Elyanna flips Arab pop gender roles on “BOSA,” a RedOne-produced stadium-pop single inspired by Y2K pan-American pop.
يبحث يوسف علي كيف تعيد إصدارات المهرجانات الكثيفة تشكيل قوائم الاستماعات في المنطقة وتتحدى هيمنة البوب العربي.
Youssef Ali examines how mahraganat’s relentless output is reshaping streaming charts and challenging Arab pop’s dominance.
After a divorce sent him on a journey of growth and self-discovery, Sharnouby takes creative control of his comeback album, Ba3d El Leil.
With Farasha, Inez moves across genres and borders. She tells us why the album’s Passport approach was never a calculated strategy.
On Afandi, Saint Levant revisits classic Arab pop, from Palestinian dabke to Lebanese pop and contemporary raï.
On Habeitek, Amr Diab returns to his ’90s and ’00s sound, meeting Gen Z’s growing appetite for Y2K nostalgia.
Maha’s 1979 debut Orkos fused funk, disco, soft rock and jazz with Arabic roots, then vanished. Decades later, it became a cult classic.
TUL8TE spends Sadeek El Bernameg making the uneasy argument that hit-making and artistic integrity don’t have to be at odds.
One might not typically expect to find rock stars performing at a dueling piano show. Yet Ryan Bueter and Donny…
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