Grey Love

January 10, 2007 - 5:38 PM by Allison

This one comes from Harry, the cool kid of the Israeli blogosphere. He explains to us uncool masses:

Perpetuating the Israeli cultural phenomenon of importing cultural fads seemingly years after they fade elsewhere, rock band Monika Sex has done a “mash up” of their gargantuan hit “Maka Afora” with The Cure’s Lovesong. They are calling it “Ahava Afora” (Grey Love). The title combines “Maka Afora” (Grey Hit) with Love Song. “Maka Afora” was popularized many years ago as the theme song for the television show Florentine. The show followed the lives of post-army twentysomethings in the industrial/trendy neighborhood of Florentine in Tel Aviv. It was a notable series for two reasons. The first being that the director of the series, Eytan Fox, went on to become Israel’s most commercially successful movie film directors. And secondly, it was the first Israeli television shows to feature gays as main characters.

The song is being sold exclusively at imusic (Hebrew). God bless the interweb. You can hear it and watch the video via the Web 2.0-ness of Youtube.

I’m not so uncool that I don’t know this song — I was a mad “Florentine” fan — the ultimate 20-something anthem, the devil-may-care, “let’s all hang out, be broke and do nothing” lyrics make me feel incredibly old and bourgeois.

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