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Why Anitta Is Done with Crossing Over · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest. Brazilian singer Anita has
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Speaker 1: become a global crossover success thanks to songs like Girl
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Speaker 1: from Rio and Involver that bridges the gap between pop
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Speaker 1: and Brazilian music. But her latest batch of songs, Funk
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Speaker 1: Generation a Buffella love Story, pulls her away from pop
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Speaker 1: music back towards her roots and the music she grew
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Speaker 1: up on, a decision Anita consciously made after a severe
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Speaker 1: health scare. It made her recalibrate all her career priorities
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Speaker 1: and just make the music she's called to, she tells Variety.
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Speaker 1: For a long time, the numbers decided whether I want
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Speaker 1: or fail, and that pushed me to be unoriginal. I
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Speaker 1: want to be clear that doesn't mean I don't love
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Speaker 1: my old songs. With my last LP versions of me,
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Speaker 1: I was trying a little bit of everything to solidify
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Speaker 1: myself in the mainstream. But now I really don't care
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Speaker 1: what happens with his next album. I love the adrenaline
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Speaker 1: of not knowing whether people will like it. That's the
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Speaker 1: true definition of fearlessness, when you do what you do
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Speaker 1: because you love it. The words of Anita, speaking on
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Speaker 1: her new album, Funk Generation A Babella love story that's
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Speaker 1: out now, that's direct from Hollywood.