Writersoul: there, you’ve said it yourself. The Jewish music that is composed with real feeling brings out real feeling in me. But there are some songwriters who will just take any words from tanach and put them to any style music cause they want to sell a good song. Don’t get me started on zochreini nah (the catchy, fast one, not Miami Boys’), but that is a case in point. You cannot call that song ‘Jewish’. What I was talking about was purposely copying a style of music because it’s fast/beaty/catchy etc, not composing original music that may sound like another style. When the melody fits the words and you know that some thought went into that, then that song can be called Jewish.
Mench, don’t you think the way some Jewish teenagers jump up and down at ‘Jewish’ music concerts because of the style of music is just wrong, and smacks of pop fanculture?