 Performers gradually grew bolder, incorporating some of old nueva canción repertoire, though carefully avoiding overtly political topics.Artists began calling this music "canto nuevo", a term selected to both reference and distance the new movement from the former nueva canción.Because of the precarious political circumstances in which it existed, canto nuevo is notable for its use of highly metaphorical language, allowing songs to evade censors by disguising political messages beneath layers of symbolism.