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Does Anitta Know Her Lyrics from Her Biggest Songs?
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2 years ago
Anitta tries to guess the lyrics from some of her most popular songs. Along the way she talks about the community she grew up in, her rise to fame and how she wants to be remembered as someone who has challenged social norms.
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00:00
I love to...
00:03
Míra, just...
00:13
Got That Sauce, No Me Haga Blá, Que Te Hago Llorar.
00:18
This is from Funk Rave.
00:20
It's a great Brazilian funk song from my upcoming album, Funk Generation.
00:30
Latin people have a flavor, it's like extra sauce.
00:34
But Brazilian, even more, you know?
00:37
I feel like we have this energy that never goes out of our bodies.
00:42
We're like, so full of life.
00:44
And I feel like people can feel this energy coming out of us.
00:49
No Me Haga Blá, Que Te Hago Llorar is like,
00:51
don't make me speak because I'm going to make you cry.
00:53
Because I'm very honest and I always say the truth.
00:57
When I'm not working, when I'm not being Anitta,
01:00
I am very insecure, shy.
01:03
And there is a series in Brazil, at the moment,
01:06
that had this character, Anitta, that she was just...
01:10
Everybody would get intrigued about her.
01:14
And I kind of wanted to be powerful like that.
01:16
So I created this persona that just arrives before me.
01:22
And it's just there.
01:23
Kind of protecting or kind of like calling the attention.
01:27
It's like a superpower.
01:30
I feel it more when I'm on stage.
01:32
It's like, boom.
01:33
My mom says it's not...
01:35
She doesn't even feel like it's me.
01:45
This is from Bella Keo.
01:47
It's my song with Beso Plumet.
01:54
So this song was funny because one year ago,
01:57
on my birthday last year,
01:59
a friend of mine sent me this song.
02:01
He gave me as a present.
02:02
He said, oh, I did this song for you.
02:04
And I was like, oh my God, I love it.
02:06
And I spent my whole birthday drunk with my friends,
02:09
listening to this song on the repeat without my voice.
02:11
I haven't even cut the song yet.
02:13
Months later, this friend texts me and say,
02:16
yo, I showed that song I gave to you to Beso Plumet.
02:19
And he loved it.
02:20
And he really wants to sing with you.
02:22
I said, oh, that's amazing.
02:23
Let's do it.
02:24
But then I was very attached to my project and funk.
02:28
So it came as his song, not mine,
02:31
because it was a little bit different
02:32
from the type of music that I'm putting out right now,
02:35
which is Brazilian funk.
02:45
This is a girl from Rio.
02:53
Olara Gonzalez was the name of the community
02:54
that I was born and raised.
02:55
When I say babies having babies, like it doesn't matter.
02:58
It's like when we are born and raised in places like that,
03:02
where we don't have the understanding of everything,
03:06
of our body, we don't have like proper sex education.
03:10
We don't have opportunities, structure.
03:13
So that's why I said that,
03:14
that sometimes we don't get the understanding
03:17
that our lives can be different.
03:19
And when I say, yeah, the streets have raised me,
03:21
I'm favela is because I think here in America,
03:24
when people see me, they don't kind of connect the fact
03:27
that I was born and raised in the slums of Brazil.
03:32
I don't know exactly why.
03:33
I just noticed that everybody gets very impressed
03:37
when I say, oh yeah, I was raised in a slum
03:40
and the ghettos and they were like, you?
03:42
And I'm like, yeah, that's right.
03:44
So I get a little confused about that.
03:47
So I wanted to show this in this song,
03:50
Girl From Rio, and also in the music video
03:52
that I showed the glamorous part of Brazil
03:55
with the touristic points and very fancy, glamorous 50s.
03:59
But at the same song and video,
04:01
I cut to the kind of life that I lived in Brazil,
04:05
which is the favela, the ghetto, the community.
04:10
Tengo para ti la Kombi completa,
04:12
que no duro mucho soltera, aprovecha-me.
04:16
This is Embo Bear.
04:20
Que no duro mucho soltera, aprovecha-me.
04:24
This character, Anita, lives a wild life.
04:26
Now that I turned 30 and I'm about to turn 31,
04:30
I'm like, okay, I'm kind of tired of this.
04:32
I have done enough.
04:33
I have done everything.
04:35
Right now, I'm ready to retire.
04:38
Right now, I'm ready to retire.
04:40
But in this song, that's what I'm saying.
04:42
I have for you the full package, I would say.
04:45
Se que te gusta que somos así, nos vemos, lo hacemos low-key.
04:48
This is from Mil Veces.
04:50
Se que te gusta que somos así, nos vemos, lo hacemos low-key.
04:54
I say, I know that you like that we are like this.
04:58
We see each other, we do it very low-key.
05:01
And I think this is kind of like the new chapter of my life.
05:05
Everything that I'm living, I'm living very private.
05:08
That's very new for me because in the beginning,
05:11
it used to expose my life so much.
05:14
And say everything about it, what I was doing,
05:17
who I was hooking up, da-da-da, everything.
05:19
And I don't regret, I think it was fine.
05:22
But I think it's a moment of my life that I've passed
05:25
and I'm happy now to be very private
05:28
and have my personal life.
05:29
Nobody figures out what's going on.
05:31
I love that.
05:33
We crossed with Måneskin at the VMAs
05:36
and we were looking for the perfect guy
05:38
to be the model of the music video.
05:41
When we crossed, my manager looked at me and said,
05:44
yo, what do you think about him for the music video?
