howdy funsters
after many years of loving brazilian music like bossa and samba and being
completely ignorant of the meaning of the lyrics (for some reason i always
assumed the words were mostly pretty light and forgettable - how wrong can
you be?) i have been reading a little about the history of samba and bossa
and some of the translations of the lyrics and they are very different to
what i was expecting and really amazing, very poetic and evocative,
surreal, some quite political / social without being preachy or
sloganeering. truly wonderful! somehow it seems that these lyrics would be
impossible to write in english - the portugese language seems to dictate in
some ways the specuial qualities that the lyrics have.
ANYWAY if there's anyone who knows of a source of information about these
kind of things, translations as well as the relationship between language
and lyrical content etc etc please let me know. or if anyone just wants to
talk about these things that's be cool too!
thanx!
p-dogg
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