YMMV / Sandy & Junior

• Awesome Music: The insanely beautiful power ballad "A Lenda".
  • "Vâmo Pulá", which begins with a slow, gradual build-up intro that leads to a countdown... And then the chorus explodes into the listener's ears.
  • Many of the covers do a great amount of justice to the originals, such as "Inesquecível" and "Imortal".
  • "Cai a Chuva" is possibly one of their most underrated tracks. Fun, sexy and upbeat, what's not to love? On top of that, it has an epic saxophone riff which (at least during most live performances of the song) is provided by Junior himself alongside Milton Guedes!
  • Regardless of how you feel about the original version of "Endless Love", you have to admit their cover of the song is just incredibly dreamy, and a great example of how wonderfully they harmonize.
  • Quatro Estações - O Show at one point features an interlude set to a jazzy reworking of "Dig-Dig-Joy", with Junior on drums. It's pretty cool.
• Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: Most of their live performances of "No Fundo do Coração" (which is a cover of "Truly, Madly, Deeply"), from the Quatro Estações era onwards, suddenly changed the original percussion of the song and had Junior randomly break into a rap bridge, only for the song to go back to normal immediately afterwards. It got particularly ridiculous during this live performance in João Pessoa.
• Cash-Cow Franchise: In addition to the constant Celebrity Endorsements, Sandy had several products to her name.
• Chorus-Only Song: While most of their songs are well-known when talking about the lyrics, you'd be hard pressed to find people who remember the verses, in particular of the songs recorded in the '90s. Those include "Dig-Dig-Joy", "A Resposta da Mariquinha", "Vai Ter que Rebolar", "Vamo Pulá", "Eu Acho Que Pirei" and "As Quatro Estações". A justified example is in "Olha o Que o Amor Me Faz", as its feature in the soap opera O Cravo e a Rosa used only the chorus of the song in most situations.
• Covered Up: Their version of "Maria Chiquinha" is actually a cover of a much older song from 1961. This is also the case with "A Resposta de Mariquinha", who was originally performed by their maternal grandparents, Zé do Rancho & Mariazinha.
  • This has arguably been the case with many of their other covers as well. There aren't many Brazilians who are as familiar with the original "Immortality" (even though it was part of the soundtrack for a Brazilian Soap Opera back then) as they are with "Imortal".
  • Their version of "Love Never Fails" has also eclipsed the original, so much so that it's virtually impossible to find the music video for the original Kathie Lee Gifford version on Youtube.
• Growing the Beard: As Quatro Estações marks the point in which they and their music really started coming into their own. It's also, coincidentally, the point in which they started becoming more directly involved in the songwriting process, with Sandy being credited as a songwriter on the tracks "Olha O Que o Amor Me Faz" and "As Quatro Estações".
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • One episode of the TV show has Sandy being offered to perform on her own, leading to the press speculating about her splitting up with Junior and the two starting solo careers of their own (with reporters even asking if Junior's going to form a band). It is intriguing to watch after they went their separate ways in 2007, and how much their careers have diverged since then.
  • On the duo's version of "True to Your Heart", Sandy sings the parts that were originally sung by Stevie Wonder. Many years later, as a solo artist, Sandy is cast in the Brazilian Portuguese dub of Sing as Meena, who performs "Don't You Worry 'Bout a Thing" during the movie's climax.
  • During the finale of the TV show's first season, Junior mentions that one of his goals for the year 2000 is to learn to play more instruments such as the saxophone. Three years later, he gets to perform the saxophone solo during live performances of "Cai a Chuva".
  • "Vai Ter Que Rebolar", released in 1997, namedrops singer Fábio Jr. during the pre-chorus. Three years later, the duo would cover one of Fábio Jr.'s songs, "Enrosca".
• LGBT Fanbase: Junior was the first crush of many young Brazilian gay boys.
• Memetic Mutation:
  • "What do you mean Sandy Junior are two different people?!"
  • "Brazil started going downhill when Sandy & Junior broke up."
• Moment of Awesome: They're the first ever Brazilian musical act to sell out a concert at the famous Maracanã stadium on their own.
  • The Nossa História tour is stacked with such moments, many of which come in the performances that require choreography, such as "Love Never Fails", "Enrosca" and the first medley, which prove that, even though they're older now, they can still pull off the dance moves from their teenage years.
