Deleito is a beautiful, poetic word that means "I delight" or "I take great pleasure in". It comes from the verb deleitar and is a much more expressive way to say you enjoy something than the common me gusta (I like).
In the song, J Balvin is tired of arguing and tells his partner, "Baila, que yo me deleito" (Dance, because I delight). He's saying that watching her dance brings him immense joy, a feeling so strong that this special word is needed to capture it.
Ever been trapped in an argument where the other person acts like a toddler giving you the silent treatment? That is the exact headache Colombian star J Balvin, Bad Bunny, and Nigerian artist Mr Eazi are dealing with in "COMO UN BEBÉ". The opening line sums up the frustration immediately: "Trato, trato y queda en nada / Peleamos otra vez" ("I try and try, and it leads nowhere / We fight again"). One minute their partner speaks, the next minute they freeze up "como un bebé" ("like a baby"). Balvin even jokes that dealing with her constant nagging feels like being harassed by the cops: "Creo que tú jodes como la ley" ("I think you bother me like the law"). In Spanish, the slang verb joder can mean to mess around, ruin things, or seriously annoy someone, and here it brings out pure irritation.
Instead of wasting energy on endless debates, the guys just want to skip the drama and dance. Bad Bunny bluntly refuses to play along with the bickering, declaring, "Yo no voy a discutir / Mejor te empieza' a desvestir" ("I'm not going to argue / You'd better start undressing"). It is a hilariously direct, totally shameless way to change the subject! Mr Eazi jumps in to echo the peace offering in English and Yoruba, smoothly asking, "Tell me what you want / You know I could give you." When words fail, their final fix is simple: drop the fight, take a breath, and hit the floor with "baila pa' mí" ("dance for me").
J Balvin grew up in Medellín playing guitar in a teenage rock band with Nirvana and Metallica on repeat, and spent part of his teens in Oklahoma and New York picking up English. Born José Álvaro Osorio Balvín in 1985, he had been releasing music in Colombia for about a decade before anyone outside it paid attention.
"6 AM" with Farruko changed that in 2014, and "Ay Vamos" and "Ginza" followed: "Ginza" held number one on Billboard's Hot Latin Songs chart for 22 weeks, a record at the time. He kept singing in Spanish anyway, and "Mi Gente" reached number three on the Hot 100 once Beyoncé joined the remix, before "I Like It" with Cardi B and Bad Bunny went to number one in 2018. His albums run La Familia, Energía, Vibras, Colores (every track named after a color, and a Latin Grammy for best urban album), José and Rayo, plus Oasis, a joint record with Bad Bunny. In August 2019 he became the first Latino artist to headline Lollapalooza in Chicago.