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You might remember it as Nossa nossa assim você me mata

2011·The social era·impressive

A Brazilian sertanejo song that footballers danced to after goals until it was number one in twenty countries.

At a glanceThe facts

Remembered as
Nossa nossa assim você me mata
Spread in
2011
Began as
A commercial release
Where it started
commercial-release
Format
Sound
Era
The social era
Performed by
Michel Teló, in the version that travelled
Made by
Sharon Acioly and Antônio Dyggs; three more co-authors were recognised in 2012
Origin
Not an upload originally
Available
Playable from the source

What this wasThe story

A simple accordion-led sertanejo track with an unstoppable chorus — nossa, nossa, assim você me mata — recorded by Michel Teló and released in July 2011. It was already known in Brazil's northeast in earlier versions; Teló's is the one that left the country, and it left it through football, after Cristiano Ronaldo and Neymar performed the dance as goal celebrations.

The authorship turned out to be more complicated than the credits: in February 2012 it emerged that three students from Paraíba had written the verses the song was built on, and a co-authorship agreement followed — an unusually well-documented case of a viral hit's origins being corrected in public.

Why it matteredWhat changed

A Brazilian song first sung in 2008 went round the world after two Real Madrid players danced to it on the pitch. It was number one in Spain for sixteen weeks.

TimelineIn order

  1. Made

    The song is first sung, by the group Os Meninos de Seu Zeh.1

  2. Posted

    Cangaia de Jegue make the first commercial recording.1

  3. Posted

    Michel Teló releases his version.1

  4. Picked up

    Cristiano Ronaldo and Marcelo dance to it after Ronaldo scores against Málaga.1

  5. Corrected

    Three women are recognised as co-authors of the song.1

  6. Later

    The official video has passed a billion views.1

The version you rememberNot the same thing

The version people rememberMichel Teló’s recording

Released in 2011, and the one that charted across Europe.1

The originalA 2008 song by another group

First sung by Os Meninos de Seu Zeh, and recorded by at least three other acts before Teló.1

What people misrememberSet straight

Commonly remembered asMichel Teló wrote it.

ActuallyHe neither wrote it nor recorded it first.1

Why it is here: something the internet still knows by name · it got out of its own corner of the internet fast · still being watched and quoted years later

This was released commercially before the internet carried it. Originally published on commercial-release. The version shown here is an official copy on YouTube, published by a rights holder.

Where it came fromWhat we know

There is no original upload to identify: this did not begin as one. What it began as is recorded here, and what is shown is a later copy.

View the official copy on YouTube

Nothing here is claimed to be the first publication of this Moment, because the first publication was not an upload. This was released commercially before the internet carried it. Originally published on commercial-release.

Not established. This index only names a creator where the evidence supports it.

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SourcesWhat was read

  1. Wikipedia — Ai Se Eu Te Pego

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