Two people pretending to be a happy couple, and finally deciding to stop. Elvis Crespo sings that it has become a habit "fingirle a la gente que somos felices" (to pretend to people that we are happy), stuck in "la monotonía" (the monotony) and apart night and day. Then comes the shrug that names the song: "El tiempo nos dio la razón" (Time proved us right). The phrase "a lo hecho pecho" is a great idiom to learn: literally "to what's done, chest", it means you face the consequences of what you did.
Ivy Queen does not shrug. She calls him "Estúpido, ignorante y atrevido" (Stupid, ignorant and cheeky) and tells him "No me vengas a frontear" (Don't come showing off at me), using frontear, Spanglish from the English "to front". Her answer to the breakup is to dance alone and get dressed up, and the refrain is pure revenge: "No será pa' ti" (It won't be for you). My favourite image is "Como una sombrillita nueva, por tu lado pasaré" (Like a brand new little umbrella, I'll walk right past you), while the rain falls on him too.
Elvis Crespo was named after Elvis Presley, born in New York City in 1971 and raised in Guaynabo, Puerto Rico. He spent the mid-1990s singing with Grupo Manía, where he wrote "Linda Eh" for them, and left in 1997 to make his own record.
That record was Suavemente, and its title track held number one on Billboard's Hot Latin Tracks for six weeks in 1998, only the second merengue song ever to top that chart. "Tu Sonrisa" went to number one after it, and the album has sold over four million copies. The follow-up, Píntame, won the first Grammy for Best Merengue Performance in 2000, and Saboréalo took the Latin Grammy for Best Merengue Album in 2005. He kept the pace up on Wow Flash! and Regresó el Jefe, and in 2016 his voice carried Deorro's merengue-house track "Bailar" to the top of the US Tropical chart.