# Help wanted: artist info for Spanish-language song currently getting heavy radio play **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 3, 2006, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-wanted-artist-info-for-spanish-language-song-currently-getting-heavy-radio-play/351021 "2006-04-03T04:16:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Eva\_Luna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e495f1/32.png) [@Eva\_Luna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eva_Luna)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2006, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-wanted-artist-info-for-spanish-language-song-currently-getting-heavy-radio-play/351021/1 "2006-04-03T04:16:51Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![Buckler\_of\_Swashing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Buckler\_of\_Swashing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buckler_of_Swashing)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2006, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-wanted-artist-info-for-spanish-language-song-currently-getting-heavy-radio-play/351021/2 "2006-04-03T04:28:39Z")
I don’t know the song, but I’m on a lunch break. 😃 Googling the lyrics you gave suggests that it is a song called ‘Atrevete-te’ by a group/artist named ‘Calle 13’. [Further lyrics here…](http://www.reggaetonline.net/calle-13-atrevete-te-te_lyrics) ---
**Author:** ![Eva\_Luna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e495f1/32.png) [@Eva\_Luna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eva_Luna)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2006, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-wanted-artist-info-for-spanish-language-song-currently-getting-heavy-radio-play/351021/3 "2006-04-03T04:38:36Z")
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.) ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2006, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-wanted-artist-info-for-spanish-language-song-currently-getting-heavy-radio-play/351021/4 "2006-04-03T04:51:58Z")
> [@](#): > > El área abdominal que va a explotar > Como fiesta patronal, que va a explotar > Como palestino… > Yo se que a ti te gusta el pop-rock latino … 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 ---
**Author:** ![dnooman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/839c29/32.png) [@dnooman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dnooman)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2006, 7:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-wanted-artist-info-for-spanish-language-song-currently-getting-heavy-radio-play/351021/5 "2006-04-03T07:28:06Z")
Reggaeton. Hear me now, believe me later. ---
**Author:** ![Eva\_Luna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e495f1/32.png) [@Eva\_Luna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eva_Luna)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2006, 11:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-wanted-artist-info-for-spanish-language-song-currently-getting-heavy-radio-play/351021/6 "2006-04-03T11:59:49Z")
> [@GIGObuster](#): > > … > > 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 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 🙂