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Israeli Singer Noa Kirel on First English-Language Singles & Celebrity Crushes

Israeli Singer Noa Kirel on First English-Language Singles & Celebrity Crushes

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Ever since she was 13 years old, Noa Kirel has been a rising star in her native homeland of Israel, crushing it in singing, dancing, and acting. She released her first single when she was 14 and she has not looked back since. Now, she is making waves globally with her first international singles "Please Don't Suck" and "Bad Little Thing" and the world is ready for all her talents! Noa pays a visit to the Young Hollywood Studio to tell us more about her music and the seamless transition to English-language lyrics. She also tells us who she would love to collab with and reveals her celebrity crush, plus we play a game of "Music & Lyrics" where we ask her questions about her life based on the lyrics of her songs!

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Noa Kirel

Hi everyone, I'm Noa Kirel. I'm with Young Hollywood and I'm playing music and lyrics. I think I might fall in love.

Young Hollywood

Top three things that you look for in a person that could make you fall in love?

Noa Kirel

Um, honest, I will say 'cause that's important. Um, humor. You should be funny 'cause everybody loves uh funny people. And yeah. What is the last one? Oh no. Um, honest. Good good music taste is important for me. 'Cause romantic. Yeah, there are so many it's hard to pick only three. But yeah.

Young Hollywood

Can you do just one thing for me? What What is one thing you pride yourself in that you are good at in a relationship?

Noa Kirel

Let's see. Super cuddly I would say. I love to cuddle and like to uh just be stayed at home together and like chill and to be together and like go out with friends is also fun. But like to just stay together us two in the home and like cuddling. It's the best way for me. Yeah.

Young Hollywood

So baby don't this up. What is the thing you have done on a date that you are like, Oh I should not have done that.

Noa Kirel

So actually, I've never been on a date. Like a first date. I just never been. So I don't know what to say on a date. Like it's it's weird. But I've never been on a date. So I guess when I will be, I'll know what to do.

Young Hollywood

Would you be open to going on a date? A what? Would you want to go on a date? Like would you be open to it or you aren't dating?

Noa Kirel

Um, I'm open to to go out on a date. But like it was it will be my first time. So I guess it will be a little bit like embarrassing in a good way. And I'll see what's happened. I don't know. Yeah.

Young Hollywood

Okay. Same old, same old. Yeah. Uh, don't ruin it. Don't ruin it. 'Cause what is your biggest dating pet peeve?

Noa Kirel

Like in the video you can see when the the person next to me is like eating and chewing in a weird way. So if it probably will happen in a date I'll be like, no. So, yeah maybe this one.

Young Hollywood

'Cause I've been let down enough. What dating advice? What dating advice do you have for men? What dating advice do you have for girls?

Noa Kirel

So I'm not that good at dating. But like I just say for boys and for girls just to feel comfortable with yourself and like be yourself. Don't do not try it like to be anybody else. And just stay neutral and and positive and like be yourself. It's the best way for me.

Young Hollywood

Seven billion people but you're the one who's most okay. Who is the one person that you think is most okay? Say celebrity crush.

Noa Kirel

Just one? There are so many. Um, celebrity crush. I'm trying to think about someone that doesn't have like a girlfriend or something. And single one. Um, I would say like celebrity crush since I was a kid. Like, I don't know Justin Bieber. I know he's like happily married and everything but just like for ever and like forever fan. So, yeah.

Young Hollywood

Final. Finally, I found someone. Someone I can tolerate. Have you found that special someone yet or are you single? Do you want to find that special someone?

Noa Kirel

So, I'm single right now. Uh and um, of course I want to find that special someone. But I don't have like any pressure about it. Just to when it will happen it will happen.

Young Hollywood

What's up Young Hollywood? Today we have a very special guest with us. You know her, you've seen music and lyrics. Hi Noa.

Noa Kirel

Hi.

Young Hollywood

How are you doing? You look so good.

Noa Kirel

I'm great. Thank you. You too.

Young Hollywood

Did you Okay, so how long did it take you to do your hair and make-up this morning?

Noa Kirel

I think like two hours.

Young Hollywood

Is that usual?

Noa Kirel

Yeah.

Young Hollywood

It looks really good.

Noa Kirel

Thank you.

Young Hollywood

Who usually So, you have so many good make-up looks and outfits.

Noa Kirel

Thank you.

Young Hollywood

Who decides like your make-up look and what you wear for your music videos and all that?

