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MÍA

Drake, Bad Bunny

MÍA by Drake, Bad Bunny, line by line: what the lyrics mean, 23 expressions explained and 407 words translated with their grammar. Learn Spanish from the song, free.

67 lines translated 407 words explained 23 expressions

Lyrics with English translation, line by line

Each line as sung, what it means, and — where it needs one — why it's said that way.

  1. Bad Bunny, baby, bebé

    Bad Bunny, baby, babe

    Bad Bunny is the stage name of Puerto Rican reggaeton artist Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, one of the most-streamed artists in the world.

  2. Yeh-yeh-yeh-yeh

    Yeh-yeh-yeh-yeh

  3. Yeah

    Yeah

  4. Todos están pendiente' a ti (¡Woo!)

    Everyone is watching you (Woo!)

  5. Pero tú puesta pa' mí (Ajá)

    But you're all set for me (Uh-huh)

  6. Haciendo que me odien más (Yeh-yeh-yeh)

    Making them hate me even more (Yeh-yeh-yeh)

  7. Porque todos te quieren probar (Ah)

    Because everyone wants to try you (Ah)

  8. Lo que no saben es que no te dejas llevar de cualquiera

    What they don't know is that you don't let just anyone sweep you away

  9. Y todos te quieren probar (Nah)

    And everyone wants to try you (Nah)

  10. Lo que no saben es que hoy yo te voy a buscar (Yeh-yeh)

    What they don't know is that today I'm going to come find you (Yeh-yeh)

  11. Dile que tú eres mía, mía

    Tell them you're mine, mine

  12. Tú sabe' que eres mía, mía

    You know you're mine, mine

  13. Tú misma lo decías

    You used to say it yourself

  14. Cuando yo te lo hacía (Yeh)

    When I was doing it to you (Yeh)

  15. Dile que tú eres mía, mía

    Tell them you're mine, mine

  16. Tú sabe' que eres mía, mía

    You know you're mine, mine

  17. Tú misma lo decías

    You used to say it yourself

  18. Cuando yo te lo hacía

    When I was doing it to you

  19. (Yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah)

    (Yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah)

  20. Bebé, yo soy fan de tu caminar (¡Wouh!)

    Baby, I'm a fan of the way you walk (Wouh!)

  21. Te doy todo lo mío, hasta mi respirar (Yeh)

    I give you everything of mine, even my breath (Yeh)

  22. Contigo veo todo como en espiral (Yeh)

    With you I see everything like a spiral (Yeh)

  23. Quiero tirarnos fotos y que se hagan viral (Ja)

    I want us to take photos and have them go viral (Ha)

  24. Tus ojos me concentran como Adderall (¡Wouh!)

    Your eyes focus me like Adderall (Wouh!)

    Adderall is a prescription stimulant medication used to treat ADHD; comparing the woman's eyes to Adderall is a hyperbolic compliment saying she sharpens his focus the way the drug does.

  25. Contigo me sube el overall (Yeh)

    With you my overall goes up (Yeh)

    overall here is an English loanword used in Latin urban slang to mean one's general score, status, or vibe — borrowed from gaming and sports rating systems.

  26. Te toco y hasta el mundo deja de girar (¡Wouh-wouh!)

    I touch you and even the world stops spinning (Wouh-wouh!)

  27. A nosotros ni la muerte nos va a separar (Wah)

    Not even death is going to separate us (Wah)

  28. Bebé, yo soy tuyo na' más (Na' más)

    Baby, I'm yours and yours alone (Yours alone)

  29. Diles que conmigo te vas (¡Wouh!)

    Tell them you're leaving with me (Wouh!)

  30. Que dejen de tirarte (Rrr)

    Tell them to stop hitting on you (Rrr)

  31. Que a ti nadie va a tocarte

    That nobody is going to touch you

  32. Dile que tú eres mía, mía

    Tell them you're mine, mine

  33. Tú sabe' que eres mía, mía

    You know you're mine, mine

  34. Tú misma lo decías (Tú misma lo decías)

    You used to say it yourself (You used to say it yourself)

  35. Cuando yo te lo hacía (Cuando yo te lo hacía, yeh)

    When I was doing it to you (When I was doing it to you, yeh)

  36. Dile que tú eres mía, mía

    Tell them you're mine, mine

  37. Tú sabe' que eres mía, mía

    You know you're mine, mine

  38. Tú misma lo decías (Tú misma lo decías)

    You used to say it yourself (You used to say it yourself)

  39. Cuando yo te lo hacía (Cuando yo te lo hacía)

    When I was doing it to you (When I was doing it to you)

  40. Yo soy tu Romeo, pero no Santo' (No)

    I'm your Romeo, but not a saint (No)

    Romeo is a reference to Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, used throughout Latin pop culture as the archetype of the devoted romantic lover; Santo means saint, so the line means 'I'm romantic but no angel.'

  41. A estos bobos con la forty los espanto (Plo-plo)

    I scare these fools away with the forty (Plo-plo)

    la forty refers to a .40 caliber handgun, a common reference in urban and trap music to signal toughness or the ability to protect one's partner.

  42. Muchas me quieren desde que yo canto (Ja)

    Many girls have wanted me since I started singing (Ha)

  43. Pero yo soy tuyo na' más (¡Wouh!)

    But I'm yours and yours alone (Wouh!)

  44. Yo soy tu Romeo, pero no Santo (Yeh)

    I'm your Romeo, but not a saint (Yeh)

  45. A estos bobos con la forty los espanto

    I scare these fools away with the forty

  46. Muchas me quieren desde que yo canto (Ajá)

    Many girls have wanted me since I started singing (Uh-huh)

  47. Pero yo soy tuyo na' más (¡Buh!)

    But I'm yours and yours alone (Buh!)

  48. Dile que tú eres mía desde la high (Desde la high, yeh)

    Tell them you've been mine since high school (Since high school, yeh)

    la high is Spanglish for high school; the line evokes a long-standing relationship that began in their teenage years, a nostalgic trope in reggaeton.

  49. El yerno favorito de tu mai' (De tu mai')

    The favorite son-in-law of your mom (Of your mom)

    mai' is Puerto Rican and Caribbean slang for madre (mother); calling himself 'the favorite son-in-law' implies he was so well-liked by her family that her mother approved of him.

  50. El capo que tenía to' las Jordans y las Nike (Y las Nike; ¡wouh-wouh!)

    The guy who had all the Jordans and the Nikes (And the Nikes; wouh-wouh!)

    Jordans (Air Jordans by Nike) and Nike sneakers are status symbols in urban youth culture; having all of them signals that the singer was the coolest, most stylish guy in the neighborhood during their youth.

  51. Dile a estos bobos que dejen de darte like (De darte like)

    Tell these fools to stop liking your posts (Stop liking)

  52. Quiero esta noche entera

    I want this whole night

  53. Pa' recordar los tiempos en la escalera (La escalera)

    To remember the old times on the staircase (The staircase)

    la escalera (the staircase) is a culturally loaded image in Latin urban settings — apartment building staircases are iconic spots for teenage romance and private moments in densely populated neighborhoods.

  54. Dile que yo no soy cualquiera

    Tell them I'm not just anyone

  55. Yo soy tu primero, tú eres mi primera (Yah-yah-yah)

    I'm your first, you're my first (Yah-yah-yah)

    ser el primero / la primera (to be someone's first) is a reference to being each other's first romantic or sexual partner, a declaration of deep, original intimacy.

  56. Porque todos te quieren probar (Ajá)

    Because everyone wants to try you (Uh-huh)

  57. Lo que no saben es que no te dejas llevar de cualquiera (No-no-no-no)

    What they don't know is that you don't let just anyone sweep you away (No-no-no-no)

  58. Y todos te quieren probar (¡Wouh!)

    And everyone wants to try you (Wouh!)

  59. Lo que no saben es que hoy yo te voy a buscar (Yeh-yeh, ¡rrrrrrah!)

    What they don't know is that today I'm going to come find you (Yeh-yeh, rrrrrrah!)

  60. Dile que tú eres mía, mía

    Tell them you're mine, mine

  61. Tú sabe' que eres mía, mía

    You know you're mine, mine

  62. Tú misma lo decías (Tú misma lo decías)

    You used to say it yourself (You used to say it yourself)

  63. Cuando yo te lo hacía (Cuando yo te lo hacía)

    When I was doing it to you (When I was doing it to you)

  64. Dile que tú eres mía, mía

    Tell them you're mine, mine

  65. Tú sabe' que eres mía, mía

    You know you're mine, mine

  66. Tú misma lo decías (Tú misma lo decías)

    You used to say it yourself (You used to say it yourself)

  67. Cuando yo te lo hacía (Cuando yo te lo hacía)

    When I was doing it to you (When I was doing it to you)

Expressions and idioms in “MÍA”

The lines that don't mean what the dictionary says.

