In a documentary series, Luísa Sonza misses the chance to delve deeper into controversies to undo them

“I think I’m so fragile, the person who can handle things the least because everything hurts me so much,” says Luísa Sonza in an excerpt from the documentary series “If I Were Luísa Sonza”, which premieres on Netflix on Wednesday (13). The production aims to follow the creative process behind the album “Escândalo Íntimo”, which the singer released in August this year.

After Anitta, she is the second Brazilian pop artist who sets out to show the cameras a side less known to the public in a series from the streaming giant. In total, there are three episodes of around 30 minutes each, to which the F5 had early access.

The work focuses on Luísa who is constantly exposed and criticized on social media, and it is not uncommon for her to appear emotional or crying because of this. “Music is a way for me to cope with being weak the way I am because, when I put it into music, the suffering is not in vain, it becomes a lyric”, she explains.

“Imagine if the thing you love doing most in life became the thing you hate the most and the thing that drains you the most, makes you more tired, exhausted, unwell, depressed,” he continues. “Life turns upside down.”

In this regard, one of the moments mentioned by the singer was the end of her marriage with comedian Whindersson Nunes, followed by a series of attacks on social media. In one of the scenes shown, she is angry with the trophy for “separation that caused the most in 2020” at the F5 Awards, held by Sheet between 2014 and 2021.

“I keep this shit exposed to show how fucking absurd this fucking son of a bitch is,” he complains. “You are shits, damn, you are shits. That’s what you are. Look at the kind of things we receive. Like, you fucked everyone’s head up. Brazil kept threatening me with death and I left to fucking Mexico, idiots.”

Other topics that took the singer to the pages of news sites are covered only en passantsuch as her breakup with Chico Veiga, the boyfriend who inspired the song “Chico” and who she accused of cheating during a coffee with Ana Maria Braga on the program Mais Você (Globo).

The same occurs with the accusation of racism against the singer. At the end of chapter two, she defines as “unfortunate” the episode in which she asked a black woman for water in Fernando de Noronha, in 2018, and says she didn’t know if she would talk about the subject. Spoiler: she doesn’t say anything else.

For her testimony in the documentary, Luísa did not speak directly to the cameras, but recorded a video on her cell phone (edited with several cuts).

At another point, the singer is preparing for another performance and, when she is on the plane, she takes a few drops of the anxiolytic Rivotril. “It depends,” she responds when asked what the dosage would be. And more is not explained to the viewer.

At the end of the three episodes, the feeling is of superficiality. If there is one success, it is to show that success is full of side effects. Be careful what you wish for!