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Quiero desnudarte a besos despacito / Firmar las paredes de tu laberinto / Y hacer de tu cuerpo todo un manuscrito

Jan. 12, 20174 viewers4.4M views

[Letra de "Despacito" ft. Daddy Yankee]

[Intro: Luis Fonsi & Daddy Yankee]
Ay, ¡Fonsi! ¡DY!
Oh-oh, oh, no, oh, no, oh
¡Hey, yeah!
Diri-diri-diririri, Daddy, go!
Sí, sabes que ya llevo un rato mirándote
Tengo que bailar contigo hoy (¡DY!)
Vi que tu mirada ya estaba llamándome
Muéstrame el camino que yo voy (Oh)

[Verso 1: Luis Fonsi & Daddy Yankee]
Tú, tú eres el imán y yo soy el metal
Me voy acercando y voy armando el plan
Solo con pensarlo, se acelera el pulso (Oh, yeah)
Ya, ya me está gustando más de lo normal
Todos mis sentidos van pidiendo más
Esto hay que tomarlo sin ningún apuro

[Estribillo: Luis Fonsi & Daddy Yankee]
Despacito
Quiero respirar tu cuello despacito
Deja que te diga cosas al oído
Para que te acuerdes si no estás conmigo
Despacito
Quiero desnudarte a besos despacito
Firmar las paredes de tu laberinto
Y hacer de tu cuerpo todo un manuscrito
(Sube, sube, sube), ah (Sube, sube)

[Post-Estribillo: Luis Fonsi & Daddy Yankee]
Quiero ver bailar tu pelo, quiero ser tu ritmo (Woah, woah)
Que le enseñes a mi boca (Woah, woah)
Tus lugares favoritos (Favorito', favorito', baby)
Déjame sobrepasar tus zonas de peligro (Eh; woah, woah)
Hasta provocar tus gritos (Woah, woah)
Y que olvides tu apellido (Rrr; DY)

[Verso 2: Daddy Yankee]
Si te pido un beso, ven, dámelo, yo sé que estás pensándolo (Eh)
Llevo tiempo intentándolo (Eh), mami, esto es dando y dándolo
Sabes que tu corazón conmigo te hace bam-bam
Sabes que esa beba está buscando de mi bam-bam
Ven, prueba de mi boca para ver cómo te sabe (Eh-eh; ¡plo!)
Quiero, quiero, quiero ver cuánto amor a ti te cabe
Yo no tengo prisa, yo me quiero dar el viaje
Empezamos lento, después salvaje

[Pre-Estribillo: Daddy Yankee]
Pasito a pasito, suave suavecito
Nos vamo' pegando, poquito a poquito
Cuando tú me besas con esa destreza
Veo que eres malicia con delicadeza
Pasito a pasito, suave suavecito
Nos vamo' pegando, poquito a poquito (Oh-oh)
Y es que esa belleza es un rompecabezas (No, no)
Pero pa' montarlo aquí tengo la pieza, oye (Yo, yo; ¡plo!)

[Estribillo: Luis Fonsi & Daddy Yankee]
Despacito
Quiero respirar tu cuello despacito (Yo)
Deja que te diga cosas al oído (Yo)
Para que te acuerdes si no estás conmigo (Plo, plo)
Despacito (¡Plo!)
Quiero desnudarte a besos despacito (Yeah-eh)
Firmar las paredes de tu laberinto
Y hacer de tu cuerpo todo un manuscrito
(Sube, sube, sube), ah (Sube, sube)

[Post-Estribillo: Luis Fonsi & Daddy Yankee]
Quiero ver bailar tu pelo, quiero ser tu ritmo (Eh, woah, woah)
Que le enseñes a mi boca (Woah, woah)
Tus lugares favoritos (Favorito', favorito', baby)
Déjame sobrepasar tus zonas de peligro (Eh, woah, woah)
Hasta provocar tus gritos (Woah, woah)
Y que olvides tu apellido

[Puente: Luis Fonsi]
Despacito
Vamo' a hacerlo en una playa en Puerto Rico
Hasta que las olas griten: "¡Ay, bendito!"
Para que mi sello se quede contigo
(Báilalo)

[Outro: Daddy Yankee & Luis Fonsi]
Pasito a pasito, suave suavecito (Oh, yeah-yeah)
Nos vamos pegando, poquito a poquito (No, no; oh)
Que le enseñes a mi boca
Tus lugares favoritos
Favorito', favorito', baby (Ooh)
Pasito a pasito, suave suavecito
Nos vamos pegando, poquito a poquito
Hasta provocar tus gritos (Fonsi)
Y que olvides tu apellido (DY)
Despacito

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About

“Despacito” is a reggaeton song about the act of having sexual intercourse, moving slowly on the rhythm and dual attraction between the male and the female for who this song is written.

