We run down the special Egypt most memorable hits of the 90s: If you grew up in Omm El Donia in the ‘90s, the following list of songs will surely ring close to home:

Let’s start with the absolute obvious: the one and only Amr Diab. Like most Amr Diab lyrics, we’re left wondering what it all means 20 years later. He certainly isn’t helping us handle our aging with his Benjamin Button disease.

Abdul Majid Abdullah: Not many Khaleeji songs ever make it out of their home of origin, but this one by AbdulMajeed Abdullah was pure gold. (Tip: Check the mean dance moves at 01:20 and thank us later.)

Mohamed Mohie: Last but not least, we obviously can’t have a ‘90s music list without this melodramatic hit by the saddest man our generation knew: Mohamed Mohie. If you didn’t at some point in middle school have this song playing on repeat on your walkman as you suffered the pain of unrequited love for the first time, did you really have a childhood here?

Out of all the strange lyrics of the ‘90s though, we believe this one takes the cake. The Egyptian version of “I’m a Little Teapot” includes some useful advice like how we should spend all our money on sugar! Yes, it literally says that. We advise you to watch this video, but really pay attention to the lyrics this time.

We took the liberty of translating this very “special” part, just to demonstrate that psychedelics were not just the purview of the 1960s and 70s:

Once upon a time, there was a red caftan,
worn by a beautiful woman called Marmar,
And there were persian cats and a Fayoumi rooster,
and you and I were sitting there watching.
It was great fun and all was good,
but suddenly there was an earthquake.
Turned out it was an elephant with a trunk, dancing in the jungle,
Inside the indian jungle, the elephant was singing a song.
It went: My trunk and I look like a teapot.
Teapot, teapot.