Bringing cocky back

Can Techno save Iranian Pop?

by bahmani
22-Mar-2009 (one comment)
Iranian youth knowing that the song will be passed around electronically or at parties and clubs, demand the notoriety that comes with a hit, even if they mostly use their first names. The only problem is that using only your first name in Iran these days makes that "Ali" guy an amazingly talented person, because inevitably there is an "Ali" on almost all the songs! Which I think is an adorable miscalculation. Adding your last name is still apparently too risky a choice. Sure, the Techno is often obvious variations lifted from the latest "Ibiza '08" or the harshest versions coming out of southern and eastern Europe these days. But even this makes sense. That this sound in spite of the obvious government, dead set against it, has still made it all the way to Tehran, even through simple shortwave radio>>>