:Estudando o Pagode

{{Infobox album

| name = Estudando o Pagode

| type = Album

| artist = Tom Zé

| cover = Tom_Ze_-_Estudando_o_Pagode.jpg

| alt =

| released = 9 August 2005

| recorded =

| venue =

| studio =

| genre = MPB, avant-pop{{cite web |last1=Christgau |first1=Robert |title=Tom Zé |url=https://www.robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?name=tom+ze |website=Robert Christgau |access-date=June 24, 2021}}

| length = 63:27

| label = Trama Records (Brazil)
Luaka Bop (United States)

| producer =

| prev_title = Imprensa Cantada

| prev_year = 2003

| next_title = Danç-Êh-Sá

| next_year = 2006

}}

{{Album ratings

| MC = 86/100{{cite web |url=http://www.metacritic.com/music/artists/zetom/estudandoopagode |title=Reviews for Estudando o Pagode by Tom Zé |publisher=Metacritic |accessdate=1 December 2017}}

| rev1 = AllMusic

| rev1score = {{Rating|4|5}}[{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r788443|pure_url=yes}} AllMusic review]

| rev2 = Blender

| rev2score = {{rating|4|5}}Folding in lean funk, tender arias and as many catchy tunes as West Side Story, Ze makes his cryptic polemic perfectly enticing. [Jul 2006, p.105]

| rev3 = Christgau’s Consumer Guide

| rev3score = A–{{cite web|url=https://www.robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?name=Tom+Z%E9|title=Tom Zé|website=Robert Christgau|last=Christgau|first=Robert|date=|access-date=April 29, 2025}}

| rev4 = Entertainment Weekly

| rev4score = B+A sprightly psych-pop disc overflowing with exquisite melodies and cooing female voices. [14 Apr 2006, p.86]

| rev5 = Los Angeles Times

| rev5score = {{rating|4|4}}"Estudando"... turns mere ideological target practice into surreal and kaleidoscopic musical theater. [9 Apr 2006]

| rev6 = Pitchfork

| rev6score = 7.9/10[http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/23439/Tom_Z%E9_Estudando_o_Pagode_Na_Opereta_Segregamulher_e_Amo Pitchfork Media review]{{Dead link|date=August 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

| rev7 = PopMatters

| rev7score = 9/10[http://www.popmatters.com/pm/music/reviews/5022/tom-ze-estudando-o-pagode/ PopMatters review]

| rev8 = Spin

| rev8score = AUnlike many rockers who cherish childlike ideals only to fall prey to amateurism or whimsy, Ze is aware that kids are both complex in their inventions and earnest in their intentions. [May 2006, p.93]

| rev9 = Stylus

| rev9score = A[http://stylusmagazine.com/reviews/tom-z/estudando-o-pagode.htm Stylus review]

| rev10 = Uncut

| rev10score = 8/10In Ze's hands Tropicalia is still a potent, living artistic force. [Jul 2006, p.118]

}}

The title of Tom Zé's 2005 release, Estudando o Pagode, literally means "studying pagode" (the subgenre of samba). This album is a three-act operetta about women and their relationship to men. Zé refers to the album as being masculist in that "it calls man's attention to the huge disadvantage he has created in his present relationship with women."[https://web.archive.org/web/20070213211618/http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/feature/37952/Interview_Interview_Tom_Z%C3%A9 ¹] As is common in Zé's music, this album incorporates novel sounds such as a braying donkey and those created from an instrument made out of ficus (fig) leaves.