"Baraye" (Persian: , lit. "For...") is a 2022 power ballad by Iranian singer-songwriter Shervin Hajipour, inspired by the death of Mahsa Amini and its aftermath.[1] Widely referred to as "the anthem" of the protests, "Baraye" received critical acclaim for its vocals and portrayal of the emotions of the Iranian people and diaspora. At the 65th Annual Grammy Awards in February 2023, the song won the first-ever special merit award for Best Song for Social Change.
The song was inspired by the death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Iranian woman who was arrested for allegedly wearing her hijab improperly and whose death in police custody was alleged to have been caused by severe beating by religious morality police officers.[2] Amini's death sparked massive global protests and became a symbol for freedom in Iran.[3] The slogan "Woman, Life, Freedom", which was used in the song's lyrics, became a rallying cry during the protests.[4]
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After the death of Mahsa Amini and the start of the protests, a trend began on Iranian social media, particularly Twitter, where users explained their reasons for protesting and wishing for regime change in Iran with posts beginning with the word "baraye", or "for".
Hajipour wrote each verse of the lyrics based on a separate tweet. The resulting text touches upon several issues, including low life satisfaction, the rights of women, children, refugees, and animals, environmental concerns, recession and poverty, theocracy and outdated social and religious taboos, militarism and political corruption, local corruption, freedom of speech, and the government's hostility against other countries.
The music video was recorded with a stationary camera in a portrait-selfie style in a room. In the video, cropped screenshots depicting the original tweets are synced with the associated verses, crediting the authors.
The song was released on September 28, 2022 on Hajipour's Instagram account. It was taken down from the platform less than 48 hours later, following Hajipour's arrest by the authorities on September 29.[5] It received about 40 million views during that time.
Hajipour was forced to remove the song from his social media platforms by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps's security agents shortly after his arrest. The arrest sparked reactions internationally.
The Academy is deeply moved by the overwhelming volume of submissions for Shervin Hajipour's "Baraye" for our new Special Merit Award, Best Song for Social Change. While we cannot predict who might win the award, we are humbled by the knowledge that the Academy is a platform for people who want to show support for the idea that music is a powerful catalyst for change. The Academy steadfastly supports freedom of expression and art that's created to empower communities in need. Because music serves the world, and the Recording Academy exists to serve the music.
Answering a Billboard question about the meaning of a Grammy for Baraye for the Iranians, Iranian American Grammy-winning electronic musician and producer Dubfire said that it "will undoubtedly embolden the revolutionaries in Iran".
Upon its release, "Baraye" became an instant hit and immediately turned into the unofficial anthem of the uprising. It was widely used during gatherings, from schools and universities to streets, both nationwide and across the globe. It was broadly circulated in social media and foreign TV channels and radio stations as well. The song also served as the backdrop for several other forms of art such as video works, graphic design, and performance art. On November 11, 2022, Roxana Saberi reported the song as "the most viral tune to ever come out of Iran".[10] Since its release, Baraye has become the single most covered protest song in Iran's history.[11]
Baraye was played for solidarity in several events and performances at universities outside of Iran such as University of Waterloo, Yale School of Medicine, UW-Milwaukee, Chalmers University of Technology, University of Rochester, Ruhr University Bochum, Technical University of Braunschweig, Gatton Student Center of University of Kentucky and Nuremberg University of Music.[citation needed]
We're gonna sing a song that right now is being sung by many people in Iran and many of the Persian diaspora, people who left Iran after the Revolution. And I don't know if you've seen on the news, but young women and young people are fighting for their freedom, for the right to be themselves, and we believe in this band, that everybody should be able to be themselves as long as you don't hurt anybody else. So, we fully send our love and support to all of those brave young people fighting for freedom. And this is [the] song that they sing which is called Baraye by an artist called Shervin Hajipour, who is in trouble with the authorities just for writing a song about people being free. So, we're gonna sing his song... You may not know this song, but we're gonna give it everything because we're gonna send it with love from here to Iran.
The song's singular overnight success is not a small achievement given the long, rich history of protest songs in Iran. Already at the time of Iran's Constitutional Revolution in 1906, poets created songs about the spilled blood of the youth who agitated for representative government and, not long after, about the Morning Bird breaking the cage of oppression, which many decades later became one of the most intoned protest songs in post-revolutionary Iran... Although Baraye and other songs of the current protest movement continue this strong tradition, they... no longer call for reforms... In 2009, many activists and musicians of the Green Movement called forth songs from the 1979 revolution to stake a claim to the revolution's original yet unattained promises. People wore headscarves and wristbands in the green of Imam Hussain and went to their rooftops to shout Allahu akbar to invoke God's help against a corrupt, earthly power. But this time around, there are no religious signifiers or any demands for reforms. If classical songs are performed, they are not the icon Mohammad Reza Shajarian's conciliatory song Language of Fire in 2009, when Iranians were still agitating for reforms from within, but his militant 1979 song Night Traveler... The state security system instantly understood the significance of Baraye as a protest song.
You can arrest the writer, but you can't arrest the song. It's already out there. It's in the hearts of the people. People will chant it. They'll march with it. That's exactly the spirit that we wrote this in, is that you can kill a revolutionary, but you can't kill a revolution. When I see the women singing for freedom, for the students, for our futures, this right to freedom, this right to my humanity, to be valued as a person is so powerful that even with the media blackout, they could not silence the song.
The Islamic Republic has declared war on life, disdaining daily life and imposing unprecedented problems such as corruption, precariousness, the environmental crisis, and serious discrimination and inequality... This song, its rapid rise in popularity, and the singer's arrest demonstrate the power of ordinary people to disrupt existing norms.
Music has always been a healing and comforting medium, the glue to all art forms. It's so powerful to see "Baraye" unite all Iranians across the world. I think every Farsi-speaking (referring to Persian) person can sing that song at the top of their lungs and mean every word regardless of who they are. I commend Shervin Hajipour's bravery in releasing this anthem and taking the consequences for it. 152ee80cbc
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