Just Out: Even in the Simplest Language

“I don’t shop around much for material,” he explains. Rather, most songs evolved from ideas that inspired him — some of them general or even vague — which he brought to Yitzy Waldner to crystallize into songs. “Yitzy’s gift is being able to take a concept or message and craft it into a beautiful song,” says Davidi. “And as for my part, over the years I’ve seen that nothing is haphazard. If I stay true to my core, singing what I really feel, then Hashem helps me out, sending the ideas and the songs my way.”

Davidi feels that nowadays, it’s not just the music, but also the messages embedded within, that propel songs to success.

“The message of a song — the words, the lyrics — has to resonate with listeners. I would venture to say that if other meaningless words were set to the melody of ‘Echad Ani Yodea,’ or ‘Muchanim,’ for example, those songs wouldn’t go anywhere.”

These messages can resonate even when told in the simplest language, like many hits that have trended in recent years. Track three on this album, “Bye Bye Golus,” is a good example. While Yitzy Waldner’s melody and Miriam Israeli’s lyrics have a fun simplicity (reminiscent of Davidi’s popular “Nu Nu”), the arrangement takes the song to a new level.