Quiero Bailar Lyrics in English by Ivy Queen

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Ladies and gentlemen

Welcome to the party

Grab your partner and get ready

’Cause what’s coming ain’t easy

I wanna dance, you wanna sweat

And rub up on me, body to body

I tell you, 'If you can turn me on

That doesn’t mean I’m heading to bed'

I wanna dance, you wanna sweat

And rub up on me, body to body

I tell you, 'If you can turn me on

That doesn’t mean I’m heading to bed'

What I want is to kiss you

Babe, I swear, you come close and my heart pounds

If what I want is to grind on you

I’ve got no problem getting close and dancing this reggaeton with you

So we both gotta sweat

Let’s dance to the beat of the tra

That makes me breathe hard

But for the bed I say, 'look, nah, nah, nah'

’Cause I’m the one in charge

I’m the one who decides when we get down, and you know it

The rhythm’s carrying me

The closer you stick, the harder I spank you, and that’s cool

I don’t care what lots of people say

If I shake my hips from down low to up high

If I’m from the hood or maybe a classy girl

If in the club you press up on me and get hyped

You know we both gotta sweat

Let’s dance to the beat of the tra

That makes me breathe hard

But for the bed I say, 'look, nah, nah, nah'

I wanna dance, you wanna sweat

And rub up on me, body to body

I tell you, 'If you can turn me on

That doesn’t mean I’m heading to bed'

I wanna dance, you wanna sweat

And rub up on me, body to body

I tell you, 'If you can turn me on

That doesn’t mean I’m heading to bed'

I wanna make it clear

If in the club we start to get wild

If the two of us alone begin to caress

It’s ’cause I want to and you can’t stop me

Don’t think I’m gonna lie down, it’s not like that

I dance reggaeton, but I’m no easy girl

If you wanna earn my kisses and my panties

It ain’t that way, babe, take it easy, easy, take it, baby

Ladies, to the club to dance

Come show your man

What’s up

Ladies, to the club to grind

But don’t let him think he can play

And like I already said

So we both gotta sweat

Let’s dance to the beat of the tra

Make me sigh real hard

But for the bed I say, 'look, nah, nah, nah'

I wanna dance, you wanna sweat

And rub up on me, body to body

I tell you, 'If you can turn me on

That doesn’t mean I’m heading to bed'

I wanna dance, you wanna sweat

And rub up on me, body to body

I tell you, 'If you can turn me on

That doesn’t mean I’m heading to bed'

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azotando — whipping

Azotando comes from the verb azotar, which literally means "to whip". However, in the context of reggaetón, it describes dancing with intense and powerful rhythm.

When Ivy Queen sings, "Mientras más te pegas, más te voy azotando" (The closer you get, the more I'll 'whip' you), she's not being literal. She's using this strong verb to express her confidence and dominance on the dance floor, showing she is in complete control of her movements.

Ivy Queen steps directly onto the dancefloor and lays down the law from the very first beat. She wants to dance close, sweat, and grind to the heavy beat—what she calls el ritmo del tra (the rhythm of the "tra", an onomatopoeia for a hard-hitting reggaeton beat). But she draws an ironclad line: "Eso no quiere decir que pa la cama voy" ("That doesn't mean I'm going to bed with you"). She loves the physical heat of the club, yet she refuses to let anyone mistake dancing for consent. When her partner gets ahead of himself, she shuts it down with a blunt, rhythmic "mira, nah, nah, nah" ("look, no, no, no").

What makes this track so much fun is how totally in charge she is. She sings "yo soy la que mando / Soy la que decide cuando vamos al mambo" ("I'm the boss / I'm the one who decides when we take things further"), using el mambo as slang for action or romance. She calls out the double standard directly: dancing perreo (close, low-down reggaeton dancing) doesn't make her easy. If a guy expects to earn her affection or get into her underwear, she tells him to back up and "cógelo easy" ("take it easy"). She even shouts out to the other women in the club, telling them to dance freely and show their partners "qué es la que hay" (a Puerto Rican slang phrase meaning "what the deal is" or "how things really are").

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