If I Were Luisa Sonza (2023) s01e03 Episode Script
Escândalo íntimo
1
[instrumental intro
of Escândalo Íntimo playing]
[no audible dialogue]
[no audible dialogue]
[music ends]
[airplane engine rumbling]
[muffled screaming]
[dramatic soundtrack playing]
INTIMATE SCANDAL
[knocking]
[Lucas] Luli?
Good morning.
Hold on,
I'll get you something to write on.
Pen and paper.
Here.
[melancholic music playing]
"Fuck, I have to wait an hour and a half
and I can't eat or drink?"
I'll check if you can drink some water.
[music continues]
"The tour was over,
and as I said, I was exhausted."
"I went to the doctor to see the damage,
and obviously my throat was a wreck."
"After the exam, we found out
that my vocal cords had vibrated so much
that they've swollen
and developed blisters."
"So, it is like any movement
can make these bubbles burst."
"That's why I need to stay
in absolute silence,
besides taking the injections
to reduce the swelling."
"Or else only surgery will fix it."
[tense music playing]
[Flávio] If there's no camp,
there are no rehearsals, no album.
If the singer doesn't have her voice,
there's no singer.
APRIL 2023
LUÍSA TAKES A 20-DAY VOCAL RES
[music continues]
[Lucas] Hey, Blacy, tell me,
technically, what's going on.
For real.
[Blacy] We're on the edge.
LARYNGOLOGIS
- Got it.
- There's nothing more we can do.
We'll go with protocol:
vocal rest so we can assess
if she'll need surgery or not.
Even if we decide
she doesn't need surgery,
the protocol is that she still needs
to be very careful.
[Lucas] I could make better sense
of the situation today,
and then it made me more worried.
Because Luísa had told me
it was either absolute rest or surgery.
ARTISTIC COORDINATOR
But today, after talking to Blacy,
Blacy made it clear
that she needs absolute vocal rest
so that they'll be able to check
her vocal cords and figure out
how damaged they are.
[melancholic music playing]
"It's better to have a terrible end
than an endless terror."
Kinda heavy.
[Eliane] We can count on each other.
We don't always agree on everything, okay?
MOM
But we're always together.
[music continues]
Scared?
[Lucas] "I'm gonna take a shower.
See you soon."
See ya.
[André] We're worried about the girl
and also the career.
So, the more we delay the work,
the more we delay our deliveries.
We're in the middle
of putting an album together.
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
Are we gonna have to pull the plug again?
MAY 2023, MEDICAL CHECK-UP
[Lucas] Can we go upstairs?
- [indistinct chatter]
- [knocking]
- [kisses]
- [doctor] Hi.
[Blacy] How are you?
Tell me about you. How was the week?
Let's hear your voice.
ENT SPECIALIS
- [clears throat]
- [doctor chuckles]
I'm afraid to speak.
- [doctor] That's normal. [chuckles]
- [Blacy] Speak softly.
Did you manage to rest completely?
One hundred per cent.
Great. Shall we?
Breathe through your mouth.
Good. Take a deep breath
and say a long "e".
[Luísa says a long "e"]
[doctor] And another. [gasps continuously]
Good. Now breathe out, all out.
Breath out and [gasps continuously]
[Luísa gasps continuously]
Great, Luísa. That's it, we're done.
[Lucas] All good?
[tense music playing]
So?
[doctor] There's still that little scar,
but that's the one you were born with.
You didn't get a large scar.
- So what?
- [doctor] Translate for her.
[Blacy] We're very glad.
You won't need surgery.
- Right, doctor?
- [doctor] No need for surgery.
- [melancholic music playing]
- [sniffles]
[sniffles, chuckles]
You can resume
your vocal activities gradually,
but it's not like,
"Let's do it all at once." No.
Oh.
Wow, what a relief.
I think I'm gonna go to my room today
and cry for three hours.
["Não sou demais" playing]
[Cezar] The Sonza Camp is our refuge,
our workplace,
and where we recharge, you know?
We should always be there for her
and give her the support she needs.
DAD
[birds chirping]
[Flávio] Come on.
[Luísa] Didn't you say you wanted
to have an immersive experience?
- [Flávio] Yeah, but damn it.
- [Luísa] The path will open up soon.
[guitar playing gentle melody]
[Luísa] People don't know me at all.
Even people who like me,
they only know a part of me.
Here I have my father,
my mother, my family, my history.
When I left,
I found a different side of me, you know?
A side that sometimes
I couldn't express here.
I feel like I belong to the countryside
as well as to the metropolis.
At the same time,
I feel like I don't belong to either.
It feels like
I don't know,
I'm flying aimlessly through the universe.
This one it's too big.
This is good.
But this one is already heavy, you see?
I'll take this.
I was subconsciously
impersonating Britney Spears.
[Flávio] It's a microphone!
- I'd pretend I was singing.
- Clever.
- That's cool.
- I swear to God. I all started here.
When the big ones
were too heavy for the stick,
- I'd hold them like this.
- Oh my.
- All she had was a lime and a dream.
- No, it's a bergamot orange.
A bergamot.
CREATIVE DIRECTOR
I feel a little dumb.
- [friend] I feel like a telemarketer now.
- I didn't let anyone see me.
- May I please speak with Ms. Luísa Sonza?
- Speaking.
MAKE UP ARTIS
Luísa, I have a bill here that's overdue.
- [imitates dead line]
- [all laughing]
[electronic music playing]
[traffic in the background]
[Lucas] Man, listen. [laughs]
I think she's gonna ask us to pick
some outfits out for her in LA,
don't you think?
It's just a heads-up for you and Jorge,
because she leaves Wednesday, at night.
I told you she was coming back big time.
Now she's back and in full force.
Brace yourselves.
- What's up, guys?
