The city that has open arms on a postcard

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The Olympics will be arriving shortly in Rio de Janeiro. The city is the dream of many, the despair of others, the cultural center of Brazil and for a few weeks the center of attention of all the world.

In the 1980's a Carnival song contained the lyrics "O Rio já não é mais como era antes" (Rio is not anymore what it used to be). I cannot retrieve that song anymore but I found two video's by Chico Buarque de Holanda. His name actually translates to Chico 'Boat from Holland'. The videos show a bit of Rio in the not too distant past.
Girls on the beach:


Probably the best song by the most cherished singer songwriter of Brazil
The samba is the samba of the older days. The streets are the streets of Rio.

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This song has been modernised to it's demise. I do like the old original best, but this one has spectacular footage of Rio:


A more modern version of Samba is played by Grupo Revalacão. It is called Pagode.
The song is actually about having sex secretly. The lyrics start by "Speak softly, so nobody will know that we are here"
The chorus lines go like this:

Cara na cara, pele na pele
Suor pingando, corpo em febre
Você em transe, sussurrando, segurando a voz
Eu viajando no céu da boca
Você rasgando a minha roupa de baixo dos lençóis

Face on face, skin on skin
Sweat dripping, body on fire
You in a trance, whispering, holding on to your voice
I traveling in the heaven of your mouth
You ripping my clothes while under the sheets

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Sorriso maroto is another group from Rio that makes nice music.
Towards the end of this song they sing:
Vem logo me experimentar! (Come shortly to experiment with me)
The song ends with
Chega de conversa e vem! (Enough talking, just come)


I just tried to link the last song a bit to SC culture.
The next one is just the opposite.

I wonder whether the girls are interested.

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A stretch to the North Luiz Caldas in Bahia is quite clear about things.
The song starts with "Eu queria ser uma abelha pra pousar na tua flor" (I would like to be a bee so I could set on your flower)


Although I like Luiz Caldas a lot, he is not from Rio. So let's look for a bit more of Rio.
Perhaps the most well known Brazilian song in the rest of the world is "Garota de Ipanema"
Ipanema has one of the finest beaches in Rio.

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In 1985 the group 'Kid Abelha' from Rio showed that Brazil can make fun music with fun lyrics even though the country only just left the era of military dictatorship.
Their music was the first music I heard after arriving in Brazil and I will never forget them.


The lyrics go like this.

Ovos quentes e café na cama
As suas lágrimas no meu pijama
Você não pode me cobrar
Pelo que deu de graça
Sempre inventando
Mais provas de amor
E só me abraça pra sentir o efeito
Acho que a sua inspiração
Está em livros de direito
Talvez eu tenha ganho
Mais que eu tenha dado
Mas contas de amor
Sempre dão errado
Você me lembra histórias do passado
E tudo mais pra eu me sentir culpado
Amor por retribuição
Você só pode estar de brincadeira
Pingüins em cima de geladeiras
Valem tanto quanto um beijo por compaixão
Ovos quentes e café na cama
Eu sei de tudo que você trama
Os mesmos truques de manhã
Você já não me engana
Não se importa em estar apaixonado
Só pensa em datas e compromissos
Seus beijos uma vez por mês
Não quero nada disso

Hot eggs and coffee in bed
Your tears on my pajamas
You can not charge me
for what was given for free
Always inventing
more tests for love
And just hold me to feel the effect of it
I think your inspiration
is in books of law
I may have gotten
More than I have given
But counting love
Always goes wrong
You remind me of stories from the past
And everything to make me feel guilty
Love for retribution
You can only be a joke
Penguins on refrigerators are
Worth as much as a kiss of compassion
Hot eggs and coffee in bed
I know everything you are plotting
The same tricks every morning
You just cannot fool me
You do not mind being in love
You just think of dates and commitments
Your kisses once a month
I really do not want any of that.

I want to end with the song that rendered the title to this message
It is actually about less fortunate people in Rio.