Lagunas literally translates to "lagoons". However, in this song, it's used metaphorically to mean "gaps" or "blanks".
Peso Pluma sings about having "Lagunas en mis pensamientos" (Gaps in my thoughts), creating a powerful image of confusion and memory loss from the pain of a breakup. This poetic phrase shows how a simple word can be used to describe a deep emotional state, making it a very memorable part of the lyrics.
In "RELOJ", Mexican artist Peso Pluma teams up with Iván Cornejo to blend the moody energy of a corrido tumbado with classic post-breakup denial. The singer starts off glued to his screen: "Me paso noches enteras buscando en el phone / Leo tus mensajes y me pongo a sonreír" ("I spend entire nights searching on my phone / I read your messages and start smiling"). He is bitter about being a romantic fool, admitting "Que tú me amabas, me tragué ese cuento yo" ("That you loved me, I swallowed that fairy tale"). The Mexican Spanish idiom tragarse el cuento literally means swallowing the story, or falling for a complete lie.
To cope, he tries the classic distraction plan of "Fiesta, amigos y unas morras pa' salir" ("Parties, friends, and some girls to go out with"), where morras is everyday Mexican slang for girls or women. He swears he deleted his ex everywhere and claims "tranqui, estoy tranqui" (short for tranquilo, meaning chill or calm), but the clock imagery gives away the truth. He admits the ticking stopped ("el tic-tac del reloj paró") and left his soul completely stuck. Between the late-night scrolling and drowning the memories in "tragos amargos" (bitter drinks), it is a very honest confession of someone pretending to move on while staying up late staring at old texts.
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.