- [all laughing]
- [Flávio] What's up? How are you doing?
- [Doug] Oh my goodness.
- [all laughing]
- [Flávio] Man
- Is everyone mentally okay?
- [Doug] No.
- [Flávio] Pretty complex question.
- All right. It's "creative stuff" day.
This one, I don't know.
I think maybe we could have something
like lots of "me", you know?
My multiple
multiple personalities and the real me.
- [Flávio] Mm-hm. On the outside.
- Outside myself, you know?
- I kinda do that
- [Doug] It reflects your fragmented mind.
Thanks.
We're figuring things out
MUSIC PRODUCER
getting the feel of things,
we already have some songs.
But we need to feel where we're going.
[man] It's a hurricane of pictures.
- [Luísa] I love this.
- [man] Yeah, sure. All this is a mix
- of sacred and profane.
- This should have been my wedding dress.
- Shit. "Profane or sacred."
- [Doug] Puritanical nymph.
- Have you heard the song? Are you kidding?
- No.
- It's a song.
- It's the lyrics to a song of mine.
- [Flávio] "Profane or sacred."
- I haven't heard it.
- I swear. True.
- [Flávio] We saved this image for today.
[Victor] Something coming out of her body.
- She's dead.
- [Luísa] The Exorcist.
[Victor] Always between the sacred
and the profane.
- It's everything to do with you.
- I did the sacred.
The sacred part was you at home,
in Tuparendi,
- thinking about the moments
- You were feeling
- Bad.
- shitty.
That's when the sacred came back to you.
Is the title of the album
"Sacred Profanity"?
- I need some time.
- Hey. Sit up.
For God's sake, sit up.
- And check this out.
- [Flávio] Resurrect!
I need some time.
And now you're going to LA
to look for the profane.
- To reconnect to my profane!
- Geez.
- Kiss me now!
- What the hell?
That's why you can't have a relationship.
- Shut your fucking mouth!
- You don't know profane and sacred.
It's sacred or profane, dude?
What's left of Doce 22
when we listened to it?
Profane! Profane.
["Onde é que deu errado?" playing]
JUNE 2023, VALENTINE'S DAY
RECORDING OF THE "SAUDADE" MUSIC VIDEO
WITH FERRUGEM
Oh, this is good,
check out this look in my eyes.
It's like, "Hey."
[music continues]
DIGITAL INFLUENCER
[music ends]
[Luísa] Let's go, Chichi!
[singing]
That's it. This one, I think.
You should follow the guitar melody.
[electric guitar melody playing]
- What? Dude, come on.
- You gotta do this with your voice.
- The voice is the lead.
- I know. It's just that it doesn't fit.
- No, sweetie, you can leave it like that.
- Even if it doesn't fit?
My voice just cracked. And by the way
- It cracked.
- I'll tell you what.
By the way, in this album, I'll do things
that will make my voice crack.
- I think that's beautiful and real.
- Perfect.
It's even better
than getting it right, you know?
Man, this is really good.
One more.
I wanna finish everything before we leave.
Okay. Sure.
So we can leave with a clean slate.
- Yeah.
- Focus on new stuff.
[André] The idea is
for her to stay for a month
so she can work with great producers
and artists from overseas.
[electronic music playing]
[Luísa] Let's talk about Los Angeles?
- What do we need to arrange?
- "What needs to be arranged"?
- Tell us. Natália, your turn.
- Oh, what the hell.
- What's the highest expense?
- [Natália] In
- This one.
- The house?
- Yes.
- Can I show her the total?
- The total amount?
- Sure.
- The total amount?
- Well, I thought it would be worse.
- Is that okay?
- Real or dollars?
[both] In real.
It's a projection
with the cheapest one, you see.
There may be a little difference.
Things that they are concerned about
over there: me, Yuri, Dani,
all the men in the house,
plus the two studios.
Are you sleeping in this house
or do you want your own?
Is it cheaper?
- Yeah.
- Get me a hammock and I'll sleep there.
As long as it's cheaper,
I'll sleep wherever I have to.
We'll be working, making a lot of noise
What am I doing there?
I'm going there to do what, you think?
- Of course I know it.
- Work.
I'm just saying that you won't have
a quiet moment, and that's fine by me.
- Approved.
- Fucking awesome.
[gentle electronic music playing]
Brazil, Brazil! From fucking Tuparendi.
[traffic in the background]
[person laughs]
[tattoo machine buzzing]
I'm hugging a new spider, it's hugging me.
[phone chimes]
[Doug]
We're all really close at this point,
being at her place, making music.
Doing this all again just like Doce 22,
you feel me?
Minus the pressure we had back then.
Things are lighter today.
This way.
[Doug] Hey, Roy, what's up? We are here.
JUSTIN CIRCLE'S STUDIO
- [Doug] Let me introduce the people.
- [Luísa] Hi!
- [woman] Hi!
- [Luísa] Oh my, it's cold over here.
I produce a lot of music for Lil' Nas X.
MUSIC PRODUCER
I did the Montero album.
A lot of songs on that album.
And now, Luísa.
There's very few artists
that producers get to work with
that actually are involved
from start to finish of a song.
And Luísa is hands on
from start to finish.
I've been listening to the songs.
It's crazy!
- It's crazy, yeah?
- Crazy.
We are were listening, like
in the morning.
- Just trip vibes.
- Yeah, yeah.
[Luísa and woman vocalizing]
- [woman 2] She killed that.
- [Doug] Yeah.
Okay, let's do it.
[music starts playing]
Do it for this verse, like, an aggressive
[imitates notes]
- [indistinct chatter]
- [music continues]
"I wouldn't say I'm either good or bad."
"Maybe I'm a fraud who tricked everyone."
"And to tell you the truth,
I don't even care."
"I really like being an artist."
