Name: Cazuza: Exagerado
Genre: Short, Music
Duration: 3 min
Cast: Cazuza

From the series of music videos made by the TV program "Fantástico", this one presents the debut of Cazuza in solo career after his tenure as lead singer from Barão Vermelho" and then began a successful career as a sol artist with the release of the single "Exagerado". It's a phenomenal success and it definitely proved that he was a complete showman who could make powerful ballads just as much as the powerful rock songs he did for Barão, and also some flirtation with Brazilian popular music.

The video is kinda corny but still effective. At first glance, there's a strange sense of future prediction since Cazuza appears inside of a small room where he types lots of things into a computer and from time to time there's dream-like images of a woman so it gives the impression that he's having an online dating in the early 1980's.

Unthinkable! But that's not the general idea. He actually dreams of her, imagining situations where he can wins her love and attention, which match with some descriptions of the lyrics such as the moment where he becomes a beggar and he tries to reach out to her. Countless of other situations happens at the same time he performs the song with great enthuasism.

"Fantástico" videos weren't exactly the best thing available, it was only a way to promote artists and their songs and they did it quite well, but never managed to create artistic flights of imagination or creativity like the ones made by MTV (which only the U. S. version, the Brazil MTV would only come here in 1990). So, this is the best thing available at the time. The song is great, a true hit that still plays everywhere and one of the most significant songs ever composed by Cazuza, as according to him it describes him with plenty of accuracy, of being an exagerated person who either loves too much or don't love at all. It's all good, but in artistic terms Cazuza's best music video will always be "Ideologia". 8/10.

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Music video for the single "Exagerado", from the debut album of same name by Cazuza. Originally presented by the program "Fantástico", the video presents the singer performing the song inside of a small room while he dreams about the girl of his dreams.

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