He is a reasonable rapper and not really a singer, but Tamir Bar took the barbie by storm - voila! culture

Like a magician pulling rabbits out of a hat.

Tamir Bar (Photo: Orit Panini)

Characters and costumes in Israeli music have an interesting evolution.

Forty years ago, Doron Eyal invented "Shultz Hayom", a wild and not completely deciphered character, which allowed him to turn the punk and rock of the New Wave in Tel Aviv clubs into a subversive stand-up show.

Shortly after that, Yair Nitsani invented "Always the Guilty", a great sales success with a strong comic statement about the social position of the Arab in Israeli society.

In the mid-nineties, "Benat Pasia" appeared, a cabaret drag show, which taught Israeli culture a lesson in gender and captured the television, and in 2000 Haim Tsinovich became the most talked about artist in Israel with the "burnt" costume, which produced a media scandal with record prime time ratings on Channel 2. Two albums and great success.

These are just a few examples.

Since then, every few years, a character emerges through which an artist - actor, singer, multi-talent - who fails in conventional ways, tries to capture the audience and the media through a costume.

The singer's father, Shafita, his uncle Farouk, Avihu Panhasov, Nono (and this is a partial list).

They are all successes from the last decade that the audience has learned to accept and love.

The question at the end is how long it lasts, and which songs remain in the mind and will become part of the Israeli soundtrack.

When Tamir Bar (36), a comedian, screenwriter, musician and online content creator, created the character "Shem Tov Abi" two and a half years ago in a short parody film that aired on "Kan" and included four songs in total, it already seemed completely natural.

Barr is an intelligent, talented and multi-layered artist, and the costume allowed him to play a triple game - also to create a beloved character who performs hits that were successful on the radio and on the annual charts ("Anesthetic Sam", "Baim Lahiram");

also to laugh through this character at the character of the rapper and the world of Israeli hip-hop;

And the most important thing: to say something real and thread the social protest and statement into the party, in songs like "The Little Citizen" and "Am Ehad".

In hip-hop terms, "Shem Tov Abbi" broke the boundaries of the genre.

It's not for nothing that he won the Akum Award for "Album of the Year" two years ago for the album of "Shem Tov Avi".

"I don't take sides!".

Bar in Barbie (Photo: Orit Panini)

Since then he had time to star in the high-tech skits of Eretz Fahadal and to release the album "The Great Vacation" as Tamir Bar, a rapper and a singer in his own right with songs that combine his humor with questions and insights about life, romance and a broken heart and of course poignant social statements, such as songs about A lost girl named "Tikva" and "When the anger is great and the sadness is great" about Batum Zarhum, who was accidentally murdered with a bench by a citizen who mistakenly thought he was a terrorist, after an attack in Be'er Sheva.

At his debut show at the Barbie Club, last Saturday night, to which all the tickets were sold, Bar came as he is, without the character of "Shem Tov Ebi", but with the hits that brought him to prominence, alongside the best from the new album.

Among them, he gave pre-prepared stand-up segments, ranging from a reference to the protest that took place in the streets that evening ("I'm not taking sides!", he clarified while waving the Israeli flag), through a segment about how he pays his musicians only 200 shekels per performance, go through the segments about " You came out righteous" and his dog Ogi, as far as jokes go, my girlfriend farted in the shower so in response I peed on her.

Seinfeld style of humor, where he laughs at life situations and what he sees in front of his eyes at that moment, and the audience bursts out laughing at every word.

And every time he needed to give the fans a boost, Bear simply shouted into the microphone the fight slogan "God damn!", and Barbie answered him in chorus: "God damn!".

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A surprise guest.

Dana Frieder with a bar (Photo: Orit Panini)

The show lasted an hour and a quarter, but it didn't need more than that and it didn't feel too short.

Bar is funny, charismatic to a degree and holds the stage, although he still has a long way to go before he feels completely natural in front of several hundreds to whom he also has to sing.

Even in terms of a comedian who decided to take a microphone, he is a reasonable rapper, not amazing, and he is not really a singer, but unlike comedians from previous generations, who took years to put on shows in which they sing, perhaps because of the shame clause and the fear of what they will say, he is a generation that no longer counts one.

He sings most of the time with auto-tune software activated on the microphone, which prevents him from faking and makes him sound like a legit singer.

The audience, which probably needs quite a bit of auto-tune in hip-hop, didn't really mind.

And who knows, maybe it's even a space nightingale, which uses auto-tune only as a parody of fakers who can't sing.

You really can't tell with him.

The squeaks and crackles of the trap sound of the new album were replaced by a quartet of musicians (bass, drums, guitar, keyboards and computer), which made the sound rockier and much heavier.

A series of guests took the stage: Aya Zahavi Feiglin, who sang "In Olam" with him on the album, Dana Frieder who surprised with "Electric Girl", her hit from Festigal 2007 which is featured on the network - and Shaver prepared the audience for it again and again as haunting hints - Yishai Suisa and Ravid Plotnik , who worked with him on his two albums and actually made him a rapper, and Jimbo J, for the performance of "The Little Citizen" of course.

The audience sang along with most of the songs and responded to Bar's every move on stage with almost excessive enthusiasm, as if it were a magician pulling a show of rabbits out of a hat.

The guy is a star.

Another friend who came to stay.

Bar with Ravid Plotnik (Photo: Orit Panini)

In terms of "rock and laughter" (or music and entertainment), Tamir Bar's show is another link in the long Israeli chain, which began with the military bands, received an eternal kosher seal in the Beehive and Danny Sanderson and the pale tracker, rolled through Eric Einstein to Maor Cohen and reached Gilad Kahane of Giraffes, And comedians who occasionally shine in projects and music shows such as Assi Israeloff, Avi Greinik, Guri Alfie (who came to watch Barbie last night), Roi Bar Natan and Idan Alterman.

Compared to all of these, Tamir Bar is the funniest and protest thing happening right now.

On the web, on TV, on Spotify and now also on stage.

The question is, as usual, how long it will last him as a musician, and which songs, if any, he will be able to assimilate here for the future.

We will find out, probably, in the charts of the decade in seven years.

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