You know why I love Superstar? Because it re introduce us to songs w either forgot about or just never heard, two examples were given in prime 2, the first is the song of Mel7em Zain that was performed by Murad Sweety, it is a beautiful song I never heard before, the second great song was Layla Murad’s ‘7ayrana leeh’ what a great oldie ! How would I ever hear it if it wasn’t for Superstar? A great song that just becomes better with age.

However, what I said above about getting better with age is not true when we talk about tattoos; in this prime we got the “pleasure” of seeing two tattoos one fake and one real. The fake one was on the arm of Abdel-Majeed in his acting part before the song, and the other was real on the left arm of guest singer Layla Gofran. Now I am not really crazy about tattoos but I think they more suit younger people and they are ugly on older people, the problem with tattoos that they are permanent, once you had it, no way to go back and remove it. However my suggestion to Layla Gofran is simply to cover it next time and save us the “not so nice” view.

Since I mentioned the connecting acting parts between the songs, where each participant acts a part that ends usually with begging the audience to vote for him/her. I suggest that the idea for these parts could have been more original and fresh, I got tired of watching them last night and my thought was that I already seen them somewhere before. I must though mention here that Anoshka’s acting was the best of them all, she was the only one who convinced me that she have that gift.

Another issue I want to quickly highlight is the repeated songs in the different seasons. Did you notice that Saba7 song “3ashka w galbana” have been at least in 3 seasons, my favorite performance of it, by the way, is the one of Lebanese Nancy Nasrallah on Superstar3. I mean our Arab music library is so huge and repeating the same song in 3 different seasons is not very original idea (although I love the song).

Finally, one word to Ziad, who I like and respect, aren’t there any better words in the Arabic language to describe Dunya’s great performance than the word mor3ebeh’ (terrifying in English)?