Estar de cine is a fun, colloquial expression from Spain that literally translates to "to be of cinema". It's used to say that something is fantastic, wonderful, or just perfect, like a scene from a great movie.
In the song, Alvaro Soler sings, "Dime que se está de cine" (Tell me that this is great), capturing a perfect, movie-like moment with someone special. It’s a fantastic phrase to learn if you want to make your Spanish sound more natural and expressive!
Alvaro Soler kicks off this song with a simple, hopeful invitation: "Salgo, vente a tomar algo" (I'm going out, come have a drink). It's a song about taking a chance on a perfect day with someone special. He asks them to get in his car and just leave, all on the chance that "todo sale bien" (everything goes well). The whole feeling is about living in the moment and forgetting everything else, summed up in the playful, insistent question: "¿Te vienes o te vienes si o no?" (Are you coming or are you coming, yes or no?).
The song argues that this person's presence is pure magic. Their eyes make him see that "la vida es una canción" (life is a song), and their lips remind him of both "Peter Pan y de rock'n'roll" (Peter Pan and rock'n'roll), a perfect mix of youthful adventure and cool energy. The lyrics paint a picture of a spontaneous, romantic escape, with images of skinny-dipping in the ocean and kissing under the moon. It’s about creating your own perfect world, even suggesting they "pintamos el agua turquesa" (paint the water turquoise) because, after all, "esta vida es nuestra" (this life is ours).
Álvaro Soler was ten when his family moved to Tokyo, and seventeen when he came back to Catalonia with piano lessons and most of a second childhood behind him. He was born in Sant Cugat del Vallès in 1991, formed the band Urban Lights in 2010 with his brother and a few friends, reached the final eight of the talent show ¡Tú sí que vales! with them in 2013, and left in 2014 to work on his own.
The song that broke him was "El mismo sol" in 2015, a number one in Italy and Switzerland that was re-recorded as a bilingual version with Jennifer Lopez. "Sofia" did it again a year later, topping the charts in Italy, Poland, Belgium and Switzerland and going platinum several times over in Italy. His albums are Eterno agosto (2015), Mar de colores (2018), which carried "La cintura", Magia (2021) and El Camino (2025). He records in Spanish, English, Italian and German, wrote "Yo contigo, tú conmigo" with Morat for Despicable Me 3, and has coached on the German edition of The Voice Kids.