My folks are from Lebanon, and i was born in the US, so im pretty Americanized. Despite that, i grew up with the typical songs Nour al ein, shik shak shok, all the hits, but i never listened to Al Nadda Wanadda, the song this is based off. I was a kid and was playing civ 4 and jamming out to the menu theme song. My mom was so confused when she passed by my room. I rememeber her being impressed that i was playing a game that feaured arabic music. Honestly i cant think of a game that was more enriching for my young mind than the Civ series. It forged my love for history and strategy. Sid Meiers will always be goated in my eyes.
Background info of the song: Al Nadda is a popular Lebanese song originally composed by the Rahbani Brothers who were Christian Lebanese composers, musicians, songwriters, authors, playwrights/dramatists, philosophers, and poets. I think the Civilization developers decided to put a famous Lebanese song to represent the Carthaginian civilization and Hannibal who were introduced into the game. If you may not already know, Carthaginians and Hannibal were Phoenicians from Carthage.
I know this comment is a year old, but thank you. I have been in love with this song since I first heard it booting up Warlords, and now I have a name for the composers. I have found little information about it by looking up only the title and lyrics.
How to introduce and know the composer of the song and forget the owner and its Lebanese singer #Shahrora #Sabah You know the Lebanese heritage song and forgot to know who has the credit in the publication of the Lebanese song is a mistake that must be corrected
I like how you're insisting to spit your sectarianism all over the comment section, although all Lebanese songs are pretty close on style, and all Lebanon have very close if not the same culture and folk, but you keep insisting to say Christian just let people know their are Christians, depicts your way of thinking. By the way, لكل بشير حبيب
That's wonderful to know. I have some Lebanese roots myself so this fills me with some measure of pride and excitement (perhaps because the some is some awesome and my favorite over Baba Yetu).
@@brex1649 Yeah its incredibly cringy. But lets be honest most people watching this video are westerners and theres def a bias to see the Christians in the Mid East more favorably. its so funny he mentions Carthage and Phoenicians when the song is literally in Arabic...
Arab here. It's isn't actually that weird that a love song has such a strong tone. It is about his strong determination that would make him tear down even the mountains after all (tearing down mountains is a poetic figure for power). Also I had trouble understanding the lebanese accent in this song and had to look it up on the internet :/
***** its like in russia, rural siberian berally undertands rural moskovian, they have all same basis of gramar and 60 % of words r almost indentical but that 40 % is more other languge then russian. its nothing more then just share range of lanauge, u cant standardise languge on so larg scale even when all of inhabitans speak languge not from same familly but branch of lanauges.
***** i am very bad with languges, i needed 15 years to become bilingual on english, and i still dont know to write for shit. i am not arab by the way, not really tho. my mother's mother's father was arab and that is all arab blood i actualy have, but i am such mix that i dont know half of lanauges of my familly :D. i envy with u on ppl with lanauge capabilities. oy and btw, scots r most slavic westerners :D
***** i didnt meant scotish blood, i meant culture, its almost indentical to siberian slavs and balkan serbs. my mix; Father is 1/2 Montenegrian(nobleman even :D with 2000 years old familly with mixes with: Greeks,Normans,Albanians{from time when they where christian and disent ppl},Russian,German and very important French{even minor noble familly from Aquitnaia}) , 1/4 Chinese from Xinjing province(mixed local bloods: Kazakh-Han-Hui) and 1/4 Japanese from Russia; Mother: by blood 1/4 Jewish, 1/4 Turkmeni from occupied byzantine territories(i dont want to say turk cuz i h8 turkey to the core) and 1/2 Greeko-Arab Lebannese. "Interesting language that one too, coming from Persian. " are u persian? i need help with Farsi if u r i need some fast phrases for my trip, every help would be apricieted.
***** got little bit confused there sorry, i tought u said u r persian, or mix of it. nothing then. oh, i need to get on some trip in few months and i need basis of french can u send me somewhere where its free? i am rich but only in sertain countries.
