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!@#$%! · 04.04.2018, 11:16 AM

yeah it’s a hilarious word salad in 4 languages and containing many musical and word jokes. it’s all jokes.

El justiciero
Os Mutantes
Once upon a time when the hot sun
Was fading behind the mountains.
The shadow of a strong man
With a gun in his hand, raised to protect
The poor people of the haciendas
They called him, El Justiciero
He, El Justiciero buenos dias
Que tienes a decir
El Justiciero yo soy pobre
Que tienes a me dar
Tiengo chocolate quiente
Tequila, paga lo que deves
El Justiciero cha, cha, cha
Que otra cosa puedo dar
El Justiciero cha, cha, cha
Que otra cosa puedo dar
El Justiciero yo tengo 30 hijos con hambre
La guerra, la guerra me ay strupatto tanto bene
Socuerro El Justiciero, ajuda-me por favor
He, El Justiciero buenos dias
Que tienes a decir
El Justiciero yo soy pobre
Que tienes a me dar
Besa me mucho juanita
Banana, quando calienta sol
El Justiciero cha, cha, cha
Que otra…

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besides the flamenco guitar and rhythm changes there are phrases from popular songs there, “besame mucho” (a famous bolero), “toma chocolate paga lo que debes” (from “el bodeguero”, which was a cha-cha-cha, or: a mambo for white people who couldn’t dance to black rhythms, and while originally cuban was made popular by nat king cole), “cuando calienta el sol” (a spanish pop song of the time), 'qué otra cosa puedo dar" comes from "sabor a mí " which is a superpopular bolero, “juanita banana” which is a gringo atrocity reminiscent i guess of poor carmen miranda https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juanita_Banana_(song), etc. etc. , and the italian is suggestive of the spaghetti western yeah. the lady who sings claims to have “30 children” who go hungry.

anyway. all of this, all of tropicália, goes back to oswald de andrade, who was a great poet in the early XX century, and his “cannibal manifesto” (inspired by the natives eating some calvinist missionaries in the 16th century i think), asking brazilian poets to incorporate and assimilate all influences, and make them theirs. so tropicalia added all sorts of things to traditional brazilian music (and earned the hate of right and left). and os mutantes, who were younger and more playful and got more high more often than gil and veloso, took it to some great extremes.

eta: oh yeah ha ha ha ha check out juanita banana https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nrcK7zeMnSI
what a horror lol

there’s a great documentary about carmen miranda, “bananas is my business”, kinda supertragic, a woman trapped to death by the stereotypes she embodied.

(but fortunately we have os mutantes to make us laugh)

04.04.2018, 11:16 AM	#49482
!@#$%! invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: mars attacks Posts: 42,729	yeah it’s a hilarious word salad in 4 languages and containing many musical and word jokes. it’s all jokes. El justiciero Os Mutantes Once upon a time when the hot sun Was fading behind the mountains. The shadow of a strong man With a gun in his hand, raised to protect The poor people of the haciendas They called him, El Justiciero He, El Justiciero buenos dias Que tienes a decir El Justiciero yo soy pobre Que tienes a me dar Tiengo chocolate quiente Tequila, paga lo que deves El Justiciero cha, cha, cha Que otra cosa puedo dar El Justiciero cha, cha, cha Que otra cosa puedo dar El Justiciero yo tengo 30 hijos con hambre La guerra, la guerra me ay strupatto tanto bene Socuerro El Justiciero, ajuda-me por favor He, El Justiciero buenos dias Que tienes a decir El Justiciero yo soy pobre Que tienes a me dar Besa me mucho juanita Banana, quando calienta sol El Justiciero cha, cha, cha Que otra… — besides the flamenco guitar and rhythm changes there are phrases from popular songs there, “besame mucho” (a famous bolero), “toma chocolate paga lo que debes” (from “el bodeguero”, which was a cha-cha-cha, or: a mambo for white people who couldn’t dance to black rhythms, and while originally cuban was made popular by nat king cole), “cuando calienta el sol” (a spanish pop song of the time), 'qué otra cosa puedo dar" comes from "sabor a mí " which is a superpopular bolero, “juanita banana” which is a gringo atrocity reminiscent i guess of poor carmen miranda https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juanita_Banana_(song), etc. etc. , and the italian is suggestive of the spaghetti western yeah. the lady who sings claims to have “30 children” who go hungry. anyway. all of this, all of tropicália, goes back to oswald de andrade, who was a great poet in the early XX century, and his “cannibal manifesto” (inspired by the natives eating some calvinist missionaries in the 16th century i think), asking brazilian poets to incorporate and assimilate all influences, and make them theirs. so tropicalia added all sorts of things to traditional brazilian music (and earned the hate of right and left). and os mutantes, who were younger and more playful and got more high more often than gil and veloso, took it to some great extremes. eta: oh yeah ha ha ha ha check out juanita banana https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nrcK7zeMnSI what a horror lol there’s a great documentary about carmen miranda, “bananas is my business”, kinda supertragic, a woman trapped to death by the stereotypes she embodied. (but fortunately we have os mutantes to make us laugh)
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