Ari Falcão
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koganbotLike her colleague MC Pipokinha, Ari Falcão sounds insistent, grabbing, enticing, potentially lacerating.
Ari Falcão (prod. Christopher Luz) - Toma Xota Na Cara [flashing lights]
In addition, though, she's got a rich singing voice that's capable of great gobs of sadness.
MC Pipokinha & Ari Falcão (prod. DJ Glenner) - Sensação
MC Pipokinha & Ari Falcão (prod. DJ Glenner) - Ampulheta [flashing lights]
Have only found lyrics for "Sensação," so far. Its words don't know how to talk about anything but sex, far as I can tell; anyway, they won't acknowledge the melancholy. ("Just put it all in your wet body while I suck you," and on like that, not particularly inspiring in themselves,* at least as rendered by Google Translate.) The song's videos - there are two of them - are equally free of sorrow: a romp in the clothing store, then someone's awful idea of a sensuous photo shoot. Maybe sentiment, what I discern of it, can only exist when it's being passed over.**
In addition, Ari Falcão gets drawn into favela funk's craving for sonic experiment. This, w/ producer DJ Traka, is the barest buzzy riff and chatter clatter, and mouth rhythm, and it's still a dance party.
Ari Falcão, MC ZL (prod. DJ Traka) - E Esse Pacotão Aí [flashing lights]
But now she throws a party that resolutely won't get started. Fodder for a future koganbot blogpost (scroll down to (6)) to celebrate tracks that don't get on-track.
Ari Falcão, Pucca Tsunami (prod. Digdin) - Você Prefere Whisky Ou Cerveja [flashing lights]
So what's this delicately high melody doing here? - like a ray of sunrise intruding on the nightlife:
Jheny Jheny, MC Bragança & Ari Falcão (prod. DJ Alvim Mpc) - Deixa Sua Marca [flashing lights]
*A writer at the letras.mus.br site has a more hopeful view (again, it's being translated by a bot, so may lose something): "The language used is purposefully vulgar and explicit, which can be seen as a form of empowerment, where the artist [MC Pipokinha] claims the right to speak openly about her body and her desires. The collaboration with Ari Falcão adds a layer of dialogue and interaction, reinforcing the idea of reciprocity and consent in the sexual context." Btw, I assume that Pipokinha and Falcão are smart, that there's intelligence, their minds at work, in their acting out; but this doesn't necessarily mean I'm ever going to understand it. Or that I can't be disappointed by lyrics. That the site writer's terms - "empowerment," "consent" - are teacher's pets' buzzwords make them false even when they're true. I tend to associate intelligence with a sense of complicity and compromise, myself. But anyway, good luck to all. Regarding complicity, does telling your producer, in song, "I just want a piece of you inside me (the dick)," make this more emotionally complicated than what I thought when I called the lyrics "uninspiring" an hour ago, when I wrote the above? Inspiring or uninspiring for whom? Empowering for whom? At whose expense? Complicated for whom? How do we know? Who decides? Was the writer whom I've just called a teacher's pet empowered by what s/he/they wrote? Conforming? Both? Neither?
**[UPDATE: Found a couple more lyrics: (1) Ari does a duet with Grazi Arlequina on "Te Amo de Graça," a boring sing-song, but not about sex; quasi-interesting lyrics about not always telling the truth but not breaking up. (2) Ari features on MC Erik's "Sacada," mostly sex again, but smart words that have a strong sense of obsession, addiction, the lovers pulling each other in, while danger lurks outside, "It's midnight and the forecast is for a fight," then "The sun was rising and there was only botada, breakfast in a different way," which is witty. The music is duller, though. (Might botada be one of the derivatives of botar, "to put it in"?)]
[EDIT: Something that didn't come across to all readers, so to be clear: I mean this post as fundamentally VERY favorable commentary on Ari Falcão's music, the sort of thing that if I were to read it I'd say to myself, "I've got to pay attention to this Ari Falcão person, right now!" I especially LOVE the six tracks I embedded. Of course, my loving contains ambivalence and lots of ignorance, and maybe in the writeup the ignorance and ambivalence overwhelm the rest. That often happens with the way I write, and I don't necessarily think that's a flaw in my writing. But maybe I need to do a second post.]
