Enséñame is the command form for "teach me" and the title of this iconic bachata song. It's a powerful and desperate plea.
In the chorus, the singer laments that his ex taught him how to love, so now she should also "enséñame a olvidar" (teach me to forget). This poetic and paradoxical request perfectly captures the feeling of being unable to move on after a painful breakup.
If you have ever been so heartbroken that ordinary logic flies out the window, Aventura's bachata classic Enséñame A Olvidar gets it completely. The singer finds himself dumped and completely lost, wishing he could close his eyes and start over. He makes a hilariously dramatic comparison: trying to stop loving his ex is "como ver a un pez del mar poder volar" [like seeing a fish from the sea fly]. His main complaint throughout the chorus is that she was his teacher in romance ("fuiste mi profesora en el amor" [you were my teacher in love]), but she left out the most important part of the syllabus. He demands that if she taught him how to love, she needs to come back and teach him how to forget ("Si me enseñaste a querer / También enséñame olvidar" [If you taught me to love, teach me also to forget]).
What makes this track so fun to sing along with is how petty and real the grief gets. One minute he is spiraling over small memories—like her letters, or watching her sip coffee while glued to her soap operas ("las novelas / Que tu veías tan ansiosa tomando café")—and the next, he is throwing shade, wondering out loud if her ego made her run off with a richer guy ("otro hombre con dinero"). He even brings up family drama, admitting that his dad warned him never to cry over women ("Papá me dijo que no llore por mujeres"), yet here he is, doing exactly that every morning. It is over-the-top, deeply sad, and wonderfully catchy bachata all at once.
Aventura played Dominican bachata the way it sounded in the Bronx, where they formed as teenagers under the name Los Tinellers. The genre's guitar figures got pulled toward R&B and hip hop, and English kept slipping into the Spanish mid-verse. Anthony "Romeo" Santos sang lead in a high, pleading tenor, Henry Santos sang alongside him, Lenny Santos wrote the guitar parts and Max Santos played bass.
"Obsesión", from We Broke the Rules (2002), spent sixteen straight weeks at number one in Italy and seven in France, which is not where a bachata single was supposed to end up. God's Project (2005) carried "La Boda", "Un Beso" and "Ella y Yo" with Don Omar, and The Last (2009) reached number five on the Billboard 200 behind "Dile al Amor" and "El Malo". They split in 2011, Romeo going solo while Lenny and Max formed Vena, then reunited in 2019 for "Inmortal" and took "Volví" with Bad Bunny to number one on Hot Latin Songs in 2021. The farewell Cerrando Ciclos tour closed in January 2025 with four stadium nights in Santo Domingo.