The song of Googoosh I chose was Man Hamoon. My roommate is Persian and he said it has a lot to do with what is going on currently in Iran, and is a very heartfelt song. The song contains a great mix of Persian culture with what seems to be a bit of western synthesizing in it as well. The song also holds an interesting mix of instruments, starting off with a homophony of voice and piano and progressing to another homophony of Googoosh’s voice and synthesized beats. Man Hamoon definitely has a long story behind it and has many hidden pictures and meanings in it as one can find in the video. For example, one of the lines in the song is “A cage looking like a cat has covered all of me”. This line is sung with an image of fire burning in the background. If one looks closely, the fire is in the exact shape of Iran, which some say looks like a cat; the cage around the cat is the current government which is impoverishing Iran. The symbolism behind this and the hidden words of the song give it much more meaning than what I first though. Googoosh also does quite a bit of ornamentation with her voice, such as some vibratos, accentuating the Persian language in order to bring more feeling. This song definitely shows how much emotion can go into music without us even noticing it.
The following is the link to the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuBSrYEwN44
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