


Rogério Skylab parodied the song as "Samba de uma Nota Só ao Contrário" on his 2009 live album Skylab IX. The song was mentioned in the song "Astrud" by Basia. The song was featured in a prominent scene of "A Man Without a Skin", a 1963 episode of Naked City. Another well-known release is the Sergio Mendes-Brasil '66 version, in medley with " Spanish Flea". This well-known song first reached a wide audience on the Grammy-winning bossa nova LP Jazz Samba ( Getz/ Byrd/ Betts), which reached the number one spot on the Billboard 200 in 1963. This is followed by eight measures of a more conventional, scalar melody line. The first eight measures consist of D, followed by four measures of G, and then four measures of D.
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The song title refers to the main melody line, which at first consists of a long series of notes of a single tone (typically D, as played in the key of G) played over a descending chord progression in a bossa nova rhythm. It was first recorded by João Gilberto in 1960 for his album O Amor, o Sorriso e a Flor. The English lyrics were written by Jon Hendricks.

" Samba de uma Nota Só", known in English as " One Note Samba", is a bossa nova and jazz standard song composed by Antônio Carlos Jobim with Portuguese lyrics by Newton Mendonça. The body is a sacred and fragile thing and it deserves every ounce of care.Bossa nova song, composed by Antonio Carlos Jobim Being loved in the way I deserve begins with loving myself in the way I deserve. Once I made that switch in my psyche, I began to manifest truly loving, safe, kind, and communicative people into my life.

I stopped caring about validation from assholes, stopped thinking it was my responsibility to help them, and started caring for myself in a real way. I wrote this song when I finally realized that I could choose not to allow harmful behavior into my life, and that there is a deep, deep importance in protecting the body and spirit. I was stuck in some delusion that I could help abusive people through their trauma and teach them to love me in the way I deserved. Leading up to that experience, I had a history of putting myself in toxic situations and pining for validation from people who treated me poorly. However brief, it had a life-long impact on my understanding of self. “I wrote ‘You Can Be Mean’ about a brief toxic experience I had with a manipulative and abusive LA model fuckboy.
