Amar pelos Dois - Why it’s different from pop music 

Portugal has always presented Eurovision with songs that are so different from the usual 'la-la' shit that most other countries come up with ! - Let's hope Portugal lift the standard of songs in future Eurovisions. Well done Portugal, from London !

This video only shows the genius of Luis Figueiredo, a world class composer just waiting to be discovered!

It is also a waltz, which is uncommon in these days.

This song has to be sang in Portuguese. You did a great job in this cover. I have fallen in love with the Portuguese language due to this song. It really got under my skin. And every time my eyes are full of tears. Sobral is right when he says “Music is not fireworks, music is feelings”.

Uma das mais gratificantes surpresas para mim, tem sido descobrir que nos dias de hoje se faz excelente música e que existem músicos extraordinários. Como nasci nos anos 50 e vivi de perto toda uma revolução musical / cultural, fui erradamente achando que hoje em dia não se faz grande música. Nada mais errado. O que de facto temos é de começar a filtrar o que a industria gravadora nos tenta impingir e começar a deixar de ouvir algumas das mais conhecidas emissoras de FM, para que mudem de politica ao perder audiências. Este vídeo foi simplesmente a demonstração cabal de que hoje em dia se faz bom, melhor, muito bom e mais do que isso, a constatação de que há nestas gerações músicos extraordinários. O que se aprende com estas imagens é digno de ser difundido pois esclarece e informa de uma maneira simples, o que de facto é feito com alma, trabalho e talento. Bem haja Luís Figueiredo.

This video should be played at Eurovision 2018, so that Eurovision fans understand the struggle artists go through because of this “industrialized music”

As Salvador said during the voting, pointing to himself: POP? No POP, No POP.

He’s a legend! This song! I am actually not the type for crying but when he sang that song at the esc I was like having goose bumps all over my body and cried.. out of amazement!

I mean portuguese people seem to have great english, Salvador's english is perfect such as Luís Figueiredo's english and Luísa's Sobral is the same! Congrats Portugal

Muito bem. Trata-se de um elogio à diferença, com importantes luzes sobre técnicas e opções instrumentais. Não há milagres nem soluções definitivas mas há um exercício que quando feito com inteligência e talento pode resultar, independentemente do resultado momentâneo. Parabéns ao Luis Figueiredo e à autora do documentário. Fernando Tordo

Awesome commentary on the composition of this beautiful song. It's so true that everyone would benefit from a little musical education - music is for many little more than aural wallpaper which requires no input or effort from the listener. As a result, we get used to hearing more of the same and demand what is familiar, instead of allowing ourselves to be challenged by what is new, experimental, and different. This song continues to move people all around the world, and proves that there is plenty of room for all kinds of music - we only have to open our ears and listen with our hearts. Obrigado.

I just want to congratulate you on this video, this is incredible, beautiful and full of content. Keep going!

This video is quite eye opening in a way, thanks for this.

love love loove this song

I am deeply proud of the award, the song, and the video. Thank you. Love from Portugal.

Fantastic video production! It's amazing how much people miss out. The art of music is one of the ways where humans can communicate with no language barriers, yet people still don't search for it. Great job on this work.

Great video! Parabéns, Luís Figueiredo! I rarely listen to pop music, but not because I don't like it, since The Beatles are my favourite band, and they're a pop band. A different one, though, and that's what I want from music. In Portugal, we are having more and more good musicians getting noticed - great ones like Luísa Sobral, Miguel Araújo, António Zambujo, just to name a few - who are singing in their native tongue, running away from the convention that not so long ago said that if it wasn't in english, it wouldn't sell. Well, I think that if millions of people voted for a young stranger whose words didn't make sense in their heads, I can assume that good music sells, whatever the language sang... Just recently discovered a band from the 70's (Electric Light Orchestra), which I think are way ahead of its time (listening to "Believe Me Now" reminds me of Muse, for instance, another giant from the present). So, good quality music is out there, we just need to filter it more and find music through our tastes, not from industries who need to sell the same music through different artists that come and go. Keep listening! Keep discovering!

