FIRST TIME HEARING Googoosh - Mordab | گوگوش - مرداب | reaction 

Mordab means swamp. The song is about a river who wishes to join the ocean but stucks is a small area and turns into a swamp. This is a metaphor of the dreams that never come true.

This is the translation...... On a bare plain, beneath the desert sun There's an old lagoon, captured in the land I am the old lagoon, separated from the whole world Heat of the sun on my body, chain of the land on my feet I am the one who one day, wanted to be the sea I wanted to become the world's largest sea I dreamed of reaching the sea Burning the night for reaching tomorrow In the beginning I was a fountain under the old sky But the bad luck took me to the desert My eyes were set there, behind that high mountain But the hands of fate dug a hole in my way I fell into the hole, the soil imprisoned me The sky also refused to rain, it was being hardheaded Now I'm a lagoon, a half dead captive Downwards Im going into the earth, upwards to the sky The sun from up there, and the earth from down here They're vaporizing me, Now this is all my life I'm seeing my death by my own eyes This is my fate, I'm the captive of the earth Nothing's left from me, it's the last moments The thirsty soil is taking the last drops away I'll dry up, I'll run out, when the sun comes tomorrow The wind brings the sand, that will fill up my spot

She is a world-class artist. The greatest artist in Iran. So proud of her.

I have a friend from Iraq. She said the war against Iran didn't stop them to hear Iranian music and specially Googoosh. They always used to play Googoosh music on on mean stream TV in Iraq... . Even in Tunesia and many other Arabic countries she were heared and popular. 😍 And , your music anelyses are great 😍😍😍💖😘👌

Her concert performed after 20 years of silence must be breathtaking. Am I right? Try it.

چقدر زیباست هم شعر هم خانم گوگوش هم اهنگ و کلا همه چیز این اهنگ مجذوب کننده اسا❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

I love Googoosh. I wish he didn't get old.😊

Googooshi is loved not just by Iranians, but Iraqis, Afghanistan's people, Tajikistan's people are more countries around Iran

This song is all metaphor & symbolism. It's one of her most poetic & emotional songs. Bittersweet beauty...

Googoosh best singer in the world. Love you gogoosh ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

When someone's wishes and desires all die. He sees himself dying sinking in a swamp. It's basically what this song's about.

GOUGOUSH IS BEST IN THE WORD❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

If Gogoosh was is in US with english songs she would be recocnized as one of the greatest pop singers

One of my favorites ever , she is a real diva , beautiful face and beautiful voice ❤

Googoosh's lyrics are exceptionally profound and she becomes different characters in different songs. This song is called: "The Swamp". She is a narrow creek in the desert hoping to reach the oceans behind the mountains but she ends up in a hole and becomes a motionless swamp. She is being pulled down by the earth and evaporated by the sun until she dries up and her remaining sands get blown away by the wind... Check out these classics of hers: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-iGVWimlLd1c.html Do Panjereh "Two Windows" Two windows divided by a wall. So close yet they can never be together. She longs for the wall to fall hoping in their next life time windows are not separated by walls... ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-pDgMIZoksT8.html Kavir "The Desert" She is a dried up desert asking God for rain and longing for blossoming flowers and a new life... ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-COVDdnLQWG0.html Mano Gonjishka "The Birds" She is one of many birds in a house longing every day for their owner to come home and release them from their cage and feed them and let them be free. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-OyNmN_z7B5U.html "You and I" We are together but far apart. A bad marriage where home has become a prison. Nothing left to be said. Clocks have stopped ticking and floral pattern on the rugs are fading away...

Googoosh, the queen of the voice of the Middle East🇮🇷🇮🇷👑👑👑👑

It's something else when you know the lyrics, I love this song...

