After the previous week’s network issues, Sickiey, Jen Hardy, Peter, and the rest of our wonderful friends currently in Malawi joined us on Friday for a great party!
Good as Hell (feat. Ariana Grande) by Lizzo; Ariana Grande
Crazy In Love (feat. Jay-Z) by Beyoncé; JAY-Z
La Papa (feat. Diana Fuentes) by Cimafunk; Diana Fuentes
Strength Of A Woman by Shaggy
Don’t Start Now by Dua Lipa
Say Yes (ft. Beyoncé & Kelly Rowland) by Michelle Williams; Beyoncé; Kelly Rowland
These are songs that I know my, ahem, more mature friends will find weird. Weird is subjective. If it’s here it means I like it. At least one is not that weird but just too good to not include.
You can also listen to the full IRAN Protests 2022 | Mahsa Amini playlist on Spotify and YouTube.
“For Freedom / Baraye Azadi” by Shervin Hajipour
You should watch the video of Baraye, the lyrics are from tweets from the protesters. There are also many stunning videos of dance performances like this one from a Dutch dance group. Here are the lyrics:
For dancing in the streets For the fear when kissing For my sister, your sister, our sisters For changing rotten brains For shame of money-lacking For yearning of just normal life For garbage boy and his dreams For this planned economics For this polluted air For Valiasr and it’s worn-out trees For Piruz and his possible extinction For dogs, innocent but banned For tears with no end For this moment will never happen again For smiling faces For students, for future For this forced heaven For the national elite imprisoned For Afghan children For all this “for”s with no repeat For all this empty chants For houses, collapsing like card ones For the feel of peace For the sun after long nights For pills of nerves and insomnia For men, homeland, development For girls wishing to be boys For women, life, freedom For freedom For freedom For freedom
I used Google Translate translate some of the lyrics of the other songs. These are approximations but I thought they were powerful and worth sharing nonetheless.
Sing! So that the city be filled with the the anthem of woman (Soroode Zan)
Where is justice? (Edalat)
What to wear, what to eat, what to do, what to say (Hashtadia)
We slept on oil, but we don’t have money (LAELAHAELALLAH)
Hate drips from the pen of peace (Sarnegooni)
They take away the burnt bodies. They are afraid of our dead. (Bezan)
We became a voice, look at the corruption and suffering. (La la La la — No More Lullabies)