Atormenta comes from the verb atormentar, meaning "to torment" or "to haunt". It's a powerful and evocative word that describes intense emotional or mental suffering.
In the context of "OTRO AMOR," the singer uses it to express deep distress: "Me atormenta su comportamiento" (Their behavior torments me). This word perfectly captures the pain and anguish of a love lost, making it a memorable and impactful choice for learners.
This song is a classic Corrido Tumbado heartbreak story. Junior H is completely lost because the person he loves has just vanished. He keeps asking himself, "Ya no se conecta, ¿qué estará pasando?" (She's not online, what could be happening?). It's that feeling of confusion when someone suddenly cuts you off. He realizes she's gone to great lengths to disappear, not just changing her number but even her address, and he concludes she must have found "otro amor" (another love).
What's really heavy is how this breakup has completely wrecked his view on love. He sings that she was the one who "mató aquella esperanza" (killed that hope) that you can fall in love more than once. He's not just sad about losing her; he feels like he's lost the ability to ever love again because of what she did. It's a song about being ghosted so badly that it makes you question everything.
Junior H taught himself guitar and accordion off YouTube while working the kitchen at a Wendy's in Utah, where his family had moved in 2015 from Cerano, Guanajuato. Born Antonio Herrera Pérez in 2001, he uploaded his own songs under the name until one of them, "No Eh Cambiado", passed two million views and convinced him to make a career of it. The debut album Mi Vida en un Cigarro arrived in 2019.
He writes sad music, mostly: heartbreak over sierreño guitars, the corner of corridos tumbados people call urban sierreño. $ad Boyz 4 Life II (2023) reached number 14 on the Billboard 200 carrying no guest features at all, and produced "Y Lloro" and "Las Noches". Away from his own records he sings on "El Azul" with Peso Pluma, and on "Lady Gaga" with Peso Pluma and Gabito Ballesteros, which entered Hot Latin Songs at number one. In February 2026 he and songwriter Gael Valenzuela released the joint album DEPR</3$$ED MFKZ, a number one on Billboard's Top Regional Mexican Albums chart.