
Annoncering
Annoncering
Klay BBJ's video for "We Fucked Ourselves Over"Klay’s career started in December 2010, when the process of ousting former dictator Zine el-Abidine Ben Al started in the first of the Arab Spring uprisings. Like many young Tunisians, Klay participated in protests during the revolution. After the slogans died down, Klay kept his voice up, not to welcome the new politicians but to raise awareness of what he saw as an “ongoing political scheme to take over and further exploit the country”.Since he came to prominence with "Zakataka", Klay’s music has spread via social media and the shows he plays around the country. Despite the fact he doesn’t really sell records and doesn’t make enough money from his music to support himself, his popularity is growing. In his song ”Employment, Dignity and National Liberty” – a natural follow-up to the revolution’s slogan of “bread, freedom and national dignity" – Klay accuses the governing Islamist Ennahda party of “profiting from the revolution, while others stay poor”. It’s the kind of message that resonates with his audience, given that youth unemployment, cited as a main driver of the revolution, is still as high as 30 percent nationwide and even higher in rural areas.If that last title is too cryptic, Klay has another song, “We Fucked Ourselves Over”, in which he condemns Ennahda's October 2011 electoral victory as the “greatest mistake his people committed”. The message in this and other tracks is that rather than improving, things have gotten worse since Ben Ali was toppled. In another song, “No Pasaran” – a left-wing slogan meaning “they won’t pass” – Klay says that strict social rules haven’t improved after elections, only the rhetoric surrounding them has changed. What was called “prohibited” before is now simply redefined in Islamic terms as “haram" by Ennahda.
Annoncering

Annoncering

Annoncering