The Brazilian DJ whose eye-wateringly explicit song was used in a Labour TikTok video has said he is delighted the party used his song – but suggested they might have preferred the instrumental version.
DJ Holanda’s trap track Montagem Coral accompanied bizarre visuals of AI-generated human-animal hybrids in the clip, which promoted the government’s policy agenda.
But after Labour was made aware of the translation for the song’s Portuguese lyrics, it was swiftly deleted from the social media site.
Montagem Coral uses graphic and profane terms to describe sex with a young girl – or novinha – before finishing with a repeated phrase that implies sexual violence.
In a post on X, the Conservative MP Alicia Kearns asked Home Secretary Yvette Cooper if it was acceptable for her party to use a song with lyrics ‘encouraging men to get young girls on drugs so they can have sex with them, and celebrating punching girls in their vaginas?’
But DJ Holanda told Metro it was ‘incredible to see our music reaching new spaces and gaining international recognition’.
He said the explicit content of the song, while ‘common in Brazilian funk’, nevertheless ‘may not be suitable for all contexts.’
The DJ, who has 1.7 million monthly listeners on Spotify, added: ‘We understand that the use of the full song in a political video may have generated controversy and that the party chose to remove the publication.
‘We believe that using the melody without the lyrics would have been a more suitable alternative for this type of content.
‘In any case, we are happy with the reach that “Montagem Coral” is having and we hope it continues to reach people around the world.’
The original clip, titled ‘This Labour Government’s plan to change Britain for the better (as animals)’, featured AI characters including a badger on a railway platform and a hare dressed as a nurse over the trap tune.
Yesterday, a Labour spokesperson said: ‘The post is an adaptation of a viral social media trend and contains a mix of two music tracks.
‘We acknowledge the translation of the lyrics are completely inappropriate. We apologise and the video has now been deleted.’
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