[woman 2] You should start the song with
"I wouldn't say I'm either good or bad."
- I was thinking about that.
- [woman sings]
- [Luísa] I like it.
- [woman 2] I like it. It goes like this.
It's a very easygoing kind of song.
Those are my favorite.
- [both singing]
- ["Lança Menina" playing]
It kinda sounds like
- Pagode.
- samba, pagode.
It's more samba-like.
[singing]
Yeah. [singing]
[all singing]
That's my girl!
[all singing]
[music fades]
[Nadine] I've seen her career progress.
"Rebolar", "Devagarinho",
the entire Doce 22.
COUSIN
Now I see her finally becoming
that rock 'n' roll girl
that I met in my teens.
["Lança Menina" playing]
[music fades]
[Luísa] Oh, Rita is inspiring.
She's always been free.
She always advocated for freedom,
she's the patron of freedom.
She was very important to me
in my liberation process,
of finding myself, and healing.
Will they give it to us?
- "Lança Perfume"? The song.
- They will.
She says, "I love it.
It suits perfectly. It's amazing.
- I'm gonna show it to Roberto."
- Oh, my God!
["Luiza Manequim",
by Abílio Manoel playing]
[shutter clicking]
[Luísa] What's profane and what's sacred?
What's right and what's wrong?
I began to understand the complexity
and the non-existence of duality.
["Luiza Manequim",
by Luísa Sonza, playing]
[lip-syncs]
I posted it.
[music volume decreases]
Will Instagram censor my tits?
[music volume increases]
[music fades]
Jane Fonda
has
a record?
- Who?
- Jane Fonda, from Grace & Frankie.
My favorite actress.
[Gabriel] I've never seen her ignore
any piece of new information.
She's pretty open and available.
MUSICIAN
She likes to learn from everything.
She mixes things up
and that's who she wants to be.
FORMER PRESS SECRETARY
She's been singing all kinds of music
since she was seven.
She'd sing at parties, funerals.
Everywhere.
- Hi again.
- [man] Yeah.
Can I ask a question? [chuckles]
Yeah. What's up?
Do you have some Enya disco?
At first, I wanted to just play
by the industry's rules,
because the goal was to get
where I am today.
[cabaret music playing]
Yoko Ono.
Now that I'm where I wanted to be,
it's been a a challenge to figure out
how far I can go.
- Cheers to the new album!
- [all cheering]
[Luísa] I'm afraid that I'll lose
the connection I have with people.
- [shutter clicking]
- [music continues]
Hey, let me see the feed.
- Want a shot of you looking at yourself?
- I want to do it using sign language.
- You know what? I'll be the camera girl.
- That's it.
I want a performance.
Flávio, stand up.
Turn around, show us the panties.
That's so hot!
- Lucas, I need you to stand up, please.
- [Flávio] Dance a samba.
I want you to strip,
but take only your tank top off.
- Now you're just mocking me.
- Come on!
From Rio de Janeiro, Lucas Pinho!
- [people cheering]
- [Luísa] Spill it!
[Luísa] Very beautiful.
I'm obsessed with myself.
Maybe I'm a narcissist.
- [music continues]
- [shutter clicking]
[music ends]
- [shutter clicks]
- [chuckles]
[woman] LS 23 in Los Angeles.
- LS 23!
- Jesus Christ.
LS 23 in Los Angeles.
We'll be in our 70s. With no life.
- [Flávio] LS 23.
- No husband.
[Flávio] Shit, man.
If my life was like this roller coaster
that would be as good as it gets.
I'm just gonna rest a bit.
Just the way it stops us here.
- I mean
- [people screaming]
I love it.
I love it. That's so comfortable.
- That's so great. [screams]
- [screaming continues]
- Dude, this one is great!
- Jesus Christ!
I love it!
Let me tell you, it feels so good.
[squeals] It feels so good!
Heavenly!
Is it over already?
Man
[guitar plays gentle melody]
[Gabriel] Doce 22 was
a very successful album,
in every aspect,
commercially or conceptually speaking.
It was a record that had been
well received by all groups.
After hitting the jackpot like that,
there's even more pressure.
- [woman vocalizes]
- [sighs]
I can't record the melody, I'm hoarse.
- I'm mad.
- [cellphone clicks]
- I want to destroy this place.
- [pop melody playing]
Where's my fucking nebulizer?
[melody continues]
[woman] That's cool.
To record.
[indistinct chatter]
["Principalmente me sinto arrasada"
playing through the speakers]
Thanks.
Girls, come here.
[singing
"Principalmente me sinto arrasada"]
[stammering]
- [woman sings in Portuguese]
- [resumes singing]
[both singing]
- [in English] You get it?
- [sings] Right.
[exhales sharply]
Maybe Maybe we can, like,
do one more crazy part, like [sniffles]
- [people] Yeah.
- I don't know, another thing.
You know? Like Like, uh,
it's like a psycho thing, like
- [woman] Go all in.
- Brainstorm? Like, literally brainstorm.
Another, like You know? [sniffles]
Crazy shit.
Mom, where are you? [sobbing]
[Eliane] I'm home. Why?
Because I want
to cry to you a little. [sniffles]
[Eliane] What's up?
It's the album, and the deadlines
[crying] I'm scared it won't work out.
[Eliane] Honey, you're doing your best.
Don't push yourself
to do more than you can handle.
You've already
The issue is pushing yourself like that.
Don't.
But if I don't push myself,
it'll all fall apart, you know?
If you need
to put fewer songs on the album,
just put fewer songs on the album.
It's not just the songs.
It's the music videos,
the schedule to record,
and everything needs to be good.
- No! No.
- Something good and mainstream
so people will listen to my music
- and I won't flop.
- Hey. Hey!
Hey.
It has to be nominated for a Grammy.
