another dude with money. This might mean that we things have gotten worse or maybe have gotten better. But I am still feeling weird about it.

See this concert called Layali Miami--Miami Nights, I imagine it's in Florida, but anything is possible. Then once they have showered him with cash, they pose to take a picture. And this not only happens once in this short video, it happens more than two times.

Bishara will be doing a US tour in California, Oregon and Arizona this month. Know for his strong voice that allows him to do old songs in the Damascus style along with that very lengthy mawal where breathing is not allowed. I like how in his pictures he always have the blue eye thing in a necklace.

Do not know enough about Sakhnini, but I suspect he is Palestine from the Arab 48 as his name suggests relation to famous town up there.

Layali Miami - Bishara Sakhnini Mawal Kanet Seghery

Too Bad, I Never Danced Like This At My Wedding

Dancing with canes, sticks and daggers is as Arab as Algebra. But dance is a lot more fun than the latter. Here's an inside footage of some Arabic (Egyptian namely) wedding and you get that baladi beat, just they they do it in the old country.

I must say, the dude got some moves and he kept going at it, but being a dancing Arab dude is no easy task, it's a whole new level of intimidating. I am all about dance and wedding, but when you are on the spot and all eyes are on you, then the bar is high. I cannot let me self be the goofy kind, this guy does not mind it.

Too Bad, I Never Danced Like This At My Wedding

A Metallica Worthy Arabic Music Video

This music video is from the 70s, a Shabai style song by Mohammed Adawyah. The song does not mean anything in particular. There are men in dark, skeletons, fangs and blood. I do not know who had this idea to make such a music video that I would never have imagined possible.

Metal and Goth music make really creepy music videos, it's an art that has its fans, but I can never understand it myself, but I am here to see this is a bold music video to make in an Arab country. That's certainly a cheap looking music video, but the concept is new or was new back then. What do you think?

The film where this song was featured is about to get remade with the leading guy along some new blood no pun intended.
أحمد عدوية - أغنية جهرشه "فيلم"