Thursday, March 01, 2007

Teapacks

While I'm on a musical theme... There is a great group, the Teapacks, who have a very interesting video out on YouTube. Once it appeared on the conservative blog circuit (like LGF) it's popularity is only bound to increase.


Today's Guardian talks about Israel's interest in this song.
It was a choice that perhaps owed more to the public mood than to any cute lyrical hook or novel musical riff.
Asked to pick a song for this year's Eurovision song contest, Israelis paid little heed to the eternal Eurovision themes of peace, love and harmony and settled instead for a number about the threat of terrorism and Armageddon called Push the Button.

The track, sung by the Teapacks in English, French and Hebrew, is a peculiar but confident amalgam of eastern sounds, rock and rap.

It was chosen this week as the country's preferred song in a phone-in television show and now the band will go forward to the Eurovision finals in Helsinki in May.

"The world is full of terror, if someone makes an error, he's gonna blow us up to kingdom come," sings Kobi Oz, leader of the Teapacks.

"There are some crazy rulers, they hide and try to fool us, with demonic, technological willingness to harm. They're gonna push the button, push the button."

I'm not sure about you, but I just like Kobi's vest.