Israeli pop has gone through an interesting path in recent decades when it comes to its relationship with the LGBT community. Release of his third album “The New People.”) But today it seems that the stars of the current pop generation are competing among themselves for the performance of the most successful Pride Month song.
The suspicion that this is a cynical act will not be completely unfounded here, in a year that included pride songs from Lake Bohbot and the simple, "Cute Boy" by singer Nono and DJ Sagi Karib, and a host of other songs that accompanied the annual colorful parade.
If it used to be one hit that the Tel Aviv Municipality determined to be the song of pride that will accompany the parade, this year we experienced inflation of such - on their own.
Static and Ben El Tavori with Dana International - A Great Man (Prod. By Jordi)
At least in the case of Static, Ben-El and Dana International, opportunism cannot be suspected, since it came out after the parade.
This year was also the year of the rise of the trans struggle, so "Cool Man" is a mass pop song that begins with the words "It's really okay that you feel like you're a cool man but a woman."
Like "Three Girls," the song by Noa Kirl and Gitit ("Tutit") Fischer, it also expands beyond the gay-lesbian discourse and exalts a category miracle, which only in recent years gets its place in the headlines thanks to the stubborn struggle of those who bring the subject to the media discourse. Political and public.
Qualified - This is an anthem of dance floors that seems to be tailored to the dimensions of the Israeli summer.
For Tavori and Stat Boy, this is a song in the style of those they're been releasing in recent years, party-oriented and less appealing to radio stations (not that they don't play it).
For Dana this is a kind of successful comeback, which puts her in a particularly relevant place.
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