Noa Kirel

Um, some of them is like my ideas or my team ideas and it's like the connecting that I have with my like my team. Yeah. And maybe today we'll do like this. And maybe we can I can dress this this look. And I can be that. And it just it's playful, you know? So it's super super fun to decide like every day what I want to be and what I want to look like.

Young Hollywood

So for the Please Don't Suck music video did you did you have extra hair?

Noa Kirel

Yes.

Young Hollywood

I was like was your hair ever that long?

Noa Kirel

No. It's long. I mean but not like

Young Hollywood

Yeah, your hair is very long now. What was the vibe like behind the scenes when you did that music video? 'Cause like it's fun. Like you have guys in it and that.

Noa Kirel

Yeah. Yeah. With the dancer. So it was super funny. And the dancers were amazing. And it was like it was on my birthday.

Young Hollywood

Was it on your birthday?

Noa Kirel

Yes. So it's like the best present for my birthday. And it was super fun. And everybody were super nice and talented. And yeah, you can see it's very colorful and playful and uh and funny. So it was the it was amazing day.

Young Hollywood

And there's like 24 million views on the video.

Noa Kirel

Yes. That's insane.

Young Hollywood

Do you ever just like look like do you watch the video yourself back or you don't watch it?

Noa Kirel

Just like when it comes out, I'm like, okay now it's it's not mine anymore. It's like it's for everybody and like I'm just like oh my it's insane. I mean the people are loving it and like that's crazy.

Young Hollywood

Even better birthday present.

Noa Kirel

Even better. That's for like for us that's for like That's insane.

Young Hollywood

Okay, what is one music video that you would want to shoot one day? Like what would it be like a horror music video with the like a song? Like what would you want to do?

Noa Kirel

Maybe like a dark one. Yeah. Yeah.

Young Hollywood

You'd look you should do that.

Noa Kirel

Yeah. I probably will. Yeah.

Young Hollywood

You need to tackle that side of the video.

Noa Kirel

Yeah. But it's fun there's like I can do like each music video the way that I want and like here I want to be a little bit, you know, dark. And here I want to be like more playful and colorful. So it's fun to play with it.

Young Hollywood

That's awesome.

Noa Kirel

Yeah.

Young Hollywood

And now we're in L. A. You're in L. A. How do you like it so far?

Noa Kirel

I like it very much. It's good to be here and it's good to, you know, to to talk about please don't suck. And it's it's fun.

Young Hollywood

And have you been to L. A. before?

Noa Kirel

Yes.

Young Hollywood

Okay. Four five times.

Noa Kirel

Four five times.

Young Hollywood

Okay. Would you ever live in L. A.?

Noa Kirel

I probably will. Yeah. Yeah.

Young Hollywood

That would be fun. What is your favorite thing to do in L. A.?

Noa Kirel

Um, I love hanging out. I love go to shopping. And you know, but the best is to work here to yeah, to meet people and yeah.

Young Hollywood

Have you wrote any songs here yet?

Noa Kirel

Of course.

Young Hollywood

Oh my gosh. Okay. Now Bad Little Thing, your new single is out to the world. What was the message behind the song?

Noa Kirel

Um, it's about Bad Little Thing that it's kind of like me in a good way. Like bad in a good way. And like it's really um fearless song. It's about like I don't need anybody to be like the best version of myself. And um, it's very strong song. And I hope it will inspire like women to

Young Hollywood

Totally.

Noa Kirel

Yeah. You know, to be confident with yourselves and like to to be strong. Yeah.

Young Hollywood

And you wrote songs about you know, feelings and like obviously Please Don't Suck. Like what not to do what to do. Why was it important for you to write a song about like women confidence and like really focus on women?

Noa Kirel

Um, I think it's like um, I want to give example to women and like to feel comfortable with themselves and I think it's like good example and good story to to tell. Yeah.

Young Hollywood

For sure. Bad Little Thing music video. Yeah. I two. That video is insane.

Noa Kirel

Wow. Thank you. It was like a crazy day. I had like seven different looks and there were like 20 dancers like girl empowering um 100%. And it's it's it was a special day.

Young Hollywood

What was the idea behind the claw machine, the bubble?

Noa Kirel

Yeah. It's like a guy that comes to take like a pill and each pill takes him like to a new universe when I'm in it like and just what he imagined me doing. And this is was super cool. Each universe was like there is like the cob machine. There are like a pool big pool. And like a pharmacy that we build. So it was very special one and in general music videos are like my

Young Hollywood

Do you love it? You love shooting music videos?

