"Amor Prohibido" by Selena, English translation of lyrics

[cairaguas]

"Forbidden Love"
Style: Pop, class differences
Country: USA (Texas); Mexico

[Full translation and notes moved to songlations.com]

Listen:

This song is a very Romeo and Juliette style of love song, about love between people of different social classes and the disapproval from others. Watch Selena's music video at YouTube here.

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Comments

[on_earth]

I remember her too -- they still play her songs on the radio here from time to time and I do remember watching that movie. I remember in one of my elementary classes, we were supposed to do a thing on a famous person and then do a presentation/skit thing to go along with it and I remember a girl bringing an outfit that her mom had that she said is a lot like Selena wore once (lol), lets just say it wasn't...a particularly kid-friendly outfit. LOL

[cairaguas]

Hahaha. :)

[factfarmer3000]

i can't believe this is the only selena song you've translated so far
here are a couple of my favorites, not that I really need you to translate them...
no me queda mas
el chico del apartamento 512

and this one's in english and i'm not even sure if it's a cover or not, but i think you'll like it "gettin' used to you"
next time you come i'll sing it for you, because the more common version is really slow, and it sounds better faster ^_^
maybe you can put it in your other songlation community....

[cairaguas]

I would have translated a lot more, but every time I check to see if someone else has done a Selena song, they have. She's very popular.

[factfarmer3000]

o...T_T