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I posted about this in the Brazilian Megaman thread but I think it deserves it's own thread because it does. If you grew up in south/central America you probably know who Xuxa is. I did not, she had no presence in the US. Xuxa (Shoo Sha) is essentially the Brazilian Mister Rogers except she used to model and would sing synthpop tunes to diverse audiences of children. Her show apparently was Mon-Sat every day and if you lived in Brazil or Argentina etc you probably watched it every morning. Had I grown up with Xuxa in my formative years I would probably be a different person. I witnessed one episode of the American English (80% english) run which apparently lasted one season when I was like 9 years old. That single episode permeated my developing brain, I literally wasn't sure if it was real because they never played it again. Being the early 90's it was impossible to find any info as I didn't have any internet or Brazilians. Xuxa is hot. Her backup dancers wear marching band uniforms with thigh high boots and booty shorts. She sings and the children go absolutely ape-poo poo. She is one of the richest people in the world and I had no idea who she was. Behold: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqpF3I7m5ec At some point over ten years later a Brazilian chef I knew was listening to some music that was so similar to Xuxas songs that it cracked open the ole memory banks. Xuxa was not only real but millions of children (and likely many adults) watched her daily for their entire lives. Midriffs, booty shorts, thigh highs and lipstick, promoting diversity, being multi-lingual and bonkers in the way only foreign kids shows can be the show would never fly in the US but they tried. My guess is it was way too progressive for the early 90s. The one episode I saw probably got some calls from concerned parents about abject sexiness being exposed to their children.  The Brazilian version of the show has a different flavor than the US, more music and skin, much like I would expect Brazil to be like if I visited: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4qU6t1ZH24 Xuxa is amazing ---- sidebar: brazil is going through what is hopefully the peak of their covid outbreak right now and they have many issues besides that affecting them. a poster sent me a couple links to some local charities and i am posting them here, the sites are in portuguese and you likely wouldn't be donating if you didn't know the language. hopefully xuxa touches you in a way that makes you care about kids everywhere that you can help with the giant US money printer. https://blmbr.carrd.co/#doe https://www.paodospobres.org.br/site/quero-apoiar-financeiro/ the Brazilian news has not been emphasized in the US but there is some serious stuff happening there. if this is against forum rules i will remove but this thread is pretty low visibility so hopefully i don't have to. no pubes yet sorry fucked around with this message at 21:02 on Jun 15, 2020 |
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Very informative, but I have to argue one point: Xuxa did in fact have at least some manner of presence in the US at some point in the early to mid 90s, as I remember that name quite clearly(as a midwest kid I found it unusual and confusing, having no understanding of Brazilian culture of any sort.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xuxa_(American_TV_program)
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Jun 11, 2020 21:37
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Wanted By Weed posted:Very informative, but I have to argue one point: yup, definitely remember being in middle school and not changing the channel a few times when this came on
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Jun 11, 2020 21:42
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also midwestern kid here and immediately knew who this was but hadn't thought of it in forever. Also I thought she was Russian lol
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Jun 11, 2020 22:14
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Xuxa was on the TV for a lot of my childhood in the US, but it was on some weird channel that I can't recall. Like if I turned the knob to 84 and adjusted the antenna Xuxa would be on. It was the channel that showed Bozo the Clown and Gunsmoke.
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Jun 11, 2020 22:17
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I never saw the show, but I distinctly remember seeing ads for it during Saturday morning cartoons on whichever channel it was that had the syndication rights here. Possibly Fox Kids was heavily promoting Xuxa for a couple months?
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Jun 11, 2020 22:17
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lmao
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Tom Gorman posted:Xuxa was on the TV for a lot of my childhood in the US, but it was on some weird channel that I can't recall. Like if I turned the knob to 84 and adjusted the antenna Xuxa would be on. It was the channel that showed Bozo the Clown and Gunsmoke. hah, also from the midwest and that was my experience and probably why i thought it could have been a dream. pretty sure it was the chicago channel, wgn? who knows, def uhf. time dialation because apparently there is only one american season. that said, 80's hair band xuxa: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2c5tG5mK9I Big Beef City posted:also midwestern kid here and immediately knew who this was but hadn't thought of it in forever. i lived in fall river and new bedford ma for years which have the highest concentration of portuguese speakers in the US - azores, cape verdean, brazilian etc. Portuguese does sound like russian. I've always likened it to Russian+French with a dash of spanish. If you live in the Boston area just put on 97.3 for a few minutes and listen to the patois, its pretty cool, has a good flow. 97.3 posted:WJFD 97.3 is the only 50,000-watts FM radio station in the United States broadcasting in the Portuguese language 24/7/365. From its 600’ tower in the New Bedford area it reaches the various Portuguese, Brazilian and Cape Verdean communities located throughout Eastern New England from Salem, NH to Mystic, CT; from Worcester, MA to Boston, MA and the world via the internet. The 97.3 frequency has broadcast in the Portuguese language from the 50’s, initially as WBSM-FM (1950-1972), then WGCY-FM (1972-1975) and finally as WJFD-FM (1975-present). no pubes yet sorry fucked around with this message at 22:50 on Jun 11, 2020 |
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Jun 11, 2020 22:46
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Wow, I remember seeing one of her shows on late night/early morning nbc in the 90's and I thought it was some kind of fever dream.
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Jun 11, 2020 23:41
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She is one of the richest people in the world What?
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Jun 12, 2020 00:40
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I looked it up and she's apparently worth a cool billion. She also once boned Pele. Extremely pro click.
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Jun 12, 2020 00:47
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How do you pronounce xuxa? Susa?
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Jun 12, 2020 01:02
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I only know who she is because of the Senna documentary.
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Jun 12, 2020 01:04
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Colonel Cancer posted:How do you pronounce xuxa? Susa? Shusha.
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Jun 12, 2020 01:04
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so basically this lady was/is 90s Brazilian Lady Gaga? Didn’t she show up in a Simpsons episode where Krusty tried to introduce her on his show next to Tom Landry but he couldn’t figure out how to pronounce her name?
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Jun 12, 2020 09:45
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Don´t forget about the batshit crazy insane movie she did https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_KF43IBsho
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Jun 12, 2020 10:10
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I. M. Gei posted:so basically this lady was/is 90s Brazilian Lady Gaga? I think a spoof of her appears in the episode where they go to Brazil. The character had nipple tassels which she used to point the Simpsons in the right direction. After 13 years I finally realise this was a reference to Xuxa and not just a silly gag, thanks OP.
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Jun 12, 2020 10:29
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AchtungBaby posted:Don´t forget about the batshit crazy insane movie she did the more stuff i watch of hers i realize how wildly different the age range of culturally acceptable exposure to sexuality and what would be considered "adult themes" in the early 90s were in Brazil/Arg/etc. that movie would be a solid r simply due to costumes in the early 90s. pretty sure US christianity caused me to be not hearing rippin eurobeats in my childhood https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUpKhzS0UBE (this is pretty much hatsune miku with xuxa in a wedding dress with no context) realistically the reason it prob got cancelled in the US is the weird PandaMan and TigerDancer. i think they had to lean on them for translation services with their bizarre articulated mouths. xuxa sounds like a first year on shore ESL. who cares though, learn some language bitches https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnQHRlCzxzs no pubes yet sorry fucked around with this message at 10:56 on Jun 12, 2020 |
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Jun 12, 2020 10:49
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lol a kids show...I saw the video had Gillette and thought...wait...no...did she have another song? She did not.
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Jun 12, 2020 12:17
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I too remember seeing one episode of the American Xuxa show when I was like 9, at 530 in the morning on a channel I hadn't seen before. I wondered why I never heard of it again.
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Jun 12, 2020 14:18
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Props for using amazonian indiginous people as props while dressed up trying to emulate natives from somewhere completely different. They look so uncomfortable lol https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88R12RcZG2U
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Jun 12, 2020 15:05
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Jun 12, 2020 15:28
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It must have been great to be a thirteen-year-old boy in Brazil in the nineties, instead of having to stay up to catch a glimpse of the late night softcore feature, you could just watch daytime children's television
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Jun 12, 2020 15:46
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I feel like I would be a better person today If I had watched Xuxa growing up.
