Lagunas literally translates to "lagoons", but it has a fascinating double meaning. In Spanish, the phrase "tener lagunas mentales" means to have gaps in your memory, a moment of mental confusion.
In the song's central line, "Nado entre lagunas de mi mente" (I swim in the lagoons/gaps of my mind), the singer creates a beautiful metaphor. He's poetically describing the feeling of being lost and adrift in his own thoughts and memories of a past love.
Mexican artist Peso Pluma and Jasiel Nuñez bring a melancholic, starry-eyed vibe to this corrido tumbado. The narrator starts by noticing that the moon is giving off good energy ("Esta noche hay luna que dio energías buenas"), but he still feels weighed down by a lingering heartache. His solution to getting over this past relationship is going completely cold turkey. He sings, "No la veo por abstinencia / De tenerla cerca, me puse una meta" ("I don't see her out of withdrawal / From having her close, I set a goal"). It is a dramatic, self-imposed rule, but he insists that staying away is better for both of them, not just himself ("De lejos es mejor / No por mí, esto es por los dos").
The emotional core of the song plays on the literal and figurative meaning of the title word, lagunas. In Spanish, the phrase lagunas mentales means memory gaps or blackouts. Here, he turns it into a vivid metaphor for overthinking: "Nado entre lagunas de mi mente / Que se hacen por saber qué se siente / Volver a besar tu frente" ("I swim through gaps in my mind / That form from wondering what it feels like / To kiss your forehead again"). Instead of accepting that the romance is over, he looks past the Earth entirely, daydreaming that maybe in another galaxy they actually got what they always wanted ("Tal vez en otra galaxia sí fue diferente / Tal vez ahí sí se nos dio lo que quisimos siempre"). It wraps up with their signatures, including Peso Pluma's famous nickname, Doble P (Double P).
Hassan Emilio Kabande Laija was born in Zapopan, Jalisco in 1999, grew up in Guadalajara, and taught himself guitar at fifteen off YouTube tutorials. As Peso Pluma he sings corridos tumbados: Sinaloan sierreño guitars underneath, the cadence and swagger of hip hop on top. His voice is a thin nasal rasp nobody would call pretty, and in 2023 it made him the fifth most-streamed artist on Spotify worldwide.
He arrived through features, "El Belicón" with Raúl Vega and then "AMG" and "PRC" with Natanael Cano, before "Ella Baila Sola" with Eslabón Armado reached No. 4 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 2023, the first regional Mexican song ever inside that top 10. Génesis won Best Música Mexicana Album at the 2024 Grammys, and the 24-track double album Éxodo followed with Cardi B, Quavo and Rich the Kid along for the urbano half. He runs his own label, Double P Records, and closed 2025 with Dinastía, a joint album with his cousin Tito Double P that went straight to No. 1 on Top Latin Albums and filled 30 US arenas in 2026, Madison Square Garden included.