I have to win a Grammy.
Oh, my God in heaven!
- Stop it.
- [crying]
Stop it!
- It's not worth it to live like that.
- [crying]
[synth playing gentle melody]
[metronome clicking]
[humming]
[Luísa] I think the question isn't
"What does music make me feel?"
I think music makes me feel.
[humming]
I feel everything through music.
That's why I like to be
so musically expansive.
I don't want to miss out
on any potential feeling.
[humming]
I think I've got it.
[singing with a trembling voice]
[sniffles]
[sniffles, exhales sharply]
[singing]
I think it's missing an end,
then it goes back
to something completely different.
[woman 2] It's about anxiety
and it's about, like,
- putting everything there is
- [Luísa] Psy Psycho.
Yeah, making you feel anxious
and doing a song.
- Yeah.
- [woman] And you really feel that.
- Yeah, the whole journey.
- [Luísa] Yeah.
I love that. This is so cool.
[vocalizing the song rhythm]
- You know? [vocalizing]
- [vocalizing]
- [man 2] So, you hear that?
- You know?
- [plays the piano]
- [woman] Two, three, four.
[piano playing]
[singing
"Principalmente me sinto arrasada"]
[woman, woman 2, and Luísa singing]
- [music stops]
- [shutter clicks]
[Luísa] I think I only found myself
in pop music once I realized
everything it has to offer, you know?
I can do so much within the pop world.
AUGUST 2023
VISUAL TRANSFORMATION OF THE NEW ALBUM
[Luísa] Pop isn't just about music.
I think it's a whole culture.
And you create a story
for the album or the music you make,
or the state of your career.
I'm back.
Dude, I've always been like this.
I wanna be as natural as possible,
like when I was born.
Sort of. I'll keep these lips.
At the same time, it's a mixture.
The heavy makeup,
uh
- [Flávio] The platinum hair.
- The platinum hair.
- It was like a shield.
- [Flávio] It was a Luísa Sonza costume.
It was, and now I'm just myself again,
and I'm terrified.
I'm terrified, but
["Chico" playing]
JULY 2023
- [Luísa] This is good.
- The best on the album.
["Chico" playing through the speakers]
Again. Jumping from where I am.
Picture this.
[lip-synching]
I used to say I wanted to experience
an innocent relationship again.
Once innocence is lost,
you won't have it again.
But I'm experiencing it now.
It may be for an instant.
It may end tomorrow.
- But, like
- [Lucas] But this
I've got so many things back.
I've got my self-esteem back,
in many ways.
I mean, I've got
I have my sex drive again.
- I feel pleasure in life, my will
- [Lucas] Her sex drive is back!
I have my sex drive back. It's true!
["Chico" resumes playing]
[Luísa] Lulu's vlog.
["Chico" playing through the speakers]
Gotta tell you, today was a good day.
These have been good days.
I have a new tattoo.
I'm working
on my dream.
So I can say that the dream has come true.
With some obstacles along the way,
but I've been strong enough
to overcome them.
To sum up, it's a pleasure to live life.
AFTER THE FILMING WAS COMPLETED,
LUÍSA RELEASED THE ALBUM ESCÂNDALO ÍNTIMO.
IT WAS THE FIRST BRAZILIAN ALBUM TO REACH
THE TOP OF THE 6 BIGGEST PLATFORMS
IN BRAZIL.
'CHICO': LUÍSA SONZA LEADS SPOTIFY BRAZIL
WITH A HIT MADE FOR HER BOYFRIEND
- [chattering in the background]
- [man] Luísa Sonza
and her boyfriend arriving
at Santos Dumont Airport.
[woman] Who said "I love you" first?
[Chico] It was me.
She was in Los Angeles, you know.
The time difference
is four hours, so, like,
I'd get sleepy earlier.
And then I was saying goodbye
and it just happened.
- [woman] Really?
- You know?
THE SONG "CHICO" WAS #1 IN BRAZIL
WHEN CHICO CHEATED ON LUÍSA.
[somber melody playing]
UPON DISCOVERING THE INFIDELITY,
LUÍSA BROKE UP WITH HIM.
[Fernanda] Escândalo Íntimo
has never made more sense
- than now, right?
- [Luísa] Yes.
Is Escândalo Íntimo the biggest scandal
of Luísa Sonza's life?
It's a scandal,
it's a musical mix of many things,
many sensations, many moments,
many stories,
and also very intimate references.
So, I think it's definitely my biggest
intimate musical scandal so far,
in my opinion.
ESCÂNDALO ÍNTIMO BROKE THE RECORD
FOR THE MOST STREAMED ALBUM
ON A SINGLE DAY IN THE HISTORY OF BRAZIL.
[waves crashing]
IT STAYED ON TOP ON THE COUNTRY'S
MAIN MUSIC STREAMING PLATFORMS.
[seagulls squawking]
IT FEATURED AMONG THE MOST LISTENED-TO
ALBUMS ON GLOBAL CHARTS.
IT WAS THE THIRD LARGEST ALBUM DEBU
BY A LATIN ARTIST.
AND IT HAD OVER 250 MILLION STREAMS
IN JUST ONE MOTH.
["Não Sou Demais" playing]
[Luísa] With time, we learn that no matter
how many love stories go wrong,
the only love story that matters
is the one we have with ourselves.
[music continues]
[Luísa] During this time, I discovered
myself in so many different ways.
I got lost, found myself,
and I know I'll get lost again.
But I'll still find myself.
I'll always find myself again.
As many times as I have to.
[music continues]
[producer] Lu, how do you think
we should wrap up this doc?
[Luísa] I don't know
how we can wrap up this doc.
It's not a wrap. It's a part of my life
that I'm telling you about.
It's just the beginning.
