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What Next album cover — feet by a neon pool, facing a panoramic window of pastel mountains and horses in a meadow

A Helaia album — 2026

What Next

Once a threat — now an invitation

I had a great darkness. Now I have light. Seven songs — from the collapse to the dance floor.

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A Helaia album. Seven songs about a collapse that became a door — the boy who ran everything grew up, shame is dead, therapy is over. There's a first party, a first touch, and mornings that wake up with a question. Once it was a threat. Now it's an invitation: what next.

Dedication

To the angels who saved me

ע׳ל׳א׳

The tracks

Seven songs, from darkness to light

  1. A Lie or a Light

    Opening — from darkness to light

    Total system collapse, a kid running everything with no middle ground. Then someone knew how to listen — and the nine-year-old grew up. He's a man now. Healthy. Whole.

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  2. Shame Is Dead

    Dance-floor anthem — long live the beat!

    The tyrant has fallen and no one guards the skin's door anymore. No age, no code, no test — that's what bodies are for. Dance.

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  3. End of Game

    Chanson — a wink at Piaf

    Rien de rien — no regret and no revenge. A grudge weighs half a ton, so every account was closed. A new page — and a whole heart.

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  4. First Time at the Party

    A groove off its orbit

    Everyone has found the beat already, and the rocket forgot its launch codes. Then she lifts her head, fires a smile straight at his face — and zero to a hundred.

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  5. Light Made of Skin

    A slow one — hooked from the first touch

    I measured silk against her shoulder — and the silk apologized. Forty years in the cool cellar, and he was drunk like a young wine.

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  6. What Next

    The title track — from threat to invitation

    A house that was a waiting room with beautiful curtains. One signature, a suitcase, stairs — and suddenly there's a sea, suddenly there's rhythm. Every morning wakes with a question, and it's not fear — it's appetite.

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  7. It Is Mine

    Closing statement

    A machine rhymes correctly, but there is no will in it. That will is mine alone. I write. It is mine — and it is beautiful.

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The method

One man, an AI, one project

This album was made with the help of artificial intelligence. The lyrics were written with Claude (Anthropic), the music was created with Suno. The intention, the direction, the final choices — mine. The words — from our conversation. The result — from both of us.

The last song on the album, "It Is Mine", is about exactly this: a machine rhymes correctly — but the will is mine alone.

One man, an AI, one project.

The project

One story, three languages

What Next is the English side of a bilingual EP — the same story is sung in Hebrew on מה הלאה. It follows Rien n'est perdu, the French album of historical speeches. This time the story is a personal one: a collapse, therapy, a goodbye, a first dance, a first touch — and a question deliberately left open: what next.

The texts

Lyrics

I. A Lie or a Light

I was in the dark... (a light...) All systems crashing, one by one A child is running it all It's high or low, no in-between Holding tears so they won't fall Was it love? A lie — or a light? Not an end — it was a start I had darkness in my heart Now I have a light, a light Two and a half years, one gaze A flirt, version zero point one The wall of logic that I raised — Her smile came through it like the sun Was it love? A lie — or a light? Not an end — it was a start I had darkness in my heart Now I have a light, a light The breakdown opened up a door Somebody knew how to listen The nine-year-old boy grew up Now he's a man. Healthy. Whole. I want... I want to say... I want to say that I want I want to say that I want to live To live! To live! To live! There was darkness — you brought light I am happy, I am strong And tomorrow came along And this light goes on and on A lie... or... a light.