Minha Fama De Mau Lyrics in English by Erasmo Carlos, Rita Lee

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Below, I translated the lyrics of the song Minha Fama De Mau by Erasmo Carlos from Portuguese to English.

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Verse 1

My dear, sometimes says

That she wants to go to the movies

I look and see clearly

That there's no problem

Prechorus 1

And I say no, please

Don't insist and beat it

I don't want to torture my heart

Chorus 1

Girl, going to the movies

Is a normal thing

But the thing is, I have

To maintain my bad boy image

Verse 2

My dear, she cries and cries

And says she's leaving

Demands that I ask her

Forgiveness, immediately

Prechorus 2

And I say no, please

Don't insist and beat it

I don't want to torture my heart

Chorus 2

Apologize to your girlfriend

Is a normal thing

But the thing is, I have

To maintain my bad boy image

Postchorus 1

And I say no

I say no

I say no, no, no

I say no

I say no, no, no

Chorus 3

Apologize to your girlfriend

Is a normal thing

But the thing is, I have

To maintain my bad boy image

I have to maintain my bad boy image

Au, au, au, au

Postchorus 2

And I say no

I say no

I say no, no, no

I say no

I say no, no, no

Chorus 4

Girl, going to the movies

Is a normal thing

But the thing is, I have

To maintain my bad boy image

Chorus 5

I have to maintain my bad boy image

I have to maintain my reputation for being bad, bad, bad, bad

Bridge 1

Well, take me to the movies

Movies? No way!

Movies, movies

Your place is in the kitchen

It's about to start

I'll do a topless, huh?

Bridge 2

You're this, you're that, you crazy woman!

You dud, you little chauvinist, whatever, I don't know

You keep wanting to read pornographic magazines

Look here what I do with them

I'll rip them all up

Bridge 3

Well, let's forget everything and catch a little movie

Only if it's a cowboy movie

Cowboy, okay?

Shall we go?

Let's go

This way

Outro

Let's head out

My queen

I love you so much

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torturar — to torture

Torturar means "to torture." It sounds intense, but here it is used in a dramatic, almost playful way to describe mild emotional discomfort rather than real suffering.

In the line "Não quero torturar meu coração" ("I don't want to torture my heart"), the singer jokingly exaggerates how painful it would be to do something he simply does not feel like doing.

Ever felt like you had to act tougher than you really are? In "Minha Fama De Mau," Erasmo Carlos plays a character who's trying so hard to be a bad boy that it's getting in the way of his relationship. His girlfriend wants to do normal things, like go to the cinema, but he refuses. Why? As he says, "é que eu tenho / Que manter a minha fama de mau" [it's just that I have / to maintain my bad boy reputation]. He won't even apologize when she gets upset, because saying sorry is a "normal thing" and he's anything but normal... or so he wants everyone to think.

The song gets even funnier with a spoken dialogue between him and guest singer Rita Lee. He lays the tough-guy act on thick, telling her, "Seu lugar é na cozinha" [Your place is in the kitchen]. She's not having it and calls him out. But the whole act falls apart at the end. He gives in, agrees to go to a cowboy movie with her, and then sweetly calls her "Minha rainha" [My queen]. It's a playful song that makes fun of the pressure to have a tough-guy image, showing the soft heart underneath the act.

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