There’s an Israeli indie hit climbing to number one on TikTok and Spotify, written and sung by three songwriters whose biggest hits so far were for other singers.

Eytan Peled, Hen Cordova and Aviv Barenholtz have each been writing and producing for major Israeli artists for years, including Noa Kirel, Margi, Nadav Guedj and Netta Barzilai.

On February 15, the band of three, calling themselves Temper City, were in Los Angeles as they uploaded the video for “Self Aware,” a single possibly recorded somewhere in Israel.

The song bounces between a tunnel, the back of a truck and a highway somewhere in the desert landscape, camels included.

Before that, they uploaded clips of the song and themselves on TikTok, spurring every kind of comment, including from some who wondered if it was AI, and prophesying a future Grammy nomination.

The single created by three relative unknowns climbed to number one on TikTok and Spotify’s global viral charts — with nearly 150,000 clips on TikTok, and two million monthly listeners on Spotify, including the Global “Viral 50” designation for at least half a dozen countries.

Peled, Cordova and Barenholtz have all been commuting between Israel and Los........

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