Nourine Captures a Summer Road Trip on 2000s-Pop Single 'Lahza'
The Egyptian artist pairs tabla and retro synths with a low, unbothered vocal, soundtracking a golden-hour road trip to the beach.
Continuing an early-2000s-inspired run that has been her theme for 2026, Egyptian artist Nourine settles further into a nostalgia-coded strain of pop on her latest single 'Lahza', this time channeling a more nonchalant tone.
Chirpy old-school phone beeps are laced into the track's melody, while deep-sounding tablas settle the Ali Dahab-produced track into a groove that stays slow and steady for the full runtime. Lush pads and retro synths, with flickers of 8-bit texture, build out the arrangement, tilting the track toward a specific pop reference point rather than a general throwback feel.
Nourine's vocals take their cue from that pace: singing low in her register throughout, keeping the delivery relaxed and unbothered rather than pushing for a hook.
The music video, filmed by Saddam Mekky, carries that laid-back energy onto the road, where we meet Nourine on the beach at sunset, after driving with friends and singing along the way in what reads as a direct nod to Sahel season.
