Guetta Feat. Pele Ozen & Sha'anan Street - News

I came across this song through Shira Z. Carmel's new project, the album "Everything is Political". Carmel: Ahead of the elections, and in view of the despair and apathy that dominates Israel today, we present to you "Everything is Political", a collection of political songs, which dare to sing, speak, and shout what is whispered, censored and suppressed.
At a time when the "silent majority"remains silent and silenced in the face of the extremists and in face of the injustice (both visible and hidden) that threatens to conquer every good part of our country - we do not have the privilege to remain silent.
 This is the time for all of us to make our voice heard, to believe that we can still make a change, and to take responsibility for our future.

"Everything is Political", and this song specifically, couldn't have come at a better time. Here we are again, five months after the last election and nothing has changed. The main question is if Netanyahu will be able to build a 61 seat coalition without Avigdor Liberman's party Yisrael Beytenu. Even if Gantz's Blue and White party gets more votes than Netanyahu's Likud, I don't see how he'll be able to form a coalition. The latest surveys show both HaAvoda and the Democratic Camp (Meretz + Ehud Barak's new party + Stav Shaffir) hovering dangerously close to the threshold, but I'm not sure if this will motivate left-leaning voters to vote for them (or at all, for that matter) because both parties have made major changes to their lists, and apparently not necessarily for the better. Lior Schleien has a pretty good summary (with English subtitles!) of the political mess we're in. This time around, it doesn't feel like just another political battle-the stakes are much higher but the general feeling in the air is one of apathy and despair.

Guetta, Pele Ozen and Sha'anan Street capture the mood in the air perfectly with painfully honest lyrics that I'm not used to hearing from musicians today. As Pele Ozen wrote on fb: Don't regret mistakes you haven't made yet.

Flat on the couch surfing another channel
I am cramped here between one tall tale and another tall tale
That guy in a suit doesn't give a damn about me
He says that it's necessary to be stressed with a clenched fist
The neck is strained from another turn in pursuit of a worn-out scoop
A doomed race-the finish line will again be the blues
The king is naked so why are they flattering his look?
Babylonia-why are they talking about Zionism?
Damn
We're all zombies maybe it's in our nature to swallow lies as a hobby on a daily basis
If it wasn't tragic maybe it would be funny
How's your story? Great
Who has a lobby in the Knesset-pushing for a preliminary debate, first, second, third?
Who's making jokes on whose back, mine, through the screen?
Oh shit
It makes me feel so good
Mass control techniques inside the screens
The same gentlemen with different suits
There's nothing new under the sun
When will we internalize that-

If it's not new then if it's not new
Then it's not new then it's not news

If you want to know
What's really going on here
Go out and check and stop trusting whoever is quoting
They're making a salary from taking things out of context
And from the fact that a thousand idiots are hitting share
Sparkling headlines like broken glass on a sidewalk
Read between the lines be a good student
Focus, wherever you look there's a rod
Everyone's eating the bait without salt
Writing in the front about the threat from Iran
But no one's talking about Umm al-Hiran
The mind control police
They won't show the police beating up the residents
Or
Close-ups of sniper's aims
When the finger is on the trigger and they'll shoot in a second
Another item for Arison
A mystery like Aris San
How in Shapira another crib death case is recorded
Hand shakes hand money is the main thing
They'll do anything for more ratings
Swapping positions like furniture
The information is expired like songs on the top 40
Celebrating independence, showing optimism
But they're putting me on mute if I'm a minority
Since Leibowitz has ascended to the gates of heaven
They censored the word occupation from prime time
They're feeding us shit with a spoon like an airplane
So let's hear what's really happening in Israel today

So who disrespected who disgraced who cursed who?
Who neutralized who spoiled who sabotaged who?
Who lashes out on the creators and inflames passions
Throughout the whole country from Jeruz to TLV?
Who abuses who? Who harasses who?
Who claims to be acting by the word of God who?
Who splits who? Who exploits who?
Fuck you I won't do what you tell me