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Omar Moskowitz smiles politely as they try to advise her.

At the end she wrote a shaky song about it

One of the most refreshing musicians in the area has put together for one song all the unnecessary advice that insists on offering young artists, from "Need Elbows" to "Grow Your Testicles."

In the conversation, she explains what "existential pop" is, what made her jealous of Eliad, what moment with Ronit Alkabetz will not be forgotten and what was in the hidden scene she filmed for "Get"

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Nadav Menuhin

Monday, 07 September 2020, 08:43

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"Tips" - Omar Moskowitz

"You need personality, you need presence, you need uniqueness, and you better be separate, a inhibiting relationship, and you do not want to miss the train. You need to chase, you need to fend off, you need elbows, you will not have God, you will grow testicles, it will not help you act "Do not make children, eat steamed vegetables" - these are just some of the feedback that Omar Moshkovitz, one of the refreshing characters of Israeli indie, she said received "in one way or another" from people who had a very urgent need to recommend to the singer at the beginning what to do.

So she did what artists do - and made a song out of it.

The funny-bitter piece, simply called "Tips" and his clip - which Moskowitz even directed with Moran Ariel and Yotam Knispel - premieres today (Monday) at Walla!

Culture, detailing these recommendations, some of them quite blatant.

According to her, this has a clear gender aspect.

"I think advice is something you get all the time whether you are a woman - it always feels easier to tell women what to do and how to act, and a lot of men who take ownership and explain what should be the way - and also in an artist's career, you start a process and everyone knows what you need To do and when you have already lost your strength, "she says in the conversation," it's a kind of crazy roller coaster that also stems from the exposure - you reveal something and really everyone has something to say about it. "

"A lot of things related to the womb - it's very invasive; kids-not-kids; wedding; also artistic stuff - wow everything's annoying."

"Things are coming at the right time."

Omar Moskowitz (Photo: Zohar Ralt, courtesy of the photographer)

When I try to find out how to react to all this advice, it turns out that the new song is probably the most decisive reaction.

"I always smile politely," she explains, "I'm not a powerful person at all, I often even regret not answering. I never get into confrontations with people, I usually smile politely - but it does penetrate me. I take It's very difficult for them, it always touches me a little bit. "

"I think that if creation is something that is impossible without it, if you feel it's air to breathe and oxygen - then just do it," she says, emphasizing: "Things come at the right time. I truly believe that if you stick to your path enough and go for it and be faithful to what That you do - then people are already joining your herd themselves. "

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"Existential Pop"

It is not by chance that Moskowitz uses the word "herd", since "We will join the herd" is the name of his second album, which was released a few weeks ago, and "Advice" is the most prominent track in it.

It was preceded by "Persecution Steps" from 2017.

The new album is accompanied, among other things, by a parody network series called "Soldout," which describes the variety of obstacles that an Israeli musician faces in the beginning, regardless of the corona plague.

She calls her unique style of music "existential pop" - a mixture of electronic and accessible production that invites the listener to it, with words that will challenge him from other directions.

"People need definitions, and I think my music is made up of a lot of things. I think it's pop in the sense that there are catchy and communicative elements, and at the same time questions that are a bit sharp and a bit outlandish and always from a personal place, it's a bit social and political. It can be rhythmic or sweet and the words can come as the opposite. "

According to her, the ambiguity of this definition actually allows her creative freedom.

"I also try to cross the boundaries of the genre, so existential pop is the most accurate definition, because it says everything and says nothing at the same time, so it's not too obliging, and also intriguing, and it also allows me to be full of things and every once in a while go hip. Hop and a bit of rock and a bit of pop altogether and it's really fun not to be dependent on the genre. "

Who wouldn't want to write "Sweet as Marley"?

Eliad performing at the Walla!

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In one of the lines in "Advice", Moskowitz tells one of the people who insists on advising her that she would like to write the song "Sweet as Marley", which is, in my humble opinion, perhaps the most non-existent pop song in Hebrew.

Asked if there are any more songs she envies their writers, she explains that she noted Eliad's hit to highlight the tension between the desire for success, and the difficulty of the exposure involved, "between being outside and being loved and known, and doing things that succeed, and doing things that actually hide and do not communicate. And authentic to yourself, "as she explains.

"I think in that sense it's just like the title 'join the herd' - you want to be in the herd and be part of something and be accepted and loved, and also weirdo watching from the side, and it's always the tension between them, because yes I have big dreams and a desire to succeed, and on the other To be successful is a scary thing, and to be exposed is something that is super difficult for me, and to present my heart in this way in this way - it has some price. "

"Ronit Alkabetz was extremely generous"

Moskowitz grew up in a family of artists, with a mother, a director (Dedi Baron) and a playwright and translator (Shlomi Moskowitz).

Her three sisters also have careers in theater and film.

In the past, Moskowitz herself also starred, and perhaps she is known to some of you as someone who starred in the acclaimed 2004 film "And Take a Wife", written and directed by Ronit and Shlomi Alkabetz and opened their glorious film trilogy.

In the film, Moskowitz played the character of the girl Gabriel, the daughter of Vivian, played by the late Alkabetz, whom Moskowitz describes as "a very, extremely talented woman."

"I remember a lot of it. It was a very big thing for me. Although I was 12, it was a huge experience for me and what I remember from Maronit was that she was also very extremely generous, I really remember her generosity and I remember she was my mother on the photos, And at that time she still had no children - and we felt connected like mother and daughter, "she recalls.

"I had a really hard time when she passed away. It was a very strong blow."

"She was phenomenal."

Ronit and Shlomi Alkabetz sweep the Ophir Prize for "Divorce", 2014 (Photo: Nimrod Saunders)

"On the set the word was hers, she was on everything. Over time I increasingly understand how multidisciplinary she is and how obsessive she was, in a good way, I feel like I'm like her too. She played and a moment later she was behind the camera and examining it, and within "To guide the players. She was really in control of everything and at the same time, if there is a take - she's just there completely. Just phenomenal. There's no other way to say it."

Moskowitz was even photographed for a short scene in the film "Divorce," which closes the trilogy - in which the children of the couple Vivian and Elijah were supposed to be outside the court.

However, the scene was eventually cut from the film.

According to her, at an initial stage it has not yet been decided that the entire film will be concentrated inside the courtroom itself, and once the decision has been made, the fate of the scene has also been decided.

"It was to experience it all again, and all of a sudden I saw Ronit after ten years, and they dressed me there very nicely - and she said 'Take what you have, it's so beautiful to you,' and gave me shoes - really generously," she recalls, "it A moment I will not forget about her. "

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