This article reflects on the performance of Arnaldo Antunes in Ao vivo no estúdio, considering that lyric and music are not artistic categories considered separately by the researcher of Brazilian Popular Song. In the case of this DVD, also other elements must be present in the analysis. Together parameters linguistic, musical, visual and technological translate the poetic experience of the artist and the listener, or express personal meanings, social, cultural and aesthetic proposed jointly by the work in every way.