Spanish Lessons

Album: Hard Candy (2008)
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Songfacts®:

  • Madonna wrote this with Pharrell Williams, who co-wrote six other songs for the Hard Candy album, including the single "Give it 2 Me." In this song Madonna tries out her multilingual skills, singing in both English and Spanish.
  • Madonna said that the music in this song was inspired by a Baltimore dance called the Percolator.
  • This song was featured on the TV series Ugly Betty, in the season two finale "Jump" (2008).

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  • Theresa from Murfreesboro, TnSexy song but everyone hates it - not me!
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