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i looked up and apparently the closest in english is "desiderium", but still not quite the same. anyway, just use Saudade haha, or Sodade if you're in Cape Verde!

Yeah kind of, sad and happy at same time

Basically is a mix of feelings, but mostly that nostalgic feeling caused by the absence of someone, or something, or some place, or even by the willing of wanting to relive something from the past. I think it was put into a word as a way of describing the feeling of people whenever their loved ones would leave to explore the sea or to fish, but also the feeling the navy guys had of their own home whenever they would be far away in the sea or colonies.

Portuguese Sodade is in the portuguese-based creole language that is spoken in Cape Verde (which I always liked it, as I grew up in a city with many descendants from old imigrants from our old colonies), and comes of the word "Saudade"

Cabo Verde! ?? fun fact: do you know that the word Saudade (which she sings, but in Cape Verde crioulo) has no direct translation in English?

I've been wanting to share this for a while but forgot and only now remembered because i listened to this on the radio. This girl, and in particular this song, was/is a huge success in Portugal. I can't ignore that I was shocked that Brazilian jury didn't send this on this year's TISC as it would probably get 12 points from Portugal haha

Maybe then the reason it went to my top was because i did not knew who Dua Lipa was and I just did the same I did with the other songs: listen to the music and decide if i like it or not

To me is a big shock as she was one of my two favourites on that group

Do you like fish sticks? (south park joke)

wow kosovo's out? this is a shock for me!

To end my posts about crazy japanese things, i thought about sharing something about weird drinks and sodas they have over there, or about their warm+cold drinks vending machines existing in every corner of any city, but I think I'll share about a drink that, although not japanese, I think was made available only (or mainly) in Japan: Coca-Cola Clear No, it's not water; Yes, it tasted as Coca Cola; Yes, I probably lost 3 years of life after drinking that bottle, with all the chemicals that drink probably have

Another bit of how crazy Japan can be, with a song from a group called AKB48. This is a group of i-have-know-idea-how-many-but-definitely-too-many girls who is extremely popular in Japan. So much that they even have their very own cafe in the heart of Akihabara neighborhood in Tokyo, with a shop filled with souvenirs (some of them quite disturbing) and a coffee/bar where grown adult men go seat to watch in full screen videoclips from AKB48 songs. They have many songs, I'll share the one that it was passing all the time in the stores/shopping areas when i went there about two years ago. Not my style of music, but I can say that on the flight back me and my girlfriend had this song stuck in the head after hearing so many times Also there is an event where people vote on their favorite girl from the band (with codes they get by buying their stuff haha) and then the most voted girls get picked up for the main videoclips. I learned all this because we were in japan during the time where they were doing the show/ceremony of revealing the fans votes on the TV and we got so perplexed with it that we went to wikipedia to try to understand what the hell was going on

A bit more of crazy things spotted in Japan, now in pictures. Do you know there's a giant Gundam robot in Tokyo, as well as a godzilla statue? And did you knew you can go Mario Karting around the city?

Japan is the place of those kind of things we think "only in Japan!", so i'll share some of those I found out while i was there visiting it ( although apparently according to some friends of mine this bands are worldwide known and I was the ignorant that had no idea this existed ) I'll start with Baby Metal!

4 points for portuguese speaking countries on this round? what a surprise

Totally irrelevant "fun" fact: estrada means road in portuguese

Haha, it looks like our Pimba music (we call a specific genre of portuguese music Pimba, it's music used not only at weddings but also in cities festivals, in rural areas parties, and also popular in emigrants). I have not yet shared in TISC because usually to enjoy it you need to understand the lyrics (filled with words that have double meanings haha), but one day i'll send one. In the meantime, to get the idea, this is what i mean by Pimba music

I would definitely listen to it! I've been "using" TISC to show all different types of genres of what i think is the best of portuguese music, including some traditional (like fado). I know it is not winning material and will hardly please everyone, but if at least one will like it, then I would consider worth of it as I managed to share a piece of my nation with someone else Who knows if it can happen the same way with lithuanian traditional music?

Cool first day of competition. Let’s see tomorrow how will it go for our brothers Portuguese speaking countries btw the Cape Verde singer is extremely famous in Portugal, there was big commotion when she died some years ago.

will do! Can even share some pics from my when I went there two years ago

Sigur Ros!

I'm very happy that there are two portuguese speaking countries in this contest!

Wow I love when I go cycle for some hours and then return and have 30 new pages of content to read

Two other finalists from to TISC:

a bit of humor in the between of all the sad news: a song about relationships in the current corona-crisis (it's in dutch but you can enable subtitles in english)