[music continues]
IF I WERE LUÍSA SONZA
[music continues]
[music ends]
[instrumental intro
of Escândalo Íntimo playing]
[no audible dialogue]
[no audible dialogue]
[music ends]
[airplane engine rumbling]
[muffled screaming]
[dramatic soundtrack playing]
INTIMATE SCANDAL
[knocking]
[Lucas] Luli?
Good morning.
Hold on,
I'll get you something to write on.
Pen and paper.
Here.
[melancholic music playing]
"Fuck, I have to wait an hour and a half
and I can't eat or drink?"
I'll check if you can drink some water.
[music continues]
"The tour was over,
and as I said, I was exhausted."
"I went to the doctor to see the damage,
and obviously my throat was a wreck."
"After the exam, we found out
that my vocal cords had vibrated so much
that they've swollen
and developed blisters."
"So, it is like any movement
can make these bubbles burst."
"That's why I need to stay
in absolute silence,
besides taking the injections
to reduce the swelling."
"Or else only surgery will fix it."
[tense music playing]
[Flávio] If there's no camp,
there are no rehearsals, no album.
If the singer doesn't have her voice,
there's no singer.
APRIL 2023
LUÍSA TAKES A 20-DAY VOCAL RES
[music continues]
[Lucas] Hey, Blacy, tell me,
technically, what's going on.
For real.
[Blacy] We're on the edge.
LARYNGOLOGIS
- Got it.
- There's nothing more we can do.
We'll go with protocol:
vocal rest so we can assess
if she'll need surgery or not.
Even if we decide
she doesn't need surgery,
the protocol is that she still needs
to be very careful.
[Lucas] I could make better sense
of the situation today,
and then it made me more worried.
Because Luísa had told me
it was either absolute rest or surgery.
ARTISTIC COORDINATOR
But today, after talking to Blacy,
Blacy made it clear
that she needs absolute vocal rest
so that they'll be able to check
her vocal cords and figure out
how damaged they are.
[melancholic music playing]
"It's better to have a terrible end
than an endless terror."
Kinda heavy.
[Eliane] We can count on each other.
We don't always agree on everything, okay?
MOM
But we're always together.
[music continues]
Scared?
[Lucas] "I'm gonna take a shower.
See you soon."
See ya.
[André] We're worried about the girl
and also the career.
So, the more we delay the work,
the more we delay our deliveries.
We're in the middle
of putting an album together.
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
Are we gonna have to pull the plug again?
MAY 2023, MEDICAL CHECK-UP
[Lucas] Can we go upstairs?
- [indistinct chatter]
- [knocking]
- [kisses]
- [doctor] Hi.
[Blacy] How are you?
Tell me about you. How was the week?
Let's hear your voice.
ENT SPECIALIS
- [clears throat]
- [doctor chuckles]
I'm afraid to speak.
- [doctor] That's normal. [chuckles]
- [Blacy] Speak softly.
Did you manage to rest completely?
One hundred per cent.
Great. Shall we?
Breathe through your mouth.
Good. Take a deep breath
and say a long "e".
[Luísa says a long "e"]
[doctor] And another. [gasps continuously]
Good. Now breathe out, all out.
Breath out and [gasps continuously]
[Luísa gasps continuously]
Great, Luísa. That's it, we're done.
[Lucas] All good?
[tense music playing]
So?
[doctor] There's still that little scar,
but that's the one you were born with.
You didn't get a large scar.
- So what?
- [doctor] Translate for her.
[Blacy] We're very glad.
You won't need surgery.
- Right, doctor?
- [doctor] No need for surgery.
- [melancholic music playing]
- [sniffles]
[sniffles, chuckles]
You can resume
your vocal activities gradually,
but it's not like,
"Let's do it all at once." No.
Oh.
Wow, what a relief.
I think I'm gonna go to my room today
and cry for three hours.
["Não sou demais" playing]
[Cezar] The Sonza Camp is our refuge,
our workplace,
and where we recharge, you know?
We should always be there for her
and give her the support she needs.
DAD
[birds chirping]
[Flávio] Come on.
[Luísa] Didn't you say you wanted
to have an immersive experience?
- [Flávio] Yeah, but damn it.
- [Luísa] The path will open up soon.
[guitar playing gentle melody]
[Luísa] People don't know me at all.
Even people who like me,
they only know a part of me.
Here I have my father,
my mother, my family, my history.
When I left,
I found a different side of me, you know?
A side that sometimes
I couldn't express here.
I feel like I belong to the countryside
as well as to the metropolis.
At the same time,
I feel like I don't belong to either.
It feels like
I don't know,
I'm flying aimlessly through the universe.
This one it's too big.
This is good.
But this one is already heavy, you see?
I'll take this.
I was subconsciously
impersonating Britney Spears.
[Flávio] It's a microphone!
- I'd pretend I was singing.
- Clever.
- That's cool.
- I swear to God. I all started here.
When the big ones
were too heavy for the stick,
- I'd hold them like this.
- Oh my.
- All she had was a lime and a dream.
- No, it's a bergamot orange.
A bergamot.
CREATIVE DIRECTOR
I feel a little dumb.
- [friend] I feel like a telemarketer now.
- I didn't let anyone see me.
- May I please speak with Ms. Luísa Sonza?
- Speaking.
MAKE UP ARTIS
Luísa, I have a bill here that's overdue.
- [imitates dead line]
- [all laughing]
[electronic music playing]
[traffic in the background]
[Lucas] Man, listen. [laughs]
I think she's gonna ask us to pick
some outfits out for her in LA,
don't you think?
It's just a heads-up for you and Jorge,
because she leaves Wednesday, at night.
I told you she was coming back big time.
Now she's back and in full force.
Brace yourselves.
- What's up, guys?
- [all laughing]
- [Flávio] What's up? How are you doing?
