Album: Mala Mía (2024)
Charted: 48
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Songfacts®:

  • "Me Jalo" is a collaborative song by Fuerza Regida and Grupo Frontera, released as part of their joint EP Mala Mía. The EP is a collection of songs dedicated to love, desire and heartbreak.
  • The song tells the tale of a man entangled in an illicit romance with a woman who is very much taken. The title phrase, "me jalo," is urban slang for "I'm coming over" - a phrase that in this context suggests reckless abandon.
  • The Mala Mía EP is a genre-spanning project with each of the five tracks in different musical styles, including cumbias, Tejano, and corridos tumbados. "Me Jalo" blends Fuerza Regida's world-weary, whiskey-drenched corridos and Grupo Frontera's breezy, accordion-driven cumbia pop.
  • This isn't the first time Fuerza Regida and Grupo Frontera have joined forces. Their 2022 single "Bebe Dame" was a huge success, climbing to #1 on the Hot Latin Songs chart and becoming Grupo Frontera's first appearance on the Billboard Hot 100. They also dropped another single, "911 (En Vivo)," that same year.
  • The song's music video, directed by Miguel López and Abelardo Báez, alternates between shots of Jesús Ortiz Paz in a bar and Grupo Frontera performing in a forest.

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