Noa Kirel

Yeah. Favorite. Yes. Like you you get to feel like a different person each time. Each look and just and you get to put a vision to the song. Yeah. 'Cause that's like so important for people to visualize the song.

Young Hollywood

What do you think that like now that people are looking at it and viewing it? How do you feel like that it's in their hands now to look at it?

Noa Kirel

Yeah. I'm always like I know that I'm doing my best and now it's it's not like mine anymore. It's for everybody. And I'm just doing yeah doing my best.

Young Hollywood

Love it. Yeah. And who is one person that you'd want to have listened to it? Because there are certain like someone that you're like, okay, like if like Justin Bieber DMed me and said I love the song. Or even just like a girlfriend. Like, um,

Noa Kirel

I don't mind if Jesse will like do that. I'm like, totally fine. I'll be happy. Fine with that. And yeah, like Jesse Bieber. I don't know Beyoncé. She can text me. She can Here's my number. Text me. Let me know what you really like about the song. And here. Um, but yeah.

Young Hollywood

Who's who's one celebrity or like music artist that you'd want to collaborate to make a song with?

Noa Kirel

There are a lot. Um, Justin Bieber. I'm just kidding.

Noa Kirel

Everything's Justin Bieber. I'm joking. Um, I don't know J. Lo maybe.

Young Hollywood

'Cause she inspired a lot of your music, right?

Noa Kirel

J. Lo and Beyoncé. Yeah. They're doing like everything. They're dancing, acting, everything. Everything. So I like it.

Young Hollywood

Would you want to dive into more acting than you've already done?

Noa Kirel

Uh yeah, I would love to. Yeah. Insane. Dance too. I love dancing. Been doing this since like three years old. So

Young Hollywood

It's kind of like been in your blood. Like growing up.

Noa Kirel

Yeah. Yeah. And totally. Because you were born with one kidney. Right. So that kind of affected your entire life. Um, when I was like since I was three months old till six years old. But the dancing like gave me so much power and like Yeah. Something to hold on in. You know what I mean? So So, yeah. But I'm totally fine now. Everything is okay now. We're good.

Young Hollywood

Do people still comment on it? Like are they worried about you? Like they hear your story like a new fan. I I have one kidney and I'm like, what? You're okay?

Noa Kirel

I'm like, yeah, yeah. Totally fine. Everything's good. Yeah. Everything's fine. I'm dancing, I'm good. Everything's good. I'm dancing.

Young Hollywood

And you have millions of followers across your social media. You have 1. 1 on Instagram. Do you ever What is that like? You know, like 'cause you are a big influence. Like you've made history. You were a judge. Yeah.

Noa Kirel

Um, I started when I was 13 and I'm 20. So I have like the seven years of amazing career. Yeah. And I just started like here, you know in the states with Please Don't Suck. It's like the first single I project and it's super exciting and I'm like, I'm ready to go. All the time. Always on deck.

Young Hollywood

And for your Instagram, do you just What inspires like your Instagram pictures? Because like a lot of the behind the scenes like people are like, oh my God. Like they love your Instagram photo.

Noa Kirel

Yeah. I think it's about really showing to my audience like the behind the scenes, what's happening, like the hard work that you know, um when you see like a video, you see like the final video. But there is a lot of like for this and it's it's it's hard work. So I love to show it to my to my audience to show them that you need to work hard. Yeah.

Young Hollywood

What's one thing that you think that the industry and like your music and dancing has taught you? Has taught you about like maybe to be resilient or maybe to be like just enjoy the little things? Is that something that like dancing provides for you that

Noa Kirel

Um, totally to have fun and to enjoy like in general from the way. 'Cause this is a hard work. But at the end of the day it's like it's my dream. And I have the the opportunity to to to work in what I love. So just to have fun during this whole way. Yeah.

Young Hollywood

What would be the ultimate goal? Like do you want to sell out Madison Square Garden? The Staple Center? Yes. Exactly. What do you want to do?

Noa Kirel

Um, so I have a lot of dreams. And I hopefully um, I'll get there with hard work and luck. Um, I would say like Madison Square Garden and Coachella and like the Vegas show.

Young Hollywood

Oh my God. You would kill Coachella. It'd be so all your make-up and your hair and everything. Have you been to actual Coachella?