están pendiente' a ti are watching you / are focused on you
estar pendiente de/a someone is a fixed expression meaning to be attentive to or watching someone closely; note that English uses 'watching' while Spanish uses a state verb (estar) plus an adjective
puesta pa' mí set for me / focused on me
puesta (fem. past participle of poner used as adjective) + para means 'set/ready for'; the subject (tú) is implied, and pa' is a colloquial Caribbean shortening of para
Haciendo que me odien más making them hate me even more
hacer que + subjunctive is a causative construction meaning 'to make/cause someone to do something'; the subjunctive odien is required after hacer que
no te dejas llevar de cualquiera you don't let just anyone sweep you away
dejarse llevar is a reflexive idiom meaning 'to let oneself be carried away / to be swept away'; the reflexive te + dejas + infinitive llevar forms this construction; de cualquiera means 'by just anyone'
yo te voy a buscar I'm going to come find you
ir a + infinitive is the standard Spanish periphrastic future, equivalent to English 'going to + verb'; voy a buscar = 'I'm going to look for/find'; the object clitic te (you) is placed before the conjugated verb ir
Dile que Tell him/her that
dile is the imperative of decir (to say/tell) with the indirect object clitic le attached; the pattern dile que + clause means 'tell him/her that...'; this clitic-attached imperative is very common in spoken Spanish
Tú misma lo decías You yourself used to say it
tú misma is an emphatic reflexive construction using mismo/misma after the subject pronoun to mean 'yourself'; the imperfect decías conveys a habitual past action ('you used to say it')
cuando yo te lo hacía when I used to do it to you
te lo hacía uses a double object clitic construction: te (indirect, 'to you') + lo (direct, 'it') + hacía (imperfect of hacer); in Spanish, both object pronouns precede the verb and the indirect always comes before the direct
soy fan de tu caminar I'm a fan of the way you walk
ser fan de is a fixed expression borrowed from English meaning 'to be a fan of'; caminar (to walk) is used here as a noun meaning 'your walk / the way you walk', a common Spanish device of nominalizing an infinitive
Te doy todo lo mío I give you everything of mine
lo mío is a neuter possessive construction using the neuter article lo + possessive adjective mío, meaning 'what is mine / everything that belongs to me'; lo + adjective/possessive is a productive Spanish pattern for abstract or collective reference
que se hagan viral that they go viral
hacerse + adjective/noun is a reflexive construction meaning 'to become'; se hagan is the 3rd person plural present subjunctive of hacerse, triggered by the preceding quiero que (I want that...); the subjunctive is required after verbs of wanting
deja de girar stops spinning
dejar de + infinitive is a periphrastic construction meaning 'to stop doing something'; it signals the cessation of an action, contrasting with just dejar (to leave/let) without de
nos va a separar is going to separate us
va a + infinitive is the periphrastic future (ir a + infinitive); nos is the 1st person plural object clitic meaning 'us', placed before the conjugated verb va
na' más only / and nothing else
na' más is a colloquial Caribbean contraction of nada más, meaning 'nothing more / only'; it is extremely common in Puerto Rican and Dominican Spanish and functions as an emphatic limiter
te vas conmigo you're leaving with me
irse (reflexive) means 'to leave / to go away', which is distinct from plain ir (to go somewhere); te vas = 'you are leaving'; conmigo is the special prepositional form of 'with me' (con + mí fuses to conmigo)
dejen de tirarte stop hitting on you
dejar de + infinitive means 'to stop doing something'; tirar (a alguien) in Caribbean slang means 'to hit on someone / to make advances'; the subjunctive dejen is used because this is an indirect command (que dejen = 'tell them to stop')
no Santo' not a saint
the phrase 'Romeo pero no Santo' plays on the contrast between the romantic archetype Romeo (from Shakespeare) and being a santo (saint); it means 'I'm romantic but I'm no angel'; Santo' has the final -s elided, a common feature of Caribbean Spanish
desde que yo canto since I started singing / since I've been singing
desde que + present indicative expresses a continuous state or action that began in the past and continues to the present; English typically uses 'since I started' or 'ever since I began'
desde la high since high school
desde la high is a code-switch mixing Spanish desde (since) with the English loanword high (short for high school); this kind of Spanglish blending is characteristic of Puerto Rican urban speech and reggaeton lyrics
el yerno favorito de tu mai' your mom's favorite son-in-law
mai' is Caribbean slang (especially Puerto Rican) for madre (mother); the apostrophe marks the elided final consonant; yerno (son-in-law) here implies the singer was so close to the family he was treated like a son-in-law
dejen de darte like stop liking your posts
dejar de + infinitive = 'to stop doing something'; darte like is a Spanglish construction combining dar (to give) + the English loanword like (a social media like); dar like a alguien means 'to like someone's posts'
pa' recordar los tiempos to remember the old times
pa' is a colloquial shortening of para; para + infinitive expresses purpose ('in order to'); los tiempos here means 'the times / the old days', a nostalgic reference to shared memories
yo soy tu primero, tú eres mi primera I'm your first, you're my first
primero/primera (first) are used here as nouns meaning 'first love / first partner'; the gender agreement shifts: primero (masc.) refers to the male speaker as the woman's first, and primera (fem.) refers to the woman as his first; this gender-matched parallelism is a poetic device

Vocabulary to learn from “MÍA”

The words the song uses most.

Verbs in the song, and the form being sung

Present tense for each; the highlighted row is the one you'll hear.

ser is

sung: es irregular
ser — present tense
yo soy
tú eres
él / ella / usted es
nosotros somos
vosotros sois
ellos / ustedes son

decir tell him/her

sung: dile irregular
decir — present tense
yo digo
tú dices
él / ella / usted dice
nosotros decimos
vosotros decís
ellos / ustedes dicen

saber know

sung: saben irregular
saber — present tense
yo sé
tú sabes
él / ella / usted sabe
nosotros sabemos
vosotros sabéis
ellos / ustedes saben

hacer making / doing

sung: hacía irregular
hacer — present tense
yo hago
tú haces
él / ella / usted hace
nosotros hacemos
vosotros hacéis
ellos / ustedes hacen

querer want / love

sung: quieren irregular
querer — present tense
yo quiero
tú quieres
él / ella / usted quiere
nosotros queremos
vosotros queréis
ellos / ustedes quieren

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