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Rating: Here we are again with yet another "Beatles + XYZ" experiment, which always draws attention and briefly boosts sales for the singers and/or groups who take on the challenge. Thus, we have this little-known Rita Lee, a genuine Brazilian with 4/5 albums to her name, tackling the Lennon/McCartney repertoire but rearranging everything with samba or typically bossa nova sounds. It's rather an insipid and bland experiment that neither adds nor detracts anything from immortal tracks like "A Hard Day's Night," "With a Little Help From My Friends," or "Michelle." Everything is very soft and vaguely lounge-style, reminiscent of a trendy little spot in Testaccio, where the songs flow as sweet and syrupy as caramel, all neatly polished, tender, tender, with arrangements that are, to say the least, traditional.
Certainly, nothing scandalous, quite the opposite, but nothing that makes you want to delve deeper into songs that you know not just by heart but even more. It's a classic commercial operation that smells of marketing right from the cover (half Brazilian, half with the singer phoning from a British telephone booth!!). An album that's cuddly and tender, perfect as background music for sitting by the fireplace with your partner, sweet and sugary like Winnie the Pooh bears. In the end, sometimes you can't ask much more from music, right?
PS: Steer clear for Beatles lovers, those who want to listen to good music, and especially... the wild lovers!
Tracklist Lyrics and Videos
11 Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds (04:44)
Picture yourself in a boat on a river
With tangerine trees and marmalade skies
Somebody calls you, you answer quite slowly
A girl with kaleidoscope eyes
Cellophane flowers of yellow and green
Towering over your head
Look for the girl with the sun in her eyes
And she's gone
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Aaaaaah
Follow her down to a bridge by a fountain
Where rocking horse people eat marshmallow pies
Everyone smiles as you drift past the flowers
That grow so incredibly high
Newspaper taxis appear on the shore
Waiting to take you away
Climb in the back with your head in the clouds
And you're gone
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Aaaaaah
Picture yourself on a train in a station
With plasticine porters with looking glass ties
Suddenly someone is there at the turnstile
The girl with kaleidoscope eyes
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Aaaaaah
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Aaaaaah
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Lucy in the sky with diamonds...
12 Here, There and Everywhere (02:31)
Não dá pra ser feliz
Longe do meu grande amor
Eu, nesse mundinho de deus
Sempre as voltas pensando em você
Pra lhe fazer, uma serenata só
There, running my hands through her hair
Both of us thinking how good it can be
Someone is speaking but she doesn't know he's there
I love you pra chuchu
Se você não está perto de mim eu fico jururu
Tudo azul mas sem você eu fico blue.
Knowing that love is to share
Each one believing that love never dies
Wachting her eyes, and hoping i'm always there
Eu. nesse mundinho de deus
Cá estou eu lua cheia de mel
Olho pro céu, meu solcontinua lá
E eu aqui, pra lá e pra cá
Aqui, ali, em qualquer lugar...
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