In her most recent music video ‘You Are’, 28-year-old Malak El Husseiny echoes an “oceanic” feeling; reflecting the quiet, peace and stillness of nature as she sings through poetic honesty about the complexities of her emotions and the nuances of love. Today, a wave of young women in the global music industry are now reinventing the ‘power ballad’, which is more of a slow, emotional style of music that deals more with intimate topics, with the likes of Billie Eilish introducing a more ‘honest sound’ to music as noted by music critics. Trading upbeat and maximalism for honest and raw emotional expressions, Malak is one of the Egyptian artists reflecting the 2020s’ shift to intimacy, vulnerability and openness in music. A number of women in Egypt’s music industry are now also independently paving their own paths in the field and experimenting with different styles and music that most suits their identity. Among the rising prominent female singers in Egypt are Felukah, Nadia Shanab and Dina el Wedidi, who have been enabled by technology to self release their own music and target their own audiences. After an appearance on the show…
A Story About Vulnerability: Egyptian Singer Malak Exposes the Raw and Authentic in Music
February 19, 2021
