Female funk artists in Rio de Janeiro call it feminism to get male onlookers to yell and sing derogatory about their sexuality.
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Sex. Short skirts, tight tops, bare skirts. Little is covered, little left to the imagination. This is a women's fight in Brazil.
“Now it's different, it's the women who decide. Give me a laugh and bark as I pass, "sings Valeska dos Santos, a vocalist in the women's group Gaiola das Popozudas.
- This is our fight for women's place in society, against discrimination, dos Santos explains.
A battle where women have made their body their strongest card. In Brazil, the phenomenon has been called neofeminism.
Warns women
Previously, male artists dominated the funk scenes in the slum, but in recent years several female funk artists have claimed their place in the industry. The spark is also on its way out of the slums, the so-called favelas.
Gaiola das Popozudas means something like "The cage for big-assed ladies," and Brazilian funk is largely about abdomen and buttocks. Still, the funk parties, called "baile funk", are banned in some slums because the police believe the parties only cause trouble.
“When I started singing funk, I discovered that it was possible to reach women in this way. The lyrics are about reality, about adultery and how women are treated, and we warn women about what's happening in real life, ”Valeska dos Santos said in an interview with a Brazilian newspaper.
"This is our way of fighting for independence," says funk vocalist Yani de Simone. PHOTO: Artist's website.
Strong and sexy
- Funken talks about strong and sexy women, and the lyrics make women put their foot down and no longer accept that the man rules over her. This is our way of fighting for independence, says Yani de Simone, another female funk vocalist at full speed up in Rio de Janeiro.
She has taken the artist name Mulher Filé, the Filet woman, after a number of female artists with fruit names such as the Melon woman and the Strawberry woman were successful. "Men do not like fruit, they want meat", Yani de Simone is said to have stated, and she made a quick career as a dancer thanks to her communicative butt. In 2009 she went solo, but still she is probably better known for her strange butt pinching than for the music.
This is an excerpt. Read more in Ny Tid no. 26, 6.-12. August
