Asignatura pendiente literally translates to "pending subject" or "unfinished business." It's a common idiom in Spanish, but its use in a song title makes it particularly intriguing.
In the context of this song, it refers to a past love or a significant life event that the singer hasn't fully resolved or moved on from. Despite having achieved great success and material wealth, he can't forget this "pending subject," highlighting that some emotional experiences remain unresolved regardless of external achievements.
It is a song about a man taking stock of everything he owns and finding it does not add up to anything.
He runs through the list without much pride: air miles enough to get him to Pluto, a fan club on the moon, a house big enough to see from a plane, a photo with a president, a suite at the Waldorf, three offices, an apartment in New York, more cars than friends. Then he lands on the two lines that undo all of it. He has so much that he has nothing, and he wants to stop wanting.
What he actually misses is small and specific. A woman's hand waving goodbye, one rainy afternoon in San Juan, and a set of kisses he was carrying around and never handed over. He blames himself plainly for it. He was so busy up in the sky that he forgot life is better lived on the ground.
The title is a school phrase. An asignatura pendiente is the subject you failed and still have to sit again, the one thing left unfinished while everything else got signed off. He uses it for her, and by the last chorus it is the only item on the list he still cares about.
Pushi and Juanjo Morgade take a song written by Ricardo Arjona and give it a Uruguayan cumbia arrangement, which puts a very heavy lyric over a very light rhythm.
Pushi is a music producer and beatmaker from Montevideo, Uruguay. He works mostly in cumbia and in the places where cumbia meets RKT, reggaeton and trap, and he made his name producing for other artists rather than fronting a band of his own.
His longest running partnership is with The La Planta, and together they released Cumbia Pa' la Selección for Uruguay's national football team. He also runs Terraza Sessions, a collaborative series he films on a rooftop and puts out on YouTube and Spotify, pairing newer Uruguayan and Argentine names with more established ones.
Because he is credited far more often as a producer than as a lead artist, his name usually sits next to somebody else's on a release, and the songs tend to be built around whoever he brought in to sing.