Tziporela Ensemble and The Revolution Orchestra - Stereotypical

We're all stuck in this mess together.

Brilliant translation and explanations by Youtube user Yelix2

Look who came to the studio...to clean!
I fled Moscow, arrived in Ashdod
Moshe, Omer, I wan to dance (a reference to a song by Moshe Peretz and Omer Adam)
Looking for an Oligarch to buy me more furs.
If you want a plastic bag, that's ten agorot more. (many Russian immigrants work as cashiers)
Blat!
Let me tell you just ONE thing:
I live in a one-room apartment with my grandma, that's TWO of us.
Been practicing ballet since I was THREE, my dad is my mentor.
I'm sliding off a pole while doing a split and waiting for you on all FOUR.


Everyone says I'm the heart of the group,
yellow and black are in my soul (Beitar Jerusalem team colors)
I parked on the sidewalk, put more amba in my order! (of falafel, presumably)
I got a haircut like Ronaldo, I use 6 kg of hair gel.
I married Meital, she thinks she's Giselle (Bundchen I guess?)
I kiss mezuzas, charms, girls, not minors!
I'm crazy about weddings, I don't work with receipts.
I was the Messi of the neighborhood until my knee got injured,
Eyal Golan is an angel, and Bibi is the king! (a singer and a right-wing prime minister)


Do you have almond milk?
I live in a bubble, my parents pay the bills.
I do yoga, TRX, and equipment plates.
My dad made an exit and bought me a land lot in Karkur (affluent community north of TLV)
I donated the old Stella McCartney to an Eritrean from Darfur.
Subscribed to Ha'Aretz, don't eat gluten, sculpt in edamame. (left-wing newspaper, Japanese snack)

I write poetry and for inspiration, I listen to Nissim Garame. (singer)
Third generation from the Holocaust, the iPhone is generation 5.
When I hear a 'Tzeva Adom' (an alarm that warns citizens in the south of incoming Gaza missiles)
It reminds me that we are an occupying nation.


Chorus (taken from 'אין לי ארץ אחרת', a song by Gali Atari):
I won't be silent, for my land has changed her face. I won't give up on her, I will remind her, and I will sing in her ear until she opens her eyes.


I'm asking you for donations, charities, allowances,
in short, I'm burdening you with my commission charges only so I can fund the yeshivas.
I don't pay taxes, I took a pass on the army. (Haredi people often evade mandatory conscription)
What you make standing up, I earn while sitting (wordplay - the word for sitting is yeshiva).
Love thy neighbor like yourself, unless he's a foreigner.
Large shtreimel (round Hassidic hat), small head (a pejorative term for someone who doesn't think for himself)
I do as the Rabbi says.
That gemara shiur was awesome, now to watch some porno,
Oy Gevalt! I forgot Moshe-Tzvi in the Fiat Uno! (papa?)


Make some noise!
I'm a sucker for Eurovision, 24/7 on my phone
I've got 32K followers and a sea of low-confidence.
I stir hot-chocolate, I bit pillows (all euphemisms for gay) I'm provacשtive, אוחצ'ה
I had an aggressive father, that's why I'm passive!
Hair designer, fashion designer, eyebrow designer, annoying. (the words designer and annoying sound alike)
I made a Grinder profile because I'm horny for marriage.
??? (Don't get this line. something about cocaine lol)
I used to be religious, come to my apartment for some conversion therapy.


Chorus


Mister, mister, this was supposed to be my verse (also house) but I was deported. If anyone comes to visit bring me some red bamba! (candy no one likes).


