Do we like Anitta?
Our score: 8 out of 10. Consistent public support for LGBTQ+ people and her own faith, no harmful words found, and a thin but unremarkable legal record.
Anitta is Brazil's biggest pop export, a funk-and-pop singer who went global and now plays the world's biggest stages. Her April 2026 album Equilibrivm was the subject of a big AP chat covering the record, her SNL turn and her relationship with God.
The formative thing for her public story is faith. In 2024 her video for Aceita featured Candomblé, an Afro-Brazilian religion, alongside other faiths, and she lost over 300,000 followers. She told AP she expected it, and said she'd rather keep followers who are good people to share energy with.
On the harm test she looks clean. We found no remarks from her against trans or gay people, women, migrants or the planet. Gay Times ran a 2018 interview about her being an ally to the LGBTQ community, and she was a headliner at L.A. Pride in the Park in 2022. We found no vaccine or climate-denial material either, though the record there is thin.
Politically she has been loud. This month she said her vote is for Lula, and that using religion in politics should be considered a crime. Where you land on that depends on how you feel about Lula, but it's the opposite of the culture-war grievance slide we watch for.
Legally, there's one recent matter to note. Two songwriters sued, claiming her hit Funk Rave copied their track, and in October 2025 a Florida federal judge dismissed the suit. The court found it unlikely she'd had access to the earlier song, and that similarity wasn't adequately pleaded.
Brazilian gossip pages are full of feuds, rumours and old legal spats, but we couldn't verify anything serious from a reliable outlet. Much of it is tabloid territory, so we've left it out. That's honestly the extent of the dirt.