Wednesday, 12 March 2008
Tuesday, 11 March 2008
Alala by CSS
A la la, a la la
Gimme 3 wishes
I wanna be that dirty finger and his six bitches
A la la, a la la
Gimme more 2
I wanna be in that crazy band or Meuku
A la la, a la la
Would you be kind?
Gimme one little more
And I'll be superfine
A la la, a la la
You're so cool
Can I be your friend?
I'll drive till the end
'Cause you know but you don't wanna
'Cause you want but you can't have it
'Cause you know but you don't wanna
'Cause you want but you can't have it
A la la, a la la
I'm so worried
I bought that posh clothing
But it still looks ugly
A la la, a la la
Am I stupid?
I'm doing the talking
But I don't get nothing
A la la, a la la
Algu駑 me avisa
Quando ・bom parar
De fazer a 匤tima
A la la, a la la
You're so cool
Can I be your friend?
I'll drive it till the end
'Cause you know but you don't wanna
'Cause you want but you can't have it
'Cause you know but you don't wanna
'Cause you want but you can't have it
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Music Is My Hot, Hot Sex by Cansei De Ser Sexy
From all the drugs the one i like more is music
From all the junks the one i need more is music
From all the boys the one i take home is music
From all the ladies the one i kiss is music (muah!)
Music is my boyfriend
Music is my girlfriend
Music is my dead end
Music is my imaginary friend
Music is my brother
Music is my great-grand-daughter
Music is my sister
Music is my favorite mistress
From all the shit the one i gotta buy is music
From all the jobs the one i choose is music
From all the drinks the one i get drunk is music
From all the bitches the one i wannabe is music
Music is my beach house
Music is my hometown
Music is my kingsize bed
Music is my hot hot bath
Music is my hot hot sex
Music is my back rub
Music is where i'd like you to touch
Claro-que-sim
Fui escoteira-mirim
Direto da escola, não
Não ia cheirar cola
Nem basquete, pebolim
O que eu gosto não é de graça
O que gosto não é farsa
Tem guitarra, bateria, computador saindo som
Alguns dizem que mais alto que um furacão (rhéum)
Perto dele eu podia sentir
Saía de seu olho e chegava em mim
Sentada do seu lado
Eu queria encostar
Faria o tigela até o sol raiar
Debaixo do lençol
Ele gemia em ré bemol
Fiquei tensa
Mas tava tudo bem
Ele é fodão, mas eu sei que eu sou também
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Cansei de Ser Sexy
Cansei de Ser Sexy
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Cansei de Ser Sexy
Cansei de Ser Sexy at Coachella in 2007
Background information
Origin São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Genre(s) Pop, Dance-pop, Electro, Indie rock
Years active 2003–present
Label(s) Sub Pop
Website Official website
Members
Lovefoxxx
Adriano Cintra
Luiza Sá
Ana Rezende
Iracema Trevisan
Carolina Parra
Former members
Maria Helena Zerba
Clara Ribeiro
Cansei de Ser Sexy (pronounced [kɐ̃'seɪ dɪ ser 'sɛksɪ], literally "I got tired of being sexy" in Brazilian Portuguese), better known as CSS, are a Brazilian band from São Paulo. Their songs have an electro/rock sound, and are sung in both English and Portuguese; their lyrics mostly concern pop culture.
History
CSS formed in September 2003, consisting of a group of friends.[1] Their name was taken from a reported quote by Beyoncé, who allegedly declared that she was "tired of being sexy".[2]
The band first became known through the internet, and some of its members were somehow famous in São Paulo's underground club scene (but not outside of the local alternative subculture), like Adriano Cintra, and as owners of hugely popular fotolog and flickr pages, as in the case of Lovefoxxx. Their collective band fotolog also gained popularity and their songs were frequently downloaded from Trama Virtual's website (a Brazilian website loosely similar to MySpace Music). After this overnight sensation, Trama Virtual invested heavily in the band, inviting a series of Brazilian and British journalists to report on them. Articles were printed in several Brazilian magazines and even British newspapers such as The Guardian,[3] whose reporter was invited to see the band playing just before their signing for the debut, at a club in São Paulo. He predicted that they "could be the biggest band ever to come out of South America".[4] Songs by CSS found their way into the Latin American broadcasting of The Simple Life (with the song "Meeting Paris Hilton"), the Brazilian Big Brother reality show (with the song "Superafim") and the South American version of the game The Sims 2: Nightlife ("Computer Heat", including a version in Simlish). Still without a record deal, they released two independent EPs in 2004, and played that year at TIM Festival, on the same night and at the same stage as Soulwax and Kraftwerk.
In 2005, they signed with the Trama Virtual label (the first, and to this day the second only band to), and in October their first album was released in Brazil, along with an 7-track EP that was sold at concerts. A limited edition version of the album had a CD-R included, so that the buyer could burn a copy of the album onto the CD-R to give to someone else as a gift.[5] In Brazil the album has reportedly sold 5,000 copies to date, but neither the album nor the singles have reached charts. Two music videos were also released: "Off The Hook" and "Alala". "Off the Hook" was directed by guitar player Ana Rezende, and filmed at the home of band members Carolina Parra and Adriano Cintra, where CSS recorded most of their songs.
At the beginning of 2006, CSS signed with Sub Pop to release their international debut album. The first single, released in June 6, was "Let's Make Love and Listen to Death From Above", with an accompanying video directed by Cat Solen. In July, along with DJ Diplo and funk group Bonde do Rolê, they began their first international tour. This took CSS through the U.S. and Canada where they performed at the Pitchfork Media festival, then across to U.K., France and Netherlands. While in Europe, they performed at the NME festival, sharing stages with the 1990s and opening for Ladytron and Primal Scream. They also played the first ever Indian Summer Festival in Glasgow, Scotland, alongside acts such as Antony and the Johnsons, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Gang of Four. There was also a small UK tour in November, undertaken with Basement Jaxx.[6]
CSS sold as many as 60,000 copies in the US and Europe up to February 2007 (according to journalist Lucio Ribeiro in Folha de São Paulo).[7]
They played on the NME Indie Rave Tour, along with The Sunshine Underground, New Young Pony Club and headliners Klaxons, and in the Coachella Festival in 2007.
Cansei de Ser Sexy performing at Rock en Seine in August 2007CSS played various Festivals across Europe in the summer of 2007, including Roskilde Festival in Denmark,Hovefestivalen in Norway, Summer Sonic in Makuhari Messe, Japan and a packed-out high-profile slot on the Radio One/NME Stage at Reading and Leeds Festivals in England. They are opening for Gwen Stefani on the European leg of her The Sweet Escape Tour in late 2007, and playing at the Trinity Ball in Dublin, 2007.
CSS were rumoured to support Muse at Wembley Stadium on June 16, 2007,[citation needed] however the band were playing at the O2 Wireless Festival on the same day.
CSS played their hit single "Let's Make Love and Listen to Death From Above" on Friday Night With Jonathan Ross on Friday 15 June 2007.[8]
CSS were due to play Lollapalooza on 4 August 2007 but they were held behind by United Airlines at New York Airport and missed it.[9] They did arrive in time for their performance at Virgin Festival in Baltimore the next day.
They are currently on tour in the UK and Ireland from 9 October to 20 December 2007.[10]
CSS caught an unlikely break when their song "Music Is My Hot Hot Sex" was used in a worldwide television commercial by Apple Inc. for the iPod Touch. An 18-year-old British student, Nick Haley, used the song in a homemade 30-second commercial for the iPod Touch that he created and then posted on the video sharing site YouTube on September 11, 2007.[11] Creative executives from Apple's advertising agency, TBWA\Chiat\Day, saw Haley's creation, contacted him, and enlisted him to remake it as a broadcast version.[12] The spot began airing in the U.S. on October 28, 2007, and later in Japan and Europe. Due to the song's exposure in the US, it hit #63[1][2] on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming the highest charting single by a Brazillian band in the history of the chart. Coincidentally, the same song had been used in a promotion for the competing Zune media player a year prior.[13]
Their singles, "Alala" and "Off The Hook" have been featured in the video game Forza Motorsport 2, while FIFA 08 features only "Off The Hook".[citation needed]
On the first night of their Christmas tour in Dublin, they performed four new songs : "Beautiful Song", "Give up", "Reggae All Night" and "Jager Yoga". They also performed a cover of L7's "Pretend We're Dead".
Discography
Albums
Cansei de Ser Sexy (LP, Trama) - 2005 (Brazil)
Cansei de Ser Sexy (LP, Sub Pop/Warner) - 2006 (International) UK #69
EPs
Em Rotterdam Já É uma Febre (EP, independent) - 2004
A Onda Mortal / Uma Tarde com PJ (EP, independent) - 2004
CSS SUXXX (EP, Trama) - 2005 (Brazil)
Cansei de Ser Sexy (international album)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jump to: navigation, search
It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Cansei de Ser Sexy (Brazilian album). (Discuss)
Cansei de Ser Sexy
Studio album by CSS (Cansei de Ser Sexy)
Released July 11, 2006
Recorded March – June 2005 at Jägermeister Bitte (a.k.a. Adriano's and Carolina's home), São Paulo, Brazil
Genre Indie rock, dance-pop
Label Sub Pop/Warner
Producer Adriano Cintra
Professional reviews
Pitchfork Media link
Prefix Magazine link
Slant Magazine link
Stylus Magazine (B+) link
CSS (Cansei de Ser Sexy) chronology
CSS SUXXX
(2005) Cansei de Ser Sexy (international album)
(2006)
Alternate cover
Cansei de Ser Sexy is the name of the first international release by the group Cansei de Ser Sexy. It was released on July 11, 2006 on the Sub Pop label, and re-released in early 2007 by Warner. The album received mainly positive reviews (it was featured in UNCUT's list of the 50 best records of 2006 at position #18, NME's list of the 50 best records of 2006 at position #5 and Q's list of the 100 best records of 2006 at position #89). Despite the reviews, it failed to chart in the USA. The tracks were selected from two previous Brazilian releases by the band: the EP CSS SUXXX and their first full-length album, also called Cansei de Ser Sexy.
The song "Alala" and video for "Let's Make Love and Listen to Death From Above" have been included preloaded on the Zune multimedia player, released in November 2006.[citation needed]
The songs "Alala" and "Off The Hook" are featured in Forza Motorsport 2 and FIFA 08, videogames for the XBOX 360.[1]
The song "Music Is My Hot Hot Sex" was featured in a Zune advertisement in 2006 and an iPod touch advertisement in 2007.
The album won the 2007 PLUG Independent Music Award for Best Punk Album.
Contents [hide]
1 Track listing
1.1 Singles
2 Personnel
3 References
Track listing
All songs by Adriano Cintra/Lovefoxxx unless noted otherwise
"CSS Suxxx"
"Patins" (Adriano Cintra/Luiza Sá/Lovefoxxx)
"Alala" (Adriano Cintra/Carolina Parra/Lovefoxxx)
"Let's Make Love and Listen to Death from Above"
"Art Bitch"
"Fuckoff is Not the Only Thing You Have to Show"
"Meeting Paris Hilton"
"Off The Hook" (Adriano Cintra)
"Alcohol"
"Music Is My Hot Hot Sex"
"This Month, Day 10"
Singles
List of singles:
Let's Make Love and Listen to Death from Above
August 13, 2006 (12")
September 4, 2006 (CD, 7") Let's Make Love and Listen to Death from Above (Re-issue)
May 14, 2007
Personnel
CSS - performer
Lovefoxxx - lead vocals, backing vocals, artwork
Ana Rezende - guitar
Luiza Sá - guitar
Carolina Parra - guitar, drums ("Let's Make Love", "Art Bitch", "Music Is My Hot Hot Sex"), keyboards ("Alala"), backing vocals, mixing assistant
Iracema Trevisan - bass
Adriano Cintra - drums, guitar, keyboards, bass ("Let's Make Love", "This Month Day 10"), harmonica, lead vocals ("Patins", "Alcohol"), backing vocals, producer, mixing assistant
Clara Ribeiro - backing vocals
Maria Helena Zerba - keyboards ("Art Bitch")
Clayton Martin - engineer
Rodrigo Sanches - mixing
Eduarda de Souza - photography
Sabrina Roistacher - image coordinator
Tatiana Zanini - image coordinator
João Marcello Bôscoli - executive producer
André Szajman - executive producer
Cláudio Szajman - executive producer
Emanuela Carvalho - direction
Ricardo Garcia - mastering
Carlos Eduardo Miranda - A&R
Tony Kiewel - A&R
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jump to: navigation, search
Cansei de Ser Sexy
Cansei de Ser Sexy at Coachella in 2007
Background information
Origin São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Genre(s) Pop, Dance-pop, Electro, Indie rock
Years active 2003–present
Label(s) Sub Pop
Website Official website
Members
Lovefoxxx
Adriano Cintra
Luiza Sá
Ana Rezende
Iracema Trevisan
Carolina Parra
Former members
Maria Helena Zerba
Clara Ribeiro
Cansei de Ser Sexy (pronounced [kɐ̃'seɪ dɪ ser 'sɛksɪ], literally "I got tired of being sexy" in Brazilian Portuguese), better known as CSS, are a Brazilian band from São Paulo. Their songs have an electro/rock sound, and are sung in both English and Portuguese; their lyrics mostly concern pop culture.
History
CSS formed in September 2003, consisting of a group of friends.[1] Their name was taken from a reported quote by Beyoncé, who allegedly declared that she was "tired of being sexy".[2]
The band first became known through the internet, and some of its members were somehow famous in São Paulo's underground club scene (but not outside of the local alternative subculture), like Adriano Cintra, and as owners of hugely popular fotolog and flickr pages, as in the case of Lovefoxxx. Their collective band fotolog also gained popularity and their songs were frequently downloaded from Trama Virtual's website (a Brazilian website loosely similar to MySpace Music). After this overnight sensation, Trama Virtual invested heavily in the band, inviting a series of Brazilian and British journalists to report on them. Articles were printed in several Brazilian magazines and even British newspapers such as The Guardian,[3] whose reporter was invited to see the band playing just before their signing for the debut, at a club in São Paulo. He predicted that they "could be the biggest band ever to come out of South America".[4] Songs by CSS found their way into the Latin American broadcasting of The Simple Life (with the song "Meeting Paris Hilton"), the Brazilian Big Brother reality show (with the song "Superafim") and the South American version of the game The Sims 2: Nightlife ("Computer Heat", including a version in Simlish). Still without a record deal, they released two independent EPs in 2004, and played that year at TIM Festival, on the same night and at the same stage as Soulwax and Kraftwerk.
In 2005, they signed with the Trama Virtual label (the first, and to this day the second only band to), and in October their first album was released in Brazil, along with an 7-track EP that was sold at concerts. A limited edition version of the album had a CD-R included, so that the buyer could burn a copy of the album onto the CD-R to give to someone else as a gift.[5] In Brazil the album has reportedly sold 5,000 copies to date, but neither the album nor the singles have reached charts. Two music videos were also released: "Off The Hook" and "Alala". "Off the Hook" was directed by guitar player Ana Rezende, and filmed at the home of band members Carolina Parra and Adriano Cintra, where CSS recorded most of their songs.
At the beginning of 2006, CSS signed with Sub Pop to release their international debut album. The first single, released in June 6, was "Let's Make Love and Listen to Death From Above", with an accompanying video directed by Cat Solen. In July, along with DJ Diplo and funk group Bonde do Rolê, they began their first international tour. This took CSS through the U.S. and Canada where they performed at the Pitchfork Media festival, then across to U.K., France and Netherlands. While in Europe, they performed at the NME festival, sharing stages with the 1990s and opening for Ladytron and Primal Scream. They also played the first ever Indian Summer Festival in Glasgow, Scotland, alongside acts such as Antony and the Johnsons, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Gang of Four. There was also a small UK tour in November, undertaken with Basement Jaxx.[6]
CSS sold as many as 60,000 copies in the US and Europe up to February 2007 (according to journalist Lucio Ribeiro in Folha de São Paulo).[7]
They played on the NME Indie Rave Tour, along with The Sunshine Underground, New Young Pony Club and headliners Klaxons, and in the Coachella Festival in 2007.
Cansei de Ser Sexy performing at Rock en Seine in August 2007CSS played various Festivals across Europe in the summer of 2007, including Roskilde Festival in Denmark,Hovefestivalen in Norway, Summer Sonic in Makuhari Messe, Japan and a packed-out high-profile slot on the Radio One/NME Stage at Reading and Leeds Festivals in England. They are opening for Gwen Stefani on the European leg of her The Sweet Escape Tour in late 2007, and playing at the Trinity Ball in Dublin, 2007.
CSS were rumoured to support Muse at Wembley Stadium on June 16, 2007,[citation needed] however the band were playing at the O2 Wireless Festival on the same day.
CSS played their hit single "Let's Make Love and Listen to Death From Above" on Friday Night With Jonathan Ross on Friday 15 June 2007.[8]
CSS were due to play Lollapalooza on 4 August 2007 but they were held behind by United Airlines at New York Airport and missed it.[9] They did arrive in time for their performance at Virgin Festival in Baltimore the next day.
They are currently on tour in the UK and Ireland from 9 October to 20 December 2007.[10]
CSS caught an unlikely break when their song "Music Is My Hot Hot Sex" was used in a worldwide television commercial by Apple Inc. for the iPod Touch. An 18-year-old British student, Nick Haley, used the song in a homemade 30-second commercial for the iPod Touch that he created and then posted on the video sharing site YouTube on September 11, 2007.[11] Creative executives from Apple's advertising agency, TBWA\Chiat\Day, saw Haley's creation, contacted him, and enlisted him to remake it as a broadcast version.[12] The spot began airing in the U.S. on October 28, 2007, and later in Japan and Europe. Due to the song's exposure in the US, it hit #63[1][2] on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming the highest charting single by a Brazillian band in the history of the chart. Coincidentally, the same song had been used in a promotion for the competing Zune media player a year prior.[13]
Their singles, "Alala" and "Off The Hook" have been featured in the video game Forza Motorsport 2, while FIFA 08 features only "Off The Hook".[citation needed]
On the first night of their Christmas tour in Dublin, they performed four new songs : "Beautiful Song", "Give up", "Reggae All Night" and "Jager Yoga". They also performed a cover of L7's "Pretend We're Dead".
Discography
Albums
Cansei de Ser Sexy (LP, Trama) - 2005 (Brazil)
Cansei de Ser Sexy (LP, Sub Pop/Warner) - 2006 (International) UK #69
EPs
Em Rotterdam Já É uma Febre (EP, independent) - 2004
A Onda Mortal / Uma Tarde com PJ (EP, independent) - 2004
CSS SUXXX (EP, Trama) - 2005 (Brazil)
Cansei de Ser Sexy (international album)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jump to: navigation, search
It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Cansei de Ser Sexy (Brazilian album). (Discuss)
Cansei de Ser Sexy
Studio album by CSS (Cansei de Ser Sexy)
Released July 11, 2006
Recorded March – June 2005 at Jägermeister Bitte (a.k.a. Adriano's and Carolina's home), São Paulo, Brazil
Genre Indie rock, dance-pop
Label Sub Pop/Warner
Producer Adriano Cintra
Professional reviews
Pitchfork Media link
Prefix Magazine link
Slant Magazine link
Stylus Magazine (B+) link
CSS (Cansei de Ser Sexy) chronology
CSS SUXXX
(2005) Cansei de Ser Sexy (international album)
(2006)
Alternate cover
Cansei de Ser Sexy is the name of the first international release by the group Cansei de Ser Sexy. It was released on July 11, 2006 on the Sub Pop label, and re-released in early 2007 by Warner. The album received mainly positive reviews (it was featured in UNCUT's list of the 50 best records of 2006 at position #18, NME's list of the 50 best records of 2006 at position #5 and Q's list of the 100 best records of 2006 at position #89). Despite the reviews, it failed to chart in the USA. The tracks were selected from two previous Brazilian releases by the band: the EP CSS SUXXX and their first full-length album, also called Cansei de Ser Sexy.
The song "Alala" and video for "Let's Make Love and Listen to Death From Above" have been included preloaded on the Zune multimedia player, released in November 2006.[citation needed]
The songs "Alala" and "Off The Hook" are featured in Forza Motorsport 2 and FIFA 08, videogames for the XBOX 360.[1]
The song "Music Is My Hot Hot Sex" was featured in a Zune advertisement in 2006 and an iPod touch advertisement in 2007.
The album won the 2007 PLUG Independent Music Award for Best Punk Album.
Contents [hide]
1 Track listing
1.1 Singles
2 Personnel
3 References
Track listing
All songs by Adriano Cintra/Lovefoxxx unless noted otherwise
"CSS Suxxx"
"Patins" (Adriano Cintra/Luiza Sá/Lovefoxxx)
"Alala" (Adriano Cintra/Carolina Parra/Lovefoxxx)
"Let's Make Love and Listen to Death from Above"
"Art Bitch"
"Fuckoff is Not the Only Thing You Have to Show"
"Meeting Paris Hilton"
"Off The Hook" (Adriano Cintra)
"Alcohol"
"Music Is My Hot Hot Sex"
"This Month, Day 10"
Singles
List of singles:
Let's Make Love and Listen to Death from Above
August 13, 2006 (12")
September 4, 2006 (CD, 7") Let's Make Love and Listen to Death from Above (Re-issue)
May 14, 2007
Personnel
CSS - performer
Lovefoxxx - lead vocals, backing vocals, artwork
Ana Rezende - guitar
Luiza Sá - guitar
Carolina Parra - guitar, drums ("Let's Make Love", "Art Bitch", "Music Is My Hot Hot Sex"), keyboards ("Alala"), backing vocals, mixing assistant
Iracema Trevisan - bass
Adriano Cintra - drums, guitar, keyboards, bass ("Let's Make Love", "This Month Day 10"), harmonica, lead vocals ("Patins", "Alcohol"), backing vocals, producer, mixing assistant
Clara Ribeiro - backing vocals
Maria Helena Zerba - keyboards ("Art Bitch")
Clayton Martin - engineer
Rodrigo Sanches - mixing
Eduarda de Souza - photography
Sabrina Roistacher - image coordinator
Tatiana Zanini - image coordinator
João Marcello Bôscoli - executive producer
André Szajman - executive producer
Cláudio Szajman - executive producer
Emanuela Carvalho - direction
Ricardo Garcia - mastering
Carlos Eduardo Miranda - A&R
Tony Kiewel - A&R
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