HOLLYWOOD Lyrics in English Peso Pluma , Estevan Plazola
Cintarazos is a powerful Spanish noun for "lashings or hits with a belt." This word is formed by combining cinta (belt) with the suffix -azo, which is used to indicate a blow or strike from an object.
In "HOLLYWOOD," Peso Pluma uses this word to reveal a raw detail from his past, singing about wearing double pants to endure the cintarazos. This single, memorable word offers a glimpse into the hardships he overcame before reaching fame, contrasting sharply with the glamorous life the song's title suggests.
On the surface this is a song about winning. Peso Pluma describes the artist's life at full speed: twenty thousand spent like it is nothing, designer clothes, caviar, important dinners, the right people in the room. But the hook keeps pulling him back down. He does not want to lie down and he cannot sleep, because too many memories and too many reasons to survive are keeping him awake.
Then he sits you down and tells the part you did not know. Arrested at fifteen for chasing what he wanted, his parents called, two pairs of trousers worn to soften the belt when he got home. Estevan Plazola picks up the thread with a line about signing with the devil and a shot at a president he counts as one more name on the list of the corrupt. The image that ties it together is small and ordinary: rolling a cigarette, walking through Hollywood, thinking about all of it. Useful Spanish here for talking about the past and about staying standing.
