Zenga Zenga

Zenga Zenga ( Zenga Zenga Song also ) is a roughly two minute long posted on the video platform Youtube music video. It comes from Noy Alooshe, an Israeli musician and journalist Tunisian descent. This is the parody of a held on February 22, 2011 speech by the Acting Libyan head of state Muammar al - Gaddafi. It was called about a million times by the end of February 2011.

Words and Music

Alooshe used excerpts of the speech and they backed with fast trance rhythms. The phrase used by Gaddafi " inch by inch, house by house, street by street ," with which he called for the fight against the opposition, Alushe used as a refrain. Furthermore, Gaddafi called in his speech to to keep track of the opponents " alley for Alley ", from the Arabic word for zanqa alley Zenga Zenga was the title of the video. As verses he used passages from his speech Gaddafi. The music video shows Gaddafi in several excerpts from the television address, accompanied by a scantily clad dancer.

Publication

On March 6, 2011, a download single of the song by Craze Productions was released, which is sold via the payment platforms like iTunes. In addition, a ringtone for mobile phones appeared on the basis of the song.

Reactions

The reactions from the Arab world were mostly positive, according to Alushe. Some viewers was the dancer too freely, so Alushe asked another version of the video without dancer online. The opposition movement in Libya is to use the video for his own purposes, and show in his television programs, in Morocco the song to be played already in public pubs .. However Alushe received claims to death threats. A request from Iran to a similar video about Mahmoud Ahmadinejad he refused, he was planning instead a second video of Gaddafi.

As a sequel to Zenga Zenga Alushe published on 8 March 2011 Zenga Zenga People the video, which extracts from a speech Gaddafi shows in which he claimed that his people love him and would die for him. In April, journalists reported from Tripoli that it now also give a pro -Gaddafi version of the song, the chorus will be made by the Libyan government spokesman Moussa Ibrahim.