title: Mel (album)
text: # Mel (album)
  
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  Mel is a studio album by Brazilian singer Maria Bethânia, released in 1979.
  
  ## Critical reception
  
  The New York Times praised the title track, writing that Bethânia "declaims the highly poetic, startlingly sexual words as if singing a national anthem, and yet the song remains sly and infectious."
  
  