Televisão
{{Infobox album
| name = Televisão
| type = Album
| artist = Titãs
| cover = Capa_2.jpg
| alt =
| released = June 1985
| recorded = 1985
| venue =
| studio =
| length =
| label = WEA
| producer = Lulu Santos
| prev_title = Titãs
| prev_year = 1984
| next_title = Cabeça Dinossauro
| next_year = 1986
| misc = {{Singles
| name = Televisão
| type = studio
| single1 = Televisão
| single1date = 1985
| single2 = Insensível
| single2date = 1985
}}
}}
Televisão (Television) is the second studio album by Brazilian rock band Titãs, released in 1985 via WEA.{{cite journal|last=Gonçalvez |first=Marcos Augusto |title=No ar, o LP que troca de canal |journal=Folha de S.Paulo |date=19 June 1985 |volume=20 |issue=591 |url=https://acervo.folha.com.br/leitor.do?numero=9173&anchor=4147457&origem=busca&originURL=&pd=a9af5fcb4698599fcbc9f5224541e228 |access-date=29 January 2021 |page=39 |publisher=Grupo Folha}} It is the first album to feature drummer Charles Gavin, following André Jung's departure in the previous year.{{cite web|last1=Reis|first1=Luiz Felipe|last2=Lichote|first2=Leonardo|title=Peça e livro celebram os 30 anos de 'Cabeça dinossauro', dos Titãs|url=https://oglobo.globo.com/cultura/peca-livro-celebram-os-30-anos-de-cabeca-dinossauro-dos-titas-20317034|website=O Globo|publisher=Grupo Globo|accessdate=21 June 2017|location=Rio de Janeiro|language=Portuguese|date=20 October 2016}}
Televisão was conceived to mimic a television, in that each track represented a channel, i.e. tracks would navigate between musical genres just like different kinds of programs could be watched by switching channels.{{Cite video|date= 11 November 2020 | title= Nando Reis - 50 fatos sobre os Titãs |url= https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_ugLhPhvpY |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211213/B_ugLhPhvpY |archive-date=2021-12-13 |url-status=live|access-date= 29 January 2021|time=28:50-30:00 (Televisão); 30:54-31:17 (Massacre) |location= |publisher= YouTube|quote=}}{{cbignore}}{{sfn|Alexandre|2013|p=290}} The cover picture wasn't edited so it would look like a TV screenshot; the band was effectively filmed by a camera and the images were broadcast to a television, and the photographer took a picture of its screen.{{cite video|last=Naspolini |first=Gilson |title=CHARLES GAVIN: A Produção do "CABEÇA DINOSSAURO" ao "JESUS NÃO TEM DENTES[...]" (Entrevista Parte 1) |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EScG6kzgx8 |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211213/0EScG6kzgx8 |archive-date=2021-12-13 |url-status=live|work=Canal de Gilson Naspolini |publisher=YouTube |time=01:12-11:32 |access-date=30 January 2021 |date=7 August 2020}}{{cbignore}}
It was the band's first album produced by Lulu Santos, who was chosen in order to create a different sound from other Brazilian rock bands of that time.
In 1998, when asked about the destiny of the character Dona Nenê from the homonymous song, the band said "it's a mystery as of today" and that "no one knows where she is".{{cite web |title=Leia entrevista com os Titãs publicada na Folha em 98 |url=https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/folha/ilustrada/ult90u14418.shtml |work=Folha de S.Paulo |publisher=Grupo Folha |access-date=29 January 2021 |date=12 June 2001}} During a performance of "Massacre" at Marília Gabriela's program, politician Jânio Quadros protested, saying "that wansn't music" and that it was "crap".
