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{{Infobox song
| name       = Sem Você
| cover      = Rouge - sem você.jpg
| alt        =
| type       = single
| artist     = [[Rouge (pop group)|Rouge]]
| album      = [[Blá Blá Blá]]
| released   = {{start date|2004|8|2}}
| recorded   = 2004
| studio     =
| venue      =
| genre      = {{hlist|[[Pop rock]]}}
| length     = {{duration|m=3|s=59}}
| label      = {{flat list|
* [[Columbia Records|Columbia]]
* [[Sony Music Entertainment|Sony]]
}}
| writer     = {{hlist|Andrés Constantinidis|Carolina de La Muela|[[Rick Bonadio]]}}
| producer   = Rick Bonadio
| prev_title = [[Blá Blá Blá (song)|Blá Blá Blá]]
| prev_year  = 2004
| next_title = [[Algo tienes #Rouge version|Pá Pá Lá Lá]]
| next_year  = 2004
| misc          = {{External music video|{{YouTube|FT5cHUpuLNI|"Sem Você"}}}}
}}
"'''Sem Você'''" (lit.: "Without You") is a song by the Brazilian girl group pop [[Rouge (pop group)|Rouge]], from their fourth studio album, ''[[Blá Blá Blá]]'' (2004). The song was written in Spanish by Andrés Constantinidis and Carolina de La Muela, with the title "No Dejo de Sentir", and was translated and produced by [[Rick Bonadio]]. The song is a pop rock [[ballad]], which talks about not being able to live without the loved one. The song released on {{start date|2004|8|2}}.
"Sem Você" was inserted as a soundtrack to [[Sistema Brasileiro de Televisão|SBT]]'s soap opera ''[[Esmeralda (Brazilian telenovela)|Esmeralda]]'', which helped popularize the song. The song was promoted in numerous TV shows. The group have performed the song on their for tours, from the ''Blá Blá Blá Tour'' (2004), ''Mil e Uma Noites Tour'' (2005), ''Chá Rouge Tour'' (2017) and ''[[15 Anos Tour]]'' (2018).
==Composition and lyrics==
"Sem Você" is a [[pop ballad]], with strong presence of [[Distortion (music)|distorted]] [[guitar]]s in its sonorization, which gives a more [[pop rock]] feature to the song. Written in Spanish by Andrés Constantinidis and Carolina de La Muela, with the title "No Dejo de Sentir", and translated and produced by [[Rick Bonadio]].<ref name="UOLradio">{{cite web|url=http://musica.terra.com.br/noticias/0,,OI302700-EI1267,00-Nova+musica+do+Rouge+chega+as+radios.htmlhttp://www.radio.uol.com.br/#/letras-e-musicas/rouge/sem-voce/536413|title=Sem Você, de Rouge - UOL Rádio|publisher=[[Universo Online|UOL]]|access-date=10 October 2013}}</ref> "Sem Você" talks about finding love, and not being able to live without the loved one.<ref name="letras">{{cite web|url=http://letras.mus.br/rouge/98331/|title=Sem Você - Rouge: Letras|work=[[Terra Networks|Letra.Mus.Br]]|access-date=10 October 2013}}</ref>
The song begins with [[Li Martins]] singing that never thought to find someone to love, but that when seeing the person loved, the world of her changed. In the chorus, everyone sings as "second voice," while Patricia has more vocal highlights, "And now I can not stop feeling, without you and I can not breathe, I do not want to live if you're not here with me, I can not be happy," they sing the girls. The second part is sung by [[Karin Hils]], and talks about love seem like a dream come true. The second chorus brings [[Fantine Thó]] in the lead vocals, while the other girls do "second voice". The bridge of the song brings [[Aline Wirley]] talking that she needs this love in her life, to be happy. After the last refrain, the girls do "[[Harmony (music)|harmony]]."<ref name="letras"/>
==Music video==
On August 24, 2004, [[MTV Brasil]] premiered the [[music video]] for "Sem Você", directed by Ike Veitna. The scenes were recorded in the living room of a house, located in [[Morumbi, São Paulo|Morumbi]], in [[São Paulo]]. The new video shows Fantine, Li Martins, Aline Wirley and Karin Hils in various situations. Ike had the idea of positioning the [[camera]] in the middle of the room, to be rotating throughout the clip in order to capture all the images.<ref name="rougeclipe">{{cite web|url=http://starsrouge.zip.net/|title=Novo Clipe do Rouge estréia no Central MTV|work=Rouge Zip|access-date=10 October 2013}}</ref>
== Usage and performance ==
"Sem Você" was inserted as a soundtrack to [[Sistema Brasileiro de Televisão|SBT]]'s soap opera ''[[Esmeralda (Brazilian telenovela)|Esmeralda]]'', like theme of the pair Graziella (Karina Barum) and Adrian (Daniel Andrade).<ref name="teledramaturgia">{{cite web|url=http://www.teledramaturgia.com.br/tele/esmeraldat.asp|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100724023201/http://www.teledramaturgia.com.br/tele/esmeraldat.asp|url-status=dead|archive-date=July 24, 2010|title=Esmeralda - Teledramaturgia|work=Teledramaturgia|access-date=10 October 2013}}</ref> The song was promoted in numerous TV programs. "Sem Você" was also part of the tour's [[set-list]],  ''Blá Blá Blá Tour'' (2004), ''Mil e Uma Noites Tour'' (2005), ''Chá Rouge Tour'' (2017) and ''[[15 Anos Tour]]'' (2018).
== Charts ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! style="text-align:center;"|Chart (2004)
! style="text-align:center;"|Peak<br />position
|-
|align="left"|Brazil ([[Brasil Hot 100 Airplay]])<ref name="rougendpr"/>
|align="center"|4
|-
|align="left"|Latin America (Hispanic America Top 40 Chart)<ref name="rougendpr">{{cite web|url=http://top40-charts.com/song.php?sid=11144&sort=chartid|title=Sem Você - Top 20 Brazil|work=Top 40 Charts|access-date=29 September 2017}}</ref>
|align="center"|37
|}
==References==
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{{Rouge (pop group)}}
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[[Category:2004 songs]]
[[Category:2004 singles]]
[[Category:2000s ballads]]
[[Category:Rouge (group) songs]]
[[Category:Pop ballads]]
[[Category:Songs in Portuguese]]
[[Category:Songs written by Rick Bonadio]]
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