Can you identify three differences between Katy Perry's smash hit "I Kissed a Girl" and the remake by Israeli musical star Ivri Leder?
Let's see....
1) The second version is sung by a man.
2) It's slowed down as a ballad as opposed to the original rock version.
3) Oh yes....and Ivri likes Chinese food.
WHAT IN THE HELL IS "THE TASTE OF HER CHERRY CHOPSTICK"??? For the love of G-d, this is worse than the ridiculous t-shirts and sign misspellings. He's obviously heard the original, he's repeating this line several times, and he's a good English speaker SINGING A SONG for public consumption...nobody noticed this? He's soon to perform at the New Now Next Awards broadcast on the gay-and-lesbian themed Logo network. Can somebody please get the word to Ivri while it's still just a domestic issue?
Audience Member #1: "Dude, did he just say 'cherry chopstick'? "
Audience Member #2: "No chance. NONE. Why would anybody say that?"
I kissed an egg roll, I liked it...
1) The second version is sung by a man.
2) It's slowed down as a ballad as opposed to the original rock version.
3) Oh yes....and Ivri likes Chinese food.
WHAT IN THE HELL IS "THE TASTE OF HER CHERRY CHOPSTICK"??? For the love of G-d, this is worse than the ridiculous t-shirts and sign misspellings. He's obviously heard the original, he's repeating this line several times, and he's a good English speaker SINGING A SONG for public consumption...nobody noticed this? He's soon to perform at the New Now Next Awards broadcast on the gay-and-lesbian themed Logo network. Can somebody please get the word to Ivri while it's still just a domestic issue?
Audience Member #1: "Dude, did he just say 'cherry chopstick'? "
Audience Member #2: "No chance. NONE. Why would anybody say that?"
I kissed an egg roll, I liked it...
26 comments:
Noticed it as well. Wierd....
Heard it too and thought that I was hearing it wrong, but there it was again and again. Chopstick. On the radio. Poor Ivri.
Since there is some talk of Ivri being gay, it sort of makes sense that he would sing this song as if it's unusual for him to be kissing a girl.
But the thing that bothers me is that he didn't serve in the IDF. I don't know if he was a draft-dodger or just a pacifist, but it seems too similar to Bar Rafaeli...
Still, saw him in concert and I liked it... ;-)
Finally! We've been chuckling/grimacing at this one for a while. I'm pretty impressed that you actually found some cherry chopsticks :)
Thank you, Google Images!
Don't know about the Ivri/Bar comparison. At least Ivri lives here...I would imagine he's proud of his country even when he doesn't agree with the politics.
By the way, I'm having major post title regret. Is it too late to change it to "I Ate Some Chumus, I Liked It"?
Point taken on Ivri (vs. Bar).
In my opinion, you can only change the title if the chumus tasted like a cherry chopstick.
Wow... he really does like her cherry chopsticks. (thanks for pointing this out... it made me laugh!!)
maybe it's supposed to be one of those lines that SOUNDS dirty but whose meaning is kind of vague, like "my milkshake brings all the boys to the yard..." Ivri just wanted to bring a little more mystery to the song...
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Ivri IS gay, and you can tell him about the cherry chopsticks on Twitter if you'd like. @ivrilider
.."some talk of Ivri being gay"--sure, just like there's some talk about Israel being Jewish. :P He's one of the most out gay singers in Israel if I remember correctly--he talked about his boyfriend between songs at the concert I went to when he came to TAU's campus last year, so I don't think he cares about hiding it. ;)
I was going to say "there's talk of him being gay like there's talk of me eating chumus" but then I decided to let someone else write it. : )
I like the milkshake comparison and I'm sure that's supposed to be dirty. Unless she really has a milkshake that she brings to the yard.
(3 minutes later)
OH MY G-D! There are some DRRRTY meanings on the internet! JESUS!!!
