Auto-tune performances leave the voices the same, slow rhythms make the songs similar, and the day drags on.
Ludmilla was a welcome relief in the Brazilian squad for the first day of Rock in Rio, Trap Day. Deviating from the funk and pagode genre, the singer’s show early on Friday night (13/9) broke with the succession of similar slow rhythms and identical vocal effects that characterized the performances of Brazilian singers during the event.
The funk artist couldn’t set up the stage he wanted, due to production limitations, but he gave the show the audience needed, with a repertoire punctuated by different musical passages. It was a big exception on a day characterized by few variations.
First artist on the main stage, Matuê aroused the global audience with hits and appearances by Wiu and Teto, but was open to other rhythms, experimenting more than his colleagues. The show was complemented by a performance by Veigh and Keyblack on the Sunset Stage. After Ludmilla, the trap returned with Orochi, Chefin and Oruam at sunset. Until the sum of the representatives of the rhythm became an overdose. The excess of men with the same crying voice, created by autotune, left the shows with a monotonous and synthetic tone, without much differentiation.
Meanwhile, Kevin O’Chris, who has a more individual sound, thanks to the influence of root funk, has limited himself to Palco Favela.
One detail that caught our attention was that all the artists decided to include guitars in their performances, as if it were necessary to pose like a rock star in a festival that, this year, has Rock practically only in name. Trap really has a weakness for emo. Rap’s melodic cousin is also its most commercial version, capable of making an audience of 100,000 people sing along to repertoires without many musical distinctions, not even thematic ones.
The evening will also feature MC Cabelinho and will end with shows by international representatives of the trend, 21 Savage (who renounces autotune) and Travis Scott, with much slower rhythms and downbeat voices.
Source: Terra
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