The track remains an important artifact of the partnership between Belchior and Fagner before they pursued divergent, highly successful solo careers.

The most common association is with the character , played by actor Thiago Martins in the 2017 global hit novela A Força do Querer . Fagner was a compulsive gambler, an aggressive drug dealer, and a manipulative partner. He was so convincingly despicable that Brazilian audiences began projecting their hatred for the character onto the name itself. “Noves fora” (a mathematical term for subtraction) became a poetic way to say: Remove this man from my screen, statistically.

While the original is a solo masterpiece, several other versions are essential for any listener: