Tigresa

The longest song on Bicho's second side, it was produced by Perinho Albuquerque with Caetano on acoustic guitar and voice, Vinicius Cantuária on acoustic guitar and a counter-melody backing vocal, Arnaldo Brandão on bass, Enéas Costa on drums and Tomás Improta on piano. Its subject once cared about politics, in 1966, and now dances at the Frenetic Dancing Days, Nelson Motta's discotheque in a new Gávea shopping centre, open only from August to December 1976, whose singing waitresses became As Frenéticas. Rolling Stone Brasil reads her as an empowered woman who moved from political engagement to the dance floor. The so-called ideological patrols were said to hate the line and the song.

For decades the tigress was taken to be Sônia Braga, who had dated Caetano. In 2015 Nelson Motta said Caetano had told him it was Zezé Motta, who had always imagined the song's black nails were hers. Caetano later said she had something of Zezé, of Sônia and of every woman of the Dancing Days era, and then settled it his own way: "a Tigresa sou eu."

Covers and live

Gal Costa recorded it in 1977 for Caras & Bocas and as a single, and her version stood out on the soundtrack of the TV Globo telenovela Espelho Mágico. Ney Matogrosso cut it the same year on Pecado. Later versions came from Xande de Pilares, Filipe Catto and, in 2024, Zezé Motta herself. Caetano played it with Banda Black Rio in the 1978 Bicho Baile Show, on Noites do Norte Ao Vivo (2001), and in the 2011 TV Globo special Ivete, Gil e Caetano, arranged by Lincoln Olivetti. The upload in the hypersongs web is the original 1977 studio take from Bicho in a later new mix.