BODYPAINTING Lyrics in English by Emilia
Emilia, the Argentine pop singer, opens this one already flustered: "Ay, boy, me pones nerviosa" [Oh, boy, you make me nervous], and she admits "Aún no me has tocado / Y ya siento las mariposas" [You haven't even touched me yet / And I already feel the butterflies]. Then the hurry kicks in with "Apúrate, que el tiempo se agota" [Hurry up, time is running out]. The big idea is the title itself. In "Te entrego todo mi cuerpo / Pa' que le hagas body painting" [I give you my whole body / So you can do body painting on it], she treats her body like a canvas. Pa' is the casual, spoken short form of para (for, so that), and you will hear it everywhere in Latin pop.
The second verse gets cheeky. She mixes English words straight into Spanish sentences: "Por hoy voy a ser tu teacher / De la sexuality" [For today I'm going to be your teacher / Of sexuality], and "Esta noche quieres probar mi flexibility" [Tonight you want to test my flexibility]. It is a bit much, and clearly on purpose. Watch out for "Estoy tan caliente que me quema" [I'm so hot it burns me]: caliente means hot in temperature, but said about a person it means turned on, so don't use it to complain about the weather. Same with "Y quiero que me choques" [And I want you to crash into me], where chocar (to crash, to bump) is slang here, and she spells it out with "No solo al ritmo del beat" [Not only to the rhythm of the beat]. My favorite tiny detail is "Tanto lo soñé / Y resultó mejor / De lo que imaginé" [I dreamed of it so much / And it turned out better / Than I imagined], a sweet little moment in a song that otherwise never takes its foot off the gas.
