I love how Dana International predicted Netta's win in Eurovision in Israel Calling :) she said, "there is room for one more Diva and her name is Netta" :)
Not quite, Sweden narrowly beat her to it. In 1973 Nurit Hirsh conducted song number 17, but Sweden had Monica Dominique as their conductor and they were song 12 - so Monica is the first female to conduct at Eurovision and Nurit is the second. She is the only female conducter of a winning song, though.
A former Israeli who grew up in 1970’s Israel here. I think to understand winners it’s important to look at Eurovision entries in their historic context. Israel won in 1979 and especially with a flowery song like Hallelujah partly because that was the year that the peace talks with Egypt went into high gear. Europe was beginning to see Israel in a different light and loved them for it.
@@Wiwibloggs The lyrics in Hebrew also has a GLBTQ side to it that was sadly lost in translation when the lyrics were translated into English - Boaz is singing a love song to a guy, which is evident in Hebrew, where he's using the masculine 'you' rather than the feminine one.
This morning I saw Dana International in the supermarker near my apartment on my way to work, wearing a robe! :D Living in Tel Aviv, I see many celebrities, it doesn't excite me too much anymore, but god this DIVA...! A legend ♥
The song hallelujah was about saying thank you for everything for the world for the song for the words for everything that was and everything that will be its all for good
A-Ba-Ni-Bi The words of this song are just stunning! A song is about love display between young kids in the "B" language... so spacial and cute.. "Ani Ohev othach" - means "I love u". In the "B" language: "Aa (ba) - ni (bi) - O (bo) - hev (bev) - O (bo) - tach (bach)" It's their way to say "I love u" in a way that it will be a secret...
The thing I realized watching this is that Israel's party songs like toy or golden boy aren't a new thing, A-Ba-Ni-Bi-O-Bo-E-Be and Diva are both upbeat, party songs before all! actually, out of the 4 wins, 3 of them are party songs. Also, all the winning songs had some Hebrew in them, the first 3 are completely in Hebrew, while Toy has one sentence in Hebrew + Israeli slang. I don't think any other country beside Israel and Ireland has its native language in ALL of its songs.
fun fact, Devon is wearing a Marshall headphones that have a bi-directional Cable connectors on both sides so they don't really need to used the a audio spillover, they can just connect another headphone to the left side of the Marshall and the PC to the right
I LOVE the Israeli winning songs and unlike you 2 I think Hallelujah is a BRILLIANT song and absolutely should have won and it's true that year 1979 had AMAZING songs , I understand why Aba-Ni-Bi won but it is NOT my favorite song at all and actually Ole Ole by Izhar in 1985 should have won too... Netta is absolutely phenomenal!!! everything about her and the song was beyond winning same as Dana both wins are breakthrough in Eurovision history which is WOW really WOW....you must admit even the haters that Israel had amazing songs thru the years with amazing result for such a small most hated country and I am proud BUT my ALL time favorite that should have won, best performance ever and I guarantee you guys if the voting system was same as this year change, SHIRI MAIMON 2005 would have WON!!!
YOU SHOULD LISTEN (and maybe do a reaction video?) to Netta's version of Abanibi. I think she managed to show that the song has an underlying charm that allows it to shine in more than one format...
4) 1998 - Symbolic win, but the song is just too generic. Way preferred Croatia and Norway. 3) 2018 - It stood out and Netta sounded great, but I still think the song is a tad overrated. 2) 1978 - Catchy and fun disco tune. One of my favorite winners! 1) 1979 - Excellent melody and harmonies. An all-time classic!
I’m dying that this appears to be the first time you both saw this 1979 Milk & Honey performance! LOL! As far as the only song that could have beat it - well that’s the song that came second the immortal ‘Su Cancion’ from Spain.
I enjoy every single video of yours. Thank you for everything you do.Eurovision is not the same without wiwibloggs for me. Y'all the best and greetings from Malta❤
Thank you for this video! You guys should do this way more often! Winners, maybe even a compilation of all of a country's entries? My rankings 1: 1978 1.1: 2018 1.2: 1998 1.3: 1979 I feel like each of these winners are so amazing and it's (to me) insulting to rank them so far apart from each other. I will say I am a sucker for the 70s and 1978 is the one where I will dance and smile and just bop non stop on repeat! The orchestra just makes me melt and I long for the orchestra to play songs like the 1978 entry! 1998 and 2018 are both amazing modern pieces that are basically side by side. 1979 was my least favourite, but remains to be emotional and loving!
Izhar Cohen, Gali Atari and Dana International are all Yemen-Jews, and until May 2018 the perception in Israel was that only Yemenis can win Eurovision for Israel. And than came Netta, who is of a mixed European-North African-Iraqi if I'm not mistaken, and broke the paradigm!
Kids - you two should be more worldly before commenting on international artists and music. Izhar Cohen has a REAL afro because he is of Yemenite descent.
I'm Israeli and I think Ding dong was garbage. Dana was obviously smug, returning to Eurovision with a song more suitable for an Ice cream truck tune, and didn't even bother to work on half decent choreography or video art. She herself was great stage-presence and charisma wise, but it wasn't enough to sell this train wreck of an entry.
'Halleluya' 1979 with Milk and Honey was also achived TOP-5 in the 'To of the Pops'-UK just one week after the 30.3.79 ESC, further than any Israerli Song ever. and higher than world wide ariits that time like: Mccartney, The jackson 5, and many great other artists...'Halleluya' also riched No.1 in : Sweden, Irland, Norway, Finland . here is an amazing Live performance of the song in the UK-chart: Halleluya-is a worldwide classic song! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-9yjNs4B4-KU.html
I don’t know about worldwide, but in Europe her victory was a major talking point. The world economy was picking up, millennium fever was taking off, and her win was part of Europe wanting to be more progressive, more modern. It shouldn’t be overstated, but yes it was a “moment”.
79 was when Israel signed peace agreement with Egypt and hope was eternal in Europe. Israel was poor economically and didn't want to host next year so they made sure they lost in 80.
Don’t take this as an insult but you talked through the whole video, I couldn’t hear anything at all. I love watching reactions but not when people talk though it. WELLL THAT WAS IT
Este año William no hace ni caso a Israel, espero que cuando fue a Tel Aviv a cubrir Eurovisión lo pasase bien, con todas las libertades de un pais como Israel, libertades con las que ahora quieren acabar sus enemigos, donde el antisemitismo que silencia a Israel es parte de ese ataque a un pais de libertades y progreso. Siempre con Israel 🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️
OMG deban how could you say Dana's voice was on point?? It clearly wasn't... It hurts my ears every time. I think it's great she won though. But her voice was definitely not on point. don't lie!
