Stuck for time so I present this without much comment: the song being pitched as the Egyptian protest’s hip hop anthem. I’m not entirely convinced by its artistic merits — it’s self-consciously solemn rather than rousing — but it had to happen and timing counts for a lot. For once the much-abused Gil Scott-Heron line is actually relevant: “”I heard them say the revolution won’t be televised/Al Jazeera proved them wrong/Twitter has them paralysed.”
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DORIAN LYNSKEY is the author of 33 Revolutions Per Minute: A History of Protest Songs, published by Faber and Faber (March 2011) and Ecco (April 2011). He writes for the Guardian, The Word, Q, Spin and Empire.
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[…] Stuck for time so I present this without much comment: the song being pitched as the Egyptian protest's hip hop anthem. I'm not entirely convinced by its artistic merits — it's self-consciously solemn rather than rousing — but it had to happen and timing counts for a lot. For once the much-abused Gil Scott-Heron line is actually relevant: "”I heard them say the revolution won’t be televised/Al Jazeera proved them wrong/Twitter has them paralysed. … Read More […]