What country is that, by Legião Urbana: lyrics, historical context, about the band
To music composed by Renato Russo, in 1978, I was raised when the composer ainda fazia is part of the punk rock band Aborto Elétrico.
Renato Russo continued to present the song when conceiving or the Legião Urbana group, in 1983.
What country is this chosen for the list of 100 Greatest Brazilian Music second to Rolling Stone Magazine and was eternalized in a recording on album no year 1987.
Lyrics
The lyrics give music and questioning and intend to have a severe social criticism of the country, from north to south, in all social classes.
Renato Russo covers in his letter a part of the country's territory: a northern region (represented by Amazonas), central west (represented by Mato Grosso), or northeast, or southeast (represented by Minas Gerais).
When I was raised, I did not end in two years 70, there was never a feeling of impunity and lack of rules. The composer does not criticize just a political class, but also a backward and ingrained corruption that is not day-to-day.
Nas favelas, not Senate
Hold for all sides
No one respects Constituição
But everyone accredits the future of the nationWhat country is that?
What country is that?
What country is that?Not Amazonas, not Araguaia
Na baixada fluminense
Mato Grosso, Minas Gerais
E no Northeast tudo em pazNa morte eu rest
More or sangue is alone
Staining your parents
Faithful documents
Year off from patrãoWhat country is that?
What country is that?
What country is that?
What country is that?Third world is formed
Piada no exteriorMore or Brazil will be rich
Let's go fat um milhão
When we sell all the souls
Two nossos indios num leilãoWhat country is that?
What country is that?
What country is that?
What country is that?
Clip
Historic context
It is worth retaking a little of the history of Brazil, marked by more than 20 years of military existence as a governo Castelo Branco (1964-1967), Costa e Silva (1969-1974), Medici (1969-1974), Geisel (1974-1979) and Figueiredo (1979-1985). The direct vote was only reached in 1990 with the election of President Fernando Collor.
During the black years, every type of social criticism was severely punished. Artists and intellectuals were exiled, political opponents were coldly tortured or assassinated in the country riddled with nationalist propaganda.
The numbers from this period are scary: about 5,000 people will lose political directives, 434 are dead or missing. To music What country is this not fugiu to regra and was censored since its content questioner.
About a gravação da music
A recording of the album, or third of the band, which is the same as the music car chef, happened in 1987, nine years after the song was composted.
On the delay for recording of music on CD, Renato Russo stated:
"What country is this" was never recorded because there was always the hope that something would really change the country, making music totally obsolete. This does not happen and yet it is possible to face the same question of the title.
Released by EMI, or CD tinha nove faixas e trazia na cape a photo that gathered the four members of the band.
About or Legião Urbana
The band was raised in Brasília in 1982 and is intrinsically immersed in the universe of Brazilian politics, also because it was formed and consolidated in the capital of the country.
Many of the lyrics by Renato Russo are a severe social criticism and what country is that is the first politicized lyrics. A band was shaved off in the year 1996 pela morte do vocalista (October 11, 1996).
Or film We are Tão Jovens
Launched in 2015, the longa metragem written by Marcos Bernstein and directed by Antônio Carlos da Fontoura tells the history of the Elétrico Abortion band and its descending Legião Urbana.
Thiago Mendonça assumes the responsibility of representing the protagonist Renato Russo.
What country is that version of Initial Capital
Or Electrical Abortion of the origins of the bands Legião Urbana e Capital Inicial, or Legião Urbana on the command of vocalist Renato Russo and o Capital Initial on command of vocalist Dinho Ouro Preto.
The initial formation of Capital (1982) was composed by Flávio Lemos, Fê Lemos, Yves Passarell, Robledo Silva and Fabiano Carelli.
The current training has only four members: Dinho Ouro Preto, Fê Lemos, Flávio Lemos and Yves Passarel.
Cool Culture no Spotify
Conheça also
- Brazil music show your face
- Music Perfeição de Legião Urbana
- Music Pra não dizer que não falei das flores, by Geraldo Vandré
- Music Killing in the Name, by Rage Against the Machine
- Poem "E agora, José?" by Carlos Drummond de Andrade
Formed in Literature at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (2010), Master of Literature at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (2013) and doutora in Studies of Culture of the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro and of the Portuguese Catholic University of Lisbon (2018).
