She has a beautiful voice, writes beautiful songs and looks good too. Yet Souad Massi is not a world star. The biggest problem to break through to a wide audience: she sings in Arabic. That language is not so well with the Western pop fan. Massi's listening songs also lack the grand gesture that Arab audiences love. With that, the frail French-Algerian singer falls a bit between the cracks and that
… is a shame. Just listen to the dreamy Samira Meskina, who is not inferior to any song by Norah Jones. In themes and song structures, Massi is more in keeping with the idiom of singer / songwriters and French chanson, but she proves that she is more than a romantic in the vicious Stop Pissing Me Off. To a jazzy beat she gives the Islamic sharpeners a swipe. The song underlines that Souad Massi is an independent artist, who follows her own unique course. (PdK)more
