Perhaps the combination of Jean-Jacques Goldman’s and Khaled’s social consciousness was the biggest benefit to the song Aicha which the duo co-wrote. The song’s message is about the emancipation of women, sung from the perspective of a man who is in love with a woman with very few rights. There is something beautiful in the way that these men were able to put words to the ideal of women’s emancipation in such a way so as to captivate man’s misunderstanding of the true desires of this woman (freedom) and in the act of writing and singing the song, his capability of understanding what she truly wants and needs. It is not until near the end of the song that it becomes a song about more than unrequited love. Perhaps as a mimic of Arabic music with the long (instrumental) introduction, most of the song is an introduction to the heart of the song, at which point in the last verse Aicha denies the man saying, ““Keep your treasures/ I’m worth more than all that./ Bars are bars – even if they’re gold./ I want the same rights as you/ And respect for each day/ I don’t want anything but love.” photo- flickr.com
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