Respect from Lisboa 🇵🇹💪

Great video. :) I always say this to people, who complain that they hate modern pop and that "there's no good music anymore", that there IS still good music out there, you just have to look for it, instead of waiting for it to appear in the charts or the radio. And if you want your favourite "not-so-mainstream" music to be more popular, then TELL PEOPLE ABOUT IT, show it to them! One of the great things about the internet is that it's easier than ever to follow your favourite musicians and keep up with their more recent work, even if they aren't big superstars (or perhaps were once, but haven't been for a while). I think Salvador's statement was probably controversial because he made a rather poor choice of words, which caused his statement to sound very snobbish, and detract from what he probably meant. I feel like this video explained his point a lot better (that the mainstream market of today is very monotonous because the industry has very narrow ideas on what will and won't sell, so they prefer to play it safe and stick to the same formulas that they know will sell, so they often resort to a very fast-food-ish way of making music, which is why a lot of modern pop songs sound very similar to each other, and that you can still move people even if your music strays from conventional mainstream pop formulas, people just need to hear it). But the way Salvador said it, "We live in a world of disposable music, [...] and I think this could be a victory for people who make music that actually means something", sounded more like he was saying, "the world's full of shitty and unimportant music, but I'm a real artist, who makes important music, and that's why I won, because I'm better than all of them!" A lot of people who enjoyed his song probably enjoy pop music too, and for him to slag off a lot of the world's music as "disposable", and say that his music is "music that actually means something", it didn't just sound snobbish, it sounded really pretentious. As in, "what makes him think that he and his music is so special and important?", seeing as how music is subjective at the end of the day, and "Amar Pelos Dois is the best song from this year's competition" is only an opinion, and not an objective fact. Although it is indeed an opinion that most of the juries and viewers happened to agree with, hence it winning. :P I think if Salvador had phrased his speech better, his point would have been clearer and it wouldn't have been controversial at all.

its 2023 and im here crying 🥲😩

Fantastic job! This is a treat for musicologists.

Great Video. Its apparent that you put a lot of work into it. Really well done.

There have been a surprising number of musically diverse performances at the ESC over the years (Norway 1973 and Lithuania 1999 for example) but they seldom score well or gain much recognition beyond the contest itself. Thank you for unpacking why that is and for honouring the authenticity and success of Salvador's victory with such a beautiful song.

This is such a great video and so many great points about modern music productions are made here. I think it's great to be musically literate. Thanks for the playlist too! I am always on the hunt for new stuff to listen to too. This was just a great video and thanks for your work. Honestly this year's Eurovision had some great songs that were outside of the typical pop sound (and typical ballads of screaming women) it was a satisfying year for the contest. There were a few artists that I went back through their backlog and am very happy that I got exposed to them via the competition this year.

Perfect sense! And one of the reasons is in your video, is that i am portuguese and i have never heard of Cristina Branco! What a great stuff we have here!

Come on Portugal!!! You had such amazing but underestemated Eurovison songs (Lusitana paixao, Senhora do mar, Ha dias assim, to mention few). But this one is pure, heavenly joy to listen to💖🇵🇹🇵🇹🇵🇹

You should make more videos about music, this is excellent.

The music represents the heart. The piano is the beat and when the strings take over you can literally hear how his heart breaks when he gets rejected.

Estou muito contente por ter encontrado algo fora do comum, não o conhecia nem a este tipo de música, e vou pesquisar por mais música fora do comum.

This is for sure one of the best videos i've ever seen. Congratulations! Greetings from Portugal

Im portuguese btw When i heard this song i loved it becase it's a song you would hear in a disney movie and it brings me memories from my childhood

This video is so well made I felt I needed to comment. Please keep doing what you're doing. Super impressed . Congrats

wow fantastic video, the editing complements so delightfully with the content. what program do you use?