Googoosh is best ❤

Googoosh is the best Iranian artist🙏❤️❤️❤️❤️

Since you like Gooogosh I'll translate one of her greatest songs tomorrow, that song was the hit song of 1970 from her 1970 album (do panjere)

You have barely scratched the surface with googoosh she has a very great catalog of songs pol is an amazing song one of her best and ebi has a great version of it too

she is amazing❤❤❤❤

This song was meant to be performed by the legendary singer Farhad, but the composer Hassan Shamayzadeh, liked it so much that he sang and records it him self.

Thank youuuuu so much. Gogoosh is the best.

Legend❤❤❤❤love googoosh

Did you know GooGoosh started her first concert after the band's were lifted and she left Iran ,in Toronto at Air Canada Center?

OMG! The lyrics is fantastic.

گوگوش عشقه

GooGoosH 🎼🎻🎸🎶🎆🌹🌹🌹

I'm from Iran, googoosh is a legend❤

The song is called lagoon, here is the translation: In a naked field, under the dessert sun, there is an old lagoon, hostage to the dirt. I'm that old lagoon, away from the world. the heat of sun on my body & the chain of earth on my feet. I am the one who wanted to be a sea, the biggest sea in the world! I wished to go until I reach the sea, set fire to the night to reach tomorrow. First, I was a spring under the old sky, I was so unfortunate that my path led to the dessert. My eyes were looking past the mountains, but the hands of fates, dug a well on my way! I fell in, the dirt imprisoned me, the sky didn't care, it didn't rain. Now, I am a lagoon, an ill hostage, going in the earth from one side, & going up [vaporize] in the sky from another. The sun from above, earth from down below, melt & vaporize me, this has become my life. I am seeing my death with my own eyes. It's my destiny, being a hostage to the earth. There is nothing left of me, these are the last drops. The thirsty earth is taking it away. I will be dried out tomorrow, when the sun comes up, and sand will fill where once I was. The sand that the wind brings.

She has an old 70's song called "Hejrat". It's very elegant. I think you're going to enjoy reacting to it

In 70's Iranian music it is like they are telling a story through the songs

The real value of an artist , especially a singer, is his or her relationship with his or her people. Whenever we say people , we are addressing all humankind beings. The more you respect humanity , the more you will be beloved. Without respecting human's right , we are nothing.

Listen to Pol . It is harmonically strong . And it is considered as the best in Iranian pop music . Pol means bridge and is the metaphor for embrace.

Can be more beautiful than this song???? Så lovely ❤️🌺

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Aaaaahhh!! Goosebumps!!😭😍🙌🏼

googoosh. road 👌👍

Lyrics:Ardalan Sarfaraz Song writer:Hassan Shamaeizadeh Arrengment:Varoujan

Context : I was a beautiful spring with fresh water... I fell in a trap and it changed me to a swamp. .. now I am just a swamp with dirty face

Love her live performances of "mordab"!

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You should see the live performance of this song related to the 2012 Los Angeles concert💥💥👌

I am persian, Mordab means swamp. The lyrics has very deep meaning and very powerful message. It says I was like a rever wanted to go and because ocean but I fall in to a hole and became swamp... it look like life is full of surprises for young and wishful people can't achieve their goals. Lyrics is so so beautiful.

I wish you could see the subtitles as well cuz the poem is wonderful too

My loveeeee

Long story short! Mordab means swamp. The song uses swamp as a metaphor for a person who is stuck in a deadened situation in life. The sun eats the swamp(evaporates) and the earth eats it in a different way (absorbs the swamp). The song then continues with the swamp having the dream of joining the ocean but stuck in the desert and has no hope to survive. Beautiful concept like sunshine is pictured as an evil destroyer. All these contrasts makes the lyrics amazing

Swamp = mordab. Farsi poet is persian history culture and iranian express in everyday life. She performed for people from 3years old with her father violinist.. She is a special artist in iranian heart because of lots of different reasons ..

god bless her

Excellent.

The meaning of "mordab " is Swamp.

