Dumb Ways to Die in Rio

ForbiddenKnowledgeTV
Alexandra Bruce
July 14, 2013

Here’s the latest installment of “Activism, Brazilian-Style”: a sweet song, sung in English with the simple and plain intonations of Bossa Nova that belie the brutal
scenes depicted in this primitivist, South-Park-style animation.

The animation was actually created for the Australian mass transit company, Metro Trains Melbourne and it has sparked thousands of parodies on YouTube.

With half the population of the US, the 6th largest GDP in the world anda tax rate of 53%, Brazil certainly should show evidence of this, by having better roads, schools and
hospitals. That is the theme of this uniquely Brazilian approach to dissent; a sugary-deadpan-humorous venting about the danger and brutality of everyday life in a country woefully lacking in infrastructure.

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TheLorems
Jul 1, 2013

Dumb Ways to Die in Rio

Ride a bike on the street.
Be hit by a BRT.
Surf on the top of the train.
Go to Engenhão for a football game.

Dumb ways to die
In Rio, dumb ways to die
Dumb ways to die in Rio
So many dumb ways to die

Wait in the hospital line.
Stop the car at the red light.
Be hit by a manhole.
Die because your team scored a goal.

Be robbed in your house.
Be in a building that falls.
Drive on a road full of holes.
Get scared with the price that the apartment was sold.

Suffocate inside the subway…
Get shot from a lost bullet…

Walk on the street and be buried by garbage.
Go out on a flood and get electrocuted.
Drive on a bridge as it falls.
They may not rhyme but they’re quite possible.

Dumb ways to die
Dumb ways to die
Dumb ways to die in Rio
So many dumb
So many dumb ways to die.

Be safe around Rio.