Iwan Shoots Same Song Twice

Lebanese composer/singer Iwan has his first Gulf dialect song few months ago, and even though the poetic lyrics were awesome, the music video was a let down for many including the Saudi poet who wrote the song. (Read More) It was a fresh start for Iwan to do something away from Lebanese and Egyptian for change to challenge himself a bit

Lebanese controversial music director Jad Choury directed the music video. It turn out Sara Al Hajery, the poet lobbies Iwan to re-shoot the music video becasue she was unhappy with the way Jad's version of the music video. According to the poet she feels Jad was unable to translate her vision for the song. And that the poet did not like how Iwan looked in the music video--he did look like Aladeen.

Iwan caved in and a new music video just wrapped filming in Lebanon, where the poet was present during the filming. The music video will be released next week. This is so first time, I do not think any other artists had to do this before. I do not think there is on Arabic song that has two official music videos yet alone have a new version with a new director. I know many stars wish they can get a do over, but it seems Iwan is the first.

Iwan - Ashofak / إيوان - أشوفك