ERBIL, Kurdistan Region – A video clip of a Kurdish singer, Zhala Rafaat, has caused uproar on the social media networks. While The critics of the video call it 'inappropriate' and see it against Kurdish traditions, Zhala dismisses those comments.
Zhala's video clip, named Holy Bubbles, features her dancing in clothes seen by some as 'inappropriate'. The singer is also seen carrying a Kurdish flag while doing the dance.
The lyrics of the song are in English but it caused uproar on the Kurdish pages and accounts on the social media.
Kurdani Swid –Kurds in Sweden-, a page on Facebook, published the video clip calling Zhala 'Kurdish Lady Gaga'. Hundreds of comments made to this page and elsewhere on social media expressed anger at the video clip.
"I am a Kurd but this video clip is in no way Kurdish. Please tell her that she is not representing our true Kurdish values," reads one comment made by Bashar Koye who also asked the singer to hold Swedish flag instead of Kurdish flag.
"I really pray to God that she is not Kurdish," wrote Shahla Ahmed, another fan of the page.
Zhala dismisses those comments seeing the clip as normal. "It is the director's decision to advise me how to show myself in the video clip. I show myself the way the video clip requires," she said, "I am a free girl and want to do art across the world. Some Kurds think about sex only, therefore, they will never progress. Those who do not like my works they can simply do not look at them."
She also rejected the claim that she has disrespected Kurdish flag by doing that video clip."The Kurdistan flag is the property of all Kurds and I am a Kurdish," she stated.
The video clip has recorded 142,000 viewers on Zhala's official Youtube channel, so far.
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