Pais e Filhos
| "Pais e Filhos" | |
|---|---|
| Song by Legião Urbana | |
| from the album As Quatro Estações | |
| Released | 1989 |
| Genre | folk rock |
| Songwriters | Renato Russo, Dado Villa-Lobos, Marcelo Bonfá |
| Producer | Mayrton Bahia |
"Pais e Filhos" is a song composted by Renato Russo, in partnership with Marcelo Bonfá and Dado Villa-Lobos in 1989 and released by his band, Legião Urbana, on the 1989 album As Quatro Estações.[1]
Composition
"Pais e Filhos" was created, according to producer Mayrton Bahia, with several layers of guitar and ‘leftover’ sounds, as if there were several songs within one. To resolve the issue, he went back to cutting and pasting pieces of tape with stickers. The lyrics of the song deal with parent-child relationships and suicide.[2]
In 1994, during the band's appearance on SBT's Programa Livre programme, Renato let out a sigh of relief when he saw the audience's joyful reaction to the announcement that they would be playing it:
"Listen, you know this song is about suicide, right? (...) It's about a girl who has problems with her parents, she threw herself out of a fifth-floor window and there is no tomorrow. (...) It's a very serious song, like ‘Índios’. (...) I couldn't bear to listen to it twice in a row. (...) Sometimes these songs reflect a moment in my life that I don't like to remember anymore."[3]
Legacy
According to ECAD, the song is one of the band's most played and also one of the most re-recorded.[4][5]
References
- ↑ Pestana, Paula (1989-10-27). "Um disco de melodia bem livre". Correio Brasiliense. Retrieved 2025-10-12.
- ↑ Leya, ed. (2022-06-13). Discobiografia legionária (in Brazilian Portuguese). p. 16.
- ↑ "Vídeo: O dia em que Renato Russo deu um sermão na plateia do Programa Livre". SBT. Retrieved 2025-10-12.
- ↑ Digital, Núcleo (2025-03-27). "Renato Russo completaria 65 anos nesta quinta: veja as músicas mais tocadas do cantor". diariodaregiao.com.br (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 2025-10-12.
- ↑ Rodrigues, Rosualdo (2016-10-11). "Após duas décadas, Renato Russo se multiplica numa legião de covers". www.metropoles.com (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 2025-10-12.