Posted in CULTURA on 5/22/2022 8:47 am
More “Zen” and 25 kilos thinner, the musician wolf — one of the biggest supporters of the 2016 coup and the process that brought Jair Bolsonaro (PL) to power in 2018 — says he “threw himself into an inner journey” to rid himself of the political “fanaticism” he got into was.
“I thought, ‘I’m not going to change the country, but at least I’m going to be a luxury,'” the musician said smugly in an interview with the newspaper O Globo.
“I’ve been immersed in an inner journey a lot. [o escritor francês Marcel] Proust, it’s been a great adventure. I no longer have the patience to live with this kind of fanaticism. That’s blindness on both sides,” he said.
Lobão was one of the first artists to abandon Bolsonarismo, back in 2019, and says he gave “moral timing” to supporters of the conservative far right.
“Em April de 2019, eu disse no Twitter que havia um timing moral pra qualquer um deixar de ser Bolsonaro. E quem não fizesse autocrítica, eu daria um “block”, alijaria do meu convívio. Foi o que aconteceu com o Roger [Moreira, do Ultraje a Rigor]”.
Lobão revisits classics of Brazilian music, including compositions by artists he attacked during his toughest times, and signals a rapprochement with figures like Caetano Veloso, Chico Buarque and Gilberto Gil, the target of his ultraconservative rage long ago.
“All the criticisms I have voiced are absolutely relevant. But they are artists that I admire a lot. And expressing that admiration is only good for the soul. about the meaning of this gesture.”
In the end, the musician shows himself to be a guru and makes an ode to the “memory” he proposes.
“You begin to see what is reasonable and what is not. And that there is elegance that is an accumulation of harmony, rhythm, relaxation and relaxation. She teaches me everything in life. And it makes me a less awkward person, less at odds with people. As I put it, it was destructive. This retreat was very healthy.