And I though I was missing something about the cherry chopsticks that everyone else knew. (Which often happens)
I think I prefer to assume that the chopsticks were on purpose and not such a gruesome mess-up. Although there is no Chapstick in Israel (that I know of) so he may have not know about that and it's a mistake. Oy.
Anyway this is not one of his better songs. The way he sings it, it should be called I kissed a girl and I hated it.
Okay, okay, it seems that everyone knows that Ivri is gay except me. But in my own defense galgalatz doesn't announce an Ivri Lieder song as "here's another song from Big Gay Ivri" or "here's Ivri's accoustic version of 'I kissed a girl'; surprisingly he didn't choose to go with an over-the-top showtune since he's so gay".
AND, my roommate in college was a lesbian and I didn't know about it for a month, if not more. Someone had to tell me that she was (and she still is). [Is that appropriate to announce in this kind of forum?] I just don't go around categorizing people that way. Hey, Hetro Joe! What's new, Lesbian Lori? Let's go out for lunch with the Posse of People whose Proclivities in the bedroom [or anywhere else] are none of my business...
Though, if he is gay (and apparently everyone, including me now, knows that he is), maybe he really did mean 'chopstick' [insert Dr. Evil eyebrow raise here].
btw, I just linked to your blog TWICE from my post today. Which just goes to show that you are the world's leading expert on Galgalatz. And is a shameless ploy to get you to put my blog on your blogroll. :)
OMG "cherry chopstick" could totally have a dirty meaning... the more I think about it... which I think I prefer not to. :)
His cover was actually played so many times on Galgalatz that he decided to make a music video for it. Somewhere in the process he got the memo about the chopsticks, though, because he changed it!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrAHQSnuNOQ
Thanks for the link Rachel, nice vid, I like the ballad. No more chopstick though...
Hey, there IS a girl in the video, and... OMG what's happening behind this door at the back? What is this place??
Benji said: Is it too late to change it to "I Ate Some Chumus, I Liked It"?
I ate some chumus, I liked it, hope my potatoe salad don't mind?
You could change the title, but... is it unusual for you to eat chumus? ;-)
I must be missing out by not living in Israel. I do not even know who Ivri is.
Oy! So much to learn about. :)
Melissa
I just ate some babka and in all seriousness, I liked it. Taste of its chocolate layers.
This way of speaking is getting addictive.
Maybe she fed him some sushi with cherry chopsticks before he kissed her? And that's what he liked?
But is this going to be a new web series, like zagat's, or something?
But you might want to see this, too - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njhYhOd8Qyo - someone went to Israel...and liked it. No knowing what flavor chopsticks they had, though.
Benji,
Thanks for the chopsticks warning. Yet, despite the warning, there I am listening to the song - kind of liking it actually. Unlike some songs he's sung in English, this one was sounding good. Ivri Lider being gay, and me being gay, the lyrics had me smiling...until he spoke about those stupid cherry chopsticks! What the f...! I don't know what he was kissing but I think he's better off kissing things more recognizable like his boyfriend.
I drank some hafuch, I liked it.
Taste of that Hillel coffee.
It felt so wrong, it felt so right (especially when I spilled it on my pants).
I have been speaking in this format for roughly 24 hours now.
well "what is cherry chopsticks?" is getting the song lots of buzz. Google "cherry chopsticks" and you're on the 3rd page of people asking that question about Izri's song.
thanks for the add, Benji! :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzizFz5aLII
mika karni's verion of kissing a girl. was actually played on the radio on saturday.
I like Mika karni's version better
I read this post and I liked it. I liked it.
:)
The slow version quite kills the entire
'impish' feel of the original song - plus it accentuates his Israeli accent.
As for the pink chopsticks.. well I'm still laughing!! Brilliant!!
And, ps - even I knew Ivri Lider was gay. :)
You probably didn't hear about it because most secular israelis don't really care or make a big deal out of it.
Celebrity gossip isn't as big as in the US, for obvious reasons..we have enough politicians to laugh at :P
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SVP19HIsr4
would you see a commercial like this in America? haha
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