To think Despacito is really quite rude?

[PoppyPopcorn]

My kids love this song but if you're a Spanish speaker you'll know it's quite rude...

I find it more creepy than Rude.

Not Blurred Lines creepy but it's very sexual.

I have no idea what it's about but I chuffing love it

He keeps going on about exploring her danger zones and making her scream. And making her think about him when he's not there. Don't understand the rap as well but quite often I dint understand raps in English either...

I kind of liked it (as in it is 'pegadiza') but yesterday I watched the video and listed to the lyrics........
It's 100% sexual, but also very tacky - some of the phrases are cringeworthy ('so that you forget your surname'....??!!)

My very innocent 11yo niece told me quite brazenly that all her friends love the song because in Spanish the words are really rude. I was shocked!

It's very sexual in both languages, but has the added "bonus" of not translating terribly well so that in English it's both sexual AND awkward!

Try having a class full of ten year olds singing it because it's the flavor of the month, and you speak Spanish and you know exactly what they're singing, even if they don't. (I had one little boy from Uruguay who knew exactly what he was singing, though he thankfully didn't translate for the others. Still, it made it a bit creepier for me!!) I can't really tell them it's inappropriate without an explanation, and an explanation would be... inappropriate!

The thing that REALLY bugs me about this song, though, is the Justin Bieber version. I know he doesn't actually speak Spanish, but he has been known to get on the stage and sing something like "I don't know the words so I just say burrito" as if it's cute to basically rubbish someone else's language because he doesn't speak it. Imagine if someone got up there and sang "Ching chong Gangnam Style!" It's exactly like that.

I mean Jesus, he calls himself a professional performer. His job is to learn the lyrics! Even if he doesn't necessarily understand it, it is NOT that hard to ask to be given a set of phonetic lyrics to learn his part phonetically! Or to practice over and over until the words DO come to him! That's what aggravates me most about this song. (I can't listen to the Bieber version because of this.)

I don't speak Italian, or Latin, or Russian, or Swahili, but I can sing in those language because I listen carefully and I pay attention. And no one's paying me to get up on stage to do it. If I can do it when there's nothing at stake, surely he can put in a little effort to earn his millions he'll be getting from this single.

I'm no great fan of the Bieber. But to be fair, he only sings the bits in English and the one word "despacito" did have an interesting conversation about diminutives this morning as we don't really have an English equivalent to the "Ito" in " pasito pasito, suave suavecito"

haha poppypopcorn I always thought that about the lack of dimunitives (and superlative!) in English

And the "andolo" endings make rapping a doddle. My kids know I speak Spanish and keep asking me to translate but I won't - they know it's quite rude!

It is just about sex and the non Bieber version is the best one.

es, you know that I've been looking at you for a while
I have to dance with you today
I saw, that your look was calling me
Show me the way that I'm going oh
You you are the magnet and I'm the metal
I'm getting closer and I'm setting up the plan
Just the thought of it accelerates the pulse
now I'm enjoying it more than usual
All my senses are asking for more
This must be taken without any trouble

Slowly
I want to breathe your neck slowly
Let me tell you things in your ears
So that you remember when you're not with me
Slowly
I want to strip you off with kisses slowly
Sign the walls of your labrynth
And make your whole body a manuscript
Turn it up turn it up..... turn it up, turn it up

I wanna see you dance
I wanna be your rhythm
I want you to show me
Your favourite places places places Places
Let me surpass your danger zones
To make you scream
And forget your name

If I ask you for a kiss , come give it to me
I know that you're thinking about it
I've been trying for some time
Mommy this is giving and giving it
You know that your heart with me makes you bom bom
You know that this baby is looking for my bom bom
Come test my mouth to see what it taste like to you
I want to see how much love do you have
I'm not in a hurry, I want to do the trip
Let's start slowly then wildly

Step by step, soft softly
We are going to get caught little by little
When you kiss me so skillfully
I think that you're malicious delicately
Step by step, soft softly
We're going to get caught, little by little
And it's just that this beauty is a puzzle
But to put it together here I have the pieces

Slowly
I wanna breathe your neck slowly
Let me whisper things into your ear
So that you remember if you're not with me
Slowly
I wanna strip you off with kisses slowly
Sign the walls of your laberinth
And make your whole body a manuscript
Turn it up

I wanna see you dance
I wanna be your rhythm
I want you to show me
Your favourite places
Let me surpass your danger zones
Till I make you scream
And forget your name
Slowly
We will do it on the beach in Puerto Rico
Till the waves scream dear lord
So that my seal stays with you

