The Girl From Ipanema is a far weirder song than you thought

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  @AdamNeely · 6 years ago (edited) · pinned

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  @moonlit_poem · 3 years ago

  As a Brazilan, it’s honestly just about a lovesick man who wishes a girl would notice him, he isn’t obsessed with her or anything he just is infatuated

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  @pedrokz8.0 · 5 years ago

  I&apos;m a simple Brazilian, I see my culture on the title, I click

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  @stadbab · 3 years ago

  when i was in highschool i had a friend whose dog HATED this song. he was normally super friendly and sweet, but if you so much as hummed it around him he would start growling. that dog apparently had no appreciation for bossa nova.

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  @A.l.a.c. · 2 years ago

  In Portuguese the lyrics are much more romantic and talks about beauty, love, grace and simplicity. They are not expecting anything from the girl, like in the English version, they are just contemplating her passing as a moment of grace, beauty and lonely sadness for them. It&apos;s like a devotion. Vinícius was a very romantic Don Juan type of man. <br>I love &quot;Onde Anda Você&quot;, btw.

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  @livs9899 · 5 years ago

  Video: <b>*has something from Brazil in the title*</b><br>Brazilians: Hah, you just activated my trap card!

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  @luciddreams4091 · 5 years ago

  Me watching this knowing nothing about music theory: mmm yes chords

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  @rodrigomendonca1777 · 5 years ago

  strange fact: Tom and Vinicius wrote this song based on experiences they had in a bar in Rio de Janeiro that still exists and is in the neighborhood of Ipanema, they watched the same girl pass by this bar on the way to the beach and because they thought she was very beautiful they decided to write this song, this girl is still alive and is called Helô Pinheiro. Legend says that they wore drunk while watching &nbsp;Helô

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  @raullara9015 · 2 years ago

  morrendo aqui com as distorçoes numa letra tao deboa kkkkk como se fosse de terror e é literalmente uma gostosa andando na praia

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  @anDrExcel · 5 years ago

  Oh, and the lyrics are &quot;o mundo inteirinho&quot;, not &quot;o mundo sorrindo&quot;<br>&quot;Inteirinho&quot; is a diminutive for &quot;whole&quot;

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  @PaulMenking · 6 years ago

  Adam “it actually goes a little bit deeper than that” Neely

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  @jnm92 · 5 years ago

  I taught myself Brazilian Portuguese on Duolingo just to sing bossa ❤️

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