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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Cansei de Ser Sexy Lyrics
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Came by plane all alone
Spend the afternoon making a speech
Speech made you nervous that you couldn't eat
You came to show your mad love
You came to tell it's not enough
Come and erase me and take me with you
I wanted to show you how mad is my love
Come and attack me it's not gonna hurt
Fight me, deny me if I fear when you're close
Let's make love and listen death from above
Let's make love
Let's make love and listen death from above
You knew my ideas when they were in my head
They were my secret evening plans
Wine, then bed, then more, then again
Wine, then bed, then more, then again
Run run run to make your heart shake
Kiss kiss kiss we'll make this earth quake
I'm gonna get what I'm willin to take
This gotta worth the miles you made
Come back I'll warm you up
Make me breakfast I'll make it up
You're so talented I'm in love
Let's make love and listen death from above
Let's make love
Let's make love and listen death from above
I'm back with a smack and I'm ready to attack
Stare at my lips and see they are wet
I know how you doing by looking at your pants
And this is how we call it a comeback...
And listen death from above
Screaming your name on the microphone
Going back home all alone
Listen to the tunes that you sent to me
Listen to them good company
I want to show my mad love
You have to know it's not enough
Come and complete me, stay here with me
This is all true, it's water I drink
I want you to show me how mad is your love
Come and attack me it's not gonna hurt
Fight me, deny me if I fear when you're close
Let's make love and listen death from above
Let's make love
Let's make love and listen death from above
Let's make love
Let's make love and listen death from above
Let's make love
Let's make love and listen death from above
“Let’s Make Love and Listen Death from Above” by Cansei de Ser Sexy (CSS) is a song that is open to interpretation. On surface level, the lyrics describe a romantic encounter where two people are expressing their feelings of love towards one another. The first and second verses describe a meeting between two people, where one person has flown in to see the other person. The two spend the afternoon together, with one person making a speech which makes the other person nervous.
In the chorus, the singer wants to show their “mad love” towards the other person, and wants to be taken away with them. They encourage the other person to kiss them and not worry about them being drunk because it is true love. Later, the singer states that they know what the other person wants based on their physical appearance and that they are “ready to attack.”
The song eventually returns to the chorus, asking the other person to reciprocate their love and come back to warm them up. The chorus ends the song with the line “let’s make love and listen death from above.” This line is cryptic, but could be interpreted as a desire for a passionate moment mixed with the fear of something dangerous happening.
Overall, the lyrics of the song seem to describe a romantic, yet slightly dangerous encounter filled with passion and desire.
Line by Line Meaning
Calling me high on the telephone
You called me on the phone while you were high
Came by plane all alone
You traveled alone by plane to come see me
Spend the afternoon making a speech
We spent the afternoon talking
Speech made you nervous that you couldn't eat
You were nervous during the conversation and couldn't eat
You came to show your mad love
You came to express your intense love for me
You came to tell it's not enough
You came to say that your love alone isn't enough
Come and erase me and take me with you
Take me away with you and remove me from my current situation
Kiss me I'm drunk don't worry it's true
Kiss me, I'm drunk and it's true
I wanted to show you how mad is my love
I wanted to express the intensity of my love for you
Come and attack me it's not gonna hurt
Come to me with passion, it won't hurt
Fight me, deny me if I fear when you're close
Reject me or push back if my closeness makes you uncomfortable
Let's make love and listen death from above
Let's have intimate relations while listening to music that scares us
You knew my ideas when they were in my head
You understood my thoughts before I even expressed them
They were my secret evening plans
Those thoughts were my private evening plans
Wine, then bed, then more, then again
Wine, sex, and repeating the process again
Run run run to make your heart shake
Move quickly to make your heart beat faster
Kiss kiss kiss we'll make this earth quake
Kiss me and we'll create an intense physical reaction
I'm gonna get what I'm willin to take
I will pursue what I want until I achieve it
This gotta worth the miles you made
This has to be worth the distance you traveled to see me
Come back I'll warm you up
Come back and I'll provide you with warmth and comfort
Make me breakfast I'll make it up
Make me breakfast and I will make it up to you
You're so talented I'm in love
You are so talented and I have fallen in love with you
I'm back with a smack and I'm ready to attack
I am back with force and ready to take action
Stare at my lips and see they are wet
Look at my lips and notice that they are wet
I know how you doing by looking at your pants
I can tell how you're feeling based on your physical state
And this is how we call it a comeback...
This is how we define a comeback
And listen death from above
And listen to music that scares us
Screaming your name on the microphone
Shouting your name into the microphone
Going back home all alone
Returning home alone
Listen to the tunes that you sent to me
Listening to the music you sent me
Listen to them good company
Listening to the music while in good company
You have to know it's not enough
You need to realize that your love alone is not enough
Come and complete me, stay here with me
Come complete me and stay with me
This is all true, it's water I drink
This is all true, it's essential to me like water
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@sarahl9398
Dude...my late teen years. Now I'm 30. Thank you CSS, rock on.
@massimocarta666
exactely the same!!! When we followed music on TV...
@coffeeinthenebula
Same. 31 and remember this loaded on my Zune.
@daisyrey98
Same now 29
@Jrloc1990
Same, now I’m 30. Saw this videos on rockamole
@raildopereira777
Same! 31 And remember this weird songs
@callmebee2133
This is nuts, this video was pre loaded on my Zune when I was an early teen. This had to be 13 or so years ago. I was obsessed with this music video, but after a few months my Zune crashed. I never knew the name of the song or the band and could never remember any lyrics.
It's been nearly 15 years. Every now and then I would try googling things, because all I could remember for sure was the paper ghost in the beginning. And I just now, after over a decade, finally found it. Crazy nostalgia happening to me right now.
@SarcasticElehctro
This song and red hot drops on the zune hit 😪❤️❤️
@EtheriumSky
Same! Had my zune forever ago with this pre-loaded, randomly and vaguely remembered it and now i'm here doing searches for "asian girl funny dancing backwards with paper cutouts music video" haha
@Born2DANCE93
I was looking for help on my css homework but I found this gem...