The album sold a total of 100,000 copies,[http://www.allmusic.com/artist/tit%C3%A3s-mn0000605059/biography Titãs biography] at Allmusic but only 25,000 initially, which was considered a "relative failure" by the band. In a 2006 article, vocalist and keyboardist Sérgio Britto commented that tracks such as "Televisão", "Massacre", "Pavimentação" and "Autonomia" hinted the musical direction the band would take in their next album, Cabeça Dinossauro.{{cite journal|last1=Britto|first1=Sérgio|authorlink1=Sérgio Britto|title=Cabeça Dinossauro|journal=Rolling Stone Brasil|date=November 2006|publisher=Grupo Spring de Comunicação|language=Portuguese}}
Track listing
{{track listing
| extra_column = Lead vocals
| title1 = Televisão
| note1 = Television
| lyrics1 = Arnaldo Antunes, Marcelo Fromer and Tony Bellotto
| extra1 = Antunes
| length1 = 3:40
| title2 = Insensível
| note2 = Insensitive
| lyrics2 = Sérgio Britto
| length2 = 4:25
| extra2 = Britto
| title3 = Pavimentação
| note3 = Pavement
| lyrics3 = Paulo Miklos and Antunes
| extra3 = Miklos
| length3 = 2:25
| title4 = Dona Nenê
| note4 = Mrs. Nenê
| lyrics4 = Branco Mello and Ciro Pessoa
| extra4 = Mello
| length4 = 3:35
| title5 = Pra Dizer Adeus
| note5 = To Say Goodbye
| lyrics5 = Bellotto and Reis
| extra5 = Reis
| length5 = 5:00
| title6 = Não Vou Me Adaptar
| note6 = I Won't Adapt Myself
| lyrics6 = Antunes
| extra6 = Antunes
| length6 = 2:45
| title7 = Tudo Vai Passar
| note7 = Everything Will Pass
| lyrics7 = Britto and Fromer
| extra7 = Britto
| length7 = 3:40
| title8 = Sonho com Você
| note8 = I Dream About You
| lyrics8 = Mello, Britto and Pessoa
| extra8 = Mello
| length8 = 3:05
| title9 = O Homem Cinza
| note9 = The Grey Man
| lyrics9 = Reis
| extra9 = Reis
| length9 = 3:40
| title10 = Autonomia
| note10 = Autonomy
| lyrics10 = Miklos, Antunes and Fromer
| extra10 = Miklos
| length10 = 2:55
| title11 = Massacre
| note11 = slaughter
| lyrics11 = Britto and Fromer
| extra11 = Miklos, Britto, Mello and Antunes
| length11 = 1:40
}}
Personnel
- Arnaldo Antunes - vocals
- Branco Mello - Vocals
- Nando Reis - Bass, vocals
- Charles Gavin - drums, Timpani
- Sérgio Britto - Keyboards, vocals
- Paulo Miklos - Vocals, keyboards on tracks 2, 6 and 7, bass on track 5.
- Marcelo Fromer - Rhythm & Lead Guitar
- Tony Bellotto - Lead & Rhythm Guitar
Guest performances
- Lulu Santos - Lead guitar on track 5, bass on track 4.
- Leo Gandelman - Saxophone on tracks 1 and 3.
Singles
= "Televisão" =
"Televisão" was released as the second single by Titãs in 1985. It would be later used as the credit music for Beyond Citizen Kane. Its chorus refers to someone named Cride - such person did exist; he was Euclides Gomes dos Santos, a close old friend of comedian Ronald Golias.{{cite web|last=Moreira|first=Rene|title=Refrão de música e bordão da TV, Cride morre em São Carlos|url=http://cultura.estadao.com.br/noticias/musica,refrao-de-musica-e-bordao-da-tv--cride-morre-em-sao-carlos,1705079|work=O Estado de S. Paulo|publisher=Grupo Estado |accessdate=1 August 2015|date=12 June 2015}} Even though the song was released in 1985, it wasn't until 2014 that he met the band personally, when they performed in his hometown São Carlos - he would die in the next year, at the age of 88.
The song is "a critical view of the screen present in our daily lives in a manner at times suffocating"{{cite journal|last=França |first=Jamari |title=Uma banda sofisticada e brega |journal=Jornal do Brasil |date=19 June 1985 |volume=Ano XCV - nº 220 |page=15 |url=http://memoria.bn.br/pdf/030015/per030015_1985_00220.pdf |access-date=29 January 2021}} and it debates the role of television in one's dumbing down process, though allowing one to notice one is a victim of this process.
The song is the opening theme of Tá no Ar, of Rede Globo, since its debut season in 2014. From Season 4 on, in 2017, a cover by Lulu Santos was implemented.{{cite web|url=http://gente.ig.com.br/tvenovela/2017-01-15/ta-no-ar.html| title=Lulu Santos e paródia das Kardashian dão mais irreverência ao "Tá no Ar"|date=15 January 2017|access-date=25 January 2017|publisher=Gente|last=|first=}}
= "Insensível" =
{{Infobox song
| name = Insensível
| cover = Insensivel Cover.jpg
| alt =
| type = single
| artist = Titãs
| album =
| released = 1985
| format =
| recorded =
| studio =
| venue =
| genre = Post-punk
| length =
| label = WEA
| writer = Sérgio Britto
| producer = Lulu Santos
| prev_title = Televisão
| prev_year = 1985
| next_title = AA UU
| next_year = 1986
}}
"Insensível" was released as the third single by the band in 1985. An acoustic version of the song was later recorded and released on Volume Dois.
The music video of "Insensível" shows the band performing on top of a building, with TV monitors behind them. From the half of the video on, a woman (presumably a geisha, given her very white face, red lips and Japanese eyes) starts appearing in the monitors.
= Track listing =
{{track listing
| title1 = Insensível
| note1 = Insensitive
| lyrics1 = Sérgio Britto
| length1 = 4:25
}}
References
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- {{cite book|last=Alexandre |first=Ricardo |title=Dias de Luta: O rock e o Brasil dos anos 80 |year=2013 |publisher=Arquipélago |location=Porto Alegre |isbn= 978-85-60171-39-2 }}
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