- [Doug] Oh my goodness.
- [all laughing]
- [Flávio] Man
- Is everyone mentally okay?
- [Doug] No.
- [Flávio] Pretty complex question.
- All right. It's "creative stuff" day.
This one, I don't know.
I think maybe we could have something
like lots of "me", you know?
My multiple
multiple personalities and the real me.
- [Flávio] Mm-hm. On the outside.
- Outside myself, you know?
- I kinda do that
- [Doug] It reflects your fragmented mind.
Thanks.
We're figuring things out
MUSIC PRODUCER
getting the feel of things,
we already have some songs.
But we need to feel where we're going.
[man] It's a hurricane of pictures.
- [Luísa] I love this.
- [man] Yeah, sure. All this is a mix
- of sacred and profane.
- This should have been my wedding dress.
- Shit. "Profane or sacred."
- [Doug] Puritanical nymph.
- Have you heard the song? Are you kidding?
- No.
- It's a song.
- It's the lyrics to a song of mine.
- [Flávio] "Profane or sacred."
- I haven't heard it.
- I swear. True.
- [Flávio] We saved this image for today.
[Victor] Something coming out of her body.
- She's dead.
- [Luísa] The Exorcist.
[Victor] Always between the sacred
and the profane.
- It's everything to do with you.
- I did the sacred.
The sacred part was you at home,
in Tuparendi,
- thinking about the moments
- You were feeling
- Bad.
- shitty.
That's when the sacred came back to you.
Is the title of the album
"Sacred Profanity"?
- I need some time.
- Hey. Sit up.
For God's sake, sit up.
- And check this out.
- [Flávio] Resurrect!
I need some time.
And now you're going to LA
to look for the profane.
- To reconnect to my profane!
- Geez.
- Kiss me now!
- What the hell?
That's why you can't have a relationship.
- Shut your fucking mouth!
- You don't know profane and sacred.
It's sacred or profane, dude?
What's left of Doce 22
when we listened to it?
Profane! Profane.
["Onde é que deu errado?" playing]
JUNE 2023, VALENTINE'S DAY
RECORDING OF THE "SAUDADE" MUSIC VIDEO
WITH FERRUGEM
Oh, this is good,
check out this look in my eyes.
It's like, "Hey."
[music continues]
DIGITAL INFLUENCER
[music ends]
[Luísa] Let's go, Chichi!
[singing]
That's it. This one, I think.
You should follow the guitar melody.
[electric guitar melody playing]
- What? Dude, come on.
- You gotta do this with your voice.
- The voice is the lead.
- I know. It's just that it doesn't fit.
- No, sweetie, you can leave it like that.
- Even if it doesn't fit?
My voice just cracked. And by the way
- It cracked.
- I'll tell you what.
By the way, in this album, I'll do things
that will make my voice crack.
- I think that's beautiful and real.
- Perfect.
It's even better
than getting it right, you know?
Man, this is really good.
One more.
I wanna finish everything before we leave.
Okay. Sure.
So we can leave with a clean slate.
- Yeah.
- Focus on new stuff.
[André] The idea is
for her to stay for a month
so she can work with great producers
and artists from overseas.
[electronic music playing]
[Luísa] Let's talk about Los Angeles?
- What do we need to arrange?
- "What needs to be arranged"?
- Tell us. Natália, your turn.
- Oh, what the hell.
- What's the highest expense?
- [Natália] In
- This one.
- The house?
- Yes.
- Can I show her the total?
- The total amount?
- Sure.
- The total amount?
- Well, I thought it would be worse.
- Is that okay?
- Real or dollars?
[both] In real.
It's a projection
with the cheapest one, you see.
There may be a little difference.
Things that they are concerned about
over there: me, Yuri, Dani,
all the men in the house,
plus the two studios.
Are you sleeping in this house
or do you want your own?
Is it cheaper?
- Yeah.
- Get me a hammock and I'll sleep there.
As long as it's cheaper,
I'll sleep wherever I have to.
We'll be working, making a lot of noise
What am I doing there?
I'm going there to do what, you think?
- Of course I know it.
- Work.
I'm just saying that you won't have
a quiet moment, and that's fine by me.
- Approved.
- Fucking awesome.
[gentle electronic music playing]
Brazil, Brazil! From fucking Tuparendi.
[traffic in the background]
[person laughs]
[tattoo machine buzzing]
I'm hugging a new spider, it's hugging me.
[phone chimes]
[Doug]
We're all really close at this point,
being at her place, making music.
Doing this all again just like Doce 22,
you feel me?
Minus the pressure we had back then.
Things are lighter today.
This way.
[Doug] Hey, Roy, what's up? We are here.
JUSTIN CIRCLE'S STUDIO
- [Doug] Let me introduce the people.
- [Luísa] Hi!
- [woman] Hi!
- [Luísa] Oh my, it's cold over here.
I produce a lot of music for Lil' Nas X.
MUSIC PRODUCER
I did the Montero album.
A lot of songs on that album.
And now, Luísa.
There's very few artists
that producers get to work with
that actually are involved
from start to finish of a song.
And Luísa is hands on
from start to finish.
I've been listening to the songs.
It's crazy!
- It's crazy, yeah?
- Crazy.
We are were listening, like
in the morning.
- Just trip vibes.
- Yeah, yeah.
[Luísa and woman vocalizing]
- [woman 2] She killed that.
- [Doug] Yeah.
Okay, let's do it.
[music starts playing]
Do it for this verse, like, an aggressive
[imitates notes]
- [indistinct chatter]
- [music continues]
"I wouldn't say I'm either good or bad."
"Maybe I'm a fraud who tricked everyone."
"And to tell you the truth,
I don't even care."
"I really like being an artist."
[woman 2] You should start the song with
"I wouldn't say I'm either good or bad."
