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The official soundtrack for Fifa World Cup 2022 ‘Light The Sky’ is all about girl power

The official soundtrack for Fifa World Cup 2022 ‘Light The Sky’ is all about girl power

The music video features Bollywood's Nora Fatehi, Emirati singer Balqees, Iraqi artist Rahma Riad and Moroccan singer Manal Benchlikha.
07 Oct, 2022

The Fifa World Cup 2022 is all about celebrating diversity and it’s showing through their official soundtrack ‘Light The Sky’ that features Moroccan Bollywood star Nora Fatehi, Emirati singer Balqees, Iraqi artist Rahma Riad and Moroccan singer Manal Benchlikha.

The official track dropped on Friday with Fatehi, Balqees, Riad and Benchlikha’s vocals opening the song and lyrics that ask the fans to light the sky up and shout along with them.

“This is an astonishing music video made with love by the name of women empowerment with beauties Rahma Riadh, Nora Fatehi, Manal Benchlikha and produced by Red One,” Balqees wrote in her Instagram post with a snippet of herself from the official music video.

The soundtrack features not only English but bits of Hindi by Fatehi, and a little bit of Moroccan Arabic. The official video paid homage to the women on the field as it featured a short clip of female referees of the 2022 World Cup.

Shakira sang the 2010 World Cup song ‘Waka Waka’ that gained worldwide fame. JLo and Pitbull teamed up for ‘We Are One (Ole Ola)’ in 2014, but that didn’t gain the same level of popularity as ‘Waka Waka’, nor did Nicky Jam, Will Smith and Era Istrefi’s 2018 song ‘Live it Up’.

The World Cup will be taking place in Qatar this year and its opening ceremony will be held at the Al Bayt Stadium on November 20.

Comments

Soniye tu auder te la Oct 07, 2022 06:46pm
Girl power has nothing to do with "Men's" football tournament. It's just about making money and getting the fame. Serves zero purpose for Female sports.
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Faheem Bhatt Oct 07, 2022 06:49pm
Why no Pakistani artist? I am planning to do a total boycott of this World Cup.
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Dr. Salaria, Aamir Ahmad Oct 07, 2022 07:15pm
Bring it on.
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Pandu Oct 07, 2022 07:31pm
Cool!
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Ali Oct 07, 2022 09:56pm
Are you sure its a sport song? It seems a party one
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Khaled Oct 07, 2022 10:15pm
Best of luck for the games success.
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Rizwan Oct 07, 2022 11:14pm
Honest advice don't watch this..doesn't remotely look like a football world cup song, might as well just watch waka waka instead.
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Sab Se Pehle Pakistan Oct 08, 2022 12:18am
The "girl power" thing is just getting way too much. Why it has to be a girl power in a Men's Football WC. I mean why can't we just celebrate the game. This continuous inferiority complex is simply going against women. My dear sisters don't spoil your lives, all this is planned to destroy the beauty of our culture and religious beliefs. We respect our Mothers and Sisters but these people are not your well wishers.
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Pandu Oct 08, 2022 01:31am
@Faheem Bhatt “Why no Pakistani artist”- they don’t want Pakistanis there.
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TenJee Oct 08, 2022 01:54am
This is not about girl power, but the power of objectifying girls/women.
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Anonymouseee Oct 08, 2022 01:55am
Here we go again.
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AJ Oct 08, 2022 02:00am
Isn't that globalists desire? To have fem males and masculine females to control the world.
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Taj Ahmad - USA Oct 08, 2022 02:40am
Let’s go for it and enjoy.
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ENGR Hamid Shafiq Oct 08, 2022 05:21am
@Faheem Bhatt Pakistani actors little conservative so not acceptable
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FAZ Oct 08, 2022 07:52am
Girl power to attract men. Worlds oldest formula for success of an event!
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M. Emad Oct 08, 2022 09:50am
Pakistan at the Bottom of FIFA world football rankings.
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Khaled Oct 08, 2022 11:00am
@Sab Se Pehle Pakistan. Whose culture and beauty are we talking about?
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Anonymouseee Oct 08, 2022 12:20pm
A pretty lame song where the video shows only women’s faces instead of soccer superstars. This is suppose to be the soccer World Cup video, not just a regular album supporting women. Pretty disappointed.
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