The three songs by Ney Matogrosso vetoed by the military dictatorship

Ney Matogrosso began his career in music in the early 1970s. In the period, the prior censorship was still in force, which barred artistic productions that represented a threat to the military regime of the time or that they were aware of morals. According to Ney Matogrosso – The Biography, signed by Julio Maria, The singer had three songs vetoed by the censorship departmentall for the second album of Secos & Wet, released in 1974. One of them is entitled Military Sadness.

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The third case is an example of how artists also depended on which technician in the dictatorship would evaluate the work sent to the department. These agents were trained by military logic, but each brought their own sensitivity and cultural background at the time of the analysis of artistic texts.
4 ImagesClose modal.1 of 4Ney Matogrossomauricio Santana/Getty Images2 of 4Ney Matogrosso in Youth3 of 4Ney Matogrosso during the MilitaryReproduction Service4 of 4Jesuíta Barbosa and Ney Matogrosso@mancomh/Instagram/Reproduction Music Pasárga It was about the poem I am leaving for Pasárgada, that Manoel Bandeira published in 1930. “In Pasárgada has everything/ is another civilization/ has a safe process/ to prevent conception/ has automatic phone/ has alkaloid at will/ has beautiful prostitutes/ for us to date,” says an excerpt from the poem. According to the biography, the problem was not the mention of prostitutes or unrestricted freedom in this fictional place called Pasárgada, but The “alkaloid at will,” which was interpreted as something similar to an numbing.

Interpretation of censors

Interestingly, in 1974, the same year the three songs failed by the censorship department, The request made by actor Leonardo Alves to reproduce the same Poem as Bandeira in a play was approved by the organ.
Only one scene of the Uni-Vverse play had to be changed by the censor who watched a assembly rehearsal. “We didn't allow the mouth kiss,” said the agent.