Admirável Chip Novo is the debut album of Brazil

Brazil

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ian rock

Rock music

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 singer Pitty

Pitty

Priscilla Novaes Leone , better known as Pitty, is a Brazilian rock singer.She had played in two bands, Shes and Inkoma, before starting her solo career in 2003. She has sold over 2 million copies in her career, being one of the best selling rock artists in the 2000s...

.

Themes and songwriting

Pitty is noted for her dark and complex songwriting. The opening track "Teto de Vidro" deals with the capitalistic

Capitalism

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 society and the curiosity some have over other people's lives. "Admirável Chip Novo", "Máscara", "I Wanna Be", and "Só de Passagem" are about falsity

Falsity

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 and shallow behaviors. "O Lobo" throws back to Prehistory

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 to criticize war

War

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 and hatred

Hatred

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 among human

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kind. The other compositions deal with love

Love

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, life

Life

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, and ordinary actions and decisions.

Reception

Admirável Chip Novo was a very successful record. It sold 370,000 copies in Brazil

Brazil

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, enough to be certified platinum

Music recording sales certification

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 (225,000 copies shipped). Unlike most Brazilian recording artists, who release an average of two or three singles per album, Pitty released no less than five singles from the album. These were (in order of release) "Máscara", "Admirável Chip Novo", "Teto de Vidro", "Equalize", e "Semana Que Vem". All the music videos for the songs were highly successful on MTV Brasil

MTV Brasil

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's Disk MTV, a correspondent to American

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 MTV

MTV

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's TRL

Total Request Live

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. A live recording of "O Lobo" also aired on the channel; a sixth single, "I Wanna Be", was also supposely released, but never had a music video or received widespread radio airplay.

Track listing