Cansei de Ser Sexy performs ‘ovulating’ at Primavera Sound and maintains an unpretentious spirit without sounding forced

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Icon of the alternative generation of the 2000s, the band snubbed hits, but delivered charisma. ‘If we weren’t at that moment of ovulation, it wouldn’t be so good’, joked the singer. Cansei de Ser Sexy performs at Primavera Sound 2023 Fábio Tito/g1 Most fans no longer deal with hangovers very well, but Cansei de Ser Sexy’s show at the Primavera Sound 2023 festival, this Saturday (2), had a certain atmosphere of unruly adolescence. The Brazilian group became an icon of an alternative generation of the early 2000s, mixing rock with electronic music and singing about the glamorous day-to-day life of upper-middle class young people at that time. Conceived in the darkest nightlife environments of São Paulo in 2003, CSS grew with the help of the archaic Fotolog, started to host bigger parties and gained international repercussion. The song “Music Is My Hot Hot Sex”, from their 2005 debut album of the same name, entered the main music chart in the United States in 2007. Its relevance abroad transformed the band into the biggest success story in Brazilian rock after the turn of the millennium. Currently, CSS is made up of Lovefoxxx, Ana Rezende, Luiza Sá and Carolina Parra – producer and founder Adriano Cintra left in 2011. With part of the group living outside Brazil, the members only get together occasionally for major performances. The previous reunion had been at the Popload festival, also in São Paulo, in 2019. Vocalist Lovefoxxx commands the audience during the Cansei de Ser Sexy show at Primavera Sound SP 2023 Fábio Tito/g1 As in that year, the band indulged in nostalgia on the Primavera Sound stage, from the first noise — the sound of the dial-up internet connection, familiar to anyone who lived through the heyday of CSS. The repertoire included early years hymns such as “Alala” and “Bezzi”. But the public was surprised by the absence of “Meeting Paris Hilton”, the soundtrack of a reality show starring the American socialite herself, and the hit “Superafim”, which has even played on “Big Brother”. The setlist dedicated too much time to the album “La Liberacion”, released in 2011, when CSS was no longer so hyped. Songs like “I Love You”, “Hits Me Like a Rock” and “Fuck Everything” were not very exciting. “City Grrrl” packed an emotional moment with Lovefoxxx narrating a recent crisis in his personal life. “I came out of a hole. It’s great to start again. Thank you for being delicate, weird people,” he said (see the full speech in the video below). Singer of Cansei de Ser Sexy speaks to the audience at Primavera Sound The vocalist delivers a performance: dancing, rolling on the floor, changing clothes in front of everyone and talking to the audience, not as if she were not at a festival, but rather at a club of those where CSS was born. “You were very lucky because everyone here is in the ovulation period. If it had been at any other time, the show wouldn’t be as good,” she joked. Unlike other bands, which sound forced when trying to forge the spontaneity of the past, Cansei de Ser Sexy naturally maintains its unpretentious spirit, 20 years later. It’s beautiful to see. The members are not ashamed to say that technique was never the band’s strong point — some entered music without knowing how to play instruments properly. But what it lacks in formal rigor it makes up for in style, charisma and energy. Cansei de Ser Sexy performs at Primavera Sound 2023 Fábio Tito/g1

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