The "Mafish Saheb Yetsaheb" music video by Shobek Lobek from the upcoming Eid Al-Adha film "Eyal Harifa" became the most searched video on YouTube in Egypt after it was released last Thursday.
The video for the 'performance' of the song in the movie, if you can call it that, has remained at the top of the Egyptian YouTube charts since it was released and has gotten over 1.3 million views so far. You're probably wondering why.
"What is this? No seriously, what is this?"
The original music video of the original version of the song released in late August was extremely popular, the "mahragan," as Egyptians so call this genre of music, has had more 9 million views since it was released, which is an unusual record for an Arabic song.
It has become one of the most recognizable songs in Egypt, forever immortalizing the phrase "mafish saheb yetsaheb, mafish ragel ba'a ragel" (there's no friend to befriend anymore, there's no man who's a real man anymore) in Egyptian slang, memes, jokes, as well as adding it to that list of phrases that can only be understood in Egypt.
"Oh my God, the airport officials gathered around me when they found out I was from Egypt and they hung out with me and they tell me "you have "ezbet Mohsen nas tamam"(song lyrics)" and they turned on 'Mafish Saheb Yetsaheb.'" So apparently, the song isn't just locally famous now.
However, this version released to promote the film, which it definitely succeeded in, is just so much funnier than the group's original.
Its combination of hilariously cringe-worthy dancing, over-the-top dance floor lights and so much autotune it gives T-Pain a run for his money, officially makes it the best so-bad-it's-good Arab music video of the year.
These dance moves are just worthy of their own version of the "Razzie Awards":