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• Member: 7sigma
• Studio: The Baka Project
• Title: Butterfly Dance
• Premiered: 2005-12-20
• Category:
  • Serious
• Song:
  • Zé Ramalho A Dança das Borboletas
• Anime:
  • Cowboy Bebop - The Movie: Knockin' on Heaven's Door
• Comments: This video was produced as part of one of my graduation exams. Two other students, Viviane and Sílvia, greatly helped me with fine-tuning the synch, although time restraints forced me to finish it before it was truly polished. Overall, I think that it turned out quite good, and along with Mushroom Samba it's my best video so far.
  
  Concept:
  This song speaks of how humanity faced a new and unexpected enemy, the butteflies. It's full of double meanings and metaphors, but in the end it's about how beautiful things are also the most dangerous of all. Since Spike Spiegel always get in trouble precisely because of beautiful things, and the movie had this wonderful footage of the light butterflies (actually illusions caused by a deadly virus), I thought it was a nice fit.
  
  The song:
  Zé Ramalho is a great brazilian artist, best known for experimental music deeply interlaced with local culture. In this song, he allies with Sepultura, brazilian's best-known heavy metal band, for a deep and somewhat scary interpretation of the deadly dance of the butterflies. For your convenience, here are the lyrics, along with a freely translated version. The song was greatly edited for this video, so if you'd like to know the original version, I'd suggest another source.
  
  A DANÇA DAS BORBOLETAS
  
  As borboletas estão voando
  A dança louca das borboletas
  Quem vai girar não quer dançar
  só quer voar, a voar
  Quem vai girar não quer dançar
  só quer voar, a voar
  
  E as borboletas estão invadindo
  os apartamentos, cinemas e bares
  Esgotos e rios e lagos e mares
  Em um rodopio de arrepiar
  Derrubam janelas e portas de vidro
  Escadas rolantes e nas chaminés
  Se sentam e pousam em meio à fumaça
  Em um arco-íris se sabe o que é
  
  Se sabe o que é...Se sabe o que é...
  Se sabe o que é...Se sabe o que é...
  
  THE BUTTERFLY DANCE
  
  The butterflies are flying
  The crazy dance of the butterflies
  Who is going to spin, does not wish to dance
  Just wants to fly, to fly
  Who is going to spin, does not wish to dance
  Just wants to fly, to fly
  
  And the butterflies are invading
  the apartments, cines and bars
  Sewers and rivers, lakes and seas
  In a de chilling twirl
  Destroying windows and glass doors
  Escalators and in the chimneys
  They sit and lie amidst the smoke
  In a rainbow if knows what it is
  
  If knows what it is... If knows what it is...
  If knows what it is... If knows what it is...