{{Infobox song | name = Meu Erro | cover = Meu Erro (single).jpg | alt = | type = single | artist = Os Paralamas do Sucesso | album = O Passo do Lui | released = 1984 | recorded = | studio = | venue = | genre = Pop-Rock | length = | label = EMI-Odeon | composer = | lyricist = | producer = | prev_title = | prev_year = | next_title = | next_year = }}
"'''Meu Erro'''" (Portuguese for "My Mistake") is a rock single by Os Paralamas do Sucesso that was a Brazilian hit. It was released in 1985, with great success among the Brazilian youth. Cover versions included two recorded by CPM 22 and Banda do Santa.
In 1999, an acoustic version by Brazilian singer Zizi Possi, included on her album ''Puro Prazer'', was nominated for a Latin Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance.<ref name=LatinGrammy2000>{{cite news|url=http://articles.latimes.com/2000/sep/12/news/ss-19509/2|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121108040445/http://articles.latimes.com/2000/sep/12/news/ss-19509/2|url-status=dead|archive-date=November 8, 2012|title=List of Nominees / Lista de nominados|page=2|date=September 12, 2000|accessdate=January 17, 2013|work=Los Angeles Times}}</ref>
== History == During the production of the album ''O Passo do Lui'', the band singer Herbert Vianna break-up of the Kid Abelha singer Paula Toller.<ref>{{cite web|access-date=5 June 2019 |date=4 February 2001 |publisher=Portal Terra |title=Saiba mais sobre a vida de Herbert Vianna |url=https://www.terra.com.br/exclusivo/noticias/2001/02/04/003.htm}}<!-- auto-translated from Portuguese by Module:CS1 translator --></ref> One of the most widely shared Interpretation about the song is that the song is about the lament of Vianna for the end of the relationship.<ref name="Metropolitana">{{cite web|access-date=5 June 2019 |date=13 May 2019 |publisher=Metropolitana FM |title=O que tem por trás de “Meu Erro”, dos Paralamas do Sucesso? |url=https://metropolitanafm.com.br/musicas/o-que-tem-por-tras-de-meu-erro-dos-paralamas-do-sucesso}}<!-- auto-translated from Portuguese by Module:CS1 translator --></ref>
Another Interpretation about the song is that it's about the delusion and the lack of the perspective of the society after of the end of the military dictatorship in Brazil.<ref name="Metropolitana" />
== Credits and personnel == Written by Herbert Vianna, record in the studios of EMI Odeon of Brasil, Rio de Janeiro in 1984.<ref>{{cite web|access-date=5 June 2019 |author=Paralamas do Sucesso |date=1984 |publisher=Discogs |title=O Passo do Lui |url=https://www.discogs.com/Os-Paralamas-Do-Sucesso-O-Passo-Do-Lui/master/281024}}<!-- auto-translated from Portuguese by Module:CS1 translator --></ref>
* Herbert Vianna - vocal and guitar * Bi Ribeiro - bass * João Barone - drums * Jotinha - Keyboard
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Category:1985 singles Category:Brazilian songs Category:Songs in Portuguese Category:1985 songs Category:Song articles with missing songwriters Category: Os Paralamas do Sucesso songs
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