The organization of a Unesp student party announced that MC Pipokinha will no longer perform at the event scheduled for April 29th and 30th in Araraquara (SP).
Why: On March 6, in response to a fan on Instagram, the singer poked fun at work and teacher salaries.
At least seven previous performances by the artist have been canceled due to the comment.
Referring to MC Pipokina’s exit from the Unesp party lineup, the Interuniversity League of University Sports (Lieu) said the event “comes from an institution that represents the public university and its need for recognition along with education in Brazil “. .
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Funk singer MC Pipokinha has had at least seven shows canceled after she made a video mocking teachers’ salaries. She missed appearances in RN, SC, DF, ES, RO, MG and SP. Understand the following case:
1 What were the canceled shows so far?
Most events have a university audience or are organized directly by student groups. In this context, their mockery of teachers becomes even more serious.
The student party Integra Inter in Araraquara, for example, justified this by saying that “the event aims to be a pluralistic and diverse space, starting from an institution that represents the public university and its need for recognition together with education in Brazil” .
2 What was Pipokinha’s statement?
MC Pipokinha poked fun at teachers’ work and salaries in response to a fan on Instagram who said he had fallen out with a teacher over the funk artist.
“As a teacher, you have to love your job very much, you hear abuse from strangers’ children, there’s nothing to do at home anyway, you have to be a teacher. And still getting what a teacher gets is almost nothing. … just being a teacher,” said the funk artist.
And he added: “My dance costs R$ 70,000: 30 minutes on stage I earn R$ 70,000. Sometimes she doesn’t even earn R$ 5,000 as a teacher. She has a lot to learn.”
3 And what did the singer say after the cancellations?
The singer’s legal team explains that she “sadly suffered numerous baseless attacks on the internet for being active on issues of women’s empowerment and for growing up in the media and hearing words said to have been spoken by another woman , she expressed herself in dubious ways, thereby giving rise to pejorative interpretations distorted from her real intention”.
4 Who is MC Pipokinha?
The singer from Santa Catarina Doroth Helena de Sousa Alves is 24 years old, grew up in Tubarão (SC) and lives in São Paulo. She is the daughter of Mormon parents and left homeless in SP to become a funk singer.
Pipokinha shared her story with the podcast g1 belongs. Listen below:
She sings bold sexual lyrics with aggressive vocals on tracks like “Bota na Pipokinha,” “Eu sou a MC Pipokinha,” and “Tira as Crianças da” to the bursting beats of street funk, a style known as “mandelão salad.” “…
“It’s not because I’m better,” explained the singer, who has caused astonishment with her funk show’s aggressive sex moves. “But because I’m smart,” she adds.
The idea, according to the MC, is to connect the texts with the stage. “It’s like the story is the music and what I’m presenting on my show is a theatre,” he says. “Like it’s a fucking musical,” she defines.
On stage, her dancers pick up fans who qualify to participate, toss them up and down, smack them and cymbal bumps. Pipokinha appears with a crown and declares herself the “Queen of Bitching”. The scenes of sexual beatings (with fan approval) resonated across the networks.