Word: brazile
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Britney-clone is a hit in Brazil. You can't stop teen pop, but you'd hope to contain...
...content to be a passive spectator, you have two alternatives: You could hop a flight down to Brazil's Porto Alegre for the rival World Social Forum, a gathering of globalization's discontents featuring the likes of French farmer Jose Bove, best known for his renovation-by-tractor of a French McDonald's outlet to protest imports of U.S. beef. The guys at Davos go skiing between sessions; the Porto Alegre crowd prefer something a little more active - on their first night, 1,000 activists occupied a local Monsanto laboratory to protest genetically modified food...
...Miami, a brief layover (an hour or so) and Miami to New York. Now we're landing at JFK. I look out the television screen-sized window. Everything in New York is white, the sky, the ground, everything. I kinda wish I could turn the channel back to Brazil...
...comes on the over airplane's speakers? A Muzak version of "Desafinado." The guts of the song - the swing, the soul, the samba, the bossa-novaness of it - have all be ripped out and replaced by loaves of white bread. It is an almost perfect ending. A trip to Brazil to see how artists there are improving on the music of the world ends with a return to the outside world that ends with a display of how foreigners are screwing up the music of Brazil. There's a certain poetry to it all. I need some poetry to wrap...
...didn't find the meaning of existence in Brazil. And I don't think life is a bitter tragic joke...