Play Estragar {Video}
Plainly, Estragar (a 2016 release) is a contrived, and convenient, interlude – but we don’t really know between what and what. What’s more, this is perhaps true only if you don’t know Portuguese (in which the two singers sing). Under these circumstances, the motions and the sounds we see and hear should, will have to, suffice; if you ever trusted C4Pedro’s artistic intent -- he who is the shooting star in this narrative.
With that
caveat offered, one is inclined to see Estragar
as an ode to the drunken state – a state without borders. In this particular
‘instance’, it is, furthermore, a state under some kind of sweeping and
enforceable lock-down order, or a curfew[1]
– for reasons external to it...
[1]
I’m here clearly using
idioms which became globally real only four good years down the road – after Estragar was ‘dropped’. That is, with
the sudden, game-changing and global invasion of Covid-19. But Estragar is a coincidence – certainly
not a premonition. But who really knows?
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