this track came into my attention a little while after i'd started listening to arabic music and i still doublecheck the year it was released every once a while. reason being that it's a song that musically really went outside of the arabic scale of references. i'm not talking about something like nelly makdessy's "ya yomma" or elissa's "ayami bik" which are made with commercial european dance music as a centre-point with traditional arabic instrumentation worked with it.
no this one is completely void of arabic musicality besides, you know, nahas singing in said language. the musical origin sounds more like a cheiron production circa '95-'97 because there is no real difference between this one and the backstreet boys' "get down (you're the one for me)" or 'n sync's "tearing up my heart".
the plan was maybe that they were actually trying to something with crossover appeal to the european market, but why they would use a sound that wasn't being done and hadn't been made in over 5-6 years baffles me. even the video for the song were wasn't the typical arabic video and that itself is a horrible dated mess with bluescreen effects that wasn't going to fool anyone of "high production values", even in '03 when this song was released.
now i've taken the track down so much, so the logical answer is do i like it? yes, i do. it's insanely catchy and mayssam nahas can sing quite well. the fact that it sounds like a rejected cheiron production doesn't bother me because i love a large number of those tracks.
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The song is based on the English version of the band "Funky Diamonds" called "It's my game"
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