Achieves high views and is described as tasteless: Roaa of Muhammad Naeem Saad…a journey despite the difficulties

Sudan Events – Magda Hassan

Artist Roaa Muhammad Naeem Saad announced the launch of her song (Lola) on YouTube, and invited her fans to watch it. “Lola” is song ft. the famous rapper (Sheikh Al-Tariqa). The song has found great popularity during the recent period and is used within Sudanese wedding rituals.

Artistic family:

Roaa combines acting and singing. She appeared in scenes when she was two years old with her father, the director (Mohamed Naeem Saad), in the drama series (Troubles). Among the most famous dramas she participated in (Sudanese Tales) with the director (Abu Bakr Al-Sheikh). She discovered herself as a singer while she was in school courses, as she is currently studying at the College of Music and Drama and is making her artistic path at a steady pace. She is a descendant of art and creativity. Roaa was raised by her mother, the actress Rehab Al-Karrar, and the care of her father, the honorable dramatist Muhammad Naeem Saad and his friends.

Reviews:

Roaa released her latest song (Naghni Twist), written and composed by Musaab Hamadto, a dance video song that represents the seventies era.

Modern media has become the first criterion for the audience’s acceptance of the work, as not a few hours have passed since the song (Lola) has been released, it achieved a higher viewing rate than (Naghni Twist), which was a month old.

For some, Roaa does not represent one of the committed singing trends, as she tends towards girls’ songs and showmanship. However, she has often been subjected to strong campaigns of criticism, yet it’s obvious that the number of views she receives is that some people secretly applaud her and insult her publicly.

Listening in secret

Many of the light songs, which some describe as tasteless, clearly have a large audience from different cultures. Enlightened people listen to them inside their cars and inside their closed rooms, young people listen to them on headphones, and you hear them loudly from tuk-tuk drivers and during so many wedding occasions. However, in public, she finds nothing but criticism and grief for the future of the Sudanese song.  Although, the modern media exposes the dual personality by monitoring the number of visitors.

Criticism:

About two years ago, Roaa faced severe criticism after releasing the song (Seed Al-Lori), as it was described as tasteless despite the massive spread it achieved in a short period. According to critics, it is a song that is added to the repertoire of girls’ songs, the basic foundation upon which the Sudanese song was based, within the rhythm of “Tum Tum” until it developed through its musical stages and generations.

Paradoxes:

Girls’ song has remained, taking its characteristics from the era in which it originated, and is considered a reflection of the society from which it emerged. Within this singing, we can distinguish between the singing of urban girls and the singing of rural girls. Girls’ songs are distinguished by their humor, in addition to the fact that they show hopes, dreams and aspirations of girls, especially emotional ones, but they are full of sarcasm and paradoxes.

(O, honorary one, I hope he become my sister’s husband.) (O, visitor of Paris, bring me a groom, only elegant, one of the teaching staff) These are some of the lyrics. They also sing to the expatriate, the Western merchant, and even the carriage owner (O, carriage owner, show me what you carry).

Popular songs:

In the context of the natural transition of society, it is not strange for Rouaa Muhammad Naeem Saad to sing (The tok tok hit my darling),

Girls’ songs often do not have a specific poet or well-known writer, as every girl draws the features of her lover.

Songs with characteristics that may apply to specific people with popular lyrics that were not written by major or influential poets, we can say that they are “from within our culture.”

Tasteless art:

The mouth can be defined as the one that hurts and insults modesty. According to Dr.  Amir Al-Nour, researcher in Sudanese culture: We must differentiate between popular art and tasteless art, especially since girls’ singing has wide acceptance and imposes itself on everyone.

Since the thirties and to this day, it is rare for there to be an artist who has not sung one of the girls’ songs, and if we agree on the term (tasteless art), it will not be limited to girls’ singing only, as young men have appeared performing this type of sings.

The mood:

The songs that achieved the highest viewership rates in the recent period, and still are, are described by some as “tasteless”, confirming one fact, which is that listening to sings is based on the mood that does not accept guardianship and it differs from one to another, theie situation and mood, just like a dining table with many dishes, from which you take what you want and do not force the chef to remove the rest of the items, and just like not those who listens to Othman Hussein have a good taste, and who listens to Roya have no taste.