Thursday 14/December/2023 – 11:16 AM
Art critic Tarek El-Shenawy commented on the accusations against the artist Walid Tawfiq, after the latter released a video clip for the song “Don’t Say I Am Fifty.” This song was criticized by the public, pointing out that it encourages elderly people to marry minors.
El-Shenawy defended Tawfiq, explaining that the song does not promote the idea of marrying minors at all, and that the artist has the right to say what he wants.
Tarek El-Shennawi said in television statements: Walid Tawfik, don’t say, “Don’t marry minors.” The problem we have with reception sometimes depends on our orientation and feeling. If, for example, we are upset about something, we start interpreting the song or movie according to the thing we are upset about, and this has no basis in truth. In my opinion, she read it wrong.
Tarek El-Shenawy continued: Walid himself is in his seventies now, and he has the right if he said what would happen in the seventies. I encourage Walid Tawfiq for the song and say, “If you want to add more, add more and don’t be afraid, because the meaning of the song is nothing. We are the ones who added from our own.”
Walid Tawfiq is accused of encouraging elderly people to marry minors
Walid Tawfiq had sparked widespread controversy since the video clip for the song “Don’t Say I’m Fifty” was released, which came within the framework that the fifty-year-old man has the right to live his normal life and marry whomever he wants, and this age should not be an obstacle to his happiness, and this is what made many fans of the artist. His fans believe that he encourages elderly people to marry underage girls.
Walid Tawfiq responded to these accusations in television statements, saying: During one of the sessions, the poet Maroun Rouhana, with whom I collaborated on more than one song, came and Abu Walid said, “Listen to this song, I wrote it,” and when I read the text, Ihsan Al-Mundhir laughed and said, “This is an opportunity.”
Walid Tawfiq continued: Some people think that at this age we do not love, adore, or feel love, so I took the oud and composed it. The song says that if a person is fifty and has not married, he has the right to love and get married, and you cannot imagine how happy people of this age are with the song.