Noa Kirel

No. But I I really got to go.

Young Hollywood

You would be good in the crowd or you'd be better on the stage?

Noa Kirel

I'd prefer to be on stage. 'Cause Coachella is like make-up outfit central. Like you have to care about what you wear and what you look like. In Coachella. It's fun though. I need to go to see one and then to perform one. Yeah.

Young Hollywood

We could do like perform and then you could just go to the ground. And then you can see Then you can do both at the same time.

Noa Kirel

I'll do that.

Young Hollywood

And what would you say? Okay, so with music put aside, dancing put aside. You're not doing social media. What would we catch you doing? Like what do you enjoy doing? Like just like

Noa Kirel

Yeah. Literally. Shopping.

Young Hollywood

You do like shopping. Here in L. A. it's like the shopping ever. Rodeo Drive. Yeah. Grove.

Noa Kirel

Um so shopping. I love cooking. I'm not good at this. I'm just I'm bad at this.

Young Hollywood

But you love it but you're not good at it?

Noa Kirel

Yes. Exactly. But I'm trying to but I'm just I'm not good at this. But hopefully one day I will be and I need to practice. You know, it's like I said, I need to work hard.

Young Hollywood

For your first date that you go on eventually, you could cook for him. If you learn to That could be your goal.

Noa Kirel

I can try. I hope it will be good. I don't know.

Young Hollywood

We'll ask you like fast forward and it'll be like, how was your first date? You'll be like, well I I couldn't cook. It didn't go good. It didn't go well.

Noa Kirel

Um, I hope it'll be good to the end. Yeah.

Young Hollywood

What kind of music do you listen to besides your own? Do you listen to your own songs?

Noa Kirel

Um, I listen to them before they comes out. So I listen to them a lot before. Um, I love pop music obviously and hip-hop and R&B. And this world is very it's very there are so many artists and so many good songs to listen to. And yeah.

Young Hollywood

What inspired you to get into writing English songs and singing in English?

Noa Kirel

I always hear like since I was a kid like Yeah. English music and pop music in English. So it felt super natural for me to sing in English. And also the pop music is very like you know, in English and everything it's super cool. But I love pop music in English.

Young Hollywood

Did you find that it was a good like easy adjustment for you? 'Cause had you always spoke English?

Noa Kirel

Um, I did. I watched like movies in English and I heard music in English and that's the switch has felt really uh natural for me to sing in English. That's awesome. Yeah.

Young Hollywood

That's so exciting. So Coachella you want to do?

Noa Kirel

Coachella. Madison Square Garden.

Young Hollywood

Madison Square Garden. I forgot. VMAs. You could win a VMA. You can just do everything. Yeah.

Noa Kirel

Yes. Why not? Dream big.

Young Hollywood

And now that Bad Little Thing's out what's what do you think is next on top of that?

Noa Kirel

So there are so many like songs and so much uh new music that I'm working on right now and it's very very exciting. Can't wait to get all the songs out and everybody to listen to it and I hope they like it. I'm I'm excited about this.

Young Hollywood

Well, Young Hollywood likes it so far. Yeah. We're crushing it. We love it. We love having you in L. A. Yes. Thank you. So now that you're here, now that we get to have you right here in studio. So you're awesome. And you need to keep killing it.

Noa Kirel

Thank you. Thank you so much.

Young Hollywood

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PEOPLE MENTIONED

  • Noa Kirel

    Featured artist and interviewee

  • Justin Bieber

    Celebrity crush and desired collaborator

  • Beyoncé

    Desired collaborator

  • J. Lo

    Desired collaborator

FAQ

What are Noa Kirel's first English-language singles?+
Noa Kirel's first English-language singles are "Please Don't Suck" and "Bad Little Thing."
Who is Noa Kirel's celebrity crush?+
Noa Kirel's celebrity crush is Justin Bieber, whom she has been a fan of since she was a child.
What is the message behind Noa Kirel's song "Bad Little Thing"?+
The message behind "Bad Little Thing" is about being a 'bad little thing' in a good way, embodying a fearless and strong attitude, and inspiring women to be confident.
What are Noa Kirel's career dreams?+
Noa Kirel dreams of performing at Madison Square Garden, Coachella, and having a Vegas show, among other aspirations.
Why did Noa Kirel start singing in English?+
Noa Kirel started singing in English because she grew up listening to English pop music, which made the transition feel natural for her.

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