The band name is Portuguese for “Tired of Being Sexy” (taken from something Beyoncé once commented to the press: “I am tired of being sexy”).
The members are: Lovefoxxx (vocals), Adriano Cintra (drums, guitar, vocals and production), Luiza Sá (guitar, drums and keys), Ana Rezende (guitar and harmonica), Iracema Trevisan (bass) and Carolina Parra (guitar and drums).
In an interview, guitarist/harmonica player Ana Rezende explains the band's name: "[...] we heard that Beyoncé had said that she was really tired of being sexy, which is a really retarded thing to say. It's like saying, "Oh, I'm tired of being rich." So "tired of being sexy" in Portuguese is cansei de ser sexy, so we put it on the flyer to promote the show that we were playing and we kind of got stuck with that name. It was just the stupidest name that we could have ever come up with, but it's funny and I love it. But sometimes people think that we're serious and we're tired of being recognized for our bodies or something like that, and it's nothing like that at all.."
CSS owes a lot of its success to word-of-mouth promotion on the internet, starting with the Trama Virtual website, a kind of Brazilian MySpace. A live performance in 2004 at Tim Festival on the same stage as 2 Many DJs and Kraftwerk increased their fanbase.
In 2005, they signed with Trama Virtual and in October of the same year their first album was released in Brazil.
At the beginning of 2006, CSS signed with Sub Pop to release their first international album and in July they made a thirty-gig tour through USA and Canada along with DJ Diplo and Bonde do Rolê.
The live performance CSS offers is uniquely energetic and entertaining. Lovefoxxx dodges among her bandmates and involves the audience in virtually every song. Sá, Cintra, and Parra switch instruments so often it's easy to forget where they started.
Tours of the US and Europe with Ladytron and Basement Jaxx in 2006 were followed by gigs in Australia, New Zealand and Japan.
In 2007 18 year old student and Apple fan Nick Haley created a home made iPod Touch commercial by piecing together various clips found at apple.com and adding the fast paced and catchy CSS song "Music Is My Hot Hot Sex" as the soundtrack.
After uploading the home made commercial to YouTube Haley was contacted by Apple agency TBWA/Chiat/Day who was allowed to create a TV commercial based on his original spot, claiming instant fame for the CSS tune as well as for the user generated commercial.
Website
MySpace
Echo of Love
CSS Lyrics
Jump to: Overall Meaning ↴ Line by Line Meaning ↴
by all the noise that we make
The always come together
and I can tell you there is no mistake
You know if I were you...
I'd embrace that condicion
Just ask me to keep on talking
Just let it god! Enjoy while it lasts
That looping sound might not be coming back!
When I say "Ah"... You hear it "Ah(Ah!Ah!Ah!)"
When I say "Oh!" It just goes on and on and...
Just let it go! Enjoy while it lasts
That looping sound might not be coming back!
It might be below it may come from above!
But you can't hide from the echo of love!
Come with me inside this bubble
We are jointed thru the brain
Almost sure this is forever
'cuz we're two fools dancin' with no shame
I already told you...
But i'll tell you again...
Running around in cirlces...
Spinning fast...
There's no turning back!
Just let it god! Enjoy while it lasts
That looping sound might not be coming back!
When I say "Ah"... You hear it "Ah(Ah!Ah!Ah!)"
When I say "Oh!" It just goes on and on and...
Just let it go! Enjoy while it lasts
That looping sound might not be coming back!
It might be below it may come from above!
But you can't hide from the echo of love!
The lyrics to "Echo of Love" by CSS speak about the all-consuming feeling of love and how it can become a repetitive cycle that we cannot let go of. The first verse describes how their love "comes in double" and how loud and noisy they are together. The singer asserts that their love will always come together, and they have no doubt about it. They encourage their lover to embrace this repetitive nature of their relationship and keep them talking because they know that their lover loves it.
In the chorus, the singer urges their lover to enjoy the repetition of their love while it lasts because it may not come back. The looping sound is an echo of their love, and it may come from above or below, but they cannot hide from it. The second verse describes how they are in a bubble, and their minds are jointed. The singer is almost certain that their love will last forever, and they are two fools dancing with no shame. They describe themselves as running around in circles, and there is no turning back.
Overall, "Echo of Love" is a song about the power of love and the way it can consume us. The repetition of the lyrics and the looping sound of the song represent the endless, echoing nature of love.
Line by Line Meaning
Our love comes in double
Our love is so strong that it is double in comparison to ordinary love.
by all the noise that we make
It is evident through the noise that we create that our love is strong.
The always come together
Our love always brings us closer to each other.
and I can tell you there is no mistake
I am sure that our love is true and sincere with no error in it.
You know if I were you...
If you were in my place, you would understand that...
I'd embrace that condicion
You would accept this condition of repeating our love and not worry about it.
Just ask me to keep on talking
You should ask me to continue talking and repeating our love, because...
'cuz You know You love that repetition.
You know that you love this repetition, and there is no harm in it.
Just let it go! Enjoy while it lasts
Stop worrying about the repetition and enjoy it as long as it lasts.
That looping sound might not be coming back!
Don't take this repetition for granted, because it may not come back.
When I say "Ah"... You hear it "Ah(Ah!Ah!Ah!)"
When I express my love with a simple "Ah," you hear it as a chorus of "Ah! Ah! Ah!"
When I say "Oh!" It just goes on and on and...
When I express my love with an "Oh!" it never seems to end and repeats itself.
It might be below it may come from above!
Love can come from any direction and any form.
But you can't hide from the echo of love!
No matter what form or direction love comes from, you can never hide from the echoes of it.
Come with me inside this bubble
Join me in this world of our love, where...
We are jointed thru the brain
We are connected through our thoughts and emotions.
Almost sure this is forever
I am almost certain that our love will last forever.
'cuz we're two fools dancin' with no shame
Because we're two fools in love that are not ashamed to dance together.
I already told you...
I have already expressed this before, but...
But i'll tell you again...
I'll say it again because...
Running around in cirlces...
We are going in circles, but...
Spinning fast...
We're moving fast in our love and...
There's no turning back!
There is no going back from this love of ours.
Contributed by Carson V. Suggest a correction in the comments below.