Best English Podcas t - Brazilians don't dance samba. Cultural habits V

Hello everyone Todauy, I close the Brazilian Habits talking about music. Hello everyoneSorry I took longer than my recent schedule on posting episodes, but I am here once again to present something that might surprise many of you. Brazil is famous for many cultural aspects such as beautiful beaches, beautiful women, soccer, samba and MPB are the maybe the greatest ones. Which ones I listed are familiar to you? Leave in the comment section.  However, according to Spotify, the most listened music styles in Brazil today are neither samba nor mpb. In fact, they are Funk Carioca, Brazilian university country music and arrocha, which is a variation of forró. In my personal musical taste, I am far from the most listened to in Brazil, I like rock and heavy metal. Believe or not, in Brazil from the beginning of 80’s up to late 90’ rock was the biggest music style in Brazil along with samba and axé. Despite rock, samba and mpb losing their top, they still have a huge amount of fans. If you take bands, singers who are in their 30-year career or so, they don’t come on tv too often, on the other hand their concerts are crowded. Recently, I attended a concert of a band which is 40 years old and it was just crowded, about 10 thousand people. In the city I live, a concert this size, believe me. It is crowded.  Considering samba being a traditional cultural mark in Brazil, there are not as many people dancing samba as you think. Actually, it is easier for you to know more people that don’t dance than people who dance samba. Relating the traditional MPB, seems like it is aging as Jazz did. Our first MPB and Bossa Nova generation is about 80 years old and despite having a huge number of fans, sadly doesn’t seem to be renewing their fan base. Therefore, it will become music listened to by less people compared to today.  Well, Brazil has a huge diversity in art relating to dancing and music. If you are curious enough to try to discover this precious cultural mark, I can help you. Send me a message on my instagram @bestenglish.br or on LinkedIn Teacher Bruno Gon. I hope I have made you curious about our music enough to make you start digging into it. If you liked this episode, please rate it 5 stars, forward to friends. Thank you very much.