After all, it was only some 20 years before Googoosh was born that the veil had been lifted (in most cases forcibly) by Reza Shah. It is not just coincidence that Googoosh’s name became a household term describing her immensely popular and ever imitated Twiggy /boyish haircut. To cut your hair Googooshy in Iran meant to cut it short like a boy.
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.
