I discovered this music video by accident and what a great finding that it was, most likely Cazuza's final promotional video. The
director Ana Arantes made a TV special with him, a major concert with guests included, and this video that promotes the title track of
Cazuza's final album released in life - he'd get another one after his death.
In terms of video concept, it's pretty good and well made and it's far from the usual dates videos of its period. It concerns of
showing us a huge criticism on the burgeoisie class, its ways of avoiding poverty issues and just enjoying the little wealth and power they
have, and with such ideas the clip presents some members of the wealthier class having fancy dinners, drinking champagnes on big cars, at
the same time street kids try to sell products to them but they are constantly ignored. On some brief takes, the situation reverses and
the kids ride on those cars and the upper class folks try to sell them fruits on the street.
Cazuza is presented through some archive images, either late home videos and some snippets from a concert of his. As much as I love the
man and like his presence, I think the video should not have him at all except for his voice singing because seeing the man on his last stages
of AIDS is just too sad, and a majority of us remembered how the media presented him in that drastic way which always felt a way to exploitative
of him rather than supporting his fight against the disease. Those who had the chance to read his interview with Veja where he was in the front
cover (released around the time of this video) know that the article reduces his value as an artist to nothing and just focus on the negative of
everything. No wonder his dad got furious with the reporter later on, but the girl got fired as well.
Those moments with him on video are
quite reduced, he looked as having fun with his friends (Ezequiel Neves and Frejat make some brief appearances), or making faces to the camera,
he's enjoying himself but with just the concept of making a harsh yet always valid on the bad side of the burgeoisie and their ways is great
enough to communicate with audiences, they can make great analysis of it all and even have some laugh. The song is quite good, though it isn't
much of the most played singles of his (I don't hear it much if compared to Cazuza's previous efforts in the acclaimed "Ideologia"), but his
message certainly crossed barriers and remained important more than 30 years later. 9/10.