Step by step, soft softly
We're going to get caught little by little
I want you to show me
Your favourite places places places Places
Step by step, soft softly
We're going to get caught little by little
To make you scream (Fonsi)
And forget your name (DY)
Slowly

That translation is a bit off... some terms are not correctly translated , for instance: "estoy hay que tomarlo sin ningún apuro", "apuro" is not "trouble", but "hurry", so a most accurate translation would: "you cannot do this in a hurry" which makes much more sense in the song. Also: "Pasito a pasito, suave suavecito, nos vamos pegando poquito a poquito" does not translate as "we are going to get caught little by little". It's "we get closer bit by bit". So the lyrics are not awkward, it's the inaccurate translations that make them so.

I am Spanish and yes, the lyrics are about sex but sang in a way that do not sound rude at all in Spanish, just like many other songs really.

i love the rhythm, it really makes you want to dance it! And yes, the original version is 100 times better than the Bieber's :)

I love it! The original version, not the JB one.

Many pop songs ate ecplicit though..

Bon appetite by Katy Perry
Versace on the floor- Bruno Mars

From the olden days:
I want to sex you up... coliur me bad
Most songs by Missy Elliot, Snoop Dog, Madonna etc

Love Despacito but agree Bieber should learn the bloody lyfics!

The lyrics are rude but not that rude compared to other Latin pop songs.

Faithinthsound I agree completely that it is utterly disrespectful for JB to mutter a few words and in a rather derugatory manner when performing the song. It is a shame that he piggy backed on a successful Latin pop song.

Every so often there are funny examples of language abuse in music such as the U2 song where Bono starts off by counting 1, 2, 3, 14 (hope that is deliberate) or the Red Hot Chilli Peppers song 'cabron'. My Mum was a bit shocked when popping to Tescos and then Cabron came on the instore music.

Kids at school love it, but don't speak Spanish, so all they sing is "Despacito" randomly.

Well done to Mr Bieber for getting a Zumba tune to number one.

Makes me laugh - it conjures up a room full of fit middle aged people shaking their bom boms, which is probably not quite the image Bieber had in mind

From the olden days:
^I want to sex you up... coliur me bad
Most songs by Missy Elliot, Snoop Dog, Madonna etc^

It was only doing karaoke a couple of years ago that I realised that Love Resurrection by Alison Moyet is sex-based and one of the key lines about coaxing an erection for her lover. A realisation that occurred as I was singing it to a room full of colleagues.

I don't think it's any ruder than any of the other pop songs out there. Cake by the ocean is about oral sex, rude boy- "come here rude boy can you get it up", and loads of others... even George Michaels "outside" from years ago is very sexual. Princes "Get off" etc. At least if the words are Spanish the majority of kids in the U.K. won't know what they're talking about!

I mean there are always going to be songs about sex, but at least if they're in English, the adults in the room can make the informed decision not to play them to the children (largely in situations like mine, where I have all these ten year olds innocently singing Despacito with no idea what it's about, while I sit by forever cringing).

If that little boy's parents had come in (the ones from Uruguay), they probably would not have been best pleased!

Every so often there are funny examples of language abuse in music such as the U2 song where Bono starts off by counting 1, 2, 3, 14 (hope that is deliberate) or the Red Hot Chilli Peppers song 'cabron'. My Mum was a bit shocked when popping to Tescos and then Cabron came on the instore music

I've heard it said that the '1,2,3,14' thing refers to the fact steve lilywhite produced their 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 14th albums. but i don't know if thats necessarily correct or if Bono is just a bit shit at spanish lol.

Cabron however, is very deliberate.

"I don't know the words so I just say burrito"

That's pretty much how we sing along to it in the car. Sometimes there are Doritos.

I didn't know the lyrics were about sex but I kind of assumed they were. I sincerely hope DD doesn't ask her grandmother what the pay mean - I know she's asked what despacito means but it hink that's as far as she went!

I'm wondering whether DS2 knows. Not so much because he's just done GCSE Spanish but because he's friends with a boy who is bilingual!

Bono's 14 would make sense as being deliberate. From memory he shouts in a different way to 1,2,3... kind of triumphantly? So either it's deliberate or he is really really proud of being shit at Spanish :o

When we lived in a Latin American country we used to giggle at the really inappropriate English songs the school used to play at sports day etc and this is the equivalent. They are singing it at our DC's school and there is no way they would be allowed to sing the English version of this song there. My DC's Spanish isn't good enough to understand all of the words although their accents sound good!