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Cabeça Dinossauro
Titãs · 1986 · Track 12
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The story behind
If there's one thing that defines Dívidas it's that sharp rhythm that sounds like a dagger piercing the silence. It's not a song that drags on or gets lost in embellishments: it goes straight to the bone with drums that hit like hammer blows and a guitar that cuts like a blade. The bass, for its part, draws straight lines, no frills, as if each note were an unignorable debt receipt. It's the kind of track you listen to once and get hooked, as if the song had been waiting for someone to play it to come to light.
Recorded at the Nas Nuvens studio in Rio between March and April 1986, Dívidas was born at a key moment for Titãs. The album Cabeça Dinossauro —where this track appears— was their third work and the first to feature production by Liminha, who was then heading the WEA record label. The band had just come off a previous album that hadn't met expectations, and personal circumstances weren't helping either: Arnaldo Antunes and Tony Bellotto had been imprisoned in late 1985. But instead of backing down, they used that tension to shape a sound that was more aggressive, more punk, more urgent. The result was an album that earned them their first gold record that same year, and Dívidas was one of the tracks that helped make it happen.