A Coachella Alphabet: CSS
Name: CSS
Genre: Indie
Day: Sunday
Wikipedia sez: “Cansei de Ser Sexy (Portuguese for Tired of Being Sexy), also known as CSS, is a Brazilian band from São Paulo, where they benefited from unprecedented levels of hype on local newspapers and TV channels. The main musical influence is electro-rock, and this is blended with other media e.g design, cinematography and fashion, and then augmented with plaintive lyrics in English and Portuguese. CSS emphasizes style, fashion and a cool aesthetic, over their place in the music industry. Their broken English compositions are sung with a strong São Paulo accent: fans say this adds a special appeal.”
I am struggling to work out how you could dub CSS as indie given they have the most accessable mainstream sound of any band I’ve sampled so far on the Coachella lineup. Their music is friendly for ears of all kinds and sounds like a combination of artists I’ve heard before, I just couldn’t name them for the life of me right now. If this group was from New York or Paris I don’t think they’d get the attention they get since they are from Sao Paulo.
Likelyhood of Seeing at Coachella: Not a chance.
Read on to view CSS live videos…
CSS - Fuck Off is Not the Only Thing You Have to Show (Live)
CSS - Meeting Paris Hilton (Live)
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April 2nd, 2007 at 8:05 am
I love all these entries on all the Coachella artists, but how can you miss CSS? Lovefoxxx!
April 3rd, 2007 at 11:27 pm
Eh I just wasn’t mad about CSS. I re-listened to a few of their songs tonight and I can’t say I thought they were any better then the last time I heard them.
Thanks for the comments, you don’t happen to have a Bort personalized license plate you can send me? They always seem to be sold out..