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O Tempo não Pára

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Recorded
  
October 1988

Length
  
04:37

Genre
  
Rock

Language
  
Portuguese

Label
  
PolyGram Universal Music

Writer(s)
  
Cazuza, Arnaldo Brandão

O Tempo não Pára (in English: Time Doesn't Stop) is a Brazilian rock song, created by the singer Cazuza, in collaboration with Arnaldo Brandão in 1988. It is the sixth issue that is part of their self-titled live album, O Tempo não Pára.

Contents

Words and meaning

The letter covers the artist's life from his birth and dedicated one of his verses to the media of their country; which they had given up for dead early in his later years, when the author was dying of AIDS. Is, in itself, a complaint about the irritation of musician with society both criticized his lifestyle his illness, his vices and sexual orientation, and at the same time is proposed as a critique of the exploitation of his image in media. Along with the songs "Exagerado" and "Ideologia", "O Tempo não Para", they are considered his greatest successes as a soloist.

Covers

  • In 1992, Argentina's rock band Bersuit Vergarabat, released his first studio album, Y Punto; and it included a Spanish adaptation of "O Tempo não Pára", entitled "El tiempo no para", which became a classic Argentine rock. In his honor, Gustavo Cordera sings one of the song's verses in the live version in Portuguese in 2002.
  • References

    O Tempo não Pára Wikipedia