Too often in this industry, they try to pit us against each other.
I truly felt getting Natti on the song was the only way.
A lot of people were like, "Well, that's like your number one competition.
Why would you do that?"
I'm like, "Competition?
What do you mean?"
You got one powerhouse over here.
You have another powerhouse over here.
Put it together that's lights out.
Sin Pijama is such a special song to me.
Believe it or not, so many people that I know on the team ... I won't call them out or nothing
... they were like, "It's alright.
I mean I don't know."
When the idea of doing it with another female sparked, I think that's when it really caught
people's attention.
I had been following Natti for a long time.
I have been a fan of her.
She has flow.
I respect very strong, talented women who know what they want, especially in Latin music.
I just knew like, she would totally kill this.
Solo, solito en la habitación, busca, que busca de mi calor, it kind of sounds more
romantic in Spanish, right?
But then it also sounds very sweet, like, "Oh, you're so alone.
You're searching for warmth.
Let me be the remedy to your pain and suffering."
Which could totally be like, "Hey, let's just cuddle," and then there's another side to
those things.
It really just depends how people take it.
But obviously playing with that double meaning and just being so forward, I think was so
empowering for me in this song.
Hitting in with those opening lines was just so like, "I know I got it, and I know you
want it, and it's all good."
"Nadie te lo hace mejor que yo" was definitely one of those like "I'm feeling myself" kind
of lines, but not in the way of like, "I'm better than all these other women," but more
for women to sing and say, "I know what I got, and I know how dope that is.”
You know when like a homie hits you up, and he's like, "Yo, girl, where you at?
What you been doing?"
They're a little bit desperate.
You're like, "Yo, just relax.
It's all good.
Calma'o.
The chorus is just so straight up and so to the point that for so many people it made
them feel uncomfortable.
They're like, "Yo, if you call me, we could kick it at your house without pajamas."
"What?
Hold up.
Did homegirl really just say that?
I think I just fell in love with her."
Or some people are like, "Oh, my God!
That's so vulgar.
How dare she say that.
Maybe play a little bit of hard to get or something."
It's to each their own, but I think for me and Natti, our point was so much bigger than
just saying stuff that was going to make people maybe feel uncomfortable.
But also stuff that girls want to say without feeling embarrassed, or ashamed, or feeling
like, "Oh, we have to be careful about our sexuality.
God forbid."
I feel like intimacy is something that we all enjoy, right?
Not just intimacy like sex, I'm talking like holding hands or whatever, laying down and
talking with somebody, have deep conversations.
That intimacy you don't just experience with anybody.
When you're saying like, "Yo, I'm a share my secrets with your pillows," that's some
deep shit.
“Hoy no vamo' a dormir.
Baby, hoy no vamo' a dormir” is "Baby, we're not going to sleep tonight."
Growing up and listening to R&B music, and hip hop, and stuff like that.
Even some of the female MCs that I grew up listening to like Left Eye, whatever, they
were never taboo about telling a dude like, "This is what's going to go down."
You know what I mean?
I loved that.
So saying, “Hoy no vamo' a dormir, no traje pijama porque no me dio la gana” like, "I
didn't bring pajamas because I didn't want to."
You know what I mean?
Like, "This is my choice."
I feel like it's becoming more common to have natural Spanglish moments in Spanish music.
What a time to be alive for me because I am a Spanglish speaking person.
I was born and raised in Inglewood.
I'm a Cali girl, but at the same time I'm Mexican.
I have very strong Latin cultural background.
Speaking English and Spanish growing up, it wasn't one or the other, it was just a mix
of the two.
“Espero tu call” and then “Vente dame el gol” is a way of saying like, "Eh, hit
a home run.
Let's go.