I applaud you for the quality of this video!! Both the information and the images shown were pertinent and informative!! Good job!!

Great work. Good documentary. Congrats.

Excelente video essay. Muito bom trabalho de investigação e edição. Continua!

Parabéns pelo vídeo ! Para além de ter informação claríssima e acessível para qualquer pessoa, tem interesse didáctico para aulas de songwriting, por exemplo. Muito bom

Que aula de arranjo / composição!!!

Very well done. Great insight. Thanks!

Amazing analis of the music indurtry! All because of a simple song that win a Eurofestival, and i may say, the best song to win a eurofestival! And i'm a guy from the metal em prog and i'm in love bye this simple jazz song! Now hope that radio stations stop passing play list of the indurtry and give again the power to the radio man chose what he likes to hear! Like in the 60's 70's 80's and 90's

Oh wow, thank you so much! This is so educative and inspirational, congrats to the amazing artists after this song and the designers of the video!

This a very good and professional video. Congratulations! Thank you for the quality of it!

This was a great video. It really opened my eyes (or should I say ears) to the wonderful possibilities in music

This does remind me of a more classic style. While watching this video it seems almost like a Disney sort of music. Almost like I could hear him singing at the window with birds flying around him. Can't explain it otherwise.

Brilliant video! Thank you for making it!

Excelente vídeo, muito educativo e bem produzido. Parabens

Muitos parabéns pelo video, está excelente em todos os níveis - conteúdo, edição, produção,...

Very well made and thought provoking video! Thank you!

Excelente video. Parabéns HelloLillyTV!

I honestly thought I was the only one who thought that this is a masterpiece. The best modern Eurovision winner hands down.

Amazing video! I've learned a lot! Thank you very much!

Muitos Parabéns pelo vídeo, uma grande e pertinente análise não só ao "Amar Pelos Dois" como ao estado actual da indústria Musical. Se fosse possível ter acesso a um link de playlists que o Luís tem no Spotify seria um bónus ;) Continua

Amazing video, just wonderful everything about it

wonderful video

i subscribed this channel because this video is great.

this video is amazing very well made just continue because you have a good future reserved

Obrigado, Luís Figueiredo! Muito bom video - acho que aprendi bastante, como leigo que sou. De facto eu gosto de deixar o spotify ''navegar'' sozinho para coisas aleatórias, e ás vezes descubro grupos interessantes... é uma actividade bastante divertida até. Canto num coro amador, e a viagem entre minha casa e a sala de ensaio dura 1 hora, geralmente passada no spotify. Acho, no entanto, que pelo simples facto de uma grande fatia dos ouvintes serem pouco ''educadas'' musicalmente (eu incluido), não é razão para as insultar (como foi feito no concerto pelas vítimas dos incendios). Acima de todo somos todos seres humanos dignos.

One of the best songs, ever

Excelent work. Thanks for it. 100% agree

I love the song because it's original and use their own language

ok this video deserves more views. one more thing to the creator of this video: who are you? why does the production of this video look like the video Vox is producing? like this is a very cool video 😱

incredible

great video, as allways.

I'd like to mention videogame music: there are some incredible compositions out there that many people don't know about, usually known only by those who like gaming. Gostaria de mencionar música de videojogos: existem algumas composições incríveis por aí que muita gente desconhece, excepto aqueles que gostam de jogar.

Excelente.

Excelente video! Parabéns! :D

Verissimo. E la magia di una canzone non si compera al supermarket delle major. Quello che ha detto Sobral, in maniera polemica, all'Eurovision, è pura verità, che cozza contro tutte le altre canzoni del festival e della nostra quotidianità. Viviamo in un tempo oscuro dove alleviamo maiali senza vita per nutrire il corpo e ascoltiamo canzoni senza cuore per provare a nutrire la nostra anima. Ed ora, se volete sapere che cosa ho scritto nella mia bellissima lingua che è l'Italiano, andate su Google Translate.

