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O RPM was a true national phenomenon and much of its success was due to the song Look 43, understand the history of the song "Look 43" from RPM.

Chances are you've heard this expression before, but maybe you didn't know it existed thanks to a song by the most famous Brazilian rock band of the 80's.

So now follow the story of the song “Olhar 43” by RPM.

Birth RPM

RPM started in the decade of 1980, the pinnacle of country rock music.

When this type of band started attracting people to shows and festivals.

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Paulo Ricardo lived in London in 1983 when the British pop scene really took off.

What the Americans called the second invasion of England. It was a time of revolution.

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Rock has just passed the breaking point of punk and takes on a more modern air. He was strongly influenced by names like David Bowie.

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Then, Paulo got in touch with Luis Schiavon and told him that he wanted to create a band that represented exactly this type of rock..

This is how Brazil saw the birth of Fantástico RPM.

Music History Look 43

The song that became a huge hit across the country, "Look 43“, was released just 2 years after the band's debut.

According to Paulo, music is a “contemporary exercise”.

The musicians wanted to do something different from the timbre that was in vogue at the time and that would make people dance.

So, from quotes to hi-tech, Techno-pop and even disco music, Schiavon composed keyboards for the entire song.

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Indeed, one of the reasons for "Look 43" being so revolutionary was precisely the strong presence of the keyboard in the song, which even took the lead from the guitar, which is still a registered trademark of rock.

It is on this basis that Paulo Ricardo put a vocal melody and wrote the emblematic lyrics.

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My look 43

The one like that, halfway to the side.

Already leaving, leaving.

Crazy for you (small)

What a waste

(Lust)

The composer says that it took several days to write a letter that reached the level he was looking for in music.

The song is a confession of love to a teenager who has fallen in love with a beautiful girl.

According to Paulo, he was a typical shy and nerdy boy in his teens.

And in the song, the guy lives up to these qualities, he secretly loves the girl, who has no idea about this feeling.

Song Excerpt

Part of the song Paulo sings:

(...) And you don't even listen to me.

It's over, I'm not going to rhyme anything.

Now go how to leave

That I don't even want to know anymore

Will it fit or will they censor me (will it be?) (...)

According to him, at that time his patience with music was really exhausted, so he took the opportunity to act as if the boy was tired of the little girl not noticing.

Thus, only your "Look 43", an expression inspired by the famous “Olhar 19” from the show Balança Mas Não Cai and which has become synonymous with an act of seduction that is still used today.

This was a characteristic of Paulo himself, as he was short-sighted and ended up masking his situation with this vision.

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