The "Spanish" influence goes both ways. Flamenco has some Iranian/Gypsy/Berber routs (look up Ziryab) and because of that, Iranians feel at home when Western music has some Spanish ornaments. The style of this song is known as "chanson" (pronounced shanson), a french genre of music that emphasises the lyrics and pays less attention to the background music. It was hugely popular in 60s and 70s in Europe (especially France, obviously, Italy and Germany) but also in Iran, where pop music was emerging. Googoosh is one of the pioneers of the modern pop music in Iran, which differs heavily from the heretofore known and loved traditional and Folk music, but a french person would actually characterize her as an accomplished "chanteur", a chanson singer.

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I am crying 😢 my poor beautiful country Iran

Googoosh ❤❤❤✌✌

Mordab is a swamp, a stangnent decaying body of water which will never realize its biggest dream, reaching the ocean (the song assumes every body of water, just like a river, dreams of joining the ocean in the end). The lyrics though about a mordab on the surface is an analogy of unfulfilled dreams and the grief and sadness that accompany such loss.

I think the proper word for Mordab in English is lagoon. Here a lagoon is talking to itself or to God or to no-one , singing, crying, complaining about it's destiny. It was dreaming whole it's life about moving and flowing toward the ocean, toward the God, toward its true self, but something has stoped it. something maybe from outside or inside. It doesn't know. it is disappointed and when out of itself, it is observing its death. Being absorbed by soil and being vaporized by sun. it thinks it's the end of its story that's why it is scared. may be tomorrow it is joining the ocean as rain.

nous t'aimerons encore pour des générations; tu est notre Johnny Hollyday.....

hey Mace! thanks for reacting to older songs! i would never listen to these if it weren't you reacting to them, you're kinda introducing me to this genre of music from my own country! my Mom loves Googoosh and i certainly listened to most of her songs at some point but now I've got reason to relieve my childhood memories when my Mom used to force me into listening to them 😂 also now I'm getting a more diverse selection of music in my youtube music since I'm listening to these!! for the meaning of this song it's somehow coincidentally telling her story of life!! it's about a person who gets trapped in the life with no future and not being able to express their feelings or talent. it's crazy that's exactly what had happened to her few years later after this song with the revolution!

You should also check her other works, like Marham, Hamsafar, Man Amadeam, Pol, Kavir, Hejrat... to grasp her style of singing.

That was amazing bro🙏🏻

The Latin sound is because Latin music is the most compatible to ours from all of other western sounds. Most of our previous pop music drew heavily from Latin music.

in a naked field under a deserted sun me, an old puddle stuck in the hands of the ground i am that old puddle separated from the whole world the heat of the sun on my body chained to the dusty ground i am the one who wanted to become the ocean one day i wanted to become the biggest ocean in the world i had hopes to go get to the ocean burn the night to get to tomorrow at first being thirsty under the old sky but from my bad luck my way fell in the desert my eye, my eye was looking over their behind that tall mountain but from the hands of destiny brought me bad luck on the way i fell into a hole the dirt prisoned me the sky didn't rain the sky was conserving now i am a puddle in pain of evaporating one way i go in the ground the other way to the sky the sun from up their the ground from down here they make me evaporate my life became like this they took me with my eyes i am dying here my destiny is this i am suck on the ground nothing is left of me i am only couple drops of water the thirsty dirt is taking the drops away i will get end up dry tomorrow when the sun comes it will make me dry and take me to the sky

