Obsesionado means 'obsessed'. It's a powerful adjective that describes an all-consuming fixation on someone or something.
In this classic ballad, Enrique Iglesias uses this word to capture his intense and desperate longing for a past love. He sings, "Mientras yo vivo por ti obsesionado" (While I live for you, obsessed), perfectly summarizing the song's core emotion of being unable to think of anyone else.
This song is all about being completely stuck on an ex. Enrique Iglesias opens with a look back at a relationship, calling it "una historia de amor / Que se ha ido" (a love story that's gone). He realizes he made a mistake and now he's desperately trying to get her back, admitting, "hoy que quiero volver / Te persigo" (today I want to return / I'm chasing you). The whole song circles around this intense feeling of need and obsession, summed up in the chorus: "Necesito lo que tú me das... Y solo pienso en ti" (I need what you give me... And I only think of you).
To make things more complicated, he's actually with someone new, but it's not working at all. He says this new person sees love as just "una diversión" (a diversion), and for him, being with her is just "fingir" (pretending). All he really wants is to "huir / A tus brazos" (run away / to your arms). He's left wondering if his ex has forgotten him while he remains totally "obsesionado" (obsessed). It's a powerful song about regret and realizing you let the right person go.
Enrique Iglesias shopped his first demos around Madrid under the name Enrique Martínez, so that no label would sign him for being Julio Iglesias's son. Fonovisa signed him anyway and flew him to Toronto, where he recorded Enrique Iglesias (1995) in near anonymity. All five of its singles, "Si Tú Te Vas" and "Experiencia Religiosa" among them, reached number one on Billboard's Latin chart, and the album won the 1997 Grammy for Best Latin Pop Album.
Enrique (1999) moved him onto English-language radio, with "Bailamos" and "Be with You" both topping the Hot 100, and Escape (2001) sold past eight million copies on the back of "Hero". The chart he owns outright is Hot Latin Songs: 27 number ones, more than any other artist, plus the two longest runs at the top in its history, "Bailando" with Descemer Bueno and Gente de Zona at 41 weeks in 2014 and "El Perdón" with Nicky Jam at 30 weeks in 2015. He wound the recording career down on his own terms, calling Final (Vol. 1) in 2021 and Final (Vol. 2) in 2024 his last albums.