- I was thinking about that.
- [woman sings]
- [Luísa] I like it.
- [woman 2] I like it. It goes like this.
It's a very easygoing kind of song.
Those are my favorite.
- [both singing]
- ["Lança Menina" playing]
It kinda sounds like
- Pagode.
- samba, pagode.
It's more samba-like.
[singing]
Yeah. [singing]
[all singing]
That's my girl!
[all singing]
[music fades]
[Nadine] I've seen her career progress.
"Rebolar", "Devagarinho",
the entire Doce 22.
COUSIN
Now I see her finally becoming
that rock 'n' roll girl
that I met in my teens.
["Lança Menina" playing]
[music fades]
[Luísa] Oh, Rita is inspiring.
She's always been free.
She always advocated for freedom,
she's the patron of freedom.
She was very important to me
in my liberation process,
of finding myself, and healing.
Will they give it to us?
- "Lança Perfume"? The song.
- They will.
She says, "I love it.
It suits perfectly. It's amazing.
- I'm gonna show it to Roberto."
- Oh, my God!
["Luiza Manequim",
by Abílio Manoel playing]
[shutter clicking]
[Luísa] What's profane and what's sacred?
What's right and what's wrong?
I began to understand the complexity
and the non-existence of duality.
["Luiza Manequim",
by Luísa Sonza, playing]
[lip-syncs]
I posted it.
[music volume decreases]
Will Instagram censor my tits?
[music volume increases]
[music fades]
Jane Fonda
has
a record?
- Who?
- Jane Fonda, from Grace & Frankie.
My favorite actress.
[Gabriel] I've never seen her ignore
any piece of new information.
She's pretty open and available.
MUSICIAN
She likes to learn from everything.
She mixes things up
and that's who she wants to be.
FORMER PRESS SECRETARY
She's been singing all kinds of music
since she was seven.
She'd sing at parties, funerals.
Everywhere.
- Hi again.
- [man] Yeah.
Can I ask a question? [chuckles]
Yeah. What's up?
Do you have some Enya disco?
At first, I wanted to just play
by the industry's rules,
because the goal was to get
where I am today.
[cabaret music playing]
Yoko Ono.
Now that I'm where I wanted to be,
it's been a a challenge to figure out
how far I can go.
- Cheers to the new album!
- [all cheering]
[Luísa] I'm afraid that I'll lose
the connection I have with people.
- [shutter clicking]
- [music continues]
Hey, let me see the feed.
- Want a shot of you looking at yourself?
- I want to do it using sign language.
- You know what? I'll be the camera girl.
- That's it.
I want a performance.
Flávio, stand up.
Turn around, show us the panties.
That's so hot!
- Lucas, I need you to stand up, please.
- [Flávio] Dance a samba.
I want you to strip,
but take only your tank top off.
- Now you're just mocking me.
- Come on!
From Rio de Janeiro, Lucas Pinho!
- [people cheering]
- [Luísa] Spill it!
[Luísa] Very beautiful.
I'm obsessed with myself.
Maybe I'm a narcissist.
- [music continues]
- [shutter clicking]
[music ends]
- [shutter clicks]
- [chuckles]
[woman] LS 23 in Los Angeles.
- LS 23!
- Jesus Christ.
LS 23 in Los Angeles.
We'll be in our 70s. With no life.
- [Flávio] LS 23.
- No husband.
[Flávio] Shit, man.
If my life was like this roller coaster
that would be as good as it gets.
I'm just gonna rest a bit.
Just the way it stops us here.
- I mean
- [people screaming]
I love it.
I love it. That's so comfortable.
- That's so great. [screams]
- [screaming continues]
- Dude, this one is great!
- Jesus Christ!
I love it!
Let me tell you, it feels so good.
[squeals] It feels so good!
Heavenly!
Is it over already?
Man
[guitar plays gentle melody]
[Gabriel] Doce 22 was
a very successful album,
in every aspect,
commercially or conceptually speaking.
It was a record that had been
well received by all groups.
After hitting the jackpot like that,
there's even more pressure.
- [woman vocalizes]
- [sighs]
I can't record the melody, I'm hoarse.
- I'm mad.
- [cellphone clicks]
- I want to destroy this place.
- [pop melody playing]
Where's my fucking nebulizer?
[melody continues]
[woman] That's cool.
To record.
[indistinct chatter]
["Principalmente me sinto arrasada"
playing through the speakers]
Thanks.
Girls, come here.
[singing
"Principalmente me sinto arrasada"]
[stammering]
- [woman sings in Portuguese]
- [resumes singing]
[both singing]
- [in English] You get it?
- [sings] Right.
[exhales sharply]
Maybe Maybe we can, like,
do one more crazy part, like [sniffles]
- [people] Yeah.
- I don't know, another thing.
You know? Like Like, uh,
it's like a psycho thing, like
- [woman] Go all in.
- Brainstorm? Like, literally brainstorm.
Another, like You know? [sniffles]
Crazy shit.
Mom, where are you? [sobbing]
[Eliane] I'm home. Why?
Because I want
to cry to you a little. [sniffles]
[Eliane] What's up?
It's the album, and the deadlines
[crying] I'm scared it won't work out.
[Eliane] Honey, you're doing your best.
Don't push yourself
to do more than you can handle.
You've already
The issue is pushing yourself like that.
Don't.
But if I don't push myself,
it'll all fall apart, you know?
If you need
to put fewer songs on the album,
just put fewer songs on the album.
It's not just the songs.
It's the music videos,
the schedule to record,
and everything needs to be good.
- No! No.
- Something good and mainstream
so people will listen to my music
- and I won't flop.
- Hey. Hey!
Hey.
It has to be nominated for a Grammy.
I have to win a Grammy.
