Portuguese

A floor-burner that turns "envolver" — a signature funk carioca move — into a metaphor for control: the one…

Brazil's greatest karaoke anthem is a confession in reverse. Every attempt the narrator makes to prove he i…

The happy dizziness of flirting at a party. Faced with someone stunning, the narrator loses his train of th…

A manifesto against wasting one's life. Renato Russo refuses fear and resignation: facing a hostile world, …

Love described as something as vast and deep as the sea. In "Oceano", Djavan turns the loved one and the fe…

Gratitude for a love amid life's uncertainty. "Ainda bem" (thank goodness) is the sigh of relief of someone…

The stubborn hope of a heart that refuses to accept the end. The narrator returns to his garden and asks th…

The impossibility of being forgotten. The narrator tells a love who left that, even beside someone new, sma…