Origins of this blog were my course, "Middle Eastern Popular Music." Now, it has its own raison d'existence.
Monday, August 07, 2006
Christina Aguilera & Elissa (Lebanon): Football Pepsi Ad
Da Da Da!
1 comment:
Anonymous
said...
yuk.
putting the lyrics ("i don't love you, you don't love me")into context, that is to say, seeing especially football for what it is - a substitute to war, reveals the sheer vileness that they try to hide underneath their make-up.
Professor of Anthropology, University of Arkansas. Author of Memories of Revolt: The 1936-39 Rebellion and the Palestinian National Past. Co-editor of Palestine, Israel and the Politics of Popular Culture and of Displacement, Diaspora, and Geographies of Identity.
1 comment:
yuk.
putting the lyrics
("i don't love you, you don't love me")into context, that is to say, seeing especially football for what it is -
a substitute to war,
reveals the sheer vileness that they try to hide underneath their make-up.
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