Brut interviews Anitta

Brut America

She was born in Rio's favelas. Now, she's Brazil's biggest pop star. Anitta tells Brut why she celebrates baile funk, its origins, and how to dance it (twerking class included).

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00:00I like to show my body.

00:02Since always.

00:03Why can't it be good?

00:05You know, people always put down the women who like to be free,

00:10but if it was a man doing it,

00:12oh no, cute.

00:14And then it's a woman,

00:16oh, she's doing this just to have controversy,

00:19numbers and such and such.

00:21She's not so artistic, she's not so talented, she's not so...

00:24And I don't think so.

00:26It's my personality to be like that.

00:29The personality of the other person is not to be like that.

00:33And nothing changes.

00:35Hello everyone, I am Anita.

00:37I want to send kisses and greetings to all the people of Brut.

01:00It's not the song and the music that change the behavior

01:06and the reality of life in the favela.

01:09It's the life in the favela and the reality

01:13that changes the lyrics and the compositions.

01:16So, because the government for a while wanted to criminalize funk.

01:22No, people sing what you live.

01:25So, if the government puts in these places

01:29culture, access to information,

01:33study, all this,

01:36of course the lyrics are going to change.

01:39Because we sing what we see.

01:41If we wake up, we see guns, drugs, sex,

01:45and nothing else.

01:49What are we going to sing about, love?

01:51I love all kinds of music.

01:53But the door that opened for me was funk.

01:58I started in the favelas, in the bailefunks,

02:00in the street parties in the favela.

02:02These parties that today people are already killing everyone.

02:07And there I think, look, if it were 10 years ago,

02:12I would also be dead with my mother and my brother

02:16and we were not doing anything wrong.

02:18We were singing.

02:19That's why I care so much about taking the rhythm out

02:24and having respect.

02:26So that the people here in Brazil themselves

02:29understand that it is art, it is very well done.

02:33This makes anyone who listens to it move and like it.

02:37I don't do it for controversy or to achieve numbers.

02:41I think it's a personal thing.

02:43For example, Rosalía dances it a lot,

02:45but she doesn't like to show her body so much.

02:48You don't see her showing her body so much.

02:50But the type of dance she does is not as down here,

02:56twerking, ass, as in Brazilian culture.

03:00Here, I was born like this.

03:03If she doesn't like it, and it's amazing,

03:07beautiful, I love it, I'm a fan.

03:09But if I like it, why can't it be good?

03:14Sometimes I keep doing it just so that people understand

03:19and stop saying this.

03:22So that people stop measuring the quality of your work

03:29by how much you show your body or not.

03:32The funk dance.

03:34What three things would you tell me to dance it well?

03:37What do I have to do?

03:39If you tell me how I do that and you show me,

03:42well, I'll show you.

03:44I'll teach you.

03:46What happens is that people are always looking at the ass

03:51because that's what draws attention.

03:53But what I'm really moving are the knees.

03:58If I'm here, you think I'm just moving my ass.

04:03You see that I'm with my knees.

04:05And there are many other movements.

04:09But I think the best tip to learn is to let go.

04:16And be in the mirror.

04:18That's how I learned.

04:19In the mirror, dancing freely.

04:22So I think practice and doing it without judging yourself

04:27or with fear of judgment.

04:29So funk can't have this.

04:31It has to be played.

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