I’m just excited that "Runaway" is now, not only ours but it's, it's yours as well.
And it's a song you can play in your car, you can play at the club,you can play in your
headphones.
Just if you want to have a good time, play it at the beach, put it anywhere you want
and try, if you can, to memorize Daddy Yankee's rap, which is pretty, pretty impossible.
I memorize it, actually.
If you guys want me to sing it.
The real beginning of "Runaway" is like two years ago.
So Maruricio Rengifo and Andres Torres, they send us the song.
At that moment I was like I can't release a song like "Runaway" cause I'm a Spanish
singer and if I release it in English, nobody's going to take me seriously.
So we said, what have we tried to get someone, someone bigger.
And finally one day Joe Jonas comes up and through our label Universal and Republic,
they were like, 'Hey Joe loved the track.
What if Joe records it?'
We were like, 'what?
Joe Jonas!
Of course'.
We talked to Natti about it, Natti Natasha and she got super excited about the song and
she loved it too.
And then she went into the studio to record it.
So now like we had a pretty solid thing going.
We were like, okay.
I run into Daddy Yankee one day at the gym in Valencia, Spain.
We were originally speaking, Yankee and I, about me sending him like a couple of songs.
And I also told him, Oh, that "Runaway" track is amazing.
And he's like, 'Yeah, I love it.’
But the conversation stayed there and I left and one month later they call me from Universal,
from my label.
Alejandro Duque, which is the president of Universal Latin, and then he tells us Yankee
wants to get on the track and we're like, 'What?
What?
What is going on?'
It's almost like God sent that the Jonas brothers decided to get back.
Basically "Sucker" is released and we get the confirmation right after that.
Okay.
Since Joe was already on it, Nick and Kevin said, 'Hey, if we're going to do it, let's
do it all three of us and let's do it as the Jonas brothers for the first time singing
in Spanish with Spanish acts'.
And I was like, 'What?
This is happening to me.
I never wanted to have a slogan.
I was always anti-slogan.
And one day I'm recording the song Traicionera, which changed my life.
And my producer Dandy, he's like, "Just say anything before starting to sing so we can
see that the levels are good and stuff.”
And I'm messing around, just say my name just to mess around.
Because we were listening to that Panda track, the, "Panda, Panda, Panda, Panda, Panda, Panda."
So I was like, "Yatra, Yatra, Yatra, Yatra, Yatra, Yatra, Yatra, Yatra."
It ends up becoming a huge part of the song.
Once you hear it, you know it’s me.
You know I’m there.
"[Singing]" is, "I want to stay with you from morning, from night till dawn and [singing]
is, "I want to get lost in your belly button like that weekend."
It's a flirty way to say it because it can be taken however you want, but it's like a
flirty way to say I want to be with you again.
[Singing] "from the North pole to the South pole."
So now when you say I want to get lost in your belly button from the North pole to the
South pole there you understand it a little bit more.
That means "I want to explore you turn off the light."
But light normally in Spanish is luz, But you know, it sounded cooler to say la lu.
So turn off the light because I'm about to explore you, mamacita.
I'd probably run away to somewhere magical in the ocean.
Just an island, the beach, and disappear for some time.
This past month I was able to get away for a little bit for the first time, like in five
years.
So it was definitely fun.
I went to Tulum with my girlfriend.
I did it in honor of the song.
With the full moon, us alone in the sand.
And we weren't picturing any specific beach.
It's just that magical moment when you're in the beach with the stars up top and you're
with that one person that means absolutely anything that you wouldn't change it for the
world.
You're there and you can perfectly say, "I will stay here for the rest of my life in
this moment and I will be cool with it.
I will be chill."
It's really like a conversation between all of us.
So Natti Natasha comes right in after, and she says [singing]. That means "if you tell
me such pretty things, I can give you exactly what you need."
[Singing] which means "stay with me, stay with me."
And then the Jonas brothers come into kill it with the "leave it all behind just to be
with you."
And you're like, damn those guys are fire.
And Daddy Yankee’s part, let me go for it.
[Singing]