Tití Me Preguntó

Album: Un Verano Sin Ti (2022)
Charted: 18 5
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Songfacts®:

  • Tití Me Preguntó translates to "Titi Asked Me." This shapeshifting song finds Bad Bunny's aunt inquiring if he has a lot of girlfriends. The Puerto Rican superstar replies "Mambo No 5"-style by listing their names.

    "Titi" is a colloquial term for an aunt in Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic. Bad Bunny plays on the stereotype of an aunt asking her nephew whether he has a girlfriend.
  • Bad Bunny opens "Tití Me Preguntó" with a sample of Anthony Santos' 1999 bachata track "No Te Puedo Olvidar." The song then detours into dembow, a frenetic musical subgenre of reggaeton prominent in the Dominican Republic, and Latin trap.
  • Bad Bunny recorded the dembow-hybrid track for his fourth album, Un Verano Sin Ti. The track's producer, Marco "MAG" Borrero, did much of the heavy lifting on Un Verano Sin Ti, contributing to 14 of the tracks.
  • Un Verano Sin Ti translates to "A Summer Without You." On "Tití Me Preguntó," Bad Bunny admits to habitually getting bored by a girl and switching his affections to a different a different squeeze. The song ties in with a theme running through the album of feeling happier in life after a relationship ends.
  • Bad Bunny's performance at his Yankee Stadium concert on August 28, 2022 was broadcast on the MTV Video Music Awards, where he took the trophy for Artist Of The Year.
  • "Tití Me Preguntó" is a smorgasbord of Dominican dembow, reggaetón and hip-hop with an Antony Santos bachata sample. "It's like throwing every genre I love in a blender and seeing what happens," Mag told Billboard.
  • Bad Bunny played Mag the Antony Santos sample on the morning that they created the song. "He came over to me with his phone and he was like, 'MAG, quiero samplear esto' and played me the actual song," the producer recalled. "We had some really exciting ideas for it when it was just a trap song, and we put the sample in the intro."

    A couple of hours into working on "Tití Me Preguntó," Bunny suggested trying a Dominican dembow section on it. "So I sped up the tempo after the hip-hop part," Mag remembered. "But it was a hard one - because, like you said, we had to cross pollinate so many genres together, and that was a challenge. But it worked."
  • "Tití Me Preguntó" officially reached 1 billion Spotify streams on January 23, 2023. "It's a song that was born very spontaneously," Bad Bunny told Spotify's Billions Club. "All of the people mentioned in the song exist in real life. Nothing I say in that song is a lie, including the part where I say I want to fall in love, but I can't."

    Bad Bunny declined to say which aunt he's singing about because "they'll get jealous and create a mess."
  • Bad Bunny opened his 2026 Super Bowl halftime performance with "Tití Me Preguntó," carrying a football through a sugar cane field and emerging in a Puerto Rican block party where guys are playing dominos and there are tacos and coco frio for sale. His set was largely a tribute to Puerto Rico, with all of this songs sung in Spanish - a first for the Super Bowl halftime show.
  • "Tití Me Preguntó" returned to the singles charts worldwide following Bad Bunny's Super Bowl LX halftime performance. In the US it sat at #7 after the Super Bowl, alongside "DtMF" at #1 and "Baile Inolvidable" and "Nuevayol" at #2 and #5. In the UK it entered for the first time at #18.

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