You'll always see me with a smile on my face,
Even when someone dies because everything is from God.
In my mobile home in Hebron in front of the sofa in the living room
there's a picture of Yigal Amir and Baruch Goldstein the genius! (PM assassinator, Jewish terrorist)

I'm a mother of eight, we have values!
After dinner, we don't turn on screens (as in TVs and phones).
We go out into the garden and play together - five stones (kids' game)
at Arabs! (referring to religious Hilltop Youths rumored to throw stones at Palestinians)


Hafla! (party in Arabic)
I ride without a seatbelt on a stolen BMW,
With my one-and-only wife, and another wife and another wife (referring to polygamy among Bedouin)
I am the engineer of the 'Acts of Hostility' (a euphemism for terror attacks)
You ate hummus in Qaliqilia? You'll get indigestion! (words that sound alike)
I shoot at weddings! (Arab weddings often use gunfire to celebrate, though not as much anymore tbh)
I flock to the polling stations! (a reference to a racist remark by Netanyahu during the 2015 general elections, where he warned of Arab voters "Flocking to the polling stations")
A construction worker, a pharmacist, a McDonald's counter clerk in Mamiyya
Jews say kfiya (a word that means 'imposition', used to denote insufficient separation of church and state)
I say kufiya (Arab garment)

Chorus


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Omer Moskovich - Join the Club

Well, it took three elections and a pandemic but we finally have a government. I was hoping to feel some sense of relief but I just feel disappointed. Left-leaning optimists will say that it could have been worse: instead of an extreme right-wing government that would have given Netanyahu complete power, there will be some balance from Gantz's Blue and White party and what remains of the Labor party (three seats). But the Blue and White party that will be in the government is not the Blue and White party that 1.25 million Israelis voted for. That Blue and White party included Yair Lapid's center-left Yesh Atid party and vowed to never sit in a government with Netanyahu. Gantz explained that the Coronavirus crisis left him no choice but to form an emergency government-but instead of a small and effective government we got Israel's largest government ever with new made-up ministries given to MKs without much logic.
Speaking of the Coronavirus, it's a strange situation right now. When the lockdown was lifted I felt that things were moving too quickly. It mainly reminded me of the end of the war in 2014, when at first I was cautious, keeping my ears alert for a possible siren and making sure my phone was always charged, but after a few quiet days I did everything I could to move on and forget about that awful summer. I saw in the crowds tanning on the beach and picnicking by Dizengoff Square that same yearning to forget about our lost spring and move on. We're all trying to enjoy our freedom before the second wave hits. It's still unclear if it's a matter of weeks (because we're not being cautious enough) or months.
Omer Moskovich is at the party but stands apart, making room for much-needed criticism and reflection. Check out more of her sensitive tunes here.

To zone out
In front of a screen
Pain is something that is spared
Apathy is the default
Violence is weightless

So let's join the club
Let's say that it will be okay
Come and let's join the club

To zone out
In front of a screen
Reality is a forgotten movie
Logic has a failed score
Indifference is the rule of the thumb

So let's join the club
Let's say that it will be okay
Come and let's join the club

Everyone has eating disorders
But I know what's on the menu
And it's not so bad

So let's join the club
Let's say that it will be okay
Come and let's join the club

Ziv Shalit - Between You and Me There's a Sea

♥

Sometimes between you and me, there's half a world's distance
Many vast expanses of water on the shores of their solitude
And I search the horizon with my bare feet to the point of bleeding

Sometimes I climb to my peak, thrilled
To see at the top of the horizon your peak, dimly
Sometimes at night, I don't fall asleep

Going round and round my disappearing island
Looking for your particular island

Between you and me there's a sea
Each man on his island, I'm here you're there
Between you and me there's a sea
And on our islands, there is no one else, no other man

Sometimes I'm not sure you exist
After all, we never really talked
And maybe you're just a delusion

Going round and round my disappearing island
Looking for your particular island

Between you and me there's a sea
Each man on his island, I'm here you're there
Between you and me there's a sea
And on our islands, there is no one else, no other man

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Veronique - Under the Apple's Weight

So lovely. Noya Eder and EranWeitz offer a delightful cover of Shula Chen's hidden gem from 1969 (which you can listen to here). Perfect for this restless spring.

Under the apple's weight
Who will lay down with me to rest
And whistle to me
Like a sweet bird

Come on, come on, come on, come
Nothing will bother us
Until winter comes
Come on, come on, come on, come

Whoever isn't afraid of a thing
Wet dew and the sun's heat
And doesn't ask
But rather only what there is

Come on, come on, come on, come
Nothing will bother us
Until winter comes
Come on, come on, come on, come