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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Humanos
Cansei de Ser Sexy Lyrics
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Pela a cidade aí a fora
Eu não aguento eles querem me controla
Eu não aguento eles quere me conquistar
Querem me obrigar a ser do jeito que eles são
Cheios de certezas e vivendo de ilusão
Mas eu não sou, nem quero ser
Sempre igual não posso ser feliz
Esses humanos (2x)
Esse humanos que circulam
Pela a cidade aí a fora
Eu não aguento eles querem me controla
Eu não aguento eles quere me conquistar
Querem me obrigar a ser do jeito que eles são
Cheios de certezas e vivendo de ilusão
Mas eu não sou, nem quero ser
Igual o que ele diz
Sempre igual não posso ser feliz
Esses humanos (3x)
The lyrics of Cansei de Ser Sexy's song "Humanos" comment on the pressures that individuals face from the societal expectation to conform to certain standards of behavior and attitudes. The song critiques the idea that society demands people to be a certain way, "Cheios de certezas e vivendo de ilusão" (filled with certainties and living in illusions). The lyrics strongly suggest that there is an inherent dishonesty in trying to fit into these norms: "Eu não sou, nem quero ser / Igual o que ele diz / Sempre igual não posso ser feliz" (I am not, nor do I want to be, the same as what they say; I cannot be happy always the same).
Line by Line Meaning
Esse humanos que circulam
These humans who roam around
Pela a cidade aí a fora
Through the city and beyond
Eu não aguento eles querem me controla
I can't take it, they want to control me
Eu não aguento eles quere me conquistar
I can't take it, they want to conquer me
Querem me obrigar a ser do jeito que eles são
They want to force me to be like them
Cheios de certezas e vivendo de ilusão
Full of certainties and living in delusion
Mas eu não sou, nem quero ser
But I'm not, and I don't want to be
Igual o que ele diz
The same as he says
Sempre igual não posso ser feliz
Always the same, I can't be happy
Esses humanos (2x)
These humans (2x)
Esses humanos (3x)
These humans (3x)
Contributed by Nathaniel W. Suggest a correction in the comments below.
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@grosseiros964
Uma banda paulistana que faz uma mistura de Indie Rock, Eletro e um tiquinho assim, desse tamaninho assim, de Carimbó!
@rcgmusical-escolademusica9868
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@bb-zk3by
Me lembra o expressionismo alemão.
@lguilhermeful
Ha ha ha... Grande Fausto! Faz falta!
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@larissafreitas9446
Era 2009 e eu tinha 13 anos e uma amiga da escola disse “como assim você não conhece cansei de ser sexy você não é cool!! “ vim na hora ouvir e virei fã 😂 sou cool sim viu sua kengaaa
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