At least here, Drake has conquered the tradition’s (and his 13-year-old self’s) nerves and uncertainty, and his party, for all the chair-lifting, gray-haired relatives, Manischewitz, and yarmulkes, is an orgiastic blow-out that reminds us that Drake, in the end, is about good living. He’s overcome this most basic ritual hang-up parsha nailed, we move to the party, which goes out of its way to use the bar mitzvah scene as grounds for either parody or transformation, again depending on what level of investment you have in Drake’s video. But Drake, whose music leaves plenty of room for wrestling with fear and trembling, instead revels in this cheat. Of course, Drake isn’t performing live the anxiety that wracks any young Jewish man or woman as they take the stage before the eyes of family, friends and God isn’t comparable to lip-synching over a meticulous studio track (though I’m sure some family somewhere has tried it out of desperation). Figuratively, he nails it right there on the bimah, and for a second, there’s real synergy there. Still, this juxtaposition of the bar mitzvah recitation with Drake’s typically sharp, technically flawless, and gripe-laden verse is hard to dismiss. We can’t tell what he’s chanting his mouth isn’t moving, the friends and family are nodding their heads to the track, and the scene cuts back and forth to Drake rapping in front of the synagogue and in an empty sanctuary.
Well, that and the painstaking shots of Drake up on the bimah. If we hadn’t been told in advance that it means something to the artist, “HYFR” could pass for a “Saturday Night Live” short. We get actual footage from baby Drake’s celebration at the intro, but beyond that, this is a music video staged at a bar mitzvah. Drake’s much-anticipated “bar mitzvah” video, released on the first night of Passover, was originally hyped on the web as a “re-creation” of his original childhood ceremony.
The text at the beginning of Drake’s video for “HYFR” - “On October 24th 2011 Aubrey ‘Drake’ Graham chose to get re-bar mitzvah’d as a re-commitment to the Jewish religion … the following is a clip displaying the event that took place” - can be taken as seriously or sardonically as you want. Nothing is too beautifull for a girl so beautifulīars are still bars even if made of gold.Drake’s “HYFR”: Whose Bar Mitzvah Is It Anyway? The fruits, well ripe with the taste of honey
I said, Aisha, take this, all of it is for you This song was written by the legendary French songwriter Jean-Jacques Goldman. Was the tenderness and my heart and faith in you all wasted? If this is love, then love is so much miseryĪnd if I am to blame, I cannot say "never again" The passion and the years and longing that I am living for you? Have you no shame, deceiving me with the love I have for you If this is love, love causes me so much miseryĪnd if I am to blame, I cannot say never againĪnd if it's my destiny to live in torment Why am I accepting this torment in your hands? Why, my love, don't my tears mean anything to you?Īnd why do I accept that you hurt me when my soul is in you Many might also be pleased to see that the video is subtitled in English though its not quite the same one I've done. It conveys the meaning of "what's wrong with you why would you do this to me" or "why are you so cruel/mean," maybe even "who do you think you are (doing this to me)". "Enta eih" means "what are you," but really means like "what are you that you would behave like this" or something along those lines.
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