Eduardo e Mônica

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"Eduardo e Mônica"
Single by Legião Urbana
from the album Dois
Released1986
Recorded1986
Genre
Length4:31
LabelEMI-Odeon
Songwriter(s)Dado Villa-Lobos, Renato Russo, Marcelo Bonfá
Producer(s)Mayrton Bahia
Legião Urbana singles chronology
"Tempo Perdido"
(1986) 		"Eduardo e Mônica"
(1986) 		"Quase Sem Querer"
(1986)

"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[]

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.[2]

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 in recuperação.[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..."[2] 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 giving classes.[3]

A 2016 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[]

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 2019 with and Alice Braga on the titular roles. It will be directed by , who also directed Brazilian Western, another film based on a Legião Urbana song. The film was due on 11 June 2020 and it was screened at the 2020 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[]

In 2001, fragments of the song were used in an ad by telecommunications company (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[]

  1. ^ "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.

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b Leonardi, Ana Carolina (21 October 2016). "PPor que Eduardo e Mônica não teriam dado certo, segundo a ciência". Superinteressante (in Portuguese). Editora Abril. Retrieved 2 July 2020.
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b Fuscaldo 2016, p. 200.
  3. ^ Jump up to: a b Cozer, Raquel (13 July 2008). "CD traz Renato Russo antes da Legião". Folha de S.Paulo. Grupo Folha. Retrieved 7 July 2020.
  4. ^ Rodrigo Machadom, para o Overmundo (2 October 2010). "Eduardo e Mônica". Overmundo.com.br. Retrieved 10 January 2011.
  5. ^ Fonseca, Rodrigo (11 March 2020). "'Eduardo e Mônica' ganha o mundo". O Estado de S. Paulo. . Retrieved 29 April 2020.
  6. ^ Feinberg, Scott (12 March 2020). "Miami Film Festival, Already in Progress, Is Canceled". The Hollywood Reporter. Prometheus Global Media. Retrieved 29 April 2020.
  7. ^ "Atores e diretor de 'Eduardo e Mônica' participam de live da Globo Filmes". O Liberal (in Portuguese). Grupo Liberal. 10 June 2020. Retrieved 2 July 2020.
  8. ^ ""Eduardo e Mônica" já foi usada em filme de outra marca de celular"". Exame.com. 2011.
  9. ^ Jump up to: a b "Vivo cria videoclipe para "Eduardo e Monica", da Legião Urbana". Exame.com. 8 June 2011. Archived from the original on 2014-01-17. Retrieved 10 June 2011.
  • Fuscaldo, Chris (2016). Discobiografia Legionária. São Paulo: LeYa. ISBN 978-85-441-0481-1.
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