A great success was achieved by the song of the Egyptian artist Hamza Namira, which was titled “My Home, My Heart,” according to the constantly increasing numbers of listeners to it on online sharing outlets, most notably YouTube, where the song exceeded 4 million streams in the first two days of its release on it. The song’s lyrics radiate pain and regret for lost dreams in light of the bleak reality of the Arab region and its political conflicts that have destroyed the lives of the younger generations accompanying it. Its words say:
I don’t know why? Your heart has been broken for a long time
Hamza Namira Al-Jarrah touched down, mainly addressing the topic of estrangement, as he talked about the pain of separation and distance from family, homeland, and friends, and the despair and suffering that the people of this generation suffer from, which is what found its place in the hearts of his listeners and those anticipating his publications. Through the social networking site Twitter, a large number of people praised Namira’s song, commenting that it expresses a large number of the young generation who were forced to leave their homeland and separate from their families, especially due to the political circumstances in the region. Technically, there are reasons that made the song achieve this wide spread, starting with its strong words and touching melodies, through the scenes of its appearance and the repercussions that accompanied it, the most prominent of which are:
The absence of Hamza Namira
The young artist has been away from the artistic scene for some time, specifically since he released his latest album, “Hear Me,” at the end of 2014, which at that time included a number of songs that won the admiration of the audience, which made the latter in a state of anticipation for his return.
Song lyrics
The song’s lyrics were written by the lyricist Mahmoud Farouk, who has previously collaborated with Hamza Namira more than once. It is full of meanings that carry within it a lot of pity and sadness, and that touch on the feeling of simple and new vocabulary at the same time.
Simple melody
Hamza Namira was able to convey the same feeling present in the song’s lyrics with the melody he presented to it, and he relied on three melodic phrases, all of which were characterized by simplicity and escalation at the same time between each phrase, in an oriental character characterized by a good connection between all his sentences, in addition to Hamza Namira’s good feeling in performing the song, which showed the state of grief that the song speaks about.
Musical arrangement
The song was arranged by musician Karim Abdel Wahab in cooperation with Hamza Namira. The song showed a mixture of Eastern and Western instruments with good craftsmanship, such as the oud and guitar, and the diversity in rhythm between Eastern and Western rhythmic instruments as well as in the tambourines, which constituted a good diversity of music and movement between these styles.
Hamza Namira’s interview with Yousry Fouda
Before the song was officially released, Hamza Namira was a guest of the journalist Yousry Fouda on his program “The Fifth Estate,” which was broadcast on the German channel “Deutsche Welle.” He presented a clip of the song playing the guitar only, and this clip was able to achieve great popularity and spread, and was the reason for the audience’s anticipation for the release of the full song.
In criticizing the song
Despite the overwhelming success that the song has achieved since its release, a wave of criticism quickly followed it because it immersed itself in deep sadness without maintaining a ray of hope and anticipation for a better future, as writer Mohamed Elhamy says in articles His book, entitled “Do not listen to Hamza Namira”: “The biggest problem with this Hamza Namira song is that it stops at sorrows and cries over the ruins… and it is of no use to do this to ourselves!”
