Zenga Zenga

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Zenga Zenga (also Zenga Zenga Song ) is a two-minute long music video published on the video platform Youtube . It is by Noy Alooshe, an Israeli musician and journalist of Tunisian descent. It is a parody of a speech given on February 22, 2011 by the incumbent Libyan head of state Muammar al-Gaddafi . It had been accessed around a million times by the end of February 2011.

Text and music

Alooshe used excerpts from the speech and underlined them with fast trance rhythms. The Gaddafi used phrase "centimeter by centimeter, house by house, street by street," in which he called for the fight against the opposition, Alushe used as a refrain . In his speech, Gaddafi also called for people to be persecuted “alley by alley”. The Arabic word zanqa for alley became Zenga Zenga , the title of the video. He used text passages from Gaddafi's address as stanzas. The music video shows Gaddafi in several excerpts from the televised address, accompanied by a scantily clad dancer.

publication

On March 6, 2011, was download - Single of the song by Craze Productions published that report on payment platforms such as iTunes is sold. In addition, a ringtone for cell phones based on the song appeared.

Reactions

According to Alushe, the reactions from the Arab world were mostly positive. For some viewers, the dancer was too revealing, which is why Alushe put another version of the video online without a dancer. The opposition movement in Libya is said to be using the video for its own purposes and to show it in its television programs; in Morocco, the song is already to be played in public pubs. However, Alushe claims to have received death threats. He declined a request from Iran for a similar video about Mahmoud Ahmadinejad , instead planning a second video about Gaddafi.

As a sequel to Zenga Zenga , Alushe published the video Zenga Zenga People on March 8, 2011 , which shows excerpts from a speech by Gaddafi in which he claims that his people love him and will die for him. In April, journalists from Tripoli reported that there was now a pro-Gaddafi version of the song, the chorus being performed by the Libyan government spokesman Moussa Ibrahim .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Susanne Knaul: Dance the Muammar Gaddafi. taz.de, March 3, 2011, accessed on March 6, 2011 .
  2. ↑ Zenga Zenga Song (Remix) - Single on iTunes , accessed April 16, 2011.
  3. ↑ Zenga Zenga People on Youtube.com
  4. ↑ Lourdes Garcia-Navarro: Gadhafi Spokesman Belts Out His Version Of 'Zenga Zenga'. VPR News, April 14, 2011, accessed April 16, 2011 .
  5. ↑ Official Pro-Gaddafi "Zenga, Zenga" Song from Libya TV. Retrieved October 4, 2011 .