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Fatima Zahra

THE THIRD ONE WRONG

Women traditionally do not lead gnawa ceremonies, and she leads anyway

style

  • gnawa fusion
  • moroccan trance
  • guembri bass
  • qraqeb castanets
  • female alto
  • incantatory and powerful
  • hypnotic repetition
  • spiritual
  • arabic accent
  • hypnotic

the numbers

bpm
129
key
G minor
energy
0.71
dance
0.87
valence
0.49
vocal at
1.9s
length
7:59
language
Ar

lyrics

(the third one)

He waited until four in the morning to say it
The oldest maalem in the city, at the back, all night
He did not tell me I should stop or I was wrong to lead
He told me bar sixteen of the third one was incorrect

The third one wrong (the third one)
Only that, the third one
Nothing else, the third one
The third one

The third one wrong, one wrong, the third one wrong
He came to argue and he stayed to correct a bar
The third one wrong, one wrong, the third one wrong
And correcting me is how a man says you are one of us

My grandmother taught me in a kitchen, from memory, badly.
She was not allowed in the room where it was done properly.
So of course bar sixteen is wrong. She was guessing. For sixty years.
(GUEMBRI AND QRAQEB RETURN, HYPNOTIC BUILD)

The third one wrong, one wrong, the third one wrong
He came to argue and he stayed to correct a bar
The third one wrong, one wrong, the third one wrong
And correcting me is how a man says you are one of us

(bar sixteen...)
THE THIRD ONE WRONG — Fatima Zahra · FERAL