Pitty’s hit that no media wanted to play at first, according to the singer

the career of Pitty has a series of hits released since its first album, Admirable New Chip (2003). songs like “Equalize”, “On Your Bookcase”, “Glass Ceiling””, “Mask”, “Next Week” It is “Déjà Vu” are among the most played by the artist on streaming platforms and are usually present at all of her shows.

However, there is a song that is not among those mentioned in the previous paragraph and that enters the list of great hits of Pitty, though its original destination seemed to be otherwise: “Loves me”. Released on the album Chiaroscuro (2009), the track – today the singer’s third most reproduced in the Spotify – was very successful at the time of its release, and has remained a fan favorite.

In an interview with G1, the singer admitted that she had a very ambitious plan to “Loves me”: turn it into a “heavy pop pearl”. One of her main references was the classic “Be My Baby”, from the Ronettes. However, the presence of a fair swear word in the song’s chorus led to the thought that the repercussions would be limited.

“Where I go, people tell me about this song and it’s really crazy to think that when I put it on Chiaroscuro, it was my bet for a single and nobody wanted to play it, right? Because there are ‘those who think I’m f#da’ (in the lyrics).”

Fear with the word in question was lost by society itself over the years, according to the artist.

“So long after, it became so commonplace. You see so many songs today that have that word in it. At the time, it was unimaginable. I think the big twist on the pop song that I wanted to do was just to have a word that was somehow dangerous and a little bit forbidden. So, the song will be so pop that we’ll be kind of forced to say that line. [risos] It was a real provocation.”

Other Pitty songs like “Me Adora”

At another point in the conversation, Pitty was invited to point out which other songs in her catalog would be similar to “Loves me”. The interviewer said that he remembered only more ballad songs, such as “Equalize” It is “On your shelf”and heavy as “Mask”. She answered:

“‘Loves me’ it is indeed a very singular, very unique song. I feel like an antenna for having mediated this relationship between this song and us here, right? […] She was single and gets a bigger proportion. But, for example, ‘Deconstruindo Amélia’ has this potential, this uniqueness, because I don’t know if people realize it. But anyone who knows the work in depth, who doesn’t just listen to the singles, understands my relationship with blues, with jazz, but mainly with blues and R&B, right? Both ‘Me Adora’ and ‘Desconstruindo Amélia’, ‘Relação Contida’, are songs that have this relationship with blues, which has this stuff. ‘Sete Vidas’, the single, also has this thing, this R&B beat, which is a pre-rock and roll thing, right?”