It's a love song, I swear. It's just got a lot of brass on it, and - like all reggaeton - it's based on the driving Dem Bow riddim.
Calle 13 are pretty post-modern with all of this though. Their lyrics are always cynical, often political, and normally have a couple of bizarre sexual metaphors (this one asks whether she likes it when his "elephant coughs", and that he wants to drink "water from this well... even if it's salty or bitter").
I'm not sure whether it's an audacious attempt to get round Puerto Rico's strict censorship of songs or whether they're just reveling in the ridiculousness of it all. Either way, you have to love the fact that they've rewritten seduction with trumpets and metaphors.
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