Cansaram?

Parece chegar ao fim a lua de mel do Cansei de Ser Sexy com a imprensa inglesa. O Guardian deu uma trauletada no segundo disco da banda, "Donkey", nessa sexta.

Além de comentar a suavizada nas letras e no som, o destaque é análise que o crítico faz da (estranha) relação do grupo com a sua "brasilidade". Na mosca:

"Perhaps it has something to do with the way CSS have been received, particularly in the UK. As with Björk, despite the critical plaudits and high rankings on style mag cool lists, there's a touch of Clive James chuckling affectionately at the Japanese on Endurance about people's reaction to CSS: look at the crazy foreigners with their funny clothes and pidgin English song titles. You get the sense that the band's members occasionally feel they're being patronised. Shortly before her recent departure from the band, bassist Ira Trevisan told one journalist she was sick of being asked about their "Brazilian heritage", adding: "It would be good if we were Belgian." There's a sentence you don't hear every day. Maybe the idea is to prove they have more in common with their European peers than they do with their native forebears, to make music to which no one could append the word "wacky", but it's hard not to feel that becoming as boring as your average British indie band is a pretty extreme way of avoiding the odd question about Tropicalia."

Estranhamente, apesar dos arrancos, o disco ganhou 3 das cinco estrelhas. Mas no Guardian é sempre assim, o disco tem que ser realmente medonho pra ganhar menos que isso. E no caso do CSS, é apenas sem sal.