1986 single by Legião Urbana
"Eduardo e Mônica" (Eduardo and Monica) is a song from Brazilian rock band Legião Urbana's 1986🤶 album Dois, released as promo single. It tells a romantic story centered on a couple formed by the 16-year-old Eduardo🤶 and the older college student Mônica, who are very different from each other.[1]
Writing and theme [ edit ]
The song had🤶 already been recorded in 1982, when Russo performed alone with his acoustic guitar under the moniker "O Trovador Solitário" (The🤶 Solitary Troubadour), on a cassette tape that would be later recovered and released along with other songs on his posthumous🤶 solo album O Trovador Solitário.
This version has a different ending than the one from the album. In the latter, it🤶 is stated that in a certain vacation period, the family could not travel because the son was retaking a class🤶 in school.[a][3] In the original version, the couple's son is still yet to be born and that they didn't get🤶 married in a church, but at Eduardo's ranch. Some verses were already scratched by then: "With an Indian flutist who🤶 marked the time signature/ All all friends..." They built a house somewhere close to the sea and went to Bahia,🤶 Ouro Preto and Rio de Janeiro. Eduardo got a job at Banco Central and Mônica is a professor.[3]
A 2024 article🤶 by science magazine Superinteressante suggested that the couple was unlikely to have a long-lasting relationship, based on what the verses🤶 say about them and analyzing such info against diverse scientific researches on reasons why couples break up.[1]
In other media [🤶 edit ]
The song inspired a play by Adolar Gangorra in which he depicts Eduardo as a victim of "a newspapers'🤶 culture pages pop culture, which Monica makes him follow".[4]
A film based on the song was announced in 2024 with Gabriel🤶 Leone and Alice Braga on the titular roles. It will be directed by René Sampaio, who also directed Brazilian Western,🤶 another film based on a Legião Urbana song. The film was due on 11 June 2024 and it was screened🤶 at the 2024 edition of Miami International Film Festival,[5] before it was cancelled following the COVID-19 pandemic.[6] By June, its🤶 premiere date was still uncertain due to the pandemic.[7]
Ads [ edit ]
In 2001, fragments of the song were used in🤶 an ad by telecommunications company ATL (currently Claro).[8] Later, on 7 June 2011, the song's 25th anniversary, a short clip🤶 was developed by another telecommunications company, Vivo.[9] The clip, released on YouTube a few days before Valentine's Day in Brazil,🤶 is a tribute to the date and has the song as its soundtrack.[9]
Notes [ edit ]
^ "Recuperação" is a method🤶 of school grade recovering common in Brazilian schools. Should a student fail a particular subject, they have a chance of🤶 raising it to approval level by taking some extra classes and doing more tests. It is somehow similar to Summer🤶 schools in the United States. It's also not unlike the practice of taking remedial tests in north American colleges.
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