Poptastic Brazilians Cansei De Ser Sexy are here to celebrate the sublime and the ridiculous in music, fashion and celebrity culture _ oh, and to pur on a great show. Lead singer Luisa Matsushita, aka Lovefoxxx, talks to Jim Carroll

IN the future, all pop bands will sound like Cansei De Ser Sexy. It stands to reason. If pop is supposed to have been engaging in a spot of cannibalism over the last decade or so, it's inevitable then that what comes from the speakers will probably resemble what these five Brazilian girls and one guy are producing.

Pop culture in a myriad of shapes and forms is what turns these São Paulistanos on. An act who see both the sublime and the ridiculous in music, fashion and celebrity culture, CSS with their songs about Paris Hilton, J-Lo and the perils of art bitches really do seem as if they've popped straight out of the pages of Visionaire or i-D.

But CSS are quite happy to admit they're still making things up as they go along and finding new things to throw into the mix. A dayglo soundclash of pop, funk, disco, punk and electronica, CSS make music that is giddy, sparkling, ludicrous, sexy and delightful.

This, says lead singer Luisa Matsushita, aka Lovefoxxx, was always their intention. "We just wanted to make music which was fresh and bright. In São Paulo, I hate when you go along to see a band just because your friends like the band. I didn't want people to feel they were coming to a CSS show just because they knew us. I wanted them to come along and have fun. The best thing ever was when friends of our friends started talking about us."

Lovefoxxx probably never thought they would clock up so many friends of friends and spread their wings beyond their home turf. São Paulo is home to thousands of bands, yet few receive the same kind of international hook-up (indie juggernaut Sub Pop adding them to their roster this year) or acclaim as CSS.

Lovefoxxx believes they stand out from the São Paulo crowd because: "most of the bands at home are really boring." There may be, she concedes, a few exceptions ("well, OK, Bonde Do Role are amazing"), but she's largely sticking to her guns. "Most of the other bands don't relate in any way to what we do. I don't think many of them really liked us that much either, but I don't care about that."

They also sound quite different from their Brazilian peers. This is a sound which is as poppy as it comes. Be it chart-bound baubles from the latest airbrushed pop princesses or the latest cutting-edge underground fashions, a CSS song always fits right in.

Lovefoxxx credits the band's global outlook for this. "We were born and raised in São Paulo and it definitely influenced us," she says. "But it is not something that comes out directly in our music. Our musical influences are much more international than Brazilian."

Pop was the common denominator when CSS assembled for duty. "We were all into such diverse music," Lovefoxxx remembers. "Carolina is into noise stuff and Adriano has superb taste in rock'n'roll, but what brought us together were pop songs. We love Nelly Furtado, we love Christina Aguilera, we love Kelis.

"When we are together, we like to dance and laugh and have fun and you can do that with pop music. It wasn't the intention to do poppy songs when we first got together, but that is how it turned out. It's really good to make songs you can dance to because it's easier then to dance during the shows. If we're really excited about the songs, the audience will be excited too."

Before CSS came along, Lovefoxxx was already deeply immersed in pop. "I used to host a late-night music show playing really crappy pop videos," she says. "It was on one of the main Brazilian TV networks.

"I hated it. My memory isn't great and I find it hard to remember everything. I didn't have an autocue so I had to memorise everything. It was the most boring work I've ever had to do. The good thing was I only had to work twice a week and didn't have to work in an office."

Thanks to CSS, Lovefoxxx is now making videos for others to play. It's her first band too. "I had never sung before and I didn't even realise I could do it." Given that the rest of the band, all well-to-do art-school buddies who formed the band as an excuse to hang out together in 2003, couldn't play their instruments, she was in good company. A Beyoncé quote that she was tired of being sexy (or "cansei de ser sexy" in Portuguese) provided the name and CSS were in business.

At the start, CSS used the internet to get things rolling. "Most of the music on our first releases came about through the internet," explains Lovefoxxx. "Back then, we weren't together all the time like we are now.

"Adriano would email me a bunch of electronic beats and I'd start working on the lyrics and send them back to him. We would put our parts together via email.

"Because CSS is my first band, using the internet in this way seems quite natural to me. I mean, most of the music I own I've downloaded from various music blogs or MySpace pages. I really don't know how bands used to work before when they were apart."

Lovefoxxx admits she had "no idea what I was doing" when she first started writing songs. "I would do three verses, then two, then seven and I'd be like 'hey, I wrote a song!'. Then the rest of the band would tell me what I was doing wrong."

It was the internet and the band's live shows which sold CSS to the masses. "We're not big in Brazil," Lovefoxxx points out. "We don't get played on the radio, but there's always a lot of people at our shows, so most people have picked up on us through the internet." The live show does sound like something else entirely. "We're super-crazy when it comes to the live show," she says with a gigantic giggle. "I spent years going to see other bands in São Paulo, so I know what kind of live show I like to see and I hope it is like the show we put on. We just go wild. When we get drunk, we enjoy our drunkenness and the live show is like that. We're six friends and we just want to make you dance."

Cansei de Ser Sexy is out now on Sub Pop. Cansei De Ser Sexy play The Radar Club, Belfast on November 5 and The Village, Dublin on November 6