The track was moderately successful before the Justin Bieber remix, reaching #44 on the Hot 100 and topping the Hot Latin Songs chart. However, the week after Bieber’s remix dropped, the song exploded to #9 on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming the first top ten of Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee and the twelfth of Bieber. The song climbed on to the #1 spot on May 27th and has stayed there for a consecutive period of 16 weeks, making it the only song along with Mariah Carey and Boyz II Men’s single, “One Sweet Day.” However, on July 29, 2019, the song “Old Town Road” by Lil Nas X beat out both songs with its 17 weeks on top of the Hot 100.

On July 19, 2017, “Despacito” became the most-streamed song of all time with 4.6 billion plays across streaming platforms.

Also, on August 4, 2017, the official video became the most-watched video on YouTube history, surpassing “See You Again” by Wiz Khalifa and becoming the first video to ever reach 3 billion views on YouTube. As of October 2018, it has over 5 billion views.

Q&A

Find answers to frequently asked questions about the song and explore its deeper meaning

What inspired this song?

I wish I had a better story, but honestly, I woke up one morning with “Despacito” in my head. It was just that simple and that obvious to me. For some reason, that melodic sequence right there and that word “despacito” just popped into my head. And then the first thing that came together was with that little last chorus about Puerto Rico. It was the rhyme between despacito, Puerto Rico, and “Ay! Bendito,” which is an expression that we say a lot in Puerto Rico. That was like the nucleus of it all.

Later on that afternoon I had a writing session with a great friend of mine, a songwriter named Erika Ender. I recorded all these little ideas on my phone, and I was like, “Hey, look. I have this idea to do this fun, uptempo song. Let’s write this real sexy lyric around ‘despacito,’ which means slowly. All the things that we’re gonna do slowly. And let’s do like this lyric where it’s kinda borderline, maybe even double meaning, but just being really respectful.” And I think we found that happy medium, but everything just revolved around that one word, “despacito.”

Did Luis have a specific lady in mind when he wrote this?

When you write songs, you have to put a face to the lyric a little bit, but it was such a sexy song that there wasn’t really a person. It was a scenario more than a person. I went there. I went to that place, and that place was in a club somewhere, when you get to a club and you just start making that eye contact with this beautiful girl. And that’s kind of how the song starts. It’s really a story. In the beginning of the lyric it says, “Hey, I notice that you’re looking at me. I’m looking at you. Let’s connect.” It kinda goes little by little until it gets to the chorus, where it goes, “All right. We’re here, but now, let’s enjoy the moment. “That’s kind of what this song is all about, enjoying the moment, not rushing through it. Myself and my co-writer, we were both there sort of in mind in this scenario of this real sexy place, but there really wasn’t a face to it.

How did Daddy Yankee wind up on this song?

Once we finished the track, once I did my final vocal, we heard it from top to bottom, and we all looked at each other like, “Man, that second verse. We need to take that out, and we need somebody to come in and keep making this track go forward and just give it that energy thing. We need an urban guy to go there and just kill it.”

We start to throw names and obviously that Yankee was top of the list. First of all, he’s a dear friend, and he’s somebody who could I just reach. I didn’t have to go through the whole record label, manager thing. Second of all, he’s one of the best in the game, if not the best in the game. So right then and there, phone call, “Hey, what’s up. It’s Fonsi, yo. I gotta send you something. I gotta send you an MP3. Check it out. Before you say anything, check it out. It’s different from what I’ve done in the past, but it’s special. And if it wasn’t special, I wouldn’t call you.” So a few hours later, he’s like, “Let’s go.” What do I gotta do and what do I gotta record? Two weeks later, he flew to Miami, we got into the studio and he just killed it. In an eight-hour session we were done, we were ready to go. We send it to mix and it just came to life.

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Credits

Assistant Mixing Engineer

Recorded At

Noisematch Studios (Miami)

Released on

January 12, 2017

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