bumpstill hoping someone can help me out here
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Friday, 18 September 2020 07:25 (three years ago) link
bumping again
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Thursday, 24 September 2020 13:03 (three years ago) link
really cool song! it does sound sort of familiar in a Carnival / Jorge Ben way, but I'm not sure it's a direct lift
― rob, Thursday, 24 September 2020 13:26 (three years ago) link
I’ll take your word for it! by “Carnival” do you mean Brazilian carnaval music in general or does it refer to a specific record?
― Regard the timeless piano balladeeress! (breastcrawl), Thursday, 24 September 2020 21:08 (three years ago) link
Oh yeah sorry just carnaval in general. That said, I am not an expert in Brazilian music beyond the "big names" so I might be way off here!
― rob, Thursday, 24 September 2020 22:39 (three years ago) link
All I can tell you is that chant is not in Portuguese - but it may have been translated by the artist, or the presumable Brazilian original might be using a different language.
― Daniel_Rf, Friday, 25 September 2020 09:18 (three years ago) link
The main lyrics, such as they are (just two lines), are in Zulu. The intertwining background vocal line is possibly in Shona (that is, some YouTube commenter was speculating that it might be). The most samba-like part is the “oh lé lé lé, oh-lé-lé-lé” chant, which sounds wordless to me.Of course, any of these parts might have a Brazilian source, but I’m thinking of that chant in particular. So the mystery continues (if there is one at all), but I’ve been listening to a lot of Jorge Ben as a result of this, so this query already has had at least one happy outcome!
― Regard the timeless piano balladeeress! (breastcrawl), Tuesday, 29 September 2020 10:07 (three years ago) link
Diogo Nogueira, who I mentioned in 2012 for his dc area gig is back in Dc itself this Friday September 15 at Karma. He’s good but maybe not great
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 13 September 2023 15:18 (eight months ago) link