    • "Enrosca" in particular moves the Mickey Mousing break from near the beginning of the song to near the end, enhancing it with visual effects courtesy of the LED screens. Then Junior finishes the song by getting on the drumset and delivering an extremely long and very impressive drum solo (which some have compared to the climax of Whiplash), building up to "A Gente Dá Certo", which starts a cappella, with Junior hyping up the crowd for the first few lines before the music kicks in.
    • "Desperdiçou" ends with Junior turning around to reveal the tour's signature overlapping triangles flashing on the back of his jacket as the stage lights go out around them, making for quite the jawdropping visual.
• Narm:
  • The video for "Enrosca", which is supposed to be a rare instance of Darker and Edgier directly inspired by "Scream", but just ends up looking like something out of the Spy Kids film series. Awesome dance break, though.
  • The duo performed a cover of “Bring Me to Life" during two live concerts. While a good cover, the Gratuitous English and Junior's vocal lines (as well as the fact that his voice is nowhere as guttural as that of Paul McCoy) make it pretty ridiculous.
• Narm Charm: A good chunk of their earlier material, especially the singles from Dig-Dig-Joy and Sonho Azul. Great music, incredibly cheesy lyrics.
• Never Live It Down: Poor Junior will be haunted by this photo forever. ^note Junior himself has explained that it was originally taken for a Seven Deadly Sins-themed photoshoot for a teen magazine, representing Gluttony.
• Nostalgia Filter: They are practically universally beloved by the population of Brazil, and their songs are synonymous with the '90s and early 2000s. Go to any video of any of their songs on Youtube, and you'll find a myriad of comments from people who think their music is better than what's currently playing on Brazilian radio nowadays.
• Refrain from Assuming: There's frequent confusion involving their single "Imortal", due to another single taken from the same album (the Title Track "As Quatro Estações") that has that word in its chorus.
• Ships That Pass in the Night: The video for one of Sandy's solo songs, "Nosso Nó(s)", has José Trassi, who played Dodô in the TV series, as her love interest. This was even commented on during the Sandy & Junior special edition of the program Altas Horas: "It wasn't Gustavo or anyone else, who ended up with Sandy in the end was Dodô!"
• Signature Song:
  • "Maria Chiquinha" and "A Resposta de Mariquinha" during their childhood era;
  • "Dig-Dig-Joy" and "Eu Acho Que Pirei" for their early teenage era;
  • "Imortal", "Vâmo Pulá!", "As Quatro Estações" and "A Lenda" for their later teenage era;
  • "Desperdiçou" and "Quando Você Passa (Turu Turu)" (with honorable mentions to "Não Dá Pra Não Pensar" and "Love Never Fails") for their young adult era.
• Spiritual Predecessor: Their TV series, with its light-hearted tone, high school setting and popstar leads, is essentially this to the various modern Disney Channel original series from 2006 onwards.
• Suspiciously Similar Song: "Beijo É Bom" sounds surprisingly similar to the Spice Girls' Signature Song "Wannabe".
  • This is also the case with "A Gente Dá Certo", which has a similar sound to Prince's "Shake".
  • On the other side of the coin, it's hard to ignore how similar "Blown Away" by Carrie Underwood is to "Replay (Slip Away)", the lead-off single from their 2006 Self-Titled Album.
  • Pay close attention to the chord progression on the chorus of "As Quatro Estações", and then do the same thing with Taylor Swift's "ME!". You could sing one on top of the other without much struggle. Surely that would explain why Brendon Urie's in the latter track; he's supposed to be the Junior to Taylor's Sandy!
• Tear Jerker: Many of their Power Ballads.
  • "Quando Você Passa (Turu Turu)" becomes one in the Nossa História tour, partly due to the VT that plays before it.
  • Way before the duo recorded "Não Ter" in 1996, an earlier version of the song with different lyrics titled "Se Foi" was recorded by singer Angélica but never had any official release. In comparison to "Não Ter", the lyrics of this version shows more sad notes, but more faithful to the lyrics of the original song by Laura Pausini.
• Unexpected Song: Many fans were pleasantly surprised to see lesser-known songs such as "Aprender a Amar", "Libertar", "Você Pra Sempre (Inveja)", and "Ilusão" included in the setlist for the Nossa História tour. The Salvador show also added "Vamos Construir" to the acoustic medley.