Igreja
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| "Igreja" | ||||
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| Single by Titãs | ||||
| from the album Cabeça Dinossauro | ||||
| Released | 1987 | |||
| Genre | Post-punk | |||
| Length | 2:47 | |||
| Label | WEA | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Nando Reis | |||
| Producer(s) | Liminha, Vitor Farias and Pena Schmidt | |||
| Titãs singles chronology | ||||
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"Igreja" ("Church") is a single by Brazilian rock band Titãs, released in 1986, as part of their Cabeça Dinossauro album.
According to songwriter and then bassist and vocalist Nando Reis, the song was written on the acoustic guitar at his mother's house in the district of Butantã, São Paulo as a protest to the censorship against Jean-Luc Godard's film Je vous salue, Marie:[1][2] "there was a boycott against it and Roberto Carlos, of whom I am a big fan, wrote something in support of the boycott. That, in a certain way, was against my ideals, the matter of liberty. That motivated me to write the song."[3]
By the time of the album's release, Reis said:[4]
"I had a Catholic education, studied in a parochial school, and because of that I have a good degree of anger towards the Church, I don't trust it. It's an organized institution that, in some political moments, has a very worthy position - but that's not what I'm talking about in the song Igreja. Religiously it is something I lost entirely. I don't believe in God. I don't pray."
