At a time when the entire world is being mobilized to fight the new virus "Covid 19", known as "Corona", and medical health institutions are desperately struggling around the world to contain and control this deadly virus, a large part of the Arab world is not excluded by the fearful epidemic, and no case The general horror of it is a new infection. In the world of music, a new wave of lyric artwork appeared on the topic of "Corona" in many forms and musical styles, ranging from awareness songs warning of the disease, rapid ways to spread it, and comedic works that scare people from the horror of it, through black comedy and hidden criticism in a number of works in He described the dimensions of this disease and its relationship to the deteriorating political, social and economic situation in which some Arab countries live today.
Start from Egypt
It is not surprising that we have seen the new artistic phenomenon devoted to reactions about the disease, increasing and expanding steadily in Egypt, in which people were known for their clear sense of humor and their famous wit, after a large spectrum of popular artistic names quickly launched works that addressed the new disease, The most prominent among them was the poet Islam Muhammad Mahmoud Khalil, whom we saw today, after a series of successful collaborations in a number of songs that met a large audience, most notably (the cigarettes were broken, what you do not threaten, I hate Israel, who wins a million) to the late Shaaban Abdel Rahim, renews his cooperation with his son Issam Abdel Rahim, in a new song entitled «Corona The snail, in which the artist explains the symptoms of the disease, the ways to transmit it, the mechanisms for coping with it, and some other precautionary steps that he embodied through a documentary video of the spread of the virus that met with wide popularity among the listeners and the public in Egypt, and its circulation on the “media media” inside and outside Egypt. On the other side, and in a sarcastic and defiant step to the decision of the artist Hani Shaker and the Syndicate of Musical Professions to reject the membership of a number of festivals folklists in the union, and to stop their singing activities, the singer Hamo Beca put through his official channel on YouTube, the song "Corona Virus", sang There is a pica to raise awareness of the disease and its deadly dangers, and the lyrics say, "Why do they eat dogs in China? They also eat bats ... Corona virus, millions of deaths ... You must be held accountable, Egyptians."
"Lunging" in Sudan
In Sudan, the situation does not seem less virulent, but rather takes a completely different course from what is in Egypt. At a time when artists in Egypt addressed the caveats of the disease and focused on preventing it, the Sudanese singer Waddah Ahmed tended to characterize the “sorrow” of the separation of the beloved and his harmful approaches similar to this disease, Through a song called "Corona", in which he said, "Del Azuna ... O people, what our father has," and stamped it with special sound effects that referred the listener to the sound of "sneezes" with the disease.
The song recorded varying proportions of viewing and different reactions on social media, after many underestimated its naive and vulgar content according to their opinion, while another part found its approaches smart and full of humor and blink.
On the Syrian side, the local art scene was not free of some of the jabs that provoked loud reactions on social media, between denounced and indecent and interacting with the new artists, after the singer Ammar Al-Iraqi released a new song called "What I Want About You", he said It says: "I want you a misfortune ... I am afraid, and God is preparing us .. Leave me alone ... I am afraid of corona", expressing his fear of illness and his rapid infection, and stressing sarcastically his preoccupation with the disease, which has been dominated by his thinking more than "Real Madrid" matches and "Barcelona".
Corona!
Comic strips and lyrical experiences in bulk, carried by the announcement recently about the outbreak of the Corona virus in Lebanon, the most prominent of which was the emergence of a series of songs that accompanied this announcement, organized by their owners to emulate the melody of the famous Lebanese song "Ali Dalaauna", among them an illustrated song entitled "Our family became infected with a virus" Corona, "in which two men appeared describing the seriousness of the situation in Lebanon and calling for flight in the first plane flying outside by chanting" The Corona arrived on Ashrafieh ... afraid of Bakra to thrive in me ... I had a chance to escape from here ", which was accompanied by another new song by artist Bilal Naqouzi carried The title "Corona", in which the artist appeared covered with the He directed a protection mask and mocked the Lebanese politicians in a way that seemed direct and in harmony with the melody of the famous song, “The Girl of Neighbors”.
In the same Lebanese context, the spread of the deadly virus in the country constituted a great motivation for a number of the most prominent media and comedy stars in Lebanon, to criticize the deteriorating political, economic and social situation through television lyrical positions and sketches, the most important of which was the emergence of Hisham Haddad recently performing the song “Corona” and speaking about the deteriorating situation of the Lebanese , Which exacerbated the epidemic, pointing to the crises of poverty, need and the accumulated debts that the people live through lyric phrases such as "flying locusts surrounded by corona ... and the world is both drowning with debts."
Corona at the funeral home
The star, George Wassouf, did not hesitate, expressing his fear of infection, by hanging an exciting sign at the entrance to his mother's mourning house, in which he asked his mourning guests not to kiss. As for the Lebanese artist Ragheb Alama, he invented a new type of handshake “during the era of Corona”, by introducing a video clip in which he “salutes” the broadcaster Michel Abu Sulaiman, in a new way that does not exceed the contact of the shoes with the shoes.
- Shaaban Abdel Rahim's son, presented "spiral corona", explaining the symptoms of the disease and its transmission methods.