This song is one of those songs which renews your faith in music. There might only be 36 stories in all of literature according to Goethe, but there are a near-infinite number of catchy tunes. And if you listen to this one twice you will know it forever - it's like musical herpes.
This is some more Rai, coming straight out of Algeria in the 1980's, and you can only imagine the effect this would have blaring out of a cassette player into a desert.
The lyrics are phenomenally feminist - Khaled tries to seduce Aicha, promising her all the treasures of the world, and she says that a prison is still a prison if the bars are made of gold, and that she only wants equality. Amazing.
The video is also spectacularly odd, and her makeup is foul. I do rate his bling though.
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