The Egyptian protesters’ pop-inspired slogan

The Bangles’ Walk Like an Egyptian is an unlikely choice of protest song So, the title of the Bangles’ 1987 hit Walk Like An Egyptian has been co-opted as a revolutionary slogan. Obviously, if this furthers the cause of democracy, all to the good, but given that the lyrics comprise every imaginable cliche about Egyptians strung together, it seems not unlike Mancunians taking to the streets in a revolutionary tumult wearing T-shirts that say MATCHSTALK MEN AND MATCHSTALK CATS AND DOGS. Whatever next in the world of pro-democracy demonstrations intersecting with 80s AOR tracks tenuously linked to the location of said uprising? Protesters on the streets of Beijing in T-shirts reading China In

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