With its recent success in Europe, it has also been criticized that Brazil is exporting music that is much inferior when compared to the bossa nova of the 1950s/60s and the Brazilian rock that had been made famous in the 1980s. It has been rumored that most of the funk projects in favelas are also financially backed by drug lords, so many song lyrics deal with challenging the police together with a subversive nature to the law currently established in Brazil.