Oh, my God in heaven!
- Stop it.
- [crying]
Stop it!
- It's not worth it to live like that.
- [crying]
[synth playing gentle melody]
[metronome clicking]
[humming]
[Luísa] I think the question isn't
"What does music make me feel?"
I think music makes me feel.
[humming]
I feel everything through music.
That's why I like to be
so musically expansive.
I don't want to miss out
on any potential feeling.
[humming]
I think I've got it.
[singing with a trembling voice]
[sniffles]
[sniffles, exhales sharply]
[singing]
I think it's missing an end,
then it goes back
to something completely different.
[woman 2] It's about anxiety
and it's about, like,
- putting everything there is
- [Luísa] Psy Psycho.
Yeah, making you feel anxious
and doing a song.
- Yeah.
- [woman] And you really feel that.
- Yeah, the whole journey.
- [Luísa] Yeah.
I love that. This is so cool.
[vocalizing the song rhythm]
- You know? [vocalizing]
- [vocalizing]
- [man 2] So, you hear that?
- You know?
- [plays the piano]
- [woman] Two, three, four.
[piano playing]
[singing
"Principalmente me sinto arrasada"]
[woman, woman 2, and Luísa singing]
- [music stops]
- [shutter clicks]
[Luísa] I think I only found myself
in pop music once I realized
everything it has to offer, you know?
I can do so much within the pop world.
AUGUST 2023
VISUAL TRANSFORMATION OF THE NEW ALBUM
[Luísa] Pop isn't just about music.
I think it's a whole culture.
And you create a story
for the album or the music you make,
or the state of your career.
I'm back.
Dude, I've always been like this.
I wanna be as natural as possible,
like when I was born.
Sort of. I'll keep these lips.
At the same time, it's a mixture.
The heavy makeup,
uh
- [Flávio] The platinum hair.
- The platinum hair.
- It was like a shield.
- [Flávio] It was a Luísa Sonza costume.
It was, and now I'm just myself again,
and I'm terrified.
I'm terrified, but
["Chico" playing]
JULY 2023
- [Luísa] This is good.
- The best on the album.
["Chico" playing through the speakers]
Again. Jumping from where I am.
Picture this.
[lip-synching]
I used to say I wanted to experience
an innocent relationship again.
Once innocence is lost,
you won't have it again.
But I'm experiencing it now.
It may be for an instant.
It may end tomorrow.
- But, like
- [Lucas] But this
I've got so many things back.
I've got my self-esteem back,
in many ways.
I mean, I've got
I have my sex drive again.
- I feel pleasure in life, my will
- [Lucas] Her sex drive is back!
I have my sex drive back. It's true!
["Chico" resumes playing]
[Luísa] Lulu's vlog.
["Chico" playing through the speakers]
Gotta tell you, today was a good day.
These have been good days.
I have a new tattoo.
I'm working
on my dream.
So I can say that the dream has come true.
With some obstacles along the way,
but I've been strong enough
to overcome them.
To sum up, it's a pleasure to live life.
AFTER THE FILMING WAS COMPLETED,
LUÍSA RELEASED THE ALBUM ESCÂNDALO ÍNTIMO.
IT WAS THE FIRST BRAZILIAN ALBUM TO REACH
THE TOP OF THE 6 BIGGEST PLATFORMS
IN BRAZIL.
'CHICO': LUÍSA SONZA LEADS SPOTIFY BRAZIL
WITH A HIT MADE FOR HER BOYFRIEND
- [chattering in the background]
- [man] Luísa Sonza
and her boyfriend arriving
at Santos Dumont Airport.
[woman] Who said "I love you" first?
[Chico] It was me.
She was in Los Angeles, you know.
The time difference
is four hours, so, like,
I'd get sleepy earlier.
And then I was saying goodbye
and it just happened.
- [woman] Really?
- You know?
THE SONG "CHICO" WAS #1 IN BRAZIL
WHEN CHICO CHEATED ON LUÍSA.
[somber melody playing]
UPON DISCOVERING THE INFIDELITY,
LUÍSA BROKE UP WITH HIM.
[Fernanda] Escândalo Íntimo
has never made more sense
- than now, right?
- [Luísa] Yes.
Is Escândalo Íntimo the biggest scandal
of Luísa Sonza's life?
It's a scandal,
it's a musical mix of many things,
many sensations, many moments,
many stories,
and also very intimate references.
So, I think it's definitely my biggest
intimate musical scandal so far,
in my opinion.
ESCÂNDALO ÍNTIMO BROKE THE RECORD
FOR THE MOST STREAMED ALBUM
ON A SINGLE DAY IN THE HISTORY OF BRAZIL.
[waves crashing]
IT STAYED ON TOP ON THE COUNTRY'S
MAIN MUSIC STREAMING PLATFORMS.
[seagulls squawking]
IT FEATURED AMONG THE MOST LISTENED-TO
ALBUMS ON GLOBAL CHARTS.
IT WAS THE THIRD LARGEST ALBUM DEBU
BY A LATIN ARTIST.
AND IT HAD OVER 250 MILLION STREAMS
IN JUST ONE MOTH.
["Não Sou Demais" playing]
[Luísa] With time, we learn that no matter
how many love stories go wrong,
the only love story that matters
is the one we have with ourselves.
[music continues]
[Luísa] During this time, I discovered
myself in so many different ways.
I got lost, found myself,
and I know I'll get lost again.
But I'll still find myself.
I'll always find myself again.
As many times as I have to.
[music continues]
[producer] Lu, how do you think
we should wrap up this doc?
[Luísa] I don't know
how we can wrap up this doc.
It's not a wrap. It's a part of my life
that I'm telling you about.
It's just the beginning.
[music continues]
IF I WERE LUÍSA SONZA
[music continues]
[music ends]