Yama Alou

Infobox Album | Name = "Yama Alou"
Type = Album
Artist = Nawal Al Zoghbi


Released = 2006
Recorded = 2005 - 2006
Genre = Arabic Pop
Length =
Label = Alam El Phan| Producer = Mohsen Gaber
Reviews =
Last album = "Einek Kaddabeen"
(2004)
This album = "Yama Alou"
(2006)
Next album = "Khalas Sameht"
(2008)

"Yama Alou" ( _ar. ياما قالوا) is Nawal Al Zoghbi's album, which includes the released hit singles "Rouhi Ya Rouhi", "Yama Alou", "Aadi", "Aghla El Habayib", and "Shou Akhbarak". The album was released on July 26, 2006 and includes a cover song of "Habibaty Man Takoun", originally sung by the famous Egyptian singer Abdel Halim Hafez. All songs are in Arabic language. The album includes songs that are sung in the Egyptian, Lebanese and Gulf accents.

Track listing

Promo

Mazzika Television ran promos for the album prior to its release. The first promo began with the camera showing the silver boots of a lady, slowly working its way to the ladies face, but the screen blacked out before the face was revealed and the word 'soon' appeared. The beginning of the song 'habbaytak' was playing in the background. The next promo was the same as the previous one, however the face of the woman was revealed as Nawal al Zoghbi. The words 'Nawal al Zoghbi' and 'soon' appeared.

A few days later, the next promo began to air with exclusive first-time release to callers of specific numbers within Egypt. It sampled the following songs from the album, 'Yama Alou', 'Aghla el Habbayib', 'El Assi', 'Habbaytak' and 'Shou Akhbarak'. It also samples her latest hit, "Shou Akhbarak". This advert showed various pictures of Nawal from the photo shoot for the upcoming album.

ingles

* "Rouhi Ya Rouhi " Rouhi Ya Rouhi (English: My Soul, Oh My Soul) was released in August 2005. The video for this song was directed by Tarek Al Aryan and showed a woman who had fallen out with her partner/husband. In the video, her partner has moved out and she feels alone without him. She wants him to come back home and sets about doing this by sending him a video message in the form of a DVD that his colleague plays for him in a meeting at work. She then makes a massive graffiti outside his office on the road that reads in Arabic 'come back to your house'. In the end, she wins him over and he returns to her.

*"Shou Akhbarak" The second single to be made into a video was Shou Akhbarak (English: How are you/What are your news). This was a released as a single in January 2006 and was also accompanied by a music video. The music video to this song was directed by Randa Alam and was shot in Lebanon. The story line revolves around an unknown singer who has dreams and ambitions to be a star one day. She is happily in love , when one day she receives a fax from a production company informing her that she was chosen to be their new uprising star, and they plan to produce her new album. But this will involve her leaving her lover behind and travelling away for a long period of time, which causes sort of distress between them. The clip involves flash backs to the wonderful times they had together.

*"Yama Alou"The title track of the album, Yama Alou (English: They Have Always Said) had a music video that was shot in Beirut, Lebanon in mid June 2006. It was the 3rd song from the album to be made into a music video, and began to air on Mazzika TV prior to the release of the album. The video clip was directed by Randa Alam. In the music video, Nawal spreads a music video through means of a virus. She is a hacker and gets into trouble with the Lebanese Security Forces. The virus spreads into the control panels of electronic screen boards/ billboards in the streets of beirut. The virus is also sent from her phone to the mobile phone networks across the country. The viewers of the song like the video so much to the extent that they all gather to defend her from the police who arrest her for her crime.

*"Adi"Adi (English: Normal) was the fourth song on the album to be turned into a music video. It was shot in November 2006 in Beirut, Lebanon. It is the only song on the album that Nawal sings in the khaleeji (gulf) accent of Arabic. The video follows the story of a girl who is in love with her yoga teacher. She begins to spy on him and sees him while she is out with her friends. The only problem that she faces is that he already has a girlfriend. Later on at a night club, we see the girl as the DJ singing and dancing with people. At the end, her yoga instructor shows up alone. The clip was released in mid January 2007 and was initially shown exclusively on the channel Mazzika Zoom, after which it was shown on other music channels. This was the first of Nawal's clips to be produced by her own production company, Tia productions.

* "Aghla El Habayib " The clip for Aghla El Habayib (English: Most precious darling) was filmed in Beirut, Lebanon in May 2007.It's the continuation to the video clip Shou Akhbarak. The video was produced by Tia productions and directed by Randa Alam, and was sponsored by LG Electronics. The clip involved a new concept for Nawal, as the story follows on from the video clip, Shou Akhbarak, released in 2006. At the end of Shou Akhbarak, we see Nawal leaving her love for a while in order to pursue her career and become a star.

In Aghla El Habayib, we see that some time has passed and Nawal is now a famous star. We see her in her dressing room before a concert, as she is trying to get in touch with her lover. She tries to phone him on her LG Shine phone, but the battery is low, so she goes to a phonebox and makes a call. Unfortunately she gets through to the answer machine and hears a message that she and her lover recorded previously. Meanwhile, we see her lover in a bar, and he seems to be upset. A girl keeps flirting with him and then writes down her details on a handkerchief for him. He smiles and takes it.

The clip then shows scenes alternating between Nawal and her lover. We see her being pursued by the media as she is now a famous star, we then see her at the breakfast table, clasping her phone, waiting for her lover to return her call. At the same time we see her lover getting ready at his home, as he looks at the number left by the girl in the bar. He takes a rose from his house and sets off. We assume he is going to meet the girl.

In the final clip, Nawal is on the beach walking and playing with her dog. Her dog runs off, and she begins to look for him. we see her looking sad as she tries to find her dog, when suddenly we see her face fill with joy as she runs towards what she has spotted. It is her lover with the dog. Nawal runs to him, he gives her the rose and then they hug as he swings her around. The couple are finally reunited.