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Jun 12, 2020 15:49
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I love scantily-clad blondes regardless so I don't know if it would have changed much
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Jun 12, 2020 15:49
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Medieval Medic posted:Props for using amazonian indiginous people as props while dressed up trying to emulate natives from somewhere completely different. They look so uncomfortable lol haha i'd say she kinda gets a pass since shes probably trying to promote equality but mostly because its catchy. brazil has a weird history. big nipples big life posted:I feel like I would be a better person today If I had watched Xuxa growing up. i totally agree, despite some of the miscues the stuff i've found has a real positive message and tons of brazilian booty beats. all countries invited, come on in 
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Maybe because I have always been a goon but I always found Xuxa's show embarrassing to watch, maybe because I thought it was a show for girls, I don't remember. I only really cared about the cartoons. My sis was absolutely crazy for Xuxa though. Maybe that's why I thought that. Space Kablooey fucked around with this message at 18:00 on Jun 12, 2020 |
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Jun 12, 2020 17:56
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If Xuxa was such a great role model, why did these Brazilian kids from the 90s grew up to elect Bolsonaro? ... also I think I read that she did erotic movies before the kids show
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ArnieD posted:If Xuxa was such a great role model, why did these Brazilian kids from the 90s grew up to elect Bolsonaro? ... also I think I read that she did erotic movies before the kids show the problem might have been that the brazilian booty beats got in front of the message for some kids but likely the abject poverty/crime in the favelas leaking into tourist areas had something to do with electing an authoritarian. this thread is not about brazilian politics though, it is about beautiful brazilian ladies making wild kids/teens shows.
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Jun 12, 2020 18:16
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ArnieD posted:also I think I read that she did erotic movies before the kids show OK. So what?
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Jun 12, 2020 18:35
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w136EMyRUBA
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Jun 12, 2020 19:20
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Big Beef City posted:also midwestern kid here and immediately knew who this was but hadn't thought of it in forever.
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Jun 12, 2020 19:55
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She's (descended) from the huge German-Brazilian community, if I'm not mistaken. The footage just looks very 90's kitsch to me, not specifically Eastern European.
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Jun 12, 2020 19:57
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So that's who this part of the Simpsons references..
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Basically that's how we brazilians react when americans talk about Sesame Street. We will never understand why it is/was so popular there. I didn't care about Xuxa's costumes, I only watched it because her show was the only show that broadcasted Thundercats at that time.
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Artemicion posted:Basically that's how we brazilians react when americans talk about Sesame Street. We will never understand why it is/was so popular there. I didn't care about Xuxa's costumes, I only watched it because her show was the only show that broadcasted Thundercats at that time. werd, that is pretty much what my portu/brazilian friends told me about it when i looked into it years ago. then we started discussing cultural norms and it made me realize a little bit more about how repressive the US is in terms of sex. little kids in brazil don't see xuxa as a dolled up model but american kids and their parents were fascinated because their exposure to dope rear end half nude women is extremely low. when i was in high school i made friends with a slovakian exchange student and she gave me the magazine (think USA today or whatever) she read on the plane. somewhere in the first couple pages of the magazine was a 2-page spread of a model, breasts fully exposed. i had heard that it was common abroad but that poo poo would literally have to be sold 18+ with an id in the US. sesame street is pretty great but if they would have occasionally dropped some eurobeat it would have been better. henson would have approved i think.
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ArnieD posted:If Xuxa was such a great role model, why did these Brazilian kids from the 90s grew up to elect Bolsonaro?
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Coolness Averted posted:I know you're just going for a "If he's so smart why is he dead?" joke, but it's really hard to understate just how much of a sham that election was. Anyone who polled with any popularity besides the fascists wound up barred from running or dead xuxa should have won
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no pubes yet sorry posted:when i was in high school i made friends with a slovakian exchange student and she gave me the magazine (think USA today or whatever) she read on the plane. somewhere in the first couple pages of the magazine was a 2-page spread of a model, breasts fully exposed. i had heard that it was common abroad but that poo poo would literally have to be sold 18+ with an id in the US. We had an exchange student from Solvakia as well who was staying with one of my friends. We invited her to the beach (she arrived in late August). and let her know that there wasn't anyplace to really change so to wear her swimsuit under her clothes. When everyone was peeling off their clothes (swimsuits underneath) she took her shirt and bra off and then spent a minute digging around in her bag for her bikini top. The guys were pretty surprised/impressed (she was quite attractive and well proportioned), but then were all revolted when they saw that she didn't shave under her armpits. Also they this was 1999, so when they saw that she was wearing a thong bottom, they didn't know what to think. I realized that Canadian culture was pretty repressed as well, since there was this really attractive, mostly naked girl on the beach, but everyone was getting wigged out by her armpit hair.
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The US is pretty much the 'gone wild' archetype. You have this repressive, conservative Protestant culture dominating for centuries, which paradoxically means that the most innocuous things are sexualized and considered 'indecent'. The people in the US rebelling against that culture implicitly adopt that viewpoint, even if just to react against it, and become just as sex-obsessed in a 'positive' sense. It's not a coincidence that the supposedly puritan US produces a huge amount of the world's porn, that Mardi Gras in New Orleans is the way it is, etc.
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