Madalena Nabais apresenta

Da coleção Madalena Nabais trazemos hoje dois vídeos musicais, mas bem diferentes em todos os sentidos como irão entender.

Do aclamado Charles Aznavour vamos ver/ouvir um dos seus clássicos,"Yesterday When I Was Young", que, para além de, como o título deixa antever, ser cantado em inglês nos oferece algo mais: uma pequena resenha da sua vida com imagens de arquivo.

O segundo vídeo é de teor humorístico. Apresenta-nos uma dupla terrível, Hitler & Estaline, a "interpretar" o tema "Video Killed The Radio Star", uma canção da banda de pop rock inglesa The Buggles que integra o primeiro disco da banda, "The Age of Plastic" (1980). Para quem não saiba, este tema teve a honra de ser o primeiro videoclipe a passar na MTV. 

Claro que o vídeo apresentado é, como diria o Herman José, uma chalaça, embora brincar com dois ditadores que exterminaram milhões de seres humanos esteja bem longe de ser uma "brincadeira". Mas o humor, se bem utilizado, é uma arma muito forte. Nunca ouviram dizer que "o ridículo mata"?

Mas, para o post ficar ainda mais completo e "enriquecedor" tomei duas, acho eu, simpáticas liberdades: disponibilizo a versão original deste mesmo tema, tal qual foi lançada pelos The Buggles em 1979, e, o que será sempre uma realidade quando tal se justificar, anexo as letras dos dois temas musicais que hoje integram este espaço. 


Charles Aznavour - Yesterday When I Was Young




Hitler & Estaline - Video Kill the Radio Star




Buggles - Video Kill the Radio Star




Yesterday When I Was Young
Charles Aznavour

Yesterday when I was young,
The taste of life was sweet as rain upon my tongue,
I teased at life as if it were a foolish game,
The way the evening breeze may tease a candle flame;
The thousand dreams I dreamed,
The splendid things I planned I always built, alas,
On weak and shifting sand;

I lived by night and shunned the naked light of day
And only now I see how the years ran away.

Yesterday
When I was young,
So many drinking songs were waiting to be sung,
So many wayward pleasures lay in store for me
And so much pain my dazzled eyes refused to see,
I ran so fast that time and youth at last ran out,
I never stopped to think what life was all about
And every conversation I can now recall concerned itself with me, me and nothing else at all.

Yesterday the moon was blue,
And every crazy day brought something new to do,
I used my magic age as if it were a wand,
And never saw the waste and emptiness beyond;

The game of love I played with arrogance and pride
And every flame I lit too quickly, quickly died;

The friends I made all seemed somehow to drift away
And only I am left on stage to end the play.
There are so many songs in me that won't be sung,
I feel the bitter taste of tears upon my tongue,
The time has come for me to pay
For yesterday When I was young.




Video Killed The Radio Star
Buggles

I heard you on the wireless back in Fifty Two
Lying awake intent at tuning in on you
If I was young it didn't stop you coming through

Oh-a oh

They took the credit for your second symphony
Rewritten by machine and new technology
and now I understand the problems you can see
Oh-a oh

I met your children
Oh-a oh

What did you tell them?
Video killed the radio star
Video killed the radio star

Pictures came and broke your heart
Oh-a-a-a oh

And now we meet in an abandoned studio.
We hear the playback and it seems so long ago
And you remember the jingles used to go
Oh-a oh

You were the first one
Oh-a oh

You were the last one

Video killed the radio star
Video killed the radio star
In my mind and in my car, we can't rewind we've gone to far
Oh-a-aho oh
Oh-a-aho oh

Video killed the radio star
Video killed the radio star

In my mind and in my car, we can't rewind we've gone to far
Pictures came and broke your heart, put down the blame on VCR

You are a radio star
You are a radio star
Video killed the radio star
Video killed the radio star
Video killed the radio star
Video killed the radio star

Video killed the radio star
(You are a radio star)




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