Silentó's 2015 debut single is a dance lesson rather than a song: whip, nae nae, stanky leg, bop, Superman, duff. The moves arrive one after another, recited flatly over a beat until the whole country had learned them. It climbed to No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 and became the defining dance craze of its summer. 1
Here that same lesson is sung as a mariachi ballad. A lead trumpet takes the melody, a guitarrón and violins move underneath, and one soft, breathy male voice carries every instruction as if it were a serenade under a window at 2am. The delivery never winks. "Now watch me whip, now watch me nae nae" arrives with the weight of a last request. 2
Every line is the released song's own, and the released text contains no profanity at all. Play it late, lights low, for whoever still knows all the moves.