I've edited Neda's translations a bit to make it easier for everyone to follow the lines, exactly as she sings them. This way you get a better understanding of the lyrics & at the same time connect to what she's feeling through each line. . ***Also, wherever possible, instead of generalizing some of the lines (as Neda has done in just a few cases) I'm translating almost each line exactly as she speaks & means them in Persian.*** In the middle of a bare plain, beneath the desert sun, There's an old lagoon, captured in the land. I am that old lagoon, separated from the whole world The heat of the sun on my body, The chain of the land on my feet. I am the one who one day, wanted to become the sea, I wanted to become the greatest, sea in the world. I dreamed of going, till I reach the sea, To burn the night, till I reach tomorrow.... In the beginning I was a fountain, under the old sky But from bad luck my path turned to the desert. My eyes, my eyes were set there, behind that high mountain, But the hands of fate, dug a hole in my way.... I fell into the hole, the soil imprisoned me, The sky also refused to rain, it too, was being hardheaded. Now I'm a lagoon, a half dead captive, On the one side I'm sinking into the earth On the other, upwards to the sky..... The sun from up there, and the earth from down here, they keep vaporizing me, This is what my life has become. I see here, my death, with my own eyes, This is my fate, I'm a captive of the earth. Nothing's left of me, it's (on) my last drops, Even this (much), the thirsty soil, is taking away from me. I'll dry up, I'll run out, Tomorrow, when the sun comes, The sand will fill my spot (my existence) That which will come with the hands of the wind.....

I loved your reaction!

We are all here so let's just hang out..love that❤. Love your reactions 🙏

Found it . Mace the version I sent you has English subtitles . Anyway thank you 🙏🏻🌸

Beautiful

DİVA G❤❤GOOSH

Wooooooow.very very very good

عالی بود دمت گ رم

I think I heard somewhere the clapping etc at the start were added to make it sound like live performance.

این اهنگ درعین اینکه خیلی زیباست خیلی هم غم ودرد توشه بنظرم کسی که تو زندگیش درد کشیده باشه تک تک کلمات این موزیک درک میکنه وگوگوشم باتمام احساسش اینو اجرا کرده چون خودشم زندگی خیلی سختی داشته درکل اهنگ سنگینیه

This song is super meloncholic.

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kavir from googoosh be sure to listen

googoosh😍❤❤❤

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The lyric is the story of a small spring dreaming of merging into the biggest sea. Misfortunately, she passes through a hole and entraps by the ground. The sun evaporates her from the top the soil sucks her last drops. She dies gradually and sands takes her place brought by the hands of the wind the next day. (I’m sure if it were Disney, it would have made a happy ending of that little spring’s destiny!)

This song has been ranked as the second best persian songs ever by Iranians. Thank you for your reaction 🙏🏻 Also you can check her new performances and music videos Like Ejaz , Behesht , man o gonnishka , nagoo bedroud , ...

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I think her best song in this album was talagh (divorce). You may just need to take a look at her hit songs in 60s and 70s (not all of the songs were popular especially this one).

(One part of lyrics) I am the one who wanted to be the sea one day....i wanted to became the biggest sea in the world.... I wanted to go to the sea, burn the nights to reach the tomorrow It's the story of a pond that wanted to be a sea but Difficulties along the way turned it into a (mordab) swamp

I recall my loneliness in back campus with this song.

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😥😥😥😥😥😥😥😥😥😥😥 thanx. it was perfect. thank u

Well this is a pop song so it's bound to sound a little bit like the pop music of most other cultures. BUT, Persian is older than Latin so if you see any similarities in expression (musical or otherwise) you could take a guess at where it's most likely coming from. Plus the latin you're probably thinking of is of the Americas, which is even younger than true Spanish latin.

You are becoming one of my favorite RU-vidrs!

Oh one of my favorite classics. If you liked Googoosh's music you may also enjoy Hamid Hami's music. My favorite track is Khabe Siah

This song is basically sympathy with the swamp . Whom was a fountain water one day. but bad fortune make him a swamp in the desert and he is waiting to dry (and die)

Thank you dude

very very good

My favourite song bro

👍👍👍👍 🙂

Please listen to"Pol" by Googoosh

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Woow

گوگوش خواننده بزرگ و محبوب ایران است ، گوگوش دختر خونه همه ایرانیها است ، گوگوش افتخار ایران ست که 70 سال است هنر و صدای خودش را به رخ جهان میکشد ، آیا در جهان هنرمندی داریم که 70 سال اجرای خواندنی و سینمایی داشته باشد ؟

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