Title : Berklee School of Music students do an Arabic version of The Beatles' "Drive My Car" to celebrate Saudi Arabia's finally letting women drive.
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Berklee School of Music students do an Arabic version of The Beatles' "Drive My Car" to celebrate Saudi Arabia's finally letting women drive.
From the school's website:
When rearranging the piece, [Naseem] Alatrash kept the energy and, well, drive of the original while lending it an unmistakably Middle Eastern character. To do this, he swapped out the Beatles’ piano, drums, guitar, and electric bass for the qanun, cello, violin, double bass, and Arabic percussion instruments, incorporating that culture’s melodic aspects, ornaments, and microtones. He also ditched the guitar solo for a traditional Arabic improvisational interlude.They also had to change the lyrics:
The new version tells the story of a woman who’s in love with her newly granted freedom, and feels that marriage and family can wait. She sings, "Baby, I can drive my car/Yes, I’m gonna be a star/Baby I can drive my car/And maybe I’ll love you."In The Beatles version, the woman is the one acting dominant, and she's deigning to allow the man to be her chauffeur. She has big plans. She's going to be a star. But she doesn't even have the car yet. What did that say about female empowerment? I always took it to mean that the woman was deluded and grandiose and the man was onto her and not going to be conned.
I see that at the Genius lyrics website, the song, by Paul McCartney, originally had the line "You can buy me golden rings" instead of "You can drive my car." Paul thought rings were awful: "‘rings’ always rhymes with ‘things’ and I knew it was a bad idea." Somehow they hit on "drive my car," and they liked it because, as Paul put it, "‘Drive my car’ was an old blues euphemism for sex, so in the end all is revealed.... This nice tongue-in-cheek idea came and suddenly there was a girl there, the heroine of the story, and the story developed and had a little sting in the tail like 'Norwegian Wood' had, which was ‘I actually haven’t got a car, but when I get one you’ll be a terrific chauffeur.'"
Sounds a little misogynistic, no? Paul and John do not like this woman and they're not going to serve her. But for Saudi Arabian purposes, the step up is not getting a driver but being freed from the need to have a driver.
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