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DAILY SHVITZ

Push The Button Is Not A Song About Terror After All

Beth Gottfried

It's just written by a bunch of self-serving opportunist weenies.

TeapacksTeapacksFinnish Eurovision official Kjell Ekholm voiced concerns about Teapacks’ Push The Button entry last week, because he thought it could be deemed offensive to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

But Teapacks singer Kobi Oz denies the song is political and insists it only addresses the current worries held around the world about potential nuclear war.

Ekholm’s complaints have been dismissed by the Eurovision Song Contest organisers, and Teapacks now hope to wow judges at the contest in Finland in May.

If you're going to "push the button" by being controversial, at least own up to it. Here's hoping that Teapacks, aka the band with no ball sack, falls flat in May.


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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Al Legheny


A nuclear "blast" from the past. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCGLEEBEJ34