Tropicalia - Beck

"Tropicalia" by Beck off of the album "Mutations"

Oh when they beat
Upon a broken guitar
And on the streets
They reek of tropical charms
The embassies lie in hideous shards
Where tourists snore and decay
When they dance in a reptile blaze
You wear a mask
An equatorial haze
Into the past
A colonial maze
Where there's no more confetti to throw
You wouldn't know what to say to yourself
Love is a poverty you couldn't sell
Misery waits in vague hotels
To be evicted
You're out of luck
You're singing funeral songs
To the studs
They're anabolic and bronze
They seem to strut
In their millennial fogs
'til they fall down and deflate
You wouldn't know what to say to yourself
Love is a poverty you couldn't sell
Misery waits in vague hotels
To be evicted
Oh and now you've had your fun
Under an air-conditioned sun
It's burned into your eyes
Leaves you plain and left behind
I see them rise and fall
Into the jaws of a pestilent love
You wouldn't know what to say to yourself
Love is a poverty you couldn't sell
Misery waits in vague hotels
To be a victim

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• Mutations
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[TROPICALRAPTURE]

Ok Beck, I love your music. But this influence (in this song) is much more to "samba-rock" by Jorge Benjor than "Tropicália" (60's brazilian musical movement).

[multivitamins4all]

Haha I'm sure Beck's got it under his hat. He is or at least used to be a huge fan of Tropicalia, and has said one of his favorite bands was Os Mutantes. Perhaps his purpose wasn't to write a straight-out tropicalia tune? I can feel some tropicalia in here though. Can't say I listen to much "samba-rock", however

[Electricpeacesurge]

what the hell? these lyrics are SO wrong!!!

[multivitamins4all]

Oh crap, you're right. I accidentally put in the lyrics from "We Live Again" off the same album instead of Tropicalia. *Fixed

[cheeseburgerInc]

Best song on Mutations

second best is bottle of blues

[multivitamins4all]

Hey man! I've always felt the same way. I used to only like three songs off the album, but these days I love the whole album. It was

1st-Tropicalia

2nd-Bottle of Blues

3rd-O Maria

[fashionandmusic921]

the noise in the background sounds like a straw being slid up in down in a drink cup...lol

[cocochanell7]

this song sounds so tropical

[dasacker3000]

sounds like elevator music

[natedog2069]

@TROPICALRAPTURE does it fucking matter

[PapaPinotte]

@PauloVinicius2111

Brazilian song? It's an homage to Os Mutantes (hence the name of the album) and others tropicalistos, but isn't it an original composition? It's got nothing to do with Caetano Veloso's song of the same name anyway...

[lameplanet]

I love that cuíca sound.

[SCPH7503]

Got some mad skills on the cuíca goin'.

[MrJas1991]

I love this album

[subpolarity]

mfw i realized this was girl from ipanema. oh lawd

[PauloVinicius2111]

Brazilian song. In English. Nice... mas eu prefiro em português.

[eternaldarkness7]

@herecomesthesun21287 yup i work there too its on one of the albums that was selling. I was called "in a bossa nova mood" i think it was selling around july ish well if you work at a franchise store and not a licensed store. It has some awesome new age bossa nova music on there this being one of them