Give Up The Baile Funk

“Anyone caught listening to Brazilian funk-a pounding beat often with sexual lyrics that grew out of Rio de Janeiro’s slums-or rap during the Carnival period would have to turn it off or face arrest and up to six months in prison.”
–Mayor Jose Neto of Sao Lourenco, a city in southeastern Brazil, has banned certain kinds of music during his country’s world-famous party season. Sure, baile funk can get pretty crazy-what with the “corridors of death” and all-but everybody knows where this kind of thing leads: a remake of Footloose, scheduled to hit theaters next year.