.anitta's ‘Versions of Me’ is a tirelessly bewitching global dancefloor experience.
Personal freedom for Anitta means seizing control, pursuing pleasure, exploding the fear and repression around sex and gender, while reserving the right to be a picky, line-stepping kook. She identifies as bisexual and proudly LGBTQ.
She signs up “Despacito” producers Andrés Torres and Mauricio “Dandee” Rengifo for three tracks . Elsewhere, there are nimble, R&B-tinged escapades, one with Ty Dolla $ign, who makes blatant the “La Bamba” sway and shake of flirty pas de deux “Gimme Your Number”; and Khalid, who croons hypnotically over spectral reggaeton pitter-pat on “Ur Baby.
There are certainly a lot of Anittas to navigate, as demonstrated by the album cover: six hauntingly lifelike busts that reflect the singer’s moods, roles, personas, and enthusiasm for cosmetic surgery. For better or worse, she has been compulsively transparent about all of it.
The last time Brazil captivated American pop culture was in the early 1960s when the “The Girl from Ipanema” became a phenomenon . Recorded by American saxophonist-bandleader Stan Getz, featuring Brazilian singer Astrud Gilberto and her husband João, “Ipanema” sparked a craze for bossa nova, the smooth, pop-jazz restyling of samba . Despite its fraught reputation in Brazil, bossa nova led generations to explore the country’s music.
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