Xuxa robbed in 1992 Voice poll

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Xuxa's "Chindolelé" (or "Tindolelé"; I've seen it spelled both ways), was actually one of my top favorites of 1992, but I didn't know if it was a single or not, or from that year, so I didn't put it in my Pazz & Jop ballot. It's an exuberant kids' song where the exuberance isn't forced on you but just wells up from within the music. Kids' voices often don't work for me in songs, either 'cause they're used for sentimentality or 'cause the basic nonmusicality of massed not-really-in-tune voices pours dirt over the melody. This one, though, the kids are right in there calling back in answer to the jingle in a massive bubble of delight and NOISE, and it's great.

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Before seeing the lo-fi clip and after my 2nd post here I thought, bcz of the -olele bit, that it could be she is reducing a child's name to call him affectionately.

Catching what i could of the english translation ('funny little game' 'hands in the air') maybe it could be she is calling a name (I want to see yr hands) but er..Chindo?

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Just thinking I might have (or saw my brother) dance to this in someone's bday party a very long time ago. It makes sense that it's from the late 80s, by '92 I now disctinctly remember kids at school talking about Nirvana (or metal bands). I didn't care for music so much then as I was playing sports (football and table tennis and handball).