"Sem Você" (lit.: "Without You") is a song by the Brazilian girl group pop Rouge, from their fourth studio album, '' Blá Blá Blá'' (2004). The song was written in Spanish by Andrés Constantinidis and Carolina de La Muela, with the title "No Dejo de Sentir", and was translated and produced by

Rick Bonadio Ricardo "Rick" Bonadio (born June 21, 1969) is a Brazilian music producer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and sound engineer, owner of Midas Studio and record companies Arsenal Music and Midas Music. Career He began his career in the 80's as a ...

. The song is a pop rock

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, which talks about not being able to live without the loved one. The song released on . "Sem Você" was inserted as a soundtrack to SBT's soap opera '' Esmeralda'', which helped popularize the song. The song was promoted in numerous TV shows. The group have performed the song on their for tours, from the ''Blá Blá Blá Tour'' (2004), ''Mil e Uma Noites Tour'' (2005), ''Chá Rouge Tour'' (2017) and '' 15 Anos Tour'' (2018).

Composition and lyrics

"Sem Você" is a

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, with strong presence of distorted

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s in its sonorization, which gives a more

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feature to the song. Written in Spanish by Andrés Constantinidis and Carolina de La Muela, with the title "No Dejo de Sentir", and translated and produced by

. "Sem Você" talks about finding love, and not being able to live without the loved one. The song begins with Li Martins singing that never thought to find someone to love, but that when seeing the person loved, the world of her changed. In the chorus, everyone sings as "second voice," while Patricia has more vocal highlights, "And now I can not stop feeling, without you and I can not breathe, I do not want to live if you're not here with me, I can not be happy," they sing the girls. The second part is sung by

Karin Hils Karin Pereira de Souza (born 7 February 1979) is a Brazilian actress, singer and songwriter. In 2002, she won the talent show ''Popstars'' and joined the Brazilian girl group Rouge until 2005, with which she released four studio albums, '' Ro ...

, and talks about love seem like a dream come true. The second chorus brings Fantine Thó in the lead vocals, while the other girls do "second voice". The bridge of the song brings Aline Wirley talking that she needs this love in her life, to be happy. After the last refrain, the girls do "

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Music video

On August 24, 2004,

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premiered the

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for "Sem Você", directed by Ike Veitna. The scenes were recorded in the living room of a house, located in Morumbi, in

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. The new video shows Fantine, Li Martins, Aline Wirley and Karin Hils in various situations. Ike had the idea of positioning the

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in the middle of the room, to be rotating throughout the clip in order to capture all the images.

Usage and performance

"Sem Você" was inserted as a soundtrack to SBT's soap opera '' Esmeralda'', like theme of the pair Graziella (Karina Barum) and Adrian (Daniel Andrade). The song was promoted in numerous TV programs. "Sem Você" was also part of the tour's set-list, ''Blá Blá Blá Tour'' (2004), ''Mil e Uma Noites Tour'' (2005), ''Chá Rouge Tour'' (2017) and '' 15 Anos Tour'' (2018).

Charts

References

2004 songs 2004 singles 2000s ballads Rouge (group) songs Pop ballads Songs in Portuguese Songs written by Rick Bonadio {{Brazil-music-stub