Sorriso Maroto, Belo and other pagodeiros are re-recording 'forgotten' songs In recent years, the concept of “side B” has invaded the pagoda. With the fans' approval, Sorriso Maroto, Belo and other names in the genre decided to enter the studio to produce projects using this model of re-recording their own little-known songs. The term B-side is inspired by vinyl, a physical media divided into two sides, with side A containing the main singles, while the other side contained songs that would be featured. But now these songs that ended up not being popular with the people are gaining a kind of belated prominence. At the beginning of the year, Sorriso Maroto launched the project "Sorriso Eu Gosto No Pagode - Lado B", re-recording little-known songs from their own repertoire. Belo entered the studio and announced that he will release an album with only B sides from his career. Thiaguinho and Turma do Pagode have already spoken about requests from fans to release works with this theme. It's a wave that's here to stay. Saturation of big hits Re-recording big hits is an old dynamic in the pagode world. Many artists at the beginning of their careers used this device in their first samba circles and even in studio work. Bruno Cardoso, from Sorriso Maroto, and Xande de Pilares, ex-Revelação, are examples of how important this model was at the beginning of their career. Since the Menos é Mais phenomenon, which exploded during the COVID-19 pandemic with an audiovisual project in which he worked with old hits of the genre, re-recordings have increased exponentially. This boom in “recent hits” created a problem among the public, who got tired of hearing the same songs re-recorded. "The re-recordings bring an interesting nostalgia to the public, but practically everything was re-recorded. Then, a lot of people thought about the 'B side' that they like to play, but that the public didn't even care about", explains Marcelinho TDP, cavaquinista from the group Turma do Pagode. The musician used the song "Alucinado", by Doce Encontro, as an example. Released in 2004, it comprised the "B side" of the repertoire until in 2019 it was re-recorded by Doce Encontro himself and became one of the group's biggest hits. At a time when pagoda is on the rise, no one can stand going to 10 pagoda circles and all of them playing the same hit, or watching an audiovisual by group X whose repertoire is the same as that of group Y. The singer and composer Matheus Pessanha explains this issue. "I go to a lot of samba circles around the country and the repertoires are very similar. In Rio de Janeiro, my friends say that 'there are only samba dances', it's a trend. This makes people who like it look for something different, to hear something new, even if it's old news", he jokes. It was following this logic that some artists decided to go another way and bet on songs that are not on the most loved list. This was the case of Yan, with “Fica com Deus”, a B-side of Sorriso Maroto. "He gave a very dynamic reading. I don't know if he realized what was happening with 'As Antigas' and that Sorriso wasn't singing some songs, but he was very surgical in choosing 'Fica com Deus' at a time when this thing in Sorriso's repertoire was very hot. And then our audience, obviously, came to demand it and we said: ‘Wow, what do you mean?’. I didn't even remember that I had recorded it! Look how crazy”, explains Bruno. Is there a lack of new works? If, after the saturation of re-recordings of great hits, the counterpart of the big groups is the re-recording of songs that are not hits, the question remains: where are the new works? They exist. And they are also successful. In 2025, Ferrugem placed “Apaguei Pra Todos” among the most listened to songs in the country. This year, he also placed “Arrependidaço” among the most played in the radio stations and in the top 50 on Spotify, the country's main streaming platform. Among the new artists, Vitinho stood out with “Iceberg”, which accumulated almost 10 million views on YouTube in one month. The group “Turma do Pagode” joined “Menos É Mais” and released “Investigador” on June 7th. because one day these works were unpublished. “The re-recordings, whether B-side or not, became a phenomenon. But, in the end, what builds a career are new songs. They help a lot to create an identity, a personality. This is what makes the difference for an artist”, says Marcelinho TDP. The group Sorriso Maroto and the singer Belo Reproduction/Instagram