You Like to Move It! Move It! Ahem.
Wednesday, 2 June 2010 | 10:55 pm
Grito Mundial, on the first listen, was thought to be a fun song by yours truly. Funky. Interesting. It's the kind of song that puts me right in a good mood. So good, in fact, that I have images in my head: motion pictures with a whole spectrum of colours involved in the sweltering heat of, uh, some tropical setting.
Now, I'm not a tropical kind of person; I'd rather stay in the shade than be soaking up the sun by the beach with beautiful palm trees and azure waters, but, wow, I almost cried. The pictures in my head are that heart-wrenchingly beautiful. Like, I actually want to be physically there.
On the second listen, though, I appoint Brazil to be this tropical setting. Don't ask why. After having heard the whistles and the deep, heavy thumping of what I imagine to be big drums that are used during street parades in, eh, South America, I realise that this song has a football atmosphere going on. And of course it's about football, as confirmed by the music video. FIFA World Cup 2010, yo. Just go to Wikipedia.
And God only knows why I'm seeing Brazil whenever the song comes on the iPod. I mean, why Brazil, right? The song could very well paint Argentina or Spain or even fucking Portugal in my head but no, yellow and green have to just washout every other colour in these images and dominate.
Maybe they'll win this year?
Anyway, all this images and seeing Brazil and listening to the song makes me want to add Sao Paulo to my Places to Visit list.