Brazilian band Cansei de Ser Sexy (CSS) announce they will bring their pure, infectious CSS-energy back for their first American tour in 11 years; appropriately named IT’S BEEN A NUMBER OF YEARS TOUR 2024.
Lovefoxxx, Ana Rezende, Carolina Parra and Luiza Sá have reformed CSS to focus on live shows while celebrating their 20th anniversary as a band.
The limited tour starts on May 3rd in Washington, DC and will end at California’s Just Like Heaven Festival. Tickets for the tour will go on sale on Thursday January 25th at 10am local time cssmusic.club.
Lovefoxxx says: “I DJ often, and I am approached by fans who tell me how much ‘we’ve helped them figure out themselves’, ‘showed a way out’ out of societal norms, and even ‘inspired them to be who they are’ – which melts my heart because most of these fans are delicate queer creative people.”
She added: “It’s so nice to know we touched some people and are still harvesting this love 20 years later.
So since the cycle of life can’t be stopped and trends come back after 20 years: demand came and we are honored to do a celebration tour. Sing the hits and non hits. Jump around, make jokes, reconnect with this energy that only CSS delivers to us and give it a go, for the naive times, for the raw and crazy, to fall in love again in the clubs, once more!”
CSS was born out of a passion for laughter, dance music, and, yes, the occasional chance to ditch the 9-5 job.
When the members of CSS slowly started drifting away from the project in 2014, it wasn’t due to a lack of passion. Rather, they decided to pursue other projects because the band had become a job—an ironic twist considering its members started the group to get out of the monotony of day jobs, and to be able to to leave work early and perform at clubs.
Armed with a revived live show, CSS is bringing their signature hits back to venues across the world, getting back on the road because there’s nothing better than globetrotting and partying in new cities with your best friends.
It made sense to begin this next phase of CSS by honoring the band’s powerful, triumphant live shows. This reemergence is for the love of music, as uncynical of a pursuit as any that has existed. There’s no pressure to promote new music, push vinyl, or rehearse new music until perfected. Rather, the group members, who speak to each other every day and have since the band took a breather, decided it would be a blast to remember the old times, and introduce a whole new group of listeners to their thrilling music.
Lovefoxxx said: “The fact that we are still resonating is surprising to me. It shows that we truly touched a generation. We were never meant to be role models or inspire. We just wanted to enjoy ourselves. There’s immense power in it
“What keeps us together as friends and probably helped convince us to reunite as a band is our humor. We laugh at the same stuff. We have our own language”
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