"We really like pop songs like Justin and Nelly Furtado, Gwen and Kylie Minogue. This is what put us together, all those pop songs. We used to have a party and we used to play all those songs, like Eurotrash. I think that's what put us together. This is our main influence. Like Dance crappy songs and pop music. I say crappy but I really like it. I know you do, too."
That's basically the story of my life right there, as told by Lovefoxxx, my BFF and front-woman of Brazilian electro-rock outfit CSS (or Cansei De Ser Sexy for the acronym-challenged) at the Indian Summer Festival in 2006. With people like her in the world, I have no need to educate the masses on value of pop music. This blog may be called Bad Pop Music, but who am I kidding? You know just as well as I do that there's no such thing! I call it that just to rope in the skeptics before I hit them with the one-two punch of sparkly glitter and bubble gum and show them the error of their ways.
And just so ya'll know, Cansei De Ser Sexy is Portuguese for "Tired of Being Sexy," which is something our very own Beyoncé actually said in an interview back in her "Crazy In Love" days. You know, before Sasha Fierce took over and started calling the shots (UPGRADE). Sasha Fierce never gets tired of being sexy. Duh.
Here now is one of the highlights of 2008 for pop songs (and while we're at it, music video direction -- this is like a low-budget, acid trip version of "Single Ladies), CSS's Left Behind:
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