This morning manifesto is Ralph Lauren

Last December, 2k9, I was in the “sold-out crowd of preppies” at Terminal 5 watching Vampire Weekend. The music was very good but what I liked the most was to see for the first time a middle class manifesto on stage. Manifesto or Propaganda, as you wish. Twenty minutes before the show started, Christopher Tomson was in the same subway train I was, we both took the blue line to Columbus circle and we both were late. He had a washed blue skirt on his shoulders and I remembered he looked so normal. I didn´t recognized him until I saw him playing the drums, now with that shirt one. The all band was wearing that classic blue collar shirt while playing that jungle-in-order sort of music. Take their Columbia status and add their African influences and you can have this perfect contra success. They are like Hugo, everyone loves them. It not fair to say it is a band for the whitys, quite opposite It reminds me of the disco phenomenon, where without noticing black people, gay people, rich aristocracy or poor aspiring artists were all together on the dance floor.

Their debut album is very likable, but I had this post in mind to talk about their second album “contra”. Is it just me or the album is over the top? It makes me feel so summer, so vacation and so light that It´s becoming a sort of an addition. To honor them I am thinking about wearing Ralph Lauren polo shirts for now on and spread the trend in Porto. The girl in the picture is my sis, she´s supporting me on the cause: implement preppy clothes at public schools and aspiring alt places like shopping cinemas and teenager crowded beaches.