RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil —
Pop superstar Anitta became the first Brazilian to reach the number one spot on music
streaming platform Spotify Friday, with a booty-grinding hit, “Envolver,” that
has sparked a viral dance phenomenon.
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“Number 1 in the world. I really don’t know what to
say,” the 28-year-old singer wrote on Twitter.
“The only Brazilian in the history of my country to
have a top 5 song in the world. Oh my God.”
Viral videos of the “Envolver” dance include
performances by men, women, schoolchildren, and the elderly, and even some
underwater.
Sung in Spanish, “Envolver” first took off in
Spanish-speaking
Latin America, rather than Anitta’s native Brazil, where
Portuguese is the official language.
But a surge of Brazilian listeners helped it reach
the top spot as it became a worldwide hit, streamed more than 71 million times
in all on Spotify — and Anitta’s home country feted her Friday.
“Anitta is Brazil! You’ve written your name in the
history books,” said fellow pop singer Lexa.
#Anitta was by far the top trending hashtag on
Twitter in
Brazil Friday.
The pop star has also had hits in English, such as
last year’s “Girl From Rio”.
She has used her increasingly high-profile platform
to speak out on social and political issues.
She is a frequent critic of far-right President
Jair Bolsonaro, who comes up for reelection in October.
As Brazilians helped “Envolver” close in on the
number one spot Thursday, she tweeted, “Hey Brazil, I want that same level of
effort to kick Bolsonaro out of office!”
She also lashed out at online criticism from men
that the “Envolver” dance was too suggestive.
When Venezuelan TV presenter
Osman Aray said on Instagram
that the dance showed some women “want to be disrespected,” she fired back in
an expletive-laced post: “a man’s duty is to respect us whatever the hell we do
with our bodies.”
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