"... a state-run newspaper announced on Thursday, adding that only 'patriotic' tunes will be allowed to be aired."
Nationalistic tunes “that are worth broadcasting” will be allowed...
That's a strange way to put it.
Meanwhile, sarcastic songs mocking public figures will be also banned because of the “sensitiveness of the political situation,” it said....
Oh, great. No sarcasm? That should help.
Online, social media users have already begun question the ban on romantic musical interludes....[Twitter] user @_amroali, asking: “How do romantic songs cause chaos?”
Commenters were also reposting the phrase “Egypt kills love.”
But Egyptian blogger Mina Naguib, who has written widely on recent political instability in the country, doubts the authenticity of the news and has suggested it could all just be a rumor; a tool he believes is used by officials to “distract” Egyptians.
Distracted by the possibility of no love songs? Well, I'm obviously distracted. Don't be distracted!
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"Say the Word and you'll be free,
Say the word and be like me,
Say the Word I'm thinking of,
Have you heard the Word is Love?"
You'd think that people would've had enough of silly love songs.
Arab Spring! Springtime!
It's springtime for Morsi, and Al Queada...
Silly Love Songs..
"Silly Love Songs" is a song written and sung by Paul McCartney with his band Wings in 1976. McCartney had been often teased by John Lennon, a fellow member of The Beatles and music critics for writing lightweight, "silly love songs", and McCartney wrote this number in response.
Maybe the Egyptians ought to do the same in response as well.
No amount of repression can keep the Egyptians from making up their own romantic lyrics to that song by The Bangles.
Very strange. The rest of the world went from the 20th century to the 21st. The Arab world is trying to go from the 20th century to the 12th.
I guess they won't be playing Steve Martin's "King Tut"
"Born in Babalona, moved to Arizona, King Tut!"
Big Mike, I think Islam is trying to go through the Wayback Machine to the 7th centure.
"Drizzle, drazzle, drozzle, drum. Time for zis von to come home!"
Lennon got a little too cool after meeting Yoko. Both Lennon and McCartny wrote songs they knew would sell. Very capitalistic.
That's probably what's wrong with "romantic" songs in Egypt. It would not do to encourage capitalism.
Arab Spring!
#AnotherObamaFail
FORWARD!
Patrick said...
"Arab Spring! Springtime!
It's springtime for Morsi, and Al Queada..."
Patrick,
Mel Brooks called.
He wants his royalty check, lol.
I'm trying to work the Beaver into this tread... but I got nothing.
Mel Brooks called.
He wants his royalty check, lol
Tell him to ask the Pres.
Obama just sent or is going to send Egypt some F16 jets. Obama's friends are not necessarily America's friends.
Oh, great. No sarcasm? That should help.
That's just a great line.
I suppose that banning "romantic songs and music videos" means that such things exist in Egypt. Who knew?
Block Like An Egyptian.
"Tell him to ask the Pres."
Yeah.
The prez said the check is in the mail...
That is just party politics in a Muslim country where they have nothing to live for except the strong feeling that they are the only righteous ones because they submit to allah.
If we were forced to bow prostrate on our faces and proclaim out loud that allah is god and Mohammed is his prophet 5 times a day since childhood, then that would be the root of all politics for us too.
The sad part is the USA under Obama encourages these fools.
Beatle song references in the first two comments!
Your Mummy Should Know. Or is My Mummy's Dead better?
I only opened this thread to see how many comments it took to get to Silly Love Songs. The answer is: two.
I suppose that banning "romantic songs and music videos" means that such things exist in Egypt. Who knew?
Bob Dylan tipped us off to Om Khaltoum years ago.
dreams said...
"Obama just sent or is going to send Egypt some F16 jets."
The king called up his jet fighters
He said you better earn your pay
Drop your bombs between the minarets
Down the Casbah way
As soon as the Sharia was
Chauffeured outta there
The jet pilots tuned to
The cockpit radio blare
Oh.
So sorry.
No sarcasm.
I forgot.
Forgive me.
#AnotherObamaFail
Here in the USA, we have a liberal media that intuitively knows the kind of news to cover and the kind that needs to be suppressed, as an example the news about the union thugs in Michigan.
