There are certain holiday songs that inject a nostalgic feeling everytime we approach winter, and for some odd reason, remain popular year after year no matter how old they are. You walk into any restaurant and you hear “Last Christmas”. “Jingle bells” follows you down the supermarket aisle. “All I Want for Christmas Is You” is played in every radio, and every advertisement.Most recently, Christmas-time musical hits have been streamed into malls and hotels as well. But, in Egypt, there’s also another song that is played religiously every December: ‘Ice Cream Fe Gleem’ by Amr Diab. There is no clear reason as to why these songs in particular have kept a firm hold of an entire season year after year, but one thing remains apparent for all of them is that they evoke personal memories of family and adolescence, or early adulthood. Apparently, the more the music connects with feelings of family, or with late teenage years or early 20s, the more it becomes iconic and memorable, as Psyche Loui, an associate professor of creativity at Northeastern university says. The memories of youth – and early adulthood – is reflected…
