Shmemel () is an
Israeli Funk
Funk is a music genre that originated in African-American communities in the mid-1960s when musicians created a rhythmic, danceable new form of music through a mixture of various music genres that were popular among African-Americans in the ...
Rock
Rock most often refers to:
* Rock (geology), a naturally occurring solid aggregate of minerals or mineraloids
* Rock music, a genre of popular music
Rock or Rocks may also refer to:
Places United Kingdom
* Rock, Caerphilly, a location in Wale ...
band. The band was formed in 2007 and consists of ten members. Most of the lyrics are satirical and humorous and often controversial. The songs are in
Hebrew
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and
English
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* English language
* English people
English may also refer to:
Culture, language and peoples
* ''English'', an adjective for something of, from, or related to England
* ''English'', an Amish ter ...
. Some songs have controversial names and contents such as "Laughing at the
Goyim
In modern Hebrew and Yiddish, (; , pl: , or ) is a term for a gentile, a non-Jew. Through Yiddish, the word has been adopted into English (pl: goyim or goys) also to mean "gentile", sometimes in a pejorative sense.
The Biblical Hebrew word ...
" which deals with Israeli relations with other nations or "Berlin" which deals with emigration of Israelis to Berlin for a better financial life.
The song featured lyrics such as "Even Jacob went to Egypt" and "where rents were half and salaries were double".
References
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Israeli rock music groups