Pimba and it's political reason

 Pimba, a portuguese musical genre, a miscelanious sound and sugestive meanings which gained popularity due to mass culture to which portugese society was exposed after the 25th of april of 1974. These genres name has origin in the song "Pimba Pimba" by the singer Emanuel (one inspired by a portuguese rock song that used the expression "e Pimba", "and Bang", as a way of sugesting sexual activity).

 Despite it's, at first, bad association to the genre, Pimba was then, around the 2000's, accepted as portuguese culture and is played in almost every party, due to it's comercialization. Pimba is now wildly adored by many in Portugal for it's funny sexual puns and livelyhood.

 Thanks to this extra-comercial evolution of pimba we can analyse how the people's opression in the duration of Salazar's regime and the sudden freedom affects the collective actions we take as a society. This situation can be compared to other similar casesin which tragedy and opression fall upon the world and as a result the masses go on a frenzy for something that validates their freedom and well being, such as te roaring 20's, when the western population went crazy for consumption in a fear that the war would come back and that they wouldn't have lived enough.

 Examining profoundly the predominant fame of this genre we notice that, even after 50 years have passed since the 25th of April, there's still a huge dependency of the portuguese society that cling to these hollow lyrics and comercial songs, even if we now live in a democracy, due to the inconscient fear of losing our liberty.

 Besides the fear of losing our freedom I think the country's iliteracy counts in favour of the adoration for these songs, and the loss of popularity in more intricate lyrics and sounds in tradicional music.