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Kenan Behzat Sharpe
@kenan_sharpe
Music, lit, film ('news that stays news') in Turkey & beyond / host of Pop & Politics @medyascope / book on Anatolian Rock in progress 🎸
Dec 7, 2023 • 74 tweets • 24 min read
BEST OF TURKISH MUSIC 2023 🧵

The year is nearly over. The music magazines mags gave their top picks, Spotify got unwrapped, & now it's time for our 5th annual (!) list of songs from Turkey.

Here are my mini-reviews & a playlist of my 50 favorite songs + a few extra for luck. Image Here's the playlist link. Read along as you listen.

The songs range from indie to punk to R&B, rap, electro, & pop.

I spent hooours carefully sequenced the playlist for your listening pleasure, so listen from start to finish for the smoothest flow.

open.spotify.com/playlist/4xch1…
Feb 18, 2022 • 20 tweets • 10 min read
So everyone is rightly discussing megastar Tarkan's grand return.

According to some Geççek is an anthem of the opposition. According to others, it's not political enough.

But what if we analyze the song/video on its own merits? 🧵

#geccekgeccek
#Gitcek
#TarkanYalnızDeğildir The music video presents Tarkan as a hacker or even a hacktivist, something like the group Anonymous. Using multiple computer screens and some (probably nonsense) code he manages to hack into everyone's phone, tablet, computer. Not to mention digital billboards across the city.
Dec 12, 2019 • 26 tweets • 15 min read
2019 BEST OF TURKISH MUSIC LIST
It's almost the end of the year. The music mags have given their top 100s, we had #SpotifyWrapped, now it's time for my little round-up. It's been a good year for music, so here are mini-reviews of some of albums & songs that made 2019, in my eyes. @_Jakuzi_ is a forced to be reckoned with. Their sophomore album HATA PAYI trades sad sax for sad synths. Self-pitying lyrics in a perfectly packaged musical homage to Depeche Mode & your other 80s faves. "I hope not even my dust remains," Kutay Soyocak's gloomy baritone sings.