Help wanted: artist info for Spanish-language song currently getting heavy radio play

This is driving me bonkers - I like flipping radio stations while driving around running erands, and I’ve been listening to a lot of Latin music lately (103.5 La Kalle mostly, and on Sunday afternoons there is a great show on Loyola University’s radio station at 88.7 FM that plays a lot of Caribbean stuff).

I’ve heard this song a few times, but for some reason the DJs never say who the artist is - it has a slow-ish, catchy, danceable sort of beat, not at all like the other stuff they play, which is mostly reggaeton. I haven’t heard it enough times to memorize the lyrics, but the guy seems to be singing about some sort of hot bohemian gringa girl with a fetish for Latin music. Snippets I do remember:

*Levanta la mini-falda/hasta la espalda,

No me importa si te gusta Green Day/No me importa si te gusta Coldplay.*

Sorry, I know that’s not much to go on, but does anyone know what artist/song/album this is?

I don’t know the song, but I’m on a lunch break. :smiley:

Googling the lyrics you gave suggests that it is a song called ‘Atrevete-te’ by a group/artist named ‘Calle 13’.

Further lyrics here…

Nice work, Sherlock! I swear, I tried Google first, and it got me nowhere.

Anyone care to provide linguistic guidance on some of the slangier bits, like maybe Esto es hasta abajo, cogele el tricky and such? Slang was never my strong point, though I’m getting the vibe that most of the song consists of veiled (and not-so-veiled) sexual references.

(I mean really, "Pero es que el reggaeton se te mete por los intestinos
Por debajo de la falda como un submarino [but reggaeton gets into yoour guts under your dress, like a submarine]? Whatever could they be talking about? Though I have to give the linked lyrics site credit - at least most of their spelling is decent, and the accent marks are in the right places.)

Your abdominal area that is going to explode
Like a town festivity it is going to explode
like one from palestine… :eek:
I know that you like the pop rock latino

Reggaeton. Hear me now, believe me later.

Oh, the straightforward Spanish I get just fine (my undergrad adegree is in Spanish). It’s the slang that gets me, not being a native speaker and all. But please don’t let that dissuade you from translating the song for others :slight_smile: