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Originally Posted by maxikot
I told my brazilian friend that according to you most people love her, he was shocked and said that you probably live in a different brazil  That's interesting, 2 totally different points of view  |
Brazil is a country strongly affected by classism, and it goes all the all on all the cultural production having a "high-class" and a "low-class" take to it, even pop music. Valesca is among the lowest class artists we have around here, to the point of not having a label or anything.
She IS loved, but being someone who represents a class of people overseen as savages, criminals and worthless (yeap, this sucks), her influence is limited to funk carioca lovers and the LGBT comunity. I love her, and love this song... But I was expecting more from the video. The video was paid by herself and her manager btw, and her first on a 10+ years career.
We are going through an interesting moment on our pop music, as it is getting really varied lately because of the influence of regional sounds.
Those are some songs (and artists) from the last few years that I either love or respect (or both):
Luan Santana
genre: sertanejo universitário (country pop)
I'm not really a fan of his sound, mostly because I'm not from his target demography, but he is probably our most consistent hit-maker since Ivete Sangalo took over the 00's, and the boy knows how to put out a performance. I expect him to be around for some time.
Anitta
genre: funk-pop
She had the biggest hit from 2013, what is both good (she became top-tier overnight) and bad (it's hard to replicate a hit so big), her next release will determine if she will be around or not. I like her, she is ambitious and puts lots of effort into her work (her singing improved on a impressive pace this year, take notes Katy Perry).
Gaby Amarantos
genre: Technobrega (a mix of old ballads, caribean sounds and eletronic)
I expected her to get bigger, but she seens confortable being a mid-sized star. Some consider her to be our answer to Beyoncé (mostly because she started getting attention when she did a version of Single Ladies), others, to Gaga (because of her strage outfits, but this is part of our musical tradition on some genres). She rocks anyway.
Sandy
genre: indie-pop
From the late 90s to the mid 00s Japan had Ayu, USA had Britney, Korea had BoA, France had Lorie and Brazil had Sandy (paired with her brother), our own princess of pop. She and her brother are no long working together, and even if they don't sell the same anymore, they will never lose their top-tier recognization (really, people are so obsessed with her very private personal life that any little mention of it make the news, an interviewer implyed once she was into anal sex and it turned out being a major topic of discussion for months).
Thiaguinho
genre: Pagode (samba-pop)
We didn't have a pagode superstar for a while, and Thiaguinho slowly built a fanbase fronting a pagode band for years... Now he is a solo artist mixing some interesting influences on the genre sound. I'm not into his music (not for my taste, but he is pretty good on what he does), but he also can put out a show like few on the industry.
And just because I'm really biased, more of our reigning queen of pop, this time performing a remixed medley of her boys & girls and evolution at the Madison Square Garden: