Music clip of Skateboarding niqab-clad women takes Saudi Arabia by storm
The song and music clip titled “Hwages” (roughly translated as concerns in English) was uploaded on YouTube on Dec. 23
A new music video showing niqab-clad local women skating, playing basketball, singing and dancing is taking Saudi Arabia by storm.
The song and music clip titled “Hwages” (roughly translated as concerns in English) was uploaded on YouTube on Dec. 23 and has gained more nearly half a million views since then.
The video opens to a scene showing three women wearing the niqab entering a car while a young boy takes the front steering wheel, in a nod to Saudi Arabia's ban on women driving.
The son is an attempt at critiquing the stereotypical image of Saudi women, with scenes showing men jesting at them while standing near an airplane and driving a car.
But the women in “Hwages” can be seen playing basketball, bowling and even skateboarding at one point on the streets of Saudi Arabia.
“May all men be erased as they’ve given us mental illness,” is one verse roughly translated from Arabic sang by three women in the video produced by Saudi production company 8ies Studios.
It was inspired by a low-quality production video that went viral in 2014 using the same lyrics.
The Saudi director @majedalesa breaks stereotypes about Saudi women in a funny yet clever video clip https://t.co/9udRGl1s2a loved it
— منال مسعود الشريف (@manal_alsharif) December 24, 2016
Ugh I love this new generation of Saudis so much, y'all HAVE to see this ❤ https://t.co/JGPIfWFnQd
— Lama (@lama_mad) December 24, 2016
Saudis are so funny - and so not like what many are happy for you to think. This video just out: https://t.co/n6wJbUHEn8
— Andrew Hammond (@Hammonda1) December 25, 2016
This #Saudi artist is amazing and worth checking out.Don't even need to understand what the song means 2 get concept https://t.co/MfZsqtwi7t
— مفتیSehar (@SeharMufti) December 25, 2016
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