"Think Sideways"

As soon as I heard the new "air" commercial for Apple I had to buy the song for my iPod. She has a great sound.

iTunes is offering a free single by her this week, which is also very good.  

"It's mercy, compassion, and forgiveness I lack; not rationality." Kill Bill Vol 1

can I just say I ADORE her jacket in the first picture!!!

anyone know where it's from?

"You know when you see something and you just have to have it? You want it, you need it. You simply cannot live without it." 

I read that and saw the picture, and thought you meant the beautiful and talented Yael herself.  That's kind of how I feel ;-) 

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"From error to error, one discovers the entire truth."

- Sigmund Freud 

awesome Yael, she's huge in france

For a steamier version of Toxic, see her live a few weeks ago in paris :

http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=estBJikaMUw

even if there's a guy there too...

The weirdest thing is that i swear steve jobs breaks into my best friend, sandy's, playlist because she was totally blasting the feist song before it ever was on the nano commercial, and she's had New Soul as her myspace song for months. She's my music guru.

Either way, i love that apple chooses these unknowns and has the ability to completely skyrocket their careers overnight.

From Billboard:

Exclusive: Atlantic To Release Yael Naim Album

Right now, the only way to get a copy of Yael Naim's "New Soul," which is prominently featured in the new Mac Air ad, is to buy it on iTunes. Alternatively, a friend in France could procure you a physical copy of Naim's self-titled album, released there last October by label Tot ou Tard.

But that will all change March 18, when Atlantic releases the album in the United States, two months ahead of schedule. Naim has been signed to Atlantic stateside since 2007.

Like Feist's iPod Nano ad-soundtracking "1234" before it, "New Soul" is racing up the charts and doing big business online. This week, it debuts at No. 9 on the Billboard Hot 100 and No. 2 on Hot Digital Songs after shifting 135,000 copies, according to Nielsen SoundScan.

The success of the ad leaves Naim's team at Atlantic in a happy predicament. "When we signed her, we started off with this pretty much unknown girl who sings in Hebrew half the time and built our campaign around that. Now, we have to suddenly change everything," Atlantic head of international Torsten Luth says.

Luth says that while some components of the marketing campaign will change, many will stay the same. "We are going to release the same record that she released in France, with about half the songs in English and half in Hebrew," he says. "We are also going to use the original video. We want her to be able to be herself.

While still relatively unknown in the States, Naim is not a newcomer to the music business by any stretch. The French-born singer grew up in Israel and spent her mandatory military service as a soloist in the Israel Air Force Orchestra. She released her first album, "In a Man's Womb," via EMI in 2001, but left the label shortly thereafter, because, as she says, "I was young and became very disappointed in the system." Last October, "Yael Naim" debuted at No. 11 on the French charts.

Despite her history, Naim has never toured the States. "I'm excited to play over in America," she says. "When I was making the record, I never expected anything like this would happen."

A March performance on "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" is confirmed, and Naim will showcase at South by Southwest and in New York this spring before embarking on a tour.

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