"Maldito amor" (lit. "Damn Love") is a song by Chilean pop teen girl trio

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from their 1999 eponymous debut album. Released as their second

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, it is the trio's most played and most remembered song. It is still widely rotated. As of 2019, it had been streamed over 2 million times only on

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Composition

The lyrics are by

Koko Stambuk Cristián Daniel Stambuk Sandoval (born March 16, 1977 in Osorno, Chile) better known by his stage name Koko, is a Chilean singer-songwriter and producer, known for being the singer of the band Glup! and producing artists like Kudai, Luis Fons ...

. The song is about a

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. It was inspired by a real story that happened to a member of the trio, Coni Lewin: she liked a boy at school, but the boy liked her then best female friend who liked the boy in return. Coni told the story to Stambuk, and it took him 20 minutes to write the lyrics.

Music video

The music video shows the three girls of the trio on a school bus dressed in school uniforms.

Steffi, Trini & Kel cover

The song was covered by Kel Calderón, Steffi Méndez (daughter of

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) and model Trini de la Noi as a promo for the 2014 horror movie they starred in. The reaction of the Supernova members to the new version was negative.

References

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