#INTERNAL SELECTIONS

[eurovision-revisited]

Eurovision 2002 - Number 22 - Sarit Hadad - "Mr. DJ Superman"

Following Cyprus in bring out the big guns at Eurovision, Israel weren't going to be left out. In 2002 the IBA selected Sarit Hadad and held an internal competition to select the song she would sing. Sarit was and is still one of the most famous singers in Israel. Starting by sneaking out of the family home to perform in night clubs at the age of 12(!) she's had a lifetime in the music industry with her first contract being signed before she was legally able to do so.

Prior to 2002, she had 10 albums out, and been voted Israeli female singer of the year in 1999 and 2001, and would again win that award in 2002. Sarit is a big name. She'd already tried to enter Eurovision once before - in 1999, but had been voted third in a field of four by the IBA's selection committee. In 2002, the broadcaster wasn't going to make the same mistake again.

There were four songs in this competition all submitted by Sarit herself, including one on which she had a co-writing credit. The eventual winning song and this song, Mr. DJ Superman, had the same two writers, Yoav Ginai and Svika Pick, the song-writing partnership who had created Diva for Dana International in 1998. Unlike the winning song, Mr. DJ Superman is full-on disco-pop with middle eastern flavours running through it. It's still a plea for peace of sorts, but in this case one brokered by a DJ and lots of dancing.

This was Sarit's favoured song of the four and although it wasn't ultimately the selection of the IBA, it did come a close second in the published scoring. The video above is not from a selection competition broadcast - I don't think that one was ever shown. It's from a concert given by Sarit later.

She went on to finish 12th at Eurovision this year with the selected entry, is up to her 23rd album release, won female singer of the year again in 2009 and singer of the decade in 2010, has had major concert tours and many single releases. She's still an all round icon of Israeli and Mizrahi music, has been a mentor on the Israeli incarnation of The Voice.

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TRASH 🚮 Speedpaint | Alt under cut:

[sharkneto]

Fanfic authors, I have a question!

I've been thinking about how fanfic has become more mainstream in the last few years, and if that's affected how open us authors are about our fanfic hobby.

[lylethewaterguy]

the league joined the corps(s)

[potatoesarecheese]

We need more mute characters in fiction

More mute characters in fiction that aren't infantilized or belittled or, god forbid, fixed. Characters that, instead of learning how to talk "normally" learn to stop hating themselves for being different.

Sure, we have the mute characters that physically can't speak, their throat was damaged, their vocal cords were ripped out, they're deaf. All those reasons are great.

But we need more mute characters that can speak, but actually can't in every way that matters. Characters that should be fine but they're not and they don't know what's wrong with them and they're just stuck feeling horrible all the time.

Characters that are trapped inside of their own heads, wanting to scream and speak and be heard, but also unable to because they are terrified of being perceived. because they shouldn't speak. because they won't speak.

Because they dug themselves into a hole but they have no idea what happened how to get back out of it or even call out for someone else to throw them a rope.

Because their whole society is built around this idea of perfection and how your body is supposed to work and so of course they're struggling. everyone else has baked it into their heads that they're “broken” and “useless” when they're really actually not.

Instead of getting fixed and learning to talk, they find a group of people that are normal about it. That treat them as an entire human being and help them unravel all of those ideas about the "normal" and "correct" way to do things.

We need more mute characters in fiction, because how can you ever even begin to communicate with someone if they don't know how to listen to you?

We need more mute characters in fictions, because it will help us unravel all those ideas about the "normal" and "correct" way to do things

[starleska]

right, y'all need to stop this now. there can only be a certain amount of this kinda man in media, surely? 🙈🙈🙈

[kaistarus]

Isagi: what the hell? Bachira just decided we're partners? A little annoying but if I have to

Isagi 5 seconds later: I'm paired with Bachira and I would never ditch him for anyone, literally fuck off

[fidjiefidjie]

La belle affiche tirée du film japonais « Rhapsodie en août » d'Akira Kurosawa

Ouverture du 77 ème Festival international du film 🎬 de Cannes

Cannes 2024 -Official Selection

Source: International Film Festival

👋 Bel après-midi

[st-just]

You read a lot of books of mostly dubious quality

Look if you (I) only read stuff that's good then you're (I'm) almost axiomatically playing it too safe and missing out on potential gems. It's a sacrifice you (I) have to be willing to make.

[aprilblossomgirl]

my favorite QL 2023 recaps: part 4 - the boys x the beach

GIF 1-3. Nueng & Palm in Never Let Me Go (2022-2023)

GIF 4-6. Gun & Cher in A Boss and A Babe (2023)

GIF 7-9. Mhok & Day in Last Twilight (2023-2024)

[whosname]

This guy again.

[Id. Hijikata in his salarymen au persona sitting at his desk resigned. He's on a skype call with Kintoki who says with a stupid grin "I have a stupid question…". Hijikata, bracing, says "Okay, tell me…" End Id.]

[trentskis]

why would u more easily believe that there is some special treatment in the premier league going on rather than one arsenal player got injured and a couple of them chose to withdraw from national team selection some very very weird things being said on this website

[bottlepiecemuses]

You are submitting me this crap while ignoring that Hamas was found to actually hurt women and you only want to condemn one side because of your bigoted. It's interesting you pro-Palestinian pos want to act and condemn Israel so hard that you grab any type of stuff and ignore Hamas's record and even say it's a resistance. You guys have no soul or morals.

[transingthoseformers]

On one hand, there's a lot of metaphors, angst, and hurt/comfort you can put into villain antagonists going through redemption arcs.

On the other you can just imagine the protagonists and kinda-protagonists with that one feral menace they adopted

[mail-posting]

This was a normal match but the idea is really goofy fjhsjaksj

[bookie-the-reading-junkie]

why did i choose to hyperfixate on and write a long fic around a series that involves fighting. I can't write action