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extremely phallic.Whenever people go on a frenzy about sex in modern pop culture, I always like to point back to that time. Many of her songs are filled with double entendres and sexual innuendo.
As an aside, two curious facts:
- Carmen Miranda, despite being always associated with Brazil, was actually Portuguese.
- This whole thing was part of a larger effort of the American government to promote ties with certain countries in Latin America which sympathized with Germany and Italy. It was the "good neighbor"policy, which also saw things like the Disney movie about the "three gay caballeros:" Donald Duck, Panchito and Jose Carioca.
I remember back in highschool during some global issues class (or something like that) that someone actually thought that it was the norm in Brazil to wear fruit on their heads and so on.
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