Teapacks, Eurovision, "Push the Button"

Via BBC News:

Israelis have voted overwhelmingly for a song about nuclear annihilation as their country’s entry in this year’s Eurovision Song contest. Push the Button is widely thought to be a response to Iran’s nuclear ambitions and the Islamic republic’s fiery president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

The group was picked as Israel’s contest competitor earlier, and they offered up four songs to the telephone-voting Israeli public, which overwhelming chose Push the Button.

On the Eurovision Song Contest site:

Leader of Teapacks, Kobi OZ, who also wrote the song, said to Ynet.co.il: “I am not frightened of this whole thing. We have not received any notice from EBU so we move on with our preparations for Helsinki. I know this song is not political. It does warn against the perils of a nuclear war and crazy leaders who might push the button. Some may think it refers to Israeli leaders, some may think it talks about other countries’ leaders. We are not taking sides. The message we wish to convey is that all we want is to live, smell the flowers bloom and have fun.”

Part of the lyrics:

The world is full of terror
If someone makes an error
He’s gonna blow us up to biddy biddy kingdom come
There are some crazy rulers they hide and try to fool us
With demonic, technologic willingness to harm….

They’re gonna push the button, push the button…

(Translation from Hebrew:)
Messages are exploding above me
missiles flying over me and falling on me…
Between a rocket and a weapon
between a kidnapped person and opportunism…
nothing is what everybody does.

Awesome.

(Found via Metafilter.)