{"id":2569,"date":"2026-08-11T16:09:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T19:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arnaldodiasbaptista.com.br\/english\/musica-rita-lee-build-up\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T17:58:21","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T20:58:21","slug":"musica-rita-lee-build-up","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/arnaldodiasbaptista.com.br\/english\/musica-rita-lee-build-up\/","title":{"rendered":"[M\u00daSICA] Rita Lee – Build Up"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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BUILD UP – RITA LEE (Polydor – 1970) <\/b><\/p>

Musical Producer: Arnaldo Baptista<\/b><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Pop music is a mix between novelty and redundancy. In this dialectic game we can measure the relevance of an artist and its work. Rita Lee\u2019s two first solo albums, \u2018Build Up\u2019 (1970) and \u2018Hoje \u00e9 o primeiro dia do resto de sua vida\u2019 (Today is the first day of the rest of your life \u2013 1972), can only be understood through this relationship.<\/span>
<\/span>You can not classify them. They are solo albums and, at the same time, complementary to Mutantes\u2019s non-official discography.<\/span><\/p>

In these two moments, Rita Lee was still part of the Mutantes. Even so, she launched herself into a solo project. So far, nothing wrong especially when we understand the option working as oxygen in their way.<\/span><\/p>

But what really surprises here is that Rita Lee\u2019s two first solo albums do not follow the obvious path taken by other artists when going from a band to a solo career, which is \u2018an individual approach distant from the group\u2019s proposes\u2019. In Rita Lee\u2019s case, it was the same innovative work \u2013 or an innovation under the same theme. Apart from the name and label stamped on the vinyl, Rita Lee by Mutantes, nobody would notice that they were actually listening to a solo record. Even so those are Rita Lee\u2019s solo records, which would only exist as so. Therefore they deserve a comment with distance from Mutantes works. Especially if we compare \u2018Build Up\u2019 with the tropicalia-super-experimentalist \u2018A Divina Comedia ou Ando Meio Desligado\u2019; \u2018Hoje \u00e9 o primeiro dia do resto de sua vida\u2019; and with the lysergic-psychedelic \u2018Mutantes e seus cometas no Pais dos Bauretz\u2019, launched at the same time. Are there two characters looking for an author? Or would be one character multiplied into two authors? Both albums\u2019 blueprints are quite the same:<\/span><\/p>

1) Basic core composers: Arnaldo Baptista, Rita Lee and Sergio Dias plus Liminha;<\/span>
<\/span>2) Arranged by Arnaldo and played by Mutantes.<\/span><\/p>

\u2018Build Up\u2019 was created as a soundtrack for Rodhia\u2019s event \u2018Build Up Electronic Fashion Show\u2019, an important fashion show of those days called Fenit (Textile Industry International Fair). The album tells the story and moves of an artist heading to the stardom. There are songs by Arnaldo & Rita: \u2018Sucesso, aqui vou eu\u2019 (\u2018success here I go\u2019 or \u2018Build Up\u2019) and \u2018Macarr\u00e3o com Lingui\u00e7a e Piment\u00e3o\u2019 (\u2018pasta with sausage and pimento). El\u00edcio Dec\u00e1rio, who has collaborated in \u2018A Divina Comedia\u2019, \u2018Ave Lucifer\u2019 and \u2018Hey Boy\u2019, appears again in \u2018Build Up\u2019 and in partnership with Rita in \u2018Hulla-Hulla\u2019, \u2018Tempo Nublado\u2019 (Clouded Weather) and \u2018Eu Vou me Salvar\u2019 (I will save myself). He also contributed as solo writer in \u2018Precisamos de Irm\u00e3os\u2019 (We need brothers\u2019) and \u2018Prisioneira do Amor\u2019 (Prisoner of Love). Arnaldo wrote \u2018Calma\u2019 (Stay Cool). \u2018Build Up\u2019 also brings the first solo songs arranged and\/or written by Rita only: \u2018Viagem ao Fundo de Mim\u2019 (Inner Deep Trip) and \u2018Jose\u2019, a second version of George\u2019s Moustaki\u2019s original song, also recorded by tropicalist-bossa nova Nara Le\u00e3o. \u2018Build Up\u2019 also houses the bolero Beatles inspired \u2018And I love Her (And I love Him)\u2019.<\/span><\/p>

Build Up, the song, works as a script for the whole album. Although Build Up, the album, establishes the idea of \u2018building up a public image\u2019, its songs suggest \u2018building the individual, intimate side of Rita\u2019, an inner trip as showed in \u2018Ao Fundo de Mim\u2019 (Me in depth). Apart the non-sense \u2018Macarr\u00e3o com Lingui\u00e7a e Piment\u00e3o\u2019 (Pasta with sausage and pimento) and the lyricism of \u2018Jose\u2019 (Joseph), all other songs are written using the \u2018I\u2019 pronoun, with variations of its plural WE and unfolding into I + YOU. \u201cI can even see\/ my name flashing\/ and the world clapping\/ when I am singing\/ when I am dancing\/ I wanna be a star\u2026\/ I would say good bye\/ to my dreams\/ Success, here I go\u2026\/ I will fight\/ I will get there\u2026Hold on a minute\/ what I really want\/ is to escape from you\u2026\u201d<\/span><\/p>

\u201cIn slow motion I will fly\/ and feel your love\u2026\u201d<\/span>
<\/span>\u201cI need songs and friends\/ Love, flowers and shelter\u2026\u201d<\/span>
<\/span>\u201cI am going to an island\u2026\u201d<\/span>
<\/span>\u201cWhere would you be, my love?\/ Where would you be?\u201d<\/span>
<\/span>\u201cI will save myself\/ I will save myself\/ To guarantee my eternal life\u201d<\/span>
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Marcelo Dolabela \u2013 Jul\/Aug\/ 2005).<\/span><\/p>

1-<\/span>Sucesso, Aqui Vou Eu<\/span>
<\/span><\/a>2-<\/span>Calma<\/span>
<\/span><\/a>3-<\/span>Viagem ao Fundo de Mim<\/span>
<\/span><\/a>4-<\/span>Precisamos de Irm\u00e3os<\/span>
<\/span><\/a>5-<\/span>Macarr\u00e3o Com Lingui\u00e7a e Piment\u00e3o<\/span>
<\/span><\/a>6-<\/span>Jos\u00e9<\/span>
<\/span><\/a>7-<\/span>Hulla-Hulla<\/span>
<\/span><\/a>8-<\/span>And I Love Her<\/span>
<\/span><\/a>9-<\/span>Tempo Nublado<\/span>
<\/span><\/a>10-<\/span>Prisioneira do Amor<\/span>
<\/span><\/a>11-<\/span>Eu Vou Me Salvar<\/span><\/a><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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Rita Lee\u2019s two first solo albums, \u2018Build Up\u2019 (1970) and \u2018Hoje \u00e9 o primeiro dia do […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":671,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"elementor_header_footer","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2569","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"yoast_head":"\n[M\u00daSICA] Rita Lee - Build Up -<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/arnaldodiasbaptista.com.br\/english\/musica-rita-lee-build-up\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"[M\u00daSICA] Rita Lee - Build Up -\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"ARNALDO DIAS BAPTISTA BUILD UP – RITA LEE (Polydor – 1970) Musical Producer: Arnaldo Baptista Pop music is a mix between novelty and redundancy. 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