Thankfully the whole Obama Arab Spring efforts have yielded such positive results. We're providing over a Billion dollars of aid to such a serious democratic country and stalwart ally. Again, thank god Obama, Hillary, and Rice have such mastery of middle east diplomacy or next we'd hear reports of thousands of US soldiers invading Iraq. Oh wait...
Arab Spring!
It's Springtime for Egypt and the Caliphate.
Time for the US to blast broadcast Moulin Rouge on a loop into Egypt. A shame we don't have the balls to do that kind of thing anymore.
wyo sis said...
Lennon got a little too cool after meeting Yoko. Both Lennon and McCartny wrote songs they knew would sell. Very capitalistic.
That's probably what's wrong with "romantic" songs in Egypt. It would not do to encourage capitalism.
I admit, everything about this struck me as wrong. But, wtf do I know? Just my opinion.
Closer to on topic:
None of Zero's friends will be invited to perform for Morsi, I guess.
Planes to Egypt.
Troops to Turkey.
Arms to Al Q in Syria.
Firearms to gangs in Mexico.
Is it me, or has our foreign policy gone completely bonkers?
Bob Dylan tipped us off to Om Khaltoum years ago.
What's happened since 1975 in Egyptian romantic music?
Are we really sure that the antiquities will survive these idiots?
Ahab the Arab is would be banned then.
I suggest we, or Israel, begin a Voice of America type operation where we broadcast nothing but love songs into Egypt.
Just An Old Fashion Love Song would play at least once an hour, as would a love song in Yiddish.
I was assured by the NYT that the Muslim Brotherhood members are basically Rotarians with prayer rugs.
I didn't know they didn't like silly love songs.
Ahab the Arab is would be banned then.
Heh. There's a fun anti-Obama song out there by Ray Stevens.
I prefer to remember him for "Everything is Beautiful" - makes me weepy.
Big Mike: The 12th? Are you not being overly generous?
Obama's guy in Egypt sure looks better then the previous guy to all the progressives. But, the whole gang rapes, murdered Christians, theocracy thing doesn't look to good to me.
Oh well. We should trust that Obama knew what he was doing throwing his support behind the Muslim Brotherhood.
Well, she can either say that, as Secretary of State, she had nothing to do with it and it was all Barry's doing OR she can say it was part of her carefully crafted Foreign Policy Reset.
Oh, yeah, Hillary's a lock for '16.
jacksonjay said...
Are we really sure that the antiquities will survive these idiots?
They were respected by the Tahleebahn, weren't they?
New descriptor for the year ...
When speaking of Egypt always refer to Morsi as "Obama's Pet Dictator Morsi".
Romantic marriage is a Western idea anyway. Shakespeare marked its moment in Antony and Cleopatra.
The shift from political to romantic.
Egypt had a culture of some importance before its conquest by the sword religion of the Arabians.
After the Pharoahs, Egypt was Greek ruled, then Roman ruled and adopted the Christian in religion 500 years before the Mohammedans onslaught from Arabia.
Belly dancing and generic lust remain the oldest of the Egyptian traditions, and they will survive in Cairo and Alexandria.
@Sam L perhaps bpm4532 has it right. I was trying to let them wriggle off the hook by claiming dyslexia.
Don't it make you want to rock and roll
All night long
Mohammed's Radio
I heard somebody singing sweet and soulful
On the radio, Mohammed's Radio
Two things I revile most about radical Islam: It's hatred of music and dogs.
Jim Crow Pharoahs.
Regime change. I wonder why we started with Egypt, Libya, and Syria. I further wonder why we favor imperial over national (mostly secular) Muslims.
Standing on the beach
With a gun in my hand
Staring at the sea
Staring at the sand
Staring down the barrel
At the arab on the ground
I can see his open mouth
But I hear no sound
I'm alive
I'm dead
I'm the stranger
Killing an arab
More fighter planes, more money for the Brotherhood. Democracy in action. Yeah, yeah, yeah!
Obama foreign policy rocks!
It's good to know that the Muslim Brotherhood is carrying out their mission of continuing where the Nazi Party left off.
Another impressive win for Obama's foreign policy. Elections have consequences.
Egypt, Syria, Libya and these other countries that Obama, Hillary and Rice intervened with their regime change are going to be worse off next year and the years that follow.
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