Anitta tries to guess the lyrics from some of her most popular songs. Along the way she talks about the community she grew up in, her rise to fame and how she wants to be remembered as someone who has challenged social norms.
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00:00I love to...
00:03Míra, just...
00:13Got That Sauce, No Me Haga Blá, Que Te Hago Llorar.
00:18This is from Funk Rave.
00:20It's a great Brazilian funk song from my upcoming album, Funk Generation.
00:30Latin people have a flavor, it's like extra sauce.
00:34But Brazilian, even more, you know?
00:37I feel like we have this energy that never goes out of our bodies.
00:42We're like, so full of life.
00:44And I feel like people can feel this energy coming out of us.
00:49No Me Haga Blá, Que Te Hago Llorar is like,
00:51don't make me speak because I'm going to make you cry.
00:53Because I'm very honest and I always say the truth.
00:57When I'm not working, when I'm not being Anitta,
01:00I am very insecure, shy.
01:03And there is a series in Brazil, at the moment,
01:06that had this character, Anitta, that she was just...
01:10Everybody would get intrigued about her.
01:14And I kind of wanted to be powerful like that.
01:16So I created this persona that just arrives before me.
01:22And it's just there.
01:23Kind of protecting or kind of like calling the attention.
01:27It's like a superpower.
01:30I feel it more when I'm on stage.
01:32It's like, boom.
01:33My mom says it's not...
01:35She doesn't even feel like it's me.
01:45This is from Bella Keo.
01:47It's my song with Beso Plumet.
01:54So this song was funny because one year ago,
01:57on my birthday last year,
01:59a friend of mine sent me this song.
02:01He gave me as a present.
02:02He said, oh, I did this song for you.
02:04And I was like, oh my God, I love it.
02:06And I spent my whole birthday drunk with my friends,
02:09listening to this song on the repeat without my voice.
02:11I haven't even cut the song yet.
02:13Months later, this friend texts me and say,
02:16yo, I showed that song I gave to you to Beso Plumet.
02:19And he loved it.
02:20And he really wants to sing with you.
02:22I said, oh, that's amazing.
02:23Let's do it.
02:24But then I was very attached to my project and funk.
02:28So it came as his song, not mine,
02:31because it was a little bit different
02:32from the type of music that I'm putting out right now,
02:35which is Brazilian funk.
02:45This is a girl from Rio.
02:53Olara Gonzalez was the name of the community
02:54that I was born and raised.
02:55When I say babies having babies, like it doesn't matter.
02:58It's like when we are born and raised in places like that,
03:02where we don't have the understanding of everything,
03:06of our body, we don't have like proper sex education.
03:10We don't have opportunities, structure.
03:13So that's why I said that,
03:14that sometimes we don't get the understanding
03:17that our lives can be different.
03:19And when I say, yeah, the streets have raised me,
03:21I'm favela is because I think here in America,
03:24when people see me, they don't kind of connect the fact
03:27that I was born and raised in the slums of Brazil.
03:32I don't know exactly why.
03:33I just noticed that everybody gets very impressed
03:37when I say, oh yeah, I was raised in a slum
03:40and the ghettos and they were like, you?
03:42And I'm like, yeah, that's right.
03:44So I get a little confused about that.
03:47So I wanted to show this in this song,
03:50Girl From Rio, and also in the music video
03:52that I showed the glamorous part of Brazil
03:55with the touristic points and very fancy, glamorous 50s.
03:59But at the same song and video,
04:01I cut to the kind of life that I lived in Brazil,
04:05which is the favela, the ghetto, the community.
04:10Tengo para ti la Kombi completa,
04:12que no duro mucho soltera, aprovecha-me.
04:16This is Embo Bear.
04:20Que no duro mucho soltera, aprovecha-me.
04:24This character, Anita, lives a wild life.
04:26Now that I turned 30 and I'm about to turn 31,
04:30I'm like, okay, I'm kind of tired of this.
04:32I have done enough.
04:33I have done everything.
04:35Right now, I'm ready to retire.
04:38Right now, I'm ready to retire.
04:40But in this song, that's what I'm saying.
04:42I have for you the full package, I would say.
04:45Se que te gusta que somos así, nos vemos, lo hacemos low-key.
04:48This is from Mil Veces.
04:50Se que te gusta que somos así, nos vemos, lo hacemos low-key.
04:54I say, I know that you like that we are like this.
04:58We see each other, we do it very low-key.
05:01And I think this is kind of like the new chapter of my life.
05:05Everything that I'm living, I'm living very private.
05:08That's very new for me because in the beginning,
05:11it used to expose my life so much.
05:14And say everything about it, what I was doing,
05:17who I was hooking up, da-da-da, everything.
05:19And I don't regret, I think it was fine.
05:22But I think it's a moment of my life that I've passed
05:25and I'm happy now to be very private
05:28and have my personal life.
05:29Nobody figures out what's going on.
05:31I love that.
05:33We crossed with Måneskin at the VMAs
05:36and we were looking for the perfect guy
05:38to be the model of the music video.
05:41When we crossed, my manager looked at me and said,
05:44yo, what do you think about him for the music video?
05:46I said, well, I think it's a great idea.
