The song is featured in the soundtrack of Grand Theft Auto IV and was later named the second-best single of the decade by Latin music website Club Fonograma.

[1] "Atrévete-te-te" is based on a Colombian cumbia beat and a clarinet riff also typical of traditional music from Colombia’s coast.

The lyrics found in the song contain Spanglish words such as "estárter" and anglicisms such as "lighter" and "wiper" are used to create rhymes, a reflection of the use of English on the island due to Puerto Rico's status as a Commonwealth in free association with the United States.

[citation needed] It was used in a version of the song for Manuel Rosales' 2006 presidential campaign in Venezuela.

"[3] The song makes several references to different pop culture themes, such as: Agüeybaná, one of the powerful Taíno caciques from Puerto Rico’s history, is also mentioned, as are the cities of Bayamón and Guaynabo, Puerto Rico (this last one mentioned as to reinforce the song subject’s aloofness and scorn for Latino and Puerto Rican influences, versus her liking of the rather “foreign” references mentioned above).