The Story Behind “UN CHANCE MÁS”

¿Qué haces cuando la persona que te gusta se aleja y ni siquiera sabes por qué? Porque esa es básicamente la historia de UN CHANCE MÁS, una de mis canciones favoritas que he hecho.

This is the cover art for the song that was taken directly from one of the shots of the music video, I wanted to make sure the cover art and all the marketing was directly correlated to the MV.

Every artist has songs where they felt like they finally got a little closer to the sound they've been chasing, the artist they’ve always wanted to be. For me, this was one of those songs. The vibe, the production, the choreography, the music video, the blend of hip-hop and reggaetón, everything about it felt like something I had always wanted to make. The story behind the song actually starts way before I wrote a single lyric.

I found the beat on YouTube from a producer named arsenikk. He had uploaded it as a "Tyga, Club Banger, YG Type Beat," and the second I heard those synth stabs, I knew I wanted it. Sometimes you hear a beat and immediately start imagining yourself performing it, the melodies just start flowing out of you and that’s how I know it’ll be a good song. I added it to a type beat playlist of beats I like and I just kept coming back to it over and over again. I think it sat in my playlist for almost four months before I finally decided to pull the trigger and buy it with the stems. arsenikk was cool enough to give me a discount too, which ended up helping me buy another beat that would eventually become “La Propuesta”. It’s crazy how one YouTube producer ended up helping create two of my best performing songs in the sound style I love, but I’ll get to “La Propuesta” soon enough.

When it came time to write, I pulled mainly from two different experiences I had in college, one of them is still one of the craziest reasons I've ever been given for someone losing interest in me. Listos?

Apparently, I ate her fries.

Yeah man I'm serious. On three dates we went on, I stole some of her fries, and later when things started getting weird between us, that became the main explanation. To this day I'm still not convinced that was actually the reason, but that's what I was told. Maybe I should've just ordered my own fries lol.

Anyways, the second situation was a little more complicated. I was talking to someone else and completely fumbled it after it was going good. Then to make things worse, she ended up trying to get with one of my best friends. I mean it was really good for songwriting material, but terrible for my self-esteem. Both those situations weren’t my brightest moments, I was still navigating talking to girls and manners, being a man, and learning how girls think. There are things that were my fault in both and that I could have done better, and I acknowledge that, but what connected both situations wasn't what happened, it was the feeling after. I kept asking myself "What did I do?" That's what “UN CHