"Eduardo e Mônica" (Eduardo and Monica) is a song from

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band

Legião Urbana Legião Urbana (Portuguese for Urban Legion) was a Brazilian rock band formed in 1982 in Brasília, Federal District (Brazil), Distrito Federal. The band primarily consisted of Renato Russo (vocals, guitar, bass, keyboards), Dado Villa-Lobos ...

'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.

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 ''O Trovador Solitário'' is a compilation by Brazilian singer-songwriter Renato Russo released on 13 July 2008 so as to coincide with World Rock Day. It was created with K7 tapes that he registered during his "O Trovator Solitário" (The Lonely ...

''. 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. 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

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and

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. Eduardo got a job at Banco Central and Mônica is a professor. A 2016 article by science magazine ''

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'' 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.

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". A film based on the song was announced in 2019 with Gabriel Leone and

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on the

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s. 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 2020 and it was screened at the 2020 edition of

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, before it was cancelled following the

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. By June, its premiere date was still uncertain due to the pandemic.

In 2001, fragments of the song were used in an ad by telecommunications company ATL (currently Claro). Later, on 7 June 2011, the song's 25th anniversary, a short clip was developed by another telecommunications company, Vivo. 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.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Eduardo e Monica Legião Urbana songs 1986 songs 1986 singles Songs written by Renato Russo Songs written by Dado Villa-Lobos Songs written by Marcelo Bonfá Brasília

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