Ertuğrul Özkök: Why did Deniz and Elmas from İzmir, who broke the "Dombra" gloom, go viral on Hıdırellez night?

A song went viral on social media on Hıdırellez day.

It was uploaded to YouTube on May 3, two days before Hıdırellez.

48 hours later, the night before, it just exploded.

While CHP Chairman Özgür Özel was addressing 160 thousand people in the darkened Beyazıt Square the previous evening, almost one in every five posts on Instagram was this video…

Moreover, imitation practices had begun to spread from many parts of Anatolia.

It's like the wedding scene from the movie "Eyvah Eyvah 2"

The name of the song is “My Guy…”

Two young women from Izmir named Deniz and Elmas sing.

These are two young women bickering with each other on two adjacent balconies in a neighborhood.

I've been watching it non-stop for three days.

It's like we're in the wedding scene at the end of Ata Demirer's movie Eyvah Eyvah 2...

It's such a joyful thing...

I look at your videos…

“4K novel atmosphere” watched 1.2 million times

Actually, it is a true Romani song…

A duet of two women named Elmas and Izmirli Deniz.

They call their videos “4K Novel Vibe”.

Their duet called “Witch” has been viewed 700 thousand times.

The video they made together under the name “Blue Siren” has been watched 1.2 million times.

Some of Elmas' videos have been watched more than 2.5 million times.

A Romani Hip Hop video reached 4 million views.

His song “Gör Bak” has been played 32 million times on Spotify.

If you're feeling a bit snobbish and feminist

If you are feeling a bit picky about music, this is a song that you will say "This is such a mean thing" at first listen.

Because the lyrics are so banal.

If you have a bit of a feminist side…

Again, you can instantly push it away with the back of your hand and walk away.

This song sounds like it's coming from the organized business district.

I have a little bit of both of these feelings, but there is also a part of me that is left from İzmir's Kahramanlar Neighborhood...

That part of me is stuck on this song, this video.

On the contrary, I found the joy of a Fellini movie in this song.

There was a police station at the end of 1423 Street in Kahramanlar District.

When you turn left from there and pass the railway, Yeni Doğan District begins.

It is the “Tenekeli Neighborhood” of Izmir.

The neighborhood where the famous funeral trickster scenes from Yılmaz Erdoğan's movie "Organize İşler" were shot.

It was the neighborhood of the cheerful Roma people.

And that joy would pass to our side of the railway, too.

If you look at these lyrics, you can say it's a "vulgar" song.

If you look at the lyrics of the song, you might say, "What a vulgar song this is."

“My husband, minced meat pie,

Strawberries with cream

Kidney bean stew

You can't get enough of eating

My guy,

Orange cheesecake

Orange pancakes

Rib eye steak

You can never get enough of eating…”

A little bit of Seven Husbands' Hürmüz, a little bit of Keşanlı Ali, a lot of Alas Alas

The two women we saw had a very sweet neighborhood vibe.

A bit like Ayten Gökçer in “Hürmüz with the Seven Husbands”.

The "guys" we can't see in the clip seem to have a bit of a "Keşanlı Ali" attitude...

Judging by the general atmosphere, there are a lot of Ata Demirer's "Oh no" moods...

A tiny and spontaneous “neighborhood musical”, that is…

The fourth Izmir wave after Sezen, Yıldız and Kibariye

Sezen Aksu came to my mind first…

Second half of the 1970s.

The arrival of Ferdi Özbeğen from Karşıyaka.

Then came the 1980s.

The departure of my fellow countryman Kibariye from Akhisar…

His “Who Knows”…

The third Izmir wave… The arrival of Yıldız Tilbe…

The year he sang “My Young Man” was 1994…

They were all revolutionaries who came from Izmir.

They had spread the coastal joy of the Aegean to all of Türkiye.

It's like my third eye and all my chakras have opened.

Now the two young women are having an incredible "my guy fight."

"This is how a female minstrel fight should be, Izmir style," I say to myself.

The other night, I was watching the rally in Beyazıt Square.

People are turning the rally, which has turned into a blackout night, into a Cold Play concert with their mobile phones in their hands.

It's like there's music in that square...

On the one hand, the PSG-Arsenal match.

But it was as if my third eye had opened and I was caught up in this joy coming from the slums.

The wonderful joy of Deniz and Elmas from Izmir takes me away.

The suffocating pressure that has settled upon me is being undone stitch by stitch.

Oh, by the way, there are also 4K Ankara girls

This voice does not only come from Izmir.

In April, an Ankara song also came out.

Lenabi's "Girls of Ankara..."

This is the “4K Hip Hop Ankara marble…”

It is as if these words were sent to the addresses in Ankara by motorcycle couriers.

"Leave these feet alone, brother

Okay, you are the best, brother…” he says and continues:

"These Ankara girls will make you sad

I never had any room for the armpits

Get off at a suitable place, my lion…”

I have bad news for the men of Ankara who grew moustaches on orders from above.

Girls are also in a bad situation in Ankara…

Meanwhile, Ferhat Tunç's song "Living is resisting" is also going viral

As I was finishing the article, I realized something else.

After the “blackout night” in Beyazıt Square and especially after Ekrem İmamoğlu's X account was blocked, another song is going viral.

Ferhat Tunç's song "Living is Resistance"...

This was the most used song in social media posts.

Did you realize that we celebrated Hıdırellez differently this year?

Did you realize that Türkiye celebrated Hıdırellez differently this year?

Incredibly beautiful videos, especially from Thrace, are shared on social media.

Younger generations have transformed the classical Roman dance into a modern choreography…

I'm looking at these posts.

This music rising from all sides tells us this.

The 23-year-old “Dombra fog” that has settled over Türkiye seems to be clearing

This country's 23-year "Dombra era" is now losing its influence.

Türkiye is returning to Mediterranean joy again.

This also tells us that the so-called “conservative dress” that Türkiye was forced to wear has become too tight and that it has begun to shed it here and there.

In other words, it announces that Erdoğan's "pious and spiteful generation" project has failed.

In a sense, he is saying to the President of Religious Affairs, “Take your fatwaists and go away”…

So we will endure difficult things for a while longer, but…

I guess in the end, "Everything will be fine..."

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CHP's Beyazıt Rally Left in the Dark

NOTE: Am I too optimistic? Yes, I am too optimistic.

I am optimistic to the point of naivety.

Because I saw in Beyazıt Square…

Even if all the lights of the squares are turned off, even if the squares are drowned in determination…

The lights coming out of our mobile phones are turning into an army of fireflies.

A Mediterranean joy like the 4K Roman atmosphere is coming…