05:48He's a huge artist.
05:50He has an amazing, crazy attitude that I love.
05:53He's super sexy.
05:54I think it matches a lot my persona, Anita's character.
05:58Felt like the chemistry was amazing.
06:00People loved the idea of also having a singer
06:03playing this role.
06:04I've done that in Brazil
06:05and I was just the model of the music video.
06:08And I really liked it.
06:09So I felt like it was a great idea.
06:10I felt like it was great.
06:14A mi me gusta las mujeres when they shake their ya-ya-ya.
06:16That's from my song, Me Gusta.
06:22That, I'm saying like, I love the women
06:26when they shake their bodies and everything.
06:28This song, I wanted to do for women.
06:31And I also did the music video for women.
06:33Cardi B is on it.
06:34We shot in an amazing, historic place in Brazil.
06:38And I wanted to show like a glamorous moment
06:41of all different types of bodies and women.
06:44I feel like sometimes, not sometimes, every time,
06:47it's kind of like we receive a checklist
06:49of how do you check to be the perfect woman.
06:52And sometimes we feel like we cannot shake.
06:55We cannot be free to dance and to move.
06:58And this song was very much about like, let's go.
07:01Let's do whatever we want.
07:02Let's feel free and dance.
07:04And that was about that.
07:06I have this on me to just appreciate women in general
07:11in all senses.
07:12And this song was about that too.
07:21This is from La Lotto, Stini Tosel and Becky G.
07:30I'm saying like, I flew straight from Miami to Rio,
07:34making everybody around dance.
07:37I feel like I'm kind of like that.
07:39When I put myself to the party,
07:41when I'm like, okay, party time,
07:44I have this power of arriving and set the tone of the place
07:48if I want to, if I have my mind to, okay, tonight.
07:54And I think that I can bring this energy
07:56when it comes out of me, you know.
08:04This is Downtown, my song with J Balvin.
08:12It was my first big hit in Spanish.
08:15Here I'm saying like, at night,
08:17I'm the one who defines everything that is gonna happen.
08:21You don't have to command me.
08:22I feel like that's how Latinos
08:25or everyone that I get to know in the studio see me
08:28when they search about my career in Brazil,
08:30that they know that I'm very like bossy
08:33and I take care of my things,
08:34of how it's gonna succeed and everything's gonna happen.
08:38Even though I have my team, I like to give the directions
08:42because I know exactly how it is.
08:44I didn't come to another country to do a career
08:48just to make money and be famous, you know.
08:50I came with a purpose of bringing my country with me
08:53and showing my people from the ghetto
08:55that you can do whatever you dream of.
08:59And one of my songs in Portuguese
09:02was playing so much in Spain.
09:05When the song was playing in Spain,
09:07the radio asked me to do a festival there
09:09and I said, okay, let's go.
09:11So I didn't know how to communicate with anybody
09:13because in Brazil we speak Portuguese, not Spanish.
09:16And I got so mad because I love to communicate.
09:19I love to...
09:21And I was so mad that I couldn't talk.
09:24When I arrived in Brazil,
09:26the first thing I did was to call different teachers
09:29to learn Spanish from different countries.
09:32So I hired one from Spain,
09:34one from Puerto Rico,
09:35one from Colombia.
09:37So I did it because I felt, like, connected.
09:47This is Paradinha,
09:49my very, very first song in Portuguese Spanish.
09:59This was kind of, like,
10:00the first time I traveled to Latin America,
10:04it was, like, more than seven years ago.
10:06I felt like it was very sexist.
10:11When I was starting singing,
10:12they were like, oh no, you gotta sing about love.
10:15Oh, you can't wear, like, clothes, like, too short
10:18or too sexy because, you know.
10:20So I wanted a shock not to become famous
10:25or to become the conversation.
10:27I wanted a shock because I feel like the rules for us
10:31are too different.
10:33So I wanted to break it and be a little over the top
10:38about what they would consider fine
10:40to actually send the message, like,
10:43we can do whatever we want.
10:53So this song is called Meiga e Abusada.
10:58In these lyrics, I'm saying,
11:01I can conquer whatever I want,
11:04but it was so easy to control you
11:06with my playful, little, sweet girl way.
11:10So it's kind of like I used the fact
11:14that a guy use women
11:16to get whatever I wanted from him,
11:18pretending I was gonna lay with him
11:21or I was gonna do whatever he wanted.
11:23I was, like, pretending I was sweet and soft
11:26and cute the way the girl should behave in his mind
11:30to get what I wanted from him.
11:31And in the end, I was like, oh, bye.
11:33And then in this song, I say,
11:34men like you I use for what I need
11:38and I just send it to trash.
11:39I wanna be remembered as someone
11:41who changed the way things were.
11:44And my country was like that.
11:46There was one way to behave.
11:48Get a husband, get a boyfriend.
11:50And I was like, I don't want to need
11:52to find a boyfriend just for people, you know?
11:54I wanted to be what I wanted
11:56and at some point, I managed to change
11:59the way these publicities were being done.
12:01I'm just saying that I want people to feel free
12:04to be who they want.
12:05If we are worried about what people are gonna think,
12:08we don't do what we want.