Klaus Nomi
No último SPFW, fiquei intrigada quando ouvi a trilha do último desfile da Cavalera – além de ter adorado a boca da passarela, com as modelos flutuantes e as máscaras mórbidas, usadas por alguns dos modelos.
Fui pesquisar de quem era a música e descobri que era do Klaus Nomi. Curiosa, fui procurar mais sobre ele e descobri que o tenor alemão foi ícone do new wave underground na década de 80, com sua incrível voz e bases eletrônicas para músicas cantadas como óperas (e óperas cantadas de maneira pop, levando o gênero para as boates). Klaus usava make pesado e looks beeem peculiares, com inspiração gótica. Fiquei com vontade de ver The Nomi Song, um filme sobre ele, mas que deve ser difícil achar por aqui. Vale procurar e baixar.
Enquanto isso, fico vendo os clipes, como esse, de Lightning Strikes:
Esse foi o desfile da Cavalera:
“I might as well look as alien as possible because it reinforces a point I am making. My whole thing is that I approach everything as an absolute outsider. It’s the only way I can break so many rules. Remember, my background is totally strange – German classical opera. So I was uncertain about coming from that to rock. It was just as shocking for me to sing opera in a falsetto soprano in Germany. It was another rule I was breaking. You just didn’t do that. And I am helped by the fact that pop and rock, which you would think has no rules at all, is really just as conservative as classical music. So what I do is doubly shocking. The difference is that punk audiences admire that I can shock them. Nothing is sacred to me. Who is making the rules anyhow?”
- Klaus Nomi
