“ACORDA, Pedrinho! That has a championship today.” If you’ve been navigating the internet for the past few days, you’ve surely been taken aback by the verses from the hit of the hour. One such success, the song “Acorda, Pedrinho” by the band Jovem Dionísio reached 1st place in the most played songs on Spotify Brazil this Saturday (21). But who is Pedrinho and what is this story? THAT hugogloss.com answer you now!
The punch
The track was released by the band in April and has exploded on social media in recent weeks. There are already more than 107,000 videos using the song on TikTok alone. The music became the soundtrack for everything dance videos, humor videos, puppies and kittens, fitness videos, among others. In other words, we woke up and Pedrinho was the latest trend. Spy easily:
@jovemdionisioacorda pedrinho?♬ ACORDA PEDRINHO Jovem Dionisio
@gianaalthausACORDA GIANA♬ WAKE UP PEDRINHO Young Dionisio
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@ogolden_thor Me and my friends ❤️ #GoldenRetriever #animais #dogtiktok #animal #viral ♬ WAKE UP PEDRINHO Young Dionisio
@ntoninACORDA PEDRINHO♬ WAKE UP PEDRINHO Young Dionisio
The hit was also one of the most talked about topics on the internet… Even Anitta indulged in the bubblegum verses of Jovem Dionísio’s song. “Acorda pedrinhô that I don’t know who’s coming to dance with me na na na na na na acorda pedrinhô,” the singer wrote on Twitter today. “I can’t believe you put this song in my head AGAIN,” host Ana Clara joked in response.
I can’t believe you put this song in my head AGAIN
Ana Clara 🌶 (@anaclaraac) May 21, 2022
But who is Pedro?
The band Jovem Dionísio is formed by a group of musicians from Curitiba who decided to pay homage to the “old Dionísio”, the owner of the bar they used to frequent in the city. According to singer Belni Pasquali, the big hit was also a tribute to one of the local regulars, the now famous Pedrinho. “Pedrinho is a great regular at the bar [do Dionísio] and he’s a guy who always sleeps in a corner, he stays there, drinks and stuff, talks a little bit and sleeps…then he wakes up a little bit more and goes back to sleep,” he said in an interview with GQ Brasil.
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Although the music suggests a dance, the championship is actually a snooker. “The first idea was to talk about the people at the bar. But once we followed ‘Acorda Pedrinho’ when we got there and there was a snooker championship going on there. We saw him finish third and we were impressed. He just slept, woke up and played,” the band explained to Splash in an interview with Zeca Camargo.
The band Jovem Dionísio went viral with the hit song “Acorda, Pedrinho” a tribute to the patron of a bar they frequented. (Photo: Breno Galtier)
As the music industry continues to seek hits on TikTok, the artists admitted that no matter how much they hoped for a hit, they didn’t create the track with that in mind. “From the moment we first did this song, everyone thought it was really cool. She was, yes, a big bet of ours from an early age, even named the album because of it. But we never thought about showing up on TikTok, to that end it was just a big joke and it turns out it was,” said bassist Gustavo Karam.
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The band also has a curious story behind the composition of “Acorda, Pedrinho”. Drummer Gabriel Mendes, known as “Mendão”, gave the starting point with the verse: “I don’t know where else to go, I only know that the night was long”. From there, the five members brainstormed together on a farm and the end result is here: the latest viral on the internet, which is also the first letter signed by everyone.
In this championship you can already see that they have won, right? And the streams don’t stop! As always, it’s worth getting to know the artists a little better! The album “Acorda, Pedrinho”, released last month, is also available on Spotify and shows all facets of this group, about which there is still a lot to tell. Listen below: