Taloi B’cha REACTION ft. Benny Friedman

I send him. [music] Hey guys, today we're reacting to another song from Benny Freeman's album that came out a year ago, Gabbench. And this is going to be a special episode cuz we are reacting with Benny Freeman himself along the ride through this album including this very song. So join along and don't forget that every Sunday we have another reaction. Every Tuesday we have our live streams and every my job we have our PBS podcast and there's much more projects coming up. Very excited about that. So please subscribe to this channel and the other channel to get all the content that you will enjoy and share with other people that they would love this as well. Let's go. We have the next song, Talib. What can you tell me about that song? >> Talib is a song that I got from composer in Israel, Artis Rael. And the lyrics are very, very interesting. When I first heard them, I didn't really understand the connection between the verse and the chorus. But then with events playing out as they did, I started to think the verse, the lyrics are, why do you look so down? You don't look as happy as you were looking in the past. And then the chorus is you should know and you should be aware and you should be certain the whole matter is dependent only on you. So I started to think with the m with the situation that we find ourselves in especially over the last two years and a bit more where there was a lot of worry and a lot of exasperation and uh sadness and fear all these all these reactions that are very very understandable. But in the big picture, I think that when you uh when you think about it objectively, you notice very fast that in the fight between good and evil, there's the good side and then there's the evil side. And everything in the world is is in this fight. In other words, there's Hashem and then there's the enemies of Hashem and they express themselves in different ways. So you have the Marurim, the murderers, terrorists who are trying to do evil on one side and the other side you have soldiers defending innocent lives, defending and all that is good. >> Yeah, >> that's a that's a clear representation of the fight between good and evil. And I think it's the same fight where you have a person who wakes up in the morning in the in New Jersey or in Chicago or wherever he is and his is telling him to do one thing and histo is telling him to do another thing, >> right? >> And it's the enemy of Hashem versus this the side of Kadusha the side of the side of Hashem. And when we who are far away from the conflict do the right thing, we are literally helping the war effort and we're literally doing our part, doing our little bit to make the world holier and better. And I I I believe that it it in the simplest in the most practical most real terms helps the fight. >> Yeah. So the song to me meant don't sit around being depressed and don't sit around being worried and don't sit around refreshing the news to know what's going on exactly because you're pushet concerned about it. No, rather realize that the whole matter is dependent on you on you you you doing what you need to do. Anyway, that's that's my take on the song. Yeah, that's really deep. And and as you're saying it, it's kind of give me giving me that same vibe to expect when I listen to other Israeli singers and their songs. Like you you kind of like read the title and then you start listening to and go like, "Okay, what is it trying to tell me?" And then but by the end of it, you you just like time passed but but in a way where you actually grasp every moment. So um so when you're saying that it I that's it's really taking me back to like realizing like what these like push like people that live in solo when they do write music how much they're conveying to you when you're listening to their music. So uh I'm actually very anxious to listen to the song. So let's do interesting cuz I didn't expect that type of arrangement after what you were telling me about the song, you know. Interesting. Hello. No flis. [music and singing] [singing and music] [music and singing] >> Oh wow. I like how like you're letting the background vocals in. [music and singing] >> They really they're joining with you like that. Oh [music] sh. [music] >> Wow. I don't know what it is, but it kind of makes me feel like it's like I'm like sitting down and someone's like literally stretching out his hand to pick me up telling me this. Like I don't know. It's I didn't expect it. >> Love it. >> Great. Again, like the way the arrangement like I It's like very unexpected, but somehow it fits. It's very interesting. >> [music] >> FL [singing] [music] without his Wow, that was great. That update. [music] >> [music] >> You kind of like when you're listening to it, you're kind of picturing [music] you sitting down with the guitar with people around you just instantly singing with you. But it's not like you're like saying a message per say, but it's [music] like you're saying a message and they're like together with you in that message. It's like so many different levels. [music] >> [music] >> Oh yeah. [music] >> [music] >> Oh, that's sweet. >> That's really good. [music] >> The balance of all the vocals and the basics and harmonies. [music] It's and it's not like even like complicated harmony, but it's like it's very simplistic, but still [music] works so well. [music] >> Wow. Nice. >> You would end there, but no, it's like you >> [music] >> Wow, that I like that from after you telling me. I was really expecting like a typical like he's really like deep like slow and and like echo in the background but no like I love the approach of like it's like people sitting in a cir it kind of for me felt like people sitting in a circle in a kumzit and like everyone's just saying the same thing and but it's like telling each other though it I'm getting a little emotional here but yeah but like I'm just like it's yeah it's Great. >> I appreciate it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. >> Was there like discussion on like cuz I could tell like there's like a very good balance between how much you want to actually go like slow with it but versus like how much like you want to kind of like feel like a Kevman vibe with it. Was there any discussion on that or not really? >> Yeah. The the uh tempo is is uh is explored. We try different tempos and we try different keys and we try uh you know balancing out how much is the choir singing, how much am I singing solo, you know back and forth, should the choir come in so early, all these things are discussed. >> Yeah. >> And uh really just go try to to to come up with the most emotionally evocative version that you can that you that you know I mean as as much as you can understand. >> Yeah. And I think it fits so well. And because normally in songs you do want to kind of give like the soloist the time, the choirs the time, the back the the background vocals the time, but I feel like this song it's like its its message and its vibe is that everyone is together. But even though the message of the song is that you should it should be reliant on you to change the world, but nevertheless you have like this commodery of like a community and people with you. So I so I do like how like it doesn't really matter like how much time and space of the song each person's taking which is very good. Uh just very quickly who were the choirs? >> It was Donnie Gross and myself. >> Oh wow. >> And then a choir out of Israel and then a kids choir uh in Williamsburg I believe. >> Oh wow. Nice. That's really good. I like that. That was really good. Thank you for watching. And if there's other songs that you want me to react to on this channel or concerts or interviews or in general any content you want me to react to or you have other suggestions of what would be neat to look at at this channel, please comment below and let me know. Thank you for joining. I think that's it for today. Have a good day.