I haven’t heard this in like over a decade and forgot how hard the middle expansion theme slapped. Civ 4 had my favorite mix of music and such great original songs.
I love civ the intro and this song always got me hiped up for my next conquest and is ready nostalgic for me now civ 4 warlords is my 2nd favorite civ game right after civ5 I do miss watching the wonders get built tho that was fun
+Glamis Or at least as his war theme. Hell, each of the leaders should get an alternate theme for their war music instead of a grimmer version of the original.
+Glamis Its really cool how the one Song itself evolves over Time, just like the civs themselves. The Vikings and Celts are my favorite examples of this.
They should've put it as Hannibal's theme since this song is originally a Lebanese Christian song. Lebanese are the descendents of the Phoenicians, and Hannibal was Phoenician. Charlemagne also had an ancient Phoenician song, and that's totally fine because he had Phoenician DNA in him.
What I love about the Civ series, especially in Civ 4, is that such miscellaneous yet beautiful soundtracks are selected for the game soundtrack. From Baba Yetu all the way to Al Nadda, they're just so good. In addition to the music being good, I think it can teach us to expand our musical horizons as well. Civ 4 achieved this with flying colors indefinitely!
This was the best music to Earth 1950AD, with Stalin hurling nukes at everyone, while the Nazis rose up out of WWIII, and took over most of Russia within 10 turns, and North Korea warring with all of Asia, India fighting to stop an English invasion, and a second US civil war. I love Warlords.
This is a beautiful song, easily one of the most poetic and moving that I've ever heard in a game. I still get shivers up my spine while browsing the Civilopedia as the music plays. When was it first composed, and what other recordings of it exist? If anyone has an answer, I'd love to know.
lyrics in english part 2 Nadda was by the water spring. And I asked her why she was not around. Nadda was by the water spring. And I asked her why she was not around. She looked at me with those eyes. And she wanted to talk to me and she did not want to. (yeah this is actually a love song)
It is a remixed Lebanese folk song "Al nadda" by sabah, it is very popular and played in events like weddings. So a lot of people know about it. Albeit the original is less warlord-like.
lyrics in english part 1 O' Nadda, Nadda Where roses are blooming on her cheek. And if they refuse to give you to me, I will tear down the high mountains. O' Nadda, Nadda, Nadda. Where roses are blooming on her cheek. And if they refuse to give you to me, I will tear down the high mountains.
I can empathize with the feel of this song as being about love. People should stop thinking that if a song is about love/anger/sorrow/happiness (or any other particular emotion) it "has" to sound a certain way, because that limits musical creativity. Expand your musical horizons. Listen to some classical / ancient / folk and even spiritual music from all around the world. Music is infinitely more than "MTV".
(O' Nadda, Nadda, Nadda(O'moist. Where roses are blooming on her cheek. And if they refuse to give you to me, I will tear down the high mountains. Nadda went down on the the Field. And she was met and April appeared. Nadda went down to the garden. And she was met and April appeared. ،'when I'm lonely awake in night I count night stars Original full song by Sabah ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-mJnrGxVv2qM.html
Gaining control of an entire country that you weren't even born in, than taking over half of Europe isn't just "luck". Just because his moral compass was skewed doesn't change the fact that he was very intelligent.
In response to everyone arguing whether or not people are Arabs or Lebanese: We are all human. Stop trying to diversify ourselves any more than we need to. Stand united as a race, or fall.
@rhinnawi95 Having grown up in a Roman Catholic family, and surrounded by very 'Christian' folk... I can already tell you that, if they had the power in the government, they'd be trying to make it a theology just like Islamic countries.
it's funny that this song is a song about love =D O' Nadda, Nadda, Nadda Where roses are blooming on her cheek And if they refuse to give you to me, I will tear down the high mountains
i think because sid meier had this sort of humor. Oddly enough there is alot of funny parts in civ 4 like how one of the game tips was snacks in moderation.
The power of presentation. The same song performed by a Bozo dude makes it a war song, compared to a hot chick from Lebanon singing it turns it to a happy love song. /watch?v=pA1ZKFlgGgs
