The HOTTEST new song in Israel is sung mostly in French. It’s also not the best tune to share with anyone considering aliyah.
According to a recent article in Forward.com:
Over the past two months, a commercial for Israeli satellite television provider Yes has gone viral in Israel, topping the country’s radio playlists and turning its star, 20-year-old Stephane Legar, from an Instagram and Youtube sensation into a household name.
We all know Israelis love to complain. And apparently, they complain about, well, just about everything.
Legar’s viral video labels nearly everything in Israel as “comme ci comme ça” – “so-so” in French. For example…
Sunday traffic jams — the Israeli work week starts on Sunday -— are comme ci comme ça, sings Lager. (Israel suffers the worst traffic congestion among OECD countries, according to a March report published by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF).)
Education in Israel is “comme ci comme ça,” sings Lager.(Israeli students come in the bottom third of OECD countries in mathematics, science, and reading skills, according to OECD data from 2015, the most up-to-date year.)
Wages in Israel are comme ci comme ça, according to the song. (Israel had a net national income of $32,000 per capita in 2016, under the OECD average of $35,300 per capita, despite being in sixth place among all 35 OECD countries in terms of hours worked.)
The song slams the style of Israeli men. Other dishonorable mentions go to Israeli “politics,” “news,” “manners,” local footballers, and “commercials.”
The only things that isn’t “comme ci comme ça” are Israeli women: Those are “Ooh la la,” according to the song’s repeated chorus.
Read more at The Forward web site.
With nearly 22 million views on YouTube thus far, Legar certainly has a hit on his hands. The song has earned widespread airplay on Israeli radio stations, with strong results for the past several weeks on the Galgalatz weekly top-10 countdown.
What do you think of the song? Would you agree that Israel is just “so-so”?
