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The World Is Full Of Terror
Beth Gottfried

by Beth Gottfried, March 5, 2007

4 comments

TeapacksTeapacksIsrael's entry in this year's Eurovision, Push The Button, transcends cultural and language barriers, for that matter. Teapacks, the band that performs the song, maintains that the controversial message of nuclear annihilation in their song is one that needs to be heard.

Lyrics include:

The world is full of terror, if someone makes an error, he's gonna blow us up to kingdom come.

There are some crazy rulers, they hide and try to fool us, with demonic, technologic willingness to harm.

For more on the song, click here.


Beth Gottfried

Beth Gottfried Lisogorsky is a professional blogger whose work has appeared on numerous sites from Rotten Tomatoes to PopMatters. She loves film, TV (yes "the boob tube"), and music and has critiqued on all three. In 2004, she published a book


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Amy Odell

03/05/07 11:19 am
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Wow

I'm not sure what to say other than this song/performance is really ridiculous/really bad.  It does remind me, however, of a far better song with the lyric "push the button":  "Galvanize" by the Chemical Brothers.  The beat drops are fucking great when you're on the treadmill.



Anonymous

03/05/07 12:30 pm
Amy, When you say this song

Amy, When you say this song is "really ridiculous/really bad", I must agree, but I also understand you never watched the Eurovision before...



Amy Odell

03/05/07 3:28 pm
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you're right

As a true American, I hadn't watched Eurovision before.  But you inspired me to do some YouTubing, and I maintain "Push the Button" is really bad.  Among the worst.  Others that were really ridiculous but at least sounded reasonable. Then again, I do have an affinity for cheesy bad pop/dance music...



Anonymous

05/02/07 1:48 am
I personally think that

I personally think that "Push the button" is about the only one of the Eurovision contestants this year that doesn't copy ABBA, Evanescence or any other eurovision-way old and proven style.

This is a truely original performance and I simply love the energy these men are putting in this song.

I really hope the song will make it to the Eurovision.

I think Lordi proved last year that there are more ways in the meaning of style to win the contest than another remix of Waterloo.