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1987: a year with few novelties for Brazil and the world.
Caetano Veloso, on the record that bore only his name, asked the question Eu Sou Neguinha? The poet Carlos Drummond de Andrade, singer Clementina de Jesus, and actress Rita Hayworth died. Maria Bethânia released Dezembros, rocked by the success of the song Anos Dourados. In Goiânia, an atomic radiation leak was discovered originating from a cesium 137 capsule left on an abandoned test site. In Rio, playwright Luiz Antônio Martinez Corrêa was killed in his apartment.
Gal Costa, coming from a period of continuous exposure (the decade of the 80’s brought acceleration and significant changes in her career), and experiments with new pleasures in the past year: singing in the United States at Tom Jobim’s side. The result, the album Rio Revisited, primarily issued in countries in the northern hemisphere, confirming the elegant harmony of the meeting. Gal, incidentally, did not issue any albums in 1986, dedicating herself to sporadic shows as well as the get-togethers with Tom.
A certain expectation for the course of Gal’s work was raised during this interim. And, in opposition to those who still defended the intended "evolutionary line of MPB" she prepares Lua de Mel Como o Diabo Gosta. Provocative, Gal appears on the back cover of the LP, smoking, with rolled-up hair in a towel and with a repertoire led by two compositions by Lulu Santos. The track, Arara, (parrot), which opens the album, advises: Eu não quero me pertencer / Eu quero ser dos outros, I don’t want to belong, I want to belong with others. Contrarily, she became angry (virava uma arara) as it happened at the release of the album, at the beginning of 1988, in the nightclub Scalla, zona sul of Rio. On opening night, irritated with blunders in the schedule and sound, she literally pushed, with anger, two pedestals of microphones on the stage, while repeating: Senão, eu viro uma arara, uma arara!
Obviously the audience in Rio did not understand anything, the song list (which even included Bachiana Número 5!) was redone, and the engagement continued without any great outbursts. Of the album, Gal is quoted to say that it is the most irregular of her discography, maintains grandiose moments as in Lua de Mel, Sou mais Eu, Todos os Instrumentos, and Me Faz Bem. High notes, interpretations intentionally shouted. Soul of a parrot, with all the enjoyment for which she had permission. Gal wanted, could, and did.
Eduardo Logullo
translation: Kirsten Weinoldt
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