"I resign quite a bit on my own, refuse to resign, get up in the morning and start again"

Kobe Aflalo's attack on the lyrics of the pop songs ("pathetic and troublesome process"), the crisis that did not come at age 50 ("feels like I'm at my peak") and the decision to attend an insurance company commercial ("I refused for years. Then I realized it would not hurt me"): Gilad Kahana was a guest on the podcast "What does it sound like?"

And talked about everything.

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23/06/2022

Thursday, 23 June 2022, 09:23

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For years, musician Gilad Kahana was offered to participate in commercials and he refused.

"It always seems to me that commercialization is the greatest enemy of art, but that attitude has changed," he tells Nir Yahav in "What's up?", Walla's podcast!

Culture in collaboration with Mifal Hapayis.

"Suddenly I realized that even artists I really like sell songs and not only did it not hurt, the exact opposite happened. So I said to myself that maybe I was serious and just exaggerating my perception. So I decided to accept the offer to participate in a Clal Insurance commercial along with my song 'Wow' And it felt great despite my fears. "

Just before launching a new album with musician Guy Mozes, Kahana came to the podcast to talk about a variety of topics: from the age of 50 crisis to the failure of the reality show "The Four", from the "Aquarium" project he manages artistically to the hypocritical attitude of older artists towards new music, from fatherhood His to the feeling of "death" he feels after performances.

Gilad Kahana (Photo: Niv Aharonson)

On Kobi Aflalo's post, in which he attacked the level of lyrics of young pop artists

: "Something is happening and needs to be noticed. A lot of artists are starting to talk about the younger generation and it's a natural and even a bit pathetic process. Be careful not to become a nuisance. In terms of pop, there are a lot of great pop songs, but next to them there are a lot of bad pop songs. Because Kobe's statement was so inclusive, so it does not smell good. It does injustice to all this. There is a kind of hypocrisy in relation to texts in Hebrew compared to other languages "The things that are said in songs in English, if they were said in Hebrew, something like 70 percent of the songs would not be heard."

"There is a department in the lottery called the Cultural Council that consists only of women, which is already a good start. This is a group of women who are really constantly looking to inspire and give to Israeli culture. It is surprising to see this, because it is an entire department that deals with it. "And it's in their blood. I feel it's a community service, you can really do good with this project. I'm not trying to reflect my taste in choosing the artists for this project. When we cast Nono for example, she was before her big break. She was only known to benefactors."

"I did not have a crisis at that age. Strangely I feel at my peak. I feel like I did nothing. Every morning I say to myself 'today you are going to write the perfect song'. I constantly feel like my biggest song is just beyond "It's the corner and it's the most fun in the world, it's the strongest addiction I've ever had. I may have a death crisis, but I will not be able to pay attention to it."

"When I do something, I do it, so I really wanted it to succeed. It was easy to do, it flowed very well. On the other hand there was also great relief that it went down. I knew it was over, I made a living Nice and I moved on. You have to know how to be light and flowing. The failure of this thing was the hubris of the production. The gap in investment between abroad and Israel was huge. "

:" I did not change my mind about reality.

I'm not watching it and it does not interest me.

I only watch TV when I'm broken, like when I broke my arm.

I see very little because I work most of the time.

I watch when I have no choice and then I enjoy as a child.

I really enjoyed 'Euphoria', and now I'm back to seeing 'Strange Things'.

I sometimes watch series with my daughters and now we see 'The Office'.

They both connected and that's a piece. "

: "My daughters are my life. I am unequivocally a more successful person thanks to them. I learned that the more you care, the more you love, which is a lesson and a great lesson. In the meantime my daughters are happy that their father is Gilad Kahana. To be my daughters and that's not obvious. "

Gilad Kahana (Photo: Niv Aharonson)

On the difficulty of meeting audience expectations and giving a show time and time again

: "The stage is very demanding. Many times I feel so empty after, that I say enough, that you can not give everything all the time. Then a black hole is created that sucks in, and what happens after a performance It's a kind of process of the phoenix - I burn completely and then it becomes dust in the air. Then in the morning I hatch from the egg again. It's a process that keeps you on the knife, on the string. If the string is not stretched, it is not tuned and you can not afford it "For yourself, because then you will fake and fall. I resign quite a bit on my own, refuse to resign, get up in the morning and start again."

: "I do not know how to answer the question of whether I enjoy it or not because it does not concern me so much. Sometimes I say to myself 'why do I need it?'. Dealing with the secondary things is sometimes too much, but it's a matter of balance. I'm not Noa Kirl, there are levels to this thing. I'm not at the disturbing levels. I walk for an hour every day and sometimes they try to stop me from walking. I do not want to be unkind and try to see the other side, and it also did not reach extreme levels. Mine don't always die for it. "

: "There is no doubt that my works were judged differently. I have been painting and writing since the age of three and a half. Later the music was added. The plastic art in my blood from day one and I have been doing it for many years. "Being a musician and being really good at art, I had a hard time grasping it, because there aren't many people who are good at a few things."

: "He wanted to host me on a show, and I told him I like to improvise more. I said that if we do something, maybe we'll try to pick up a piece that will be the starting point in this collaboration. I feel the best dialogue I have with the world is "Through the piece. When I entered and the microphone was closed, I was surprised. I opened my mouth and the song 'Number One' came out, and from that moment more and more songs were born until an album was born that would soon be released."

: "He's a lighthouse, there are no things like him, even on a world level. He paid a price for doing what he did in the holy language. The things he did are wonderful, not only as a writer but also as a performer. It's a miracle. You look into a song and you can get lost in it. In one song by Meir Ariel you can produce ten modern pop songs. He was a natural phenomenon. He was the first one I connected with when I came to Israel from Mexico, because he does it differently. He writes like no other person writes. I said to myself 'Fuck, you can do in Hebrew "Something that's just ours' and he blew my head off."

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