Sensualidade e sexo de Elis Regina em Me Deixas Louca, de Armando Manzanero

Abstract

Study on the performance practices of Brazilian singer Elis Regina in her 1981 rendition of the song “Me Deixas Louca” [“You Drive Me Crazy”], by Mexican composer-singer Armando Manzanero with lyrics version by Brazilian poet Paulo Coelho, recorded in video (REGINA, MANZANERO, COELHO and OLIVEIRA, 2006). Advancing a previous study (PEROTTI and BORÉM, 2016), we analyzed the performance’s two apexes, in which the singer-actress suggests two orgasms. We used the mAVVm method (BORÉM, 2019 e 2016) to describe relationships in the text-sound-image trinomial, matching video frames with body expressions, sound spectrograms of vocal effects and the song lyrics. We also compared Elis Regina's performance style with that of the songwriter-singer (MANZANERO, 2009). The results show the interpretation strategies of Elis Regina to present an innovative, highly integrated and creative discourse in the mass media in the beginning of the 1980s, with which she makes explicit the women’s empowerment to sexual pleasure.