Music Video: Badaboom!

Jewish entertainer Nachas is back with a new music video, ‘Badaboom,’ which was partially filmed in Crown Heights.

The video was produced by Danny Finkelman of Sparks Next. The music was produced by Ruli Ezrachi.

Check NachasMusic.com soon for the free download.

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21 Comments

  • Kalmy

    Mier Kalmanson adds hipness to all the latest on the Jewish music scene!

    Wild energy! Keep it coming!

    Badaboom Boom.

    Mendel

  • Eli

    While the main singer has a pleasant voice and the song is nice, I really wish these kind of music videos would stop importing various goyishe elements that are antithetical to Jewish character.

    Why in the world do we have to deliver desirable positive messages with a decidedly negative aura?

  • Uncle Pinchy

    Wow this guy is amazing
    His kids most be so proud..
    Next year he should preform with M.S at the VMA’s…

  • Response to Eli

    There is a fine line between objects of negativity and objects that we transform into negativity. There was a time not to long ago when Jewish music, and even music in general consisted of mainly songs that were slow and in the classical genre. As time passed, the music got faster, the beats became more rock oriented, and now the videos have become more visually stimulating.

    To say that because the video is “materialistic and less than aidel” is turning a blind eye to the world we currently live in. It is very easy to write off any new and interesting music or videos as “goyish”. It is much harder to differentiate to society’s children, which music/videos are kosher, which are not kosher. To classify any and all interesting music videos as having a “negative aura” is taking the easy way out. It also leaves the children very confused. “Why is it negative? There are no women in the video, there is no vulgar language, there are no improper actions at all. Is it only negative because it is interesting and Judaism has to be boring?”

    This is what society has come to. By taking the easy way out, instead of explaining which minute areas of the world are bad and which are good, we dump it all into one big negative pot, and lead the children to believe that Judaism has to be boring.

    • Eli

      So you’re admitting that, in order to appeal to the younger generation, we have to push the limits of what is considered refined in Jewish music and video. You know that we are supposed to bring people to the Torah and not the Torah to them. There are many videos out there that have visual influences of the secular world yet don’t overdo it and kept a clean theme:
      Think of:
      Benny Friedman’s “Yesh Tikvah” (happy song)
      Yaakov Shweky’s “Lo Yaavod” (tells a a great story)
      Dovid Gabay’s “Ana Avda” (cartoon visuals with happy song)
      Adar’s “Halaila” (heavy beat, but clean and straightforward visuals)
      Some of the YBC videos (although they are way too flashy with lights and color bursts)
      FDD “Ten Li Yad” (also goyish tune adapted to a beautiful Hebrew rendition)
      Aish’s “We’ve Gotta Live Together” (even though it’s a goyesh song, it shows a great lesson)
      or even the Maccabeats videos – they try to elevate a song for a certain audience.

      all of these videos deliver the song/message with clean visuals that don’t leave a crass and materialistic feeling with the viewer, unlike with this video which imparts a stuff-it-down-your-throat impression, which sullies the message.

      For example:
      The singer is wearing sunglasses. Was it sunny in the studio? I doubt it. People wear sunglasses as a show of I-am-holier-than-thou.
      The triple-image-close-up of the singer: Does the singer have an in-your-face split personality? I also don’t think so.
      The lyrics in the rap segment (“eitz chaim hee, this is true life” in rap?)
      The rough-sounding “dodee henei zeh boh”

      I don’t understand why the producers would incorporate such less-than-aidel elements. This is not the only video that fell into this pit (Lipa’s “Hang Up The Phone” comes to mind)

      I actually liked the audio and lyrics from 0:32 “It started…” until 1:02 “…gotta hold on”. It was clean sounding, and without autotune, he actually has a pleasant voice.

      I know that a lot of work goes into producing a video and that’s why I had wished that those efforts would go towards a more refined product.

    • YMSP

      Eli, you’re 500% right and 20 years ago almost everyone would have agreed with you as a davar haposhut, but today it’s small voices who speak up and need to continue doing so.

      In general (not talking about this piece) it’s a shame that kids aren’t being taught the difference and have often been given a hodgepodge mess that’s supposed to be yiddishkeit.

      Re this one – It’s good to see at least that he’s talking about Moshiach and the free Rubashkin picture is good.

    • Haha

      “People wear sunglasses as a show of I-am-holier-than-thou.”

      There it is, there is no need to give a response this.

  • Release...

    I think the slogan should be RELEASE RUBASHIKIN, until we no longer have to say it, IY”H SOON!

  • Response to Eli (and his followers)

    Yes of course we have to push the limits! That is exactly how you bring people closer to Hashem Yisborach. One would never be able to be mikariv OTD children by telling them “We need to bring you to the torah, you have an obligation to learn and daven and obey the 613 commandments.” The only way to be mikariv is to use the points they are interested in. Like examples in the gemarah, when a child is interested in violence, get him to become a shochet. It is almost impossible to change people, but it is possible to show how the torah caters to them and their interests. And the main yesod of kiruv is that kiruv starts at home. We are all baalei teshuva, if we weren’t- we wouldn’t be klapping al cheit every yom kippur.

    To say that sunglasses means a holier-than-thou attitude, visual fx means a split personality, and 20 years ago everyone would agree- is showing a new level of ignorance. 20 years ago there were no smartphones, no facebook, no youtube, no craigslist, no iPads…the list goes on and on. We are living in a new generation, a generation that has access to the entire world in their pocket, both the good and of course the dreaded horrific world out there. It is due to the fact that most yeshivas stress how things like these cool jewish music videos are goyish, eliminating the actual kosher outlets the kids have, lead them to do much MUCH worse.

    It is time to stop living in the past and start living in the present. The number of children going off the derech is rising every year exponentially. Obviously the chinuch ways of 20 years ago are not working. The mechanchem and yeshivas and parents MUST change their chinuch methods, or face the consequences. It is human nature of all teenagers to rebel, to show their independence from their parents. If you take away their “goyish” jewish music videos, they will rebel in extremely worse ways.

  • Lifelight

    Something is “kosher” if it is “fit” for Yidden. “Fit” in EVERY SENSE: Visually, musically, etc. That means that it not only will not assault every aspect of Jewish decency and values, but will actually promote Jewish values and sensibility. Which great talmid chacham was it that did shmad as result of enjoying listening to Greek music?

  • Lifelight

    No beard.
    What’s Jewish about that?
    Glasses – copy of Lipa’s costuming obsession. What’s Jewish about that?
    Coreography – Afro-american/Latin dance moves. What’s Jewish about that?