Although she repeatedly and enthusiastically sang in other languages, her big hits were all in a modern, simple but poetic Farsi that bestowed a certain classiness to the female desire that she expressed. The orchestrated, sythensized Western-style music and the modern poetry (shaer-e-nowe) along with her gestures, which were at once bold and restrained, provided a new language within which female sexuality and desire could be expressed without fear of sinking into vulgarity.
Googoosh sang of women’s desires and their longing in a new musical genre that was different enough from tradition to be non-offensive. Of course, all of this was very much in line with the policies of the Pahlavi regime vis-a-vis women. If the Islamic Republic used the veiling of women as a symbol of its rejection of the West, the Pahlavi regime used the unveiling and liberating of women as a symbol of its progress towards modernity and its desire to be equal in stature to the Western nations.
