Tres Botellas
Junior H · 2023
Van tres botellas y sigue contando: el hit de los Sad Boyz que confiesa que bebe para no llorar.Three bottles in and still counting: the Sad Boyz hit that admits the drinking is so he won't cry.
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Tres Botellas es la canción de despecho más directa de $AD BOYZ 4 LIFE II. El narrador está tomando con sus compas, destapa otra cerveza y lo dice sin rodeos: quiere olvidarla. En el coro va contando las botellas y confesando lo que el macho de corrido nunca admitía: toma "para no llorar". Se pregunta si ella lo estará extrañando, platica con otras mujeres y ni así se le pasa, y cuando la gente le pregunta qué pasó, prefiere no contestar. La escribió Gael Valenzuela, el compositor de Sad Boyz Entertainment del que Junior H dijo en 2023: "This guy is very skilled at writing" (Rolling Stone, publicado en inglés). En 2025 Billboard Español ya la contaba entre sus "éxitos globales", junto a "Lady Gaga" y "Ella".
Tres Botellas is the most direct heartbreak song on $AD BOYZ 4 LIFE II. The narrator is drinking with his buddies, cracks another beer and says it plainly: he wants to forget her. In the chorus he counts the bottles and admits what the old corrido tough guy never would: he's drinking "para no llorar," so he won't cry. He wonders whether she misses him, chats with other women and still can't shake it, and when people ask what happened, he'd rather not answer. It was written by Gael Valenzuela, the Sad Boyz Entertainment songwriter Junior H described in 2023: "This guy is very skilled at writing" (Rolling Stone). By 2025 Billboard Español was listing it among his "global hits," next to "Lady Gaga" and "Ella."
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