Every Maid's Dream: Vida de Empreguete

A reader sent me a link to a video that I'd like to share with you. It's a short clip about a Brazilian maid who has a dream that she switches lives with her mistress and starts imagining how she's going to treat her. A common theme, of course, but I liked it. Naturally, as one would expect, the Mistress is whiter, taller and skinnier - a theme explored in endless fashion editorials, including one from Vogue Brazil, incidentally, where a maid and a mistress almost look like different species or that Playboy Brazil spread with a blonde madame and a dark-skinned maid. 

The catchy song in that video is actually quite interesting too. I found the lyrics and, needless to say, it's a lady-to-maid manifesto/maid empowerment anthem of sorts with lines like "I want to see the Madame here in my place/I would laugh a lot" or "One day I would buy an apartment and become a socialite/All hot, I am going to travel with my casual date" and so on. You can read it here with a (very basic) English translation. 


The song is from a 2012 Brazilian TV novella/musical called Cheias de Charme, a story of three maids that start a music band. Looks like your typical fare (and maids are mainstays of Latin soap operas and comedies), but fun nonetheless. Here is a clip from that show with the same song and some dress up in their mistress's clothing:

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