1:50 quando sabes que a narradora é Portuguesa, não engana! Quantos anos em Inglaterra?

love the song

Because he's from a lovely country :) .

Wow, what an amazing video! Everything said here is just straight facts

So tenho pena de "no geral" o publico ser tao fechado e tao marioneta da industria! pois hoje mais do que nunca faz-se excelente musica em Portugal. Nao sejam tao levados pelo comercial e pelo que vos tentam incutir atraves da publicidade e dos media! procurem o vosso gosto e nao sejam apenas mais um ouvinte do mesmo. Emmy Curl, Prana, Noiserv, Fadomorse sao apenas uns poucos exemplos portugueses, que decerto nao conhecem, da grande variedade e capacidade de fazer desta arte que se chama musica. e há para todos os gostos. Sejam felizes.

5:55 Fermata o fermate? No conocía esa palabra. Tendré que investigar, me dió mucha curiosidad.

Estive a dar uma vista de olhos à playlist e vi lá duas músicas da banda que mais oiço (Diabo na Cruz). E ver três músicas do compositor/escritor que mais aprecio (Jorge Cruz) para além das músicas da sua banda (Diabo na Cruz). Só foi pena não ver nenhuma música escrita/cantada pelo Manel Cruz.

And it is even better when you consider that before the silent pause he stresses the word "depois" or later, in Portuguese.

WTF? Are you portuguese.? Because you said Amar pelos dois really well!!!!!

It’s common in the music world. But it’s uncommon for pop music for sure. He’s right about how Eurovision is for entertainment more than it is for songwriting. I’m often so baffled that people actually don’t divert from pop music. I can’t imagine a life listening to pop my whole life b

This video is excellent! I disagree with one thing though, that’s not a bridge at the end of Amar Pelos Dois it’s a verse that’s been cropped, then the coda. A bridge would have sounded very different. Also I would have loved to see something about the chord structure of the song, seeing as pop songs tend to only have four chords and APD has many more, that would have been fascinating. But thanks for this brilliant insight into the best song to ever win Eurovision.

Very informative

EXACTO!!!

1:54 Actually the longest introduction in Eurovision history with 45 seconds is part of "Lane Moje" (SCG 2004). I would love for you to cover that song, as it is also something very different from modern pop music.

Great song 💚❤👍

nice video!

to love for two...🇵🇹

you're portuguese... i can tell by the way you pronounce the song title

Listen to Benjamin Clementine, Michael Kiwanuka, Nothing But Thieves, Raphael Saadiq, Paolo Nutini, Ray LaMontagne, Electric Youth Kwabs, Leon Bridges, Thundercat, Blood Orange, Sonder, Childish Gambino and you will know that music is not dead.

LUV more PT and the World too. bjs!!

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Folk interested in Portuguese rock can start by checking out these LPs: José Cid - 10 000 Anos Depois Entre Vénus e Marte www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=3537 Petrus Castrus - Ascensão e Queda www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=11959 Banda do Casaco - Hoje Há Conquilhas, Amanhã Não Sabemos www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=16629 Regarding Pop music pretty much everything boils down to António Variações: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-2XH5_qafR8k.html To this day pop musicians keep having success by simply doing covers of Variações. Great video. Cheers.

Pop music is BS, but this song blows me away 😍

It’s a Disney song basically

V Império

*ceder (give in) not "sofrer" (suffer)

Was this José Mourinho?!

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Come on back, and make another video.. Besides, you have to gloat about your Avengers theme song argument victory. they absolutely used it in the Infinity war trailer.

talk about staying away from formulas but puts the ac dc logo.... LOL

it sounds like a Disney song... sung by a misunderstood/apologetic character

I think there is a little mistake here. Serbia's song in 2012, Ukraine's in 2014 and Montenegro's in 2015 have longer music introductions.

We call that kind of rythm samba-canção. (Brazil)