The Story Behind Each of the Songs on Sofía Reyes's Debut Album

"This is my first single. This is the song that I really, really love to perform live. I wrote it with so many people. We were like a huge group of people, doing a writing session camp. We wrote the song, and I remember we were all dancing and having so much fun. That's what I wanted to share with people. What we were feeling in the studio, I wanted people around the world to feel it, too.

"I thought about collaborating with Wisin . . . I didn't really think that could actually happen. I wanted it to, but really, because it was my first single, I didn't think it could. When he said he wanted to be a part of it . . . that for me was a huge thing. So 'Muévelo' is definitely a very important song for me and my career. I have so many good experiences with it — that was my first song, and I got to perform it in Spain in front of so many people. And since those were my first performances, I remember feeling so many things. I love that song."

"I've always wanted to do a reggae song. All reggae songs make you want to smile. I wanted something like that. That song was written in the same camp as 'Muévelo,' and the team was great. Shari Short is a great songwriter, and we wrote it together. She is amazing. We wrote 'Puedes Ver Pero No Tocar' together, too. This song could be one of my favorites because it is so simple, but it makes you, you know, vibe to it and smile and dance to it, so that's why it's one of my favorite songs. I've actually played it live so many times and people sing it with me. I feel like it actually causes a really good impact on people."

"I started working with Royce even before I was signed with Warner [Music Latina], so that was maybe like three and a half years ago. We became good friends, and we started going to writing sessions together. I learned so much from the way he writes songs. We wanted to have a really pretty song together, but the ones we wrote were most of the time just for me. 'Your Voice,' for example, we wrote together, but it was just a song for me. It wasn't a duet.

"We had another session with Ambience and Taylor Parks, which are awesome, and we wrote this song, 'Solo Yo.' We actually wrote it in English. It's called 'Nobody but Me.' We wrote it and we were like, 'This is the one!' So it's funny because Royce and I wrote so many songs together, but the one we didn't write together was the one we picked as a duet.

"We wrote it in English, and then everyone loved the song. For me, it has always been an important song. I believe in it so much. I wrote it in Spanish. It took me a while, because it was so good, I didn't want to mess with the core of the song. I love this song and it's been fun, we got to perform it together last year, it was great."

"I know that this is the first song that we wrote for the album. This is one of the first songs that I wrote. I wrote it with Prince Royce. No one knows! It was a fun process. This was the first song we wrote together. We knew each other, but not in the studio. We were learning how we worked. It's a young song. It's fun. I feel like you hear it and you're not like, 'This is a deep song,' but the reality is that it talks about how I don't care what other people think of me, I'm just going to chase my dreams, I'm just going to be me! I'll get there. I'll get to the top. It's a really cute song."

"It's the only sad, sad song. It's all about a guy breaking up with you through the phone, which sucks. The girl is talking about her feelings for the whole song, and how her room is spinning. Many people can relate to it. I love it. I really do . . . I feel like I needed a love or breakup song. The album was so positive and everything was uplifting, I needed one song like this. Plus, I was going through a breakup, too."

"I wrote that song with Shari [Short] and Julian Feifel — he's an amazing producer. That was the only track that actually when we wrote it was fully in English and the only Spanish line was 'puedes ver pero no tocar.' After that we decided that we wanted to add more Spanish to it. For me, it's such a powerful song, really. It's a midtempo — this is the kind of song that everyone is going to love. You might like 'Don't Mean a Thing,' someone else might like 'Solo Yo,' someone might not like 'Muévelo,' which is OK, but this specific song everyone is going to like. That's what I feel."

"It wasn't really hard, actually, to choose this as the title song. It's one of the happiest songs on the album. You just hear it and you want to dance and it makes you happy. It talks about how life or how this person makes you feel inside. It relates to life, how life makes me feel. I'm so in love with life. I felt like this song was the right song to represent the whole album.

"I feel like Franceso Yates is super talented, he's my age, too, so for me that was fun. Spencer, I actually met him two years ago in Mexico City. We were at an event where I was presenting an award and he was performing with Capital Cities. We became really good friends, and so, last year, he decided to become a solo artist, so we were like, let's do a song together. He's not singing in the song, he's just playing the trumpet. I really wanted to work with him. He's amazing, amazing."

"This is a love song, too. It talks about how maybe you were in a dark place, and then all of a sudden a person comes to your life and you open the doors of your heart. It's about something that I actually went through. It's a song that means a lot to me. It's funny because when we wrote it, it was a ballad, and we started building. Now it's an uptempo, Latin reggaeton, but it's not really reggaeton. It was a process for sure.

"I picked Reykon because he is super talented, but he's a really good person, and I really admire him. He works so hard, and I'm a very people person. I'm so blessed for sure."

"I think this is my favorite song. I hear it and I love it. I love to perform it. This is the only song I didn't write! Lil' Eddie, he's a songwriter, a really good friend of mine. He sent me this song. It was just called 'Rest of Your Life,' and it was an English version. I was in Cancun with my family for New Year's, two or three years ago. We had released 'Muévelo,' and it was doing so well. But then we needed a second single. We were struggling with that. Time was passing and passing, and we didn't have a second single and we didn't know what to do.

"So Lil' Eddie sent me this song, and I fell in love. I was like, 'This is it, this is the song!' So, I remember I was in Cancun and my parents were swimming with dolphins, and I was just sitting inside writing it in Spanish. It was so much fun. Not many people know that we didn't have a second single and we didn't know what to do for a while."

"This is the last song we wrote for the album. We were looking for an uptempo, cute song. It might sound cliché, but I want to talk about girl power, because I didn't have any songs about that. In the future, I would love to do a campaign or a video featuring up-and-coming girls. Becky G! Leslie Grace! I want to do something interesting with this song.

"My brothers are 15 and 12. I remember I sent them the song. They're very honest with me. My 15-year-old brother loved the song. He would always ask me, 'When are you releasing "Girls"?' So that made me want to put it in the album as well."

"This is a really cute song, too. When I wrote it, I wrote it with Claudia Brant. She's an amazing writer from Argentina. We had so much fun. She's amazing, and I wanted to talk about love. This song has this cute quick word, like a mini rap, that quick word that you hear on 'Bailando,' for example. I wanted to do something like that!"

"They actually sent my manager the song. They were like, 'We would really love to do something with Sofía.' I loved the song. I'm a huge fan! I was like, 'Yes! I want to do it!' I went to New Jersey for the first time and met them. It's funny because their studio is in the basement of their house. They live with their family. Their mom opened the door for us and made cookies for us. That for me was amazing.

"I cut the vocals, the song sounded great, and we released it. It's been doing great. It's one of my favorite songs. It was not going to be in the album, but I loved it so much, I said, 'Why don't we do a Spanish version and put it out?,' and so we added it as a bonus track."