Reviewing My Position About Brazilian Music

This post doesn't change my main position about the quality and complexity of the Brazilian music, but I think my last position was a little bit selfish and it's time to fix this.

In a previous post I said:

"The Brazilian music + lyrics has the incredible ability to describe your moment. Sometimes you can find more than one music to describe the same moment, each one by a different perspective. (...) it's very difficult to find something similar in other cultures."

I'm writing this post now to review my previous idea, because I've just realized how unfair I was with other cultures. This Saturday I was surprised by a song that tries to prove my previous point (three times more efficient :O), but from an American (USA) culture's point of view. This song is "Killing me softly" originally sung by Roberta Flack in the 70s. Read part of the lyric to understand:

Strumming my pain with his fingers
Singing my life with his words
Killing me softly with his song (x2)
Telling my whole life with his words
Killing me softly with his song

Isn't it magic? The whole lyric is about a listener describing the talent of the composer when describing his/her feelings or moments. Exactly the point I was trying to prove previously, but with music from Brazil. So, if Charles Fox and Norman Gimbel (composers) had the same idea as mine at that time, they actually had the same perception inside that culture.

In the video below you can watch, listen and sing together with Roberta:



Of course I changed my radio station to Roberta Flack. Check it out!