05:46
I said, well, I think it's a great idea.
05:48
He's a huge artist.
05:50
He has an amazing, crazy attitude that I love.
05:53
He's super sexy.
05:54
I think it matches a lot my persona, Anita's character.
05:58
Felt like the chemistry was amazing.
06:00
People loved the idea of also having a singer
06:03
playing this role.
06:04
I've done that in Brazil
06:05
and I was just the model of the music video.
06:08
And I really liked it.
06:09
So I felt like it was a great idea.
06:10
I felt like it was great.
06:14
A mi me gusta las mujeres when they shake their ya-ya-ya.
06:16
That's from my song, Me Gusta.
06:22
That, I'm saying like, I love the women
06:26
when they shake their bodies and everything.
06:28
This song, I wanted to do for women.
06:31
And I also did the music video for women.
06:33
Cardi B is on it.
06:34
We shot in an amazing, historic place in Brazil.
06:38
And I wanted to show like a glamorous moment
06:41
of all different types of bodies and women.
06:44
I feel like sometimes, not sometimes, every time,
06:47
it's kind of like we receive a checklist
06:49
of how do you check to be the perfect woman.
06:52
And sometimes we feel like we cannot shake.
06:55
We cannot be free to dance and to move.
06:58
And this song was very much about like, let's go.
07:01
Let's do whatever we want.
07:02
Let's feel free and dance.
07:04
And that was about that.
07:06
I have this on me to just appreciate women in general
07:11
in all senses.
07:12
And this song was about that too.
07:21
This is from La Lotto, Stini Tosel and Becky G.
07:30
I'm saying like, I flew straight from Miami to Rio,
07:34
making everybody around dance.
07:37
I feel like I'm kind of like that.
07:39
When I put myself to the party,
07:41
when I'm like, okay, party time,
07:44
I have this power of arriving and set the tone of the place
07:48
if I want to, if I have my mind to, okay, tonight.
07:54
And I think that I can bring this energy
07:56
when it comes out of me, you know.
08:04
This is Downtown, my song with J Balvin.
08:12
It was my first big hit in Spanish.
08:15
Here I'm saying like, at night,
08:17
I'm the one who defines everything that is gonna happen.
08:21
You don't have to command me.
08:22
I feel like that's how Latinos
08:25
or everyone that I get to know in the studio see me
08:28
when they search about my career in Brazil,
08:30
that they know that I'm very like bossy
08:33
and I take care of my things,
08:34
of how it's gonna succeed and everything's gonna happen.
08:38
Even though I have my team, I like to give the directions
08:42
because I know exactly how it is.
08:44
I didn't come to another country to do a career
08:48
just to make money and be famous, you know.
08:50
I came with a purpose of bringing my country with me
08:53
and showing my people from the ghetto
08:55
that you can do whatever you dream of.
08:59
And one of my songs in Portuguese
09:02
was playing so much in Spain.
09:05
When the song was playing in Spain,
09:07
the radio asked me to do a festival there
09:09
and I said, okay, let's go.
09:11
So I didn't know how to communicate with anybody
09:13
because in Brazil we speak Portuguese, not Spanish.
09:16
And I got so mad because I love to communicate.
09:19
I love to...
09:21
And I was so mad that I couldn't talk.
09:24
When I arrived in Brazil,
09:26
the first thing I did was to call different teachers
09:29
to learn Spanish from different countries.
09:32
So I hired one from Spain,
09:34
one from Puerto Rico,
09:35
one from Colombia.
09:37
So I did it because I felt, like, connected.
09:47
This is Paradinha,
09:49
my very, very first song in Portuguese Spanish.
09:59
This was kind of, like,
10:00
the first time I traveled to Latin America,
10:04
it was, like, more than seven years ago.
10:06
I felt like it was very sexist.
10:11
When I was starting singing,
10:12
they were like, oh no, you gotta sing about love.
10:15
Oh, you can't wear, like, clothes, like, too short
10:18
or too sexy because, you know.
10:20
So I wanted a shock not to become famous
10:25
or to become the conversation.
10:27
I wanted a shock because I feel like the rules for us
10:31
are too different.
10:33
So I wanted to break it and be a little over the top
10:38
about what they would consider fine
10:40
to actually send the message, like,
10:43
we can do whatever we want.
10:53
So this song is called Meiga e Abusada.
10:58
In these lyrics, I'm saying,
11:01
I can conquer whatever I want,
11:04
but it was so easy to control you
11:06
with my playful, little, sweet girl way.
11:10
So it's kind of like I used the fact
11:14
that a guy use women
11:16
to get whatever I wanted from him,
11:18
pretending I was gonna lay with him
11:21
or I was gonna do whatever he wanted.
11:23
I was, like, pretending I was sweet and soft
11:26
and cute the way the girl should behave in his mind
11:30
to get what I wanted from him.
11:31
And in the end, I was like, oh, bye.
11:33
And then in this song, I say,
11:34
men like you I use for what I need
11:38
and I just send it to trash.
11:39
I wanna be remembered as someone
11:41
who changed the way things were.
11:44
And my country was like that.
11:46
There was one way to behave.
11:48
Get a husband, get a boyfriend.
11:50
And I was like, I don't want to need
11:52
to find a boyfriend just for people, you know?
11:54
I wanted to be what I wanted
11:56
and at some point, I managed to change
11:59
the way these publicities were being done.
12:01
I'm just saying that I want people to feel free
12:04
to be who they want.
12:05
If we are worried about what people are gonna think,
12:08
we don't do what we want.
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