Rodrigo_Amaro

Lyrically, "Provas de Amor" by Titãs goes in a quite interesting idea through its reflections of love being this inexistent thing, what's real are signs, showings and proofs of love. It's not cynicism, it's just a simple hard reality. In the clip we have ridiculously brief moments of couples small interactions while on board of subway trains, as some of the band members are inside the same train and others are performing the song on the station. It goes in the same fast sucession of images and cuts, barely giving time for us to see what's being shown on screen, just like "Eu Não Sou um Bom Lugar", song from the same album "Como Estão Vocês?", but very typical of rock clips. A quite effervescent track and clip of theirs that brings good memories of when it came out when there was still some great music around playing on radio and TV. 7/10.

A truly underrated song and video of Queen, "Scandal" goes up against the media, most notably the infamous tabloids with their fascination for gossip, slander and persecution of celebrities just to sell what they call it news. All for the profit and to drive people obsessed with the lives of rich and famous, or some unworthy of note personalities. An evident sense of frustration is expressed by the band, themselves huge targets of media scrutiny over the decades.

Apart from a few bits of acting in the video beginning and ending (revolving on the people followed by media, and later on a man consuming such media in the next scandal), the whole show offers Freddie Mercury and team playing their act on a set, whose great and gigantic art-direction imitates newspapers. Memorable highlights come Mercury's movements on the stage, at times very provocative and even crawling on the floor as he sings, and the guitar solo moment as Brian May stays in the dark playing and bits of paper flies all over him. The scenery leaves us curious in seeing if there's actual news being reported on the screen, the typical sensational idea of grabbing readers/viewers attention. No need for lavish presentations or exposing excessive ideas, the clip goes in a mostly effective manner with the aim of their attack being displayed everywhere, and Queen's amazing performance of a great song. 10/10.

I consider "I Want It All" to the Queen's last hymn and the kind of song that we can only think and imagine the possibilities if the band were given the chance to perform it live. By that time, Queen already had stopped with live performances as Freddie Mercury's health was deteriorating, but they went along with new albums until the man's passing in 1991. The energy and force brought on with such composition makes me imagine him live, beginning the song just chanting the chorus without the instruments playing, and audience shouting back for a while until Brian May, John Deacon and Roger Taylor rock their act loud and perfect. It has that kind of "We Will Rock You" vibe, songs that audience become a huge part of the act.

From the opening bit showing the band members faces singing together to the whole spectacular performance on stage without an audience, the video for the song conquers viewers very easily. We didn't had the chance to see performances of this one, "Scandal" or "I'm Going Slightly Mad" outside of music video fashion, so we imagine how great they would be if played live, but at least they were still rocking with great style and presence, still delivering great clips and visual moments. This is a perfect and positive hymn, very reflective of what youth feels about, a sense of urgency, though a quite imediatist form of thinking - but we've all been there: to want it all from life and to want it now. 10/10.