Global .Wav

Global .Wav, presented by Fatima Al Qadiri, showcases attention-worthy music videos from around the world.

Global .Wav

Global .Wav | Pan-Arab Evangelist Pop

“Ya Taiba” is the song by the band Birds of Heaven. They are featured on a television network of the same name, which advocates a pan-Arab, Muslim vision aimed at making children pure with righteous programming. Aside from the creepiness that this description entails, the video’s heavenly dance routines are good enough to convert even the most hardened Satan-worshipper. Wouldn’t you want to be wearing a floor-length dress with matching hijab in pink satin, dancing on a treacherous 3000-year-old column with your girlfriends?

The answer to that question can never be “No.”

Let me share a few words on Haifa Wehbe, the sluttiest, baby-groping pop seductress in the Middle East. Hailing from Lebanon, Haifa is unlike every other female pop star in the world. This is mostly due to the fact that she cannot stop singing and prancing around babies. Her songs feature lyrics that espouse the *goo-goo-gaa-gaa* language of infants, as exemplified in her hit song, “Bus-al-Wawa” (literal translation: “Kiss the Owie”). In this video, Haifa… [read more »]

What does it mean to wear a red jumpsuit, a purple wig, a face mask and a false belly? If the seminal book (un)Fashion came with a DVD, this video from South African ensemble, Tshe Tsha Boys, would be on it. [Thanks to Jamie Friedman for sharing this]

From the Romanian dance music boy band, Animal X, comes a Twlight-infused vision of a vampire witch hunt in Dracula’s hometown… and perhaps some of the most bizarre dance moves ever choreographed for “straight” men.

It’s Sweden, 1997. Sunglasses come with built-in Virtual Reality lens modules so you can jack-in on the go! This song is cheesy as fuck, but no one has ever looked better walking down a street in broad daylight. Song: Antiloop “In My Mind”.

Dina Alieva: Chechnya’s youngest Muslim Trance superstar. Her religious sincerity and fashion prowess are a cancerous combination. Those pants? …Are basically the future. That stage? It’s the portal to Allah’s x-static domain.

It’s 1995 in Belgrade, and Ceca sings “Znam” (I Know) cuz she just married Arkan, a wanted war criminal in the region. Arkan died in her arms in 2000 with a bullet in his head. I’m sorry, but you just can’t get any harder than Ceca: girl is CUNT in CAPS. For all previous Global .Wav videos, CLICK HERE.

It’s Germany 1993: nothing can go wrong. A corporate tai-chi virtual reality mating dance dominates the workplace, and floral kaleidoscope is the must-have alternative accessory for every 9-5 lover.

My next installment of Global .Wav had to be Japanese. This is a band called Aicle. They’re all male. They go through, like, seven (bad) genres of music in this song. Their style mines uncharted depths of high street fashion mixed with tranny crackheads. I’m speechless. [Editor’s note: Fatima is never speechless.]