"Quiero Bailar" | ||||
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Single by Ivy Queen | ||||
from the album Diva: Platinum Edition | ||||
Released | August 2003 | |||
Format | Radio airplay | |||
Recorded | 2002 | |||
Genre | Reggaetón | |||
Length | 3:03 | |||
Label | Universal Music Latino | |||
Songwriter(s) | Martha Pesante, Omar Navarro | |||
Producer(s) | Iván Joy | |||
Ivy Queen singles chronology | ||||
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Audio sample | ||||
A 25 second sample of "Quiero Bailar" featuring the chorus and part of Ivy Queen's first verse.
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"Quiero Bailar" (English: "I Want To Dance") is a song by Puerto Rican reggaetón recording artist Ivy Queen, from the platinum edition of her third studio album, Diva (2003). It was composed by Queen alongside her then-husband Gran Omar, produced by Iván Joy and released as the lead single from the album in 2004. Lyrically, "the song talks about a guy expecting sex after a dance like it was a bad thing."
The song along with the album Diva are considered to be an important factor to reggaeton's mainstream exposure in 2004 alongside Daddy Yankee's Barrio Fino and Tego Calderon's El Enemy de los Guasibiri. The song became the first Spanish-language song to reach #1 on Miami's WPOW Rhythmic Top 40 while reaching the Top 10 of the Billboard Latin Rhythm Airplay chart. An accompanying music video was filmed for the song. It features cameos from her ex-husband Omar Navarro, known artistically as Gran Omar. Ivy Queen performed the song as a part of the set of her 2008 World Tour which was held from the José Miguel Agrelot Coliseum in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
After the failed commercial success of Ivy Queen's first two studio albums, En Mi Imperio (1997) and The Original Rude Girl (1998) Queen was dropped from the Sony label and took a hiatus from her musical career in 1999. Though the moderate hit, "In The Zone" with Wyclef Jean was able to chart in the United States, the unsuccessful second single "Ritmo Latino" and the album The Original Rude Girl were not and were overlooked and soon forgotten. However, it was critically acclaimed by many including an editor for Allmusic who awarded the album four out of five stars and listed it as an selected "Allmusic Pick". This occurred after she left Sony and "stepped out of Wyclef Jean's shadow".