Woman In Funk Carioca
Oct. 16th, 2022 01:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
koganbotA young woman in a Brazilian funk video, she's lying on a couch, an older woman (probably her mom) in the next room; the young woman gets up and dances down the stairs and out the door, dances along the narrow street, happy, passes others in her dance; rain starts, she keeps dancing, turns around, dances home, into the building, back to her couch.
MC Delux "Vem Camila, Vem Camila"
I've got a file with the obtuse title, "Women In Funk Carioca" – the obtuseness is that the file is merely a list of women MCs currently active in funk carioca, that the list doesn't include any of the other women in funk carioca, the publicists, the fans, and crucially, the twerkers in the videos, the actors, the flirters. They're women, they count.*
It's the title that's obtuse. not the fact that I don't list dancers: I don't know their names anyway: They're not in the credits and I wouldn't know how to find names unless I flew to Brazil and learned Portuguese and did actual research. What was obtuse was that when I titled the file I wasn't even thinking to look for dancers' names, only the women MCs' (and producers', if I'd found any) – and not even thinking while knowing I wouldn't know where to look: the point is, I wasn't thinking.
As for this video**, the young woman I singled out isn't the only woman in the video: there are a couple others in shots with MC Delux, dancing and twerking as he raps. That's the usual situation of dancers in funk videos, to be near the MCs and wiggle their rear ends. What's different about this video – though I hope there are others like it – is that it presents a female dancer as a subject of the video; it's her day. She rises, she goes out into the world and into the sound. The dance is her dance.*** It's not an addendum to anything else.
MC Delux "Vem Camila, Vem Camila"
I've got a file with the obtuse title, "Women In Funk Carioca" – the obtuseness is that the file is merely a list of women MCs currently active in funk carioca, that the list doesn't include any of the other women in funk carioca, the publicists, the fans, and crucially, the twerkers in the videos, the actors, the flirters. They're women, they count.*
It's the title that's obtuse. not the fact that I don't list dancers: I don't know their names anyway: They're not in the credits and I wouldn't know how to find names unless I flew to Brazil and learned Portuguese and did actual research. What was obtuse was that when I titled the file I wasn't even thinking to look for dancers' names, only the women MCs' (and producers', if I'd found any) – and not even thinking while knowing I wouldn't know where to look: the point is, I wasn't thinking.
As for this video**, the young woman I singled out isn't the only woman in the video: there are a couple others in shots with MC Delux, dancing and twerking as he raps. That's the usual situation of dancers in funk videos, to be near the MCs and wiggle their rear ends. What's different about this video – though I hope there are others like it – is that it presents a female dancer as a subject of the video; it's her day. She rises, she goes out into the world and into the sound. The dance is her dance.*** It's not an addendum to anything else.
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Footnotes
Date: 2022-10-16 08:10 pm (UTC)**The artist and title listed on the music vid, from the KondZilla channel, is MC Delux "Vem Camila, Vem Camila" (Camila comes, Camila comes); though it's sonically identical to tracks posted on YouTube credited to MC Delux and, in parenthesis, DJ MT7, DJ Alef Rodrigo & DJ Bolivia (producers, presumably, and maybe extra voices as well) and called "Vai Camila, Vem Camila" (Camila goes, Camila comes).
***Obviously I don't know how much of it is the actual dancer's dance, how much if any of it is choreographed, how much is suggested to her, or how much is for the audience and not for herself – not that it can't be for both. —Couldn't find lyrics online. Found lyrics for another MC Delux track, "Chama o Coveiro": "Call The Gravedigger" says Google Translate, and the video has graves and ghouls and zombies; but the actual lyrics are no more about graves and gravedigging than Deize Tigrona's "Injeção" is about medical injections.