CSS / Cansei De Ser Sexy

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Artist

CSS

Album Title:

Cansei De Ser Sexy

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Primary Genre

Alternative & Punk: General Alternative

Format

Released

07/11/2006

Label

Sub Pop Records

Catalog No

SPCD 717

Bar Code No

0 98787 07172 6

Packaging

Digipack

Tracks

1.	CSS Suxxx (1:56) (Cansei de Ser Sexy/Adriano Cintra/Lovefoxxx)
2.	Patins (2:18) (Cansei de Ser Sexy/Adriano Cintra/Lovefoxxx/Luiza Sa)
3.	Alala (3:58) (Cansei de Ser Sexy/Adriano Cintra/Carolina Parra/Caroline Parra/Lovefoxxx)
4.	Let's Make Love and Listen to Death From Above (3:31) (Cansei de Ser Sexy/Ferreira/Lovefoxxx/Luisa Matsushita/Y.Matsushita)
5.	Art Bitch (3:09) (Cansei de Ser Sexy/Adriano Cintra/Lovefoxxx)
6.	Fuckoff is Not the Only Thing You Have to Show (4:02) (Cansei de Ser Sexy/Adriano Cintra/Lovefoxxx)
7.	Meeting Paris Hilton (3:11) (Cansei de Ser Sexy/Adriano Cintra/Lovefoxxx)
8.	Off the Hook (2:40) (Cansei de Ser Sexy)
9.	Alcohol (2:49) (Cansei de Ser Sexy/Adriano Cintra/Lovefoxxx)
10.	Music is My Hot Hot Sex (3:07) (Cansei de Ser Sexy/Adriano Cintra/Lovefoxxx)
11.	This Month, Day 10 (3:57) (Cansei de Ser Sexy/Adriano Cintra/Lovefoxxx)

Date Acquired

03/20/2010

Personal Rating

Acquired from

Amazon

Purchase Price

13.98

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Reviews

All Music Guide Review:

Review by Cammila Albertson
You've gotta love the way Brazilian art rock/dance-pop act CSS kicks off their 2006 release Cansei de Ser Sexy -- which is Portuguese for "Tired of Being Sexy" -- with a rousing chant of "CSS sucks!" That self-effacing quality walks the line between high-art irony and unabashed silliness -- slyly setting the tone for a sensual and quirky album. The song "Artbitch" finds singer Lovefoxxx cattily shouting that she's an artist who only shows her work where there's free alcohol, and the track "Meeting Paris Hilton" either recounts a startling encounter with the bony socialite or makes a clever and entertaining lyrical desensitization of the word bitch -- or maybe both. The whole disc has you chuckling and scratching your head over the words, while the electronic rhythms and meticulously layered crunchy guitars send you straight onto the dancefloor. The record is very reminiscent of the Sounds' 2006 release Dying to Say This to You, because of the sassy, provocative vocals as well as the overall mood. CSS' heart and soul are rooted in a sense of fun danceability, exemplified in the track "Music Is My Hot Hot Sex," an anthem rivaling anything recorded by darling-of-the-DJ, reigning club queen Annie (or even her much more mainstream equivalent, Kylie Minogue). It inspires a basic and guttural sense of movement that can manifest itself with anything from a rump-shaking booty bounce to Natalie Imbruglia's flopsy-mopsy dance at the end of the "Torn" video.

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