Ari Falcão (prod. Christopher Luz) - Toma Xota Na Cara [flashing lights]
In addition, though, she's got a rich singing voice that's capable of great gobs of sadness.
MC Pipokinha & Ari Falcão (prod. DJ Glenner) - Sensação
MC Pipokinha & Ari Falcão (prod. DJ Glenner) - Ampulheta [flashing lights]
Have only found lyrics for "Sensação," so far. Its words don't know how to talk about anything but sex, far as I can tell; anyway, they won't acknowledge the melancholy. ("Just put it all in your wet body while I suck you," and on like that, not particularly inspiring in themselves,* at least as rendered by Google Translate.) The song's videos - there are two of them - are equally free of sorrow: a romp in the clothing store, then someone's awful idea of a sensuous photo shoot. Maybe sentiment, what I discern of it, can only exist when it's being passed over.**
In addition, Ari Falcão gets drawn into favela funk's craving for sonic experiment. This, w/ producer DJ Traka, is the barest buzzy riff and chatter clatter, and mouth rhythm, and it's still a dance party.
Ari Falcão, MC ZL (prod. DJ Traka) - E Esse Pacotão Aí [flashing lights]
But now she throws a party that resolutely won't get started. Fodder for a future koganbot blogpost (scroll down to (6)) to celebrate tracks that don't get on-track.
Ari Falcão, Pucca Tsunami (prod. Digdin) - Você Prefere Whisky Ou Cerveja [flashing lights]
So what's this delicately high melody doing here? - like a ray of sunrise intruding on the nightlife:
Jheny Jheny, MC Bragança & Ari Falcão (prod. DJ Alvim Mpc) - Deixa Sua Marca [flashing lights]
*A writer at the letras.mus.br site has a more hopeful view (again, it's being translated by a bot, so may lose something): "The language used is purposefully vulgar and explicit, which can be seen as a form of empowerment, where the artist [MC Pipokinha] claims the right to speak openly about her body and her desires. The collaboration with Ari Falcão adds a layer of dialogue and interaction, reinforcing the idea of reciprocity and consent in the sexual context." Btw, I assume that Pipokinha and Falcão are smart, that there's intelligence, their minds at work, in their acting out; but this doesn't necessarily mean I'm ever going to understand it. Or that I can't be disappointed by lyrics. That the site writer's terms - "empowerment," "consent" - are teacher's pets' buzzwords make them false even when they're true. I tend to associate intelligence with a sense of complicity and compromise, myself. But anyway, good luck to all. Regarding complicity, does telling your producer, in song, "I just want a piece of you inside me (the dick)," make this more emotionally complicated than what I thought when I called the lyrics "uninspiring" an hour ago, when I wrote the above? Inspiring or uninspiring for whom? Empowering for whom? At whose expense? Complicated for whom? How do we know? Who decides? Was the writer whom I've just called a teacher's pet empowered by what s/he/they wrote? Conforming? Both? Neither?
**[UPDATE: Found a couple more lyrics: (1) Ari does a duet with Grazi Arlequina on "Te Amo de Graça," a boring sing-song, but not about sex; quasi-interesting lyrics about not always telling the truth but not breaking up. (2) Ari features on MC Erik's "Sacada," mostly sex again, but smart words that have a strong sense of obsession, addiction, the lovers pulling each other in, while danger lurks outside, "It's midnight and the forecast is for a fight," then "The sun was rising and there was only botada, breakfast in a different way," which is witty. The music is duller, though. (Might botada be one of the derivatives of botar, "to put it in"?)]
[EDIT: Something that didn't come across to all readers, so to be clear: I mean this post as fundamentally VERY favorable commentary on Ari Falcão's music, the sort of thing that if I were to read it I'd say to myself, "I've got to pay attention to this Ari Falcão person, right now!" I especially LOVE the six tracks I embedded. Of course, my loving contains ambivalence and lots of ignorance, and maybe in the writeup the ignorance and ambivalence overwhelm the rest. That often happens with the way I write, and I don't necessarily think that's a flaw in my writing. But maybe I need to do a second post.]
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