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Climb aboard Brazil's hurricane truck of happiness

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I never thought I'd see Carreta Furacão on Hacker News' front page.

Me neither!

came to see the brazilians hehe

Nem eu!

Chegou o dia

I couldn't believe it until I opened the link.

Carreta Furacão on Hacker News' front page... caralho!

I translated the title and couldn't believe it. Que dia.

I have a massive soft spot for these troupes/groups with their intentionally shitty costumes and loud (annoying, sometimes? usually?) music.

Here are two of my favorite videos - possibly the two most famous examples:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmJ0tzAZ4aM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEt5lYXwT-U

To be fair one of these songs has more key changes than Spotify Top 10 combined

>>intentionally shitty costumes

This made me chuckle. When somebody calls the graphics of my game shitty I will tell them that it is intentional! Not at all because that was the best I could do.

This sounds like my neighbors at least one weekend out of the month. I'm really curious how they all know to use the same filter on the mics. It's always that shitty distorted sound like the mic is inside their mouth. If it was just the music and dancing, I'd be just fine with it. But no, they've got to continuously shout into a shitty mic. I never thought I'd find something more annoying than a drum-n-bass MC, but there they are.

They have a very similar thing in Colombia except it just the loud truck that drives around playing music. They suck. They drive around starting at 10PM and like to park in front of residential buildings at 3am in the morning waking up literally hundreds of people. The police don’t respond or care so nothing is done about it. Just one of the many things that will stop you from getting a good nights rest in any part of Colombia. Which is likely why it’s almost everyones dream in the country to buy a farm in the middle of nowhere.

Hopefully it’s not the same in brazil.

Doesn't seem to be a problem here, at least not in my city. I can hear them when they pass a couple blocks away from my home. The noise lasts a few seconds at most, always during the day and on weekends, never after 20:00.

Carreta furacão made us laugh like crazy back in the day. I can't get over Marvel heroes and Disney characters dancing

https://archive.ph/d3W9z

I love this specific spontaneous flash mob, hurricane-truck-style

https://youtu.be/k_k4f3DYeUE?si=Ls_aewCIoTDtYZh8

https://web.archive.org/web/20231103011502/https://www.nytim...

This is in one of my favorite "music videos" of a deep house track. I've probably jammed to it 100 times. The video gives me nostalgia.

CoastDream - Soft Moon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jbf1EtLP7s4

The best thing is that it's mobile, so it won't keep the neighborhood awake the whole night like a club would, while still making you laugh in your pajamas asking yourself if you had really just seen Fofão dancing in front of your house.

hurricane truck, LOL thought was something horrible happening there

paywall, exited instantly

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