Portuguese pop star David Carreira turns a roller-coaster fling into a catchy confession. In Dizias Que Não (You Used to Say No) he sings about a girl who says yes to every moment of physical passion—steamy car make-outs, tangled sheets, wild late-night adventures—yet always says no when he reaches for something deeper. Her mixed signals leave him chasing a fantasy of turning her into his “princess,” even while she keeps him locked in the role of secret lover.
As the story unfolds, the singer pieces together the truth: everyone seems to know she already has a main relationship, and he is nothing more than the other guy. Faced with constant refusals and half-hidden lies, he wrestles with the decision to break free before he gets in too deep. Packed with pulsing beats and vivid snapshots of temptation, the song captures the frustration of craving commitment from someone who only wants the thrill of the moment.
David Carreira is one of Portugal's biggest pop stars. Born in Dourdan, France, in 1991 and raised in a famously musical family as the son of the singer Tony Carreira, he broke through in 2011 with the album "N.1", which went straight to number one at home. Since then he has moved easily between radio pop, ballads and dance rhythms, and in 2019 he became the youngest Portuguese artist ever to sell out the Altice Arena in Lisbon.
On "Menta" he shares the microphone with Djodje, a Cape Verdean singer, songwriter and producer born in Praia in 1989 and now based in Lisbon. Djodje grew up surrounded by music, started out as a teenager in the group TC, and has become one of the leading voices of kizomba and Afropop across the Portuguese speaking world. His warm, laid back delivery, part of it sung in Cape Verdean Creole, is what gives this song its island heat.