The narrator of “2345 Meia 78” is a penniless bachelor who will not let an empty wallet ruin his weekend. Armed with a battered address book, a handful of pay-phone tokens and an endless supply of cheesy pick-up lines, he dials every woman he knows – literally from A to Z – hoping someone will agree to go out and, as the chorus puts it, “molhar o biscoito / afogar o ganso” (two Brazilian slang phrases for satisfying his libido). Each call ends in rejection, embarrassment or pure absurdity, turning the song into a fast-paced comedy sketch where the punchlines arrive as quickly as the busy signals.
Behind the laughs, rapper Gabriel o Pensador pokes fun at macho bravado and the transactional view of romance. The alphabetical phone marathon exposes how shallow the protagonist’s approach is: he sees his contacts like a restaurant menu, yet winds up starving. By the time he drags the devout Zumira to what he thinks is a cinema – only to discover it has become an evangelical church – the song has morphed into a satire of desperation itself. In short, “2345 Meia 78” is a humorous tale about a man who will try anything for a date, and a playful reminder that chasing pleasure without genuine connection often leaves you holding nothing but a silent dial tone.