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), Luiza Sá (guitar, drums and keys), Ana Rezende (guitar and harmonica) and Carolina Parra (guitar and drums). Former members are Iracema Trevisan (bass) and Adriano Cintra (drums, guitar, vocals and production).
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.
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Cannonball
Cansei de Ser Sexy Lyrics
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One two
Spitting in a wishing well
Blown to hell crash
I'm the last splash
I know you little libertine
Want you coocoo cannonball
Want you coocoo cannonball
In the shade, in the shade
In the shade, in the shade
I know you little libertine
I know you're a cannonball
I'll be your whatever you want
The bong in this reggae song
In the shade, in the shade
Want you coocoo cannonball
Want you coocoo cannonball
Spitting in a wishing well
Blown to hell
Crash
I'm the last splash
I'll be your whatever you want
The bong in this reggae song
Want you coocoo cannonball
Want you coocoo cannonball
In the shade, in the shade
In the shade, in the shade
The lyrics to "Cannonball" are murky and cryptic, open to interpretation. At the surface level, it appears to be a love song, but a closer reading suggests that it may be about rebellion and self-determination. The song begins with a low-key introduction with a beat alongside a repeating check, check, check and one, two. The first verse speaks of spitting in a wishing well, being blown to hell and becoming the last splash. These lyrics could be interpreted as someone making a wish, only to have it go wrong somehow. The wishing well could symbolize an institution or a system that promised to fulfill their desires, but it failed.
Line by Line Meaning
Spitting in a wishing well
Acting recklessly without regard for the consequences
Blown to hell crash
Going down in flames, a spectacular failure
I'm the last splash
I'm the final and most memorable part of this story
I know you little libertine
I understand you're a free spirit who lives outside conventional norms
I know you're a real coocoo
I know you're unpredictable and maybe even a little crazy
Want you coocoo cannonball
I want you to take a risk with me and be a wild and crazy force in my life
In the shade, in the shade
Let's take a break from the things that stress us out and relax for a bit
I'll be your whatever you want
I'll be whatever you need me to be for you
The bong in this reggae song
I'm here to provide a little escapism and relaxation
Want you coocoo cannonball
I want you to push me out of my comfort zone and live a little dangerously with me
Spitting in a wishing well
Acting recklessly without regard for the consequences
Blown to hell
Destroyed beyond repair
Crash
A sudden, unexpected failure
I'm the last splash
I'm the final and most memorable part of this story
Want you coocoo cannonball
I want you to take a risk with me and be a wild and crazy force in my life
Want you coocoo cannonball
I want you to push me out of my comfort zone and live a little dangerously with me
In the shade, in the shade
Let's take a break from the things that stress us out and relax for a bit
In the shade, in the shade
Let's take a break from the things that stress us out and relax for a bit
Contributed by Kaelyn E. Suggest a correction in the comments below.
Craig
This is honestly the best cover of this song from among all the covers I've found on YouTube
CriminalRecords
EPIC!
Francis Sosa
bien cover!
ulyssedugard
your logo affraid me ... ss
21Bravo Punk
Yeah the figure on the right has a right hand on the left arm. I find it hard to look at.
Jaque line
actually it stands for "cansei de ser sexy" which is brazilian portuguese for "I'm tired of being sexy". But yeah, the choice for the cover is weird.
Legendary
Hi