Art Pop: Lady Gaga, Hermeto Pascoal and Sócrates

The brazilian multi-instrumentalist Hermeto Pascoal has a pretty quote in Francis Vale's documentary "Hermeto and Quarteto" (to be released this year), about a travel he makes to USA, when he doesn't undestanding the language: "The music haven't language, the music is the feeling". In another moment, he says: "The music is like the wind, like the stars, like the sky, like the mountains, It's nobody. Mainly the air we breath"

The testimony is about the 50º aniversary of the unique Quarteto Novo's álbum, released in 1967 by one instrumentalist group formed, beyond Hermeto, by Theo de Barros, Heraldo do Monte and Airto Moreira. Without one word, eight musics acess almost mathematically (notes and arrangements) the imagination of consumer of a musical style wich can say more about himself than the lyric style.

It's more or less this understanding of music's term than explains the bold concept of "ARTPOP", the fourth studio album of Lady Gaga. It's not that Hermeto defends Gaga, that we don't know, even because he always shows mistrust about the cultural imperialism. He even starred some years ago a little conflit with Caetano Veloso, by he's declaration that american's music is the best of the world. But in the album, Gaga is submited in the most tracks by interference of a endless beat wich, by imposition, express itself more than her voice and her inspired composition. "ARTPOP" questions the "noises we call art".

It's important remember that Gaga was born from the industry wich kept her, and that always make her assume the challenge of recognize herlsef like "modern". Gaga explodes in 2008 singing about fame, money, beauty, going to extremes sides of sucess, influence, still underestimating the responsability of the icon that only american's industry is capable to massify. In next, she continues to speak about cultural market, like the millionaire romance written with the men in a suit that evaluete her's price in one of the most seen videos of youtube's story. Crossing by "Born This Way", she's most emotional phase, Gaga shows in next what she's titled like your freedom: ARTPOP.

This point takes us to return somes years, more than two centuries to try to be especific, Like Socrates has write nothing, he's thoughts was transmitted in orality and in this so instable way, remained until Platão could write it. Marshall McLuhan, communication's theorist, englobes this thinking, poiting out that Saint Tomás de Aquino understood that neither Sócrates and Jesus Christ had trust his teachings to writing. The ideia was that books was a expression that indivituated the man who before like to share things in group. Is in that mistrust about a next possibilities of communication, that Gaga point out the finger. What is this Art that computers are capable to create?



Gaga is testemony of a musical eletronic phase before years 90, wich cross the edges that was popularized in the DJ's symbols before that. Today, this music is openly sinthetic in the objective of be eletric, pulsating, and it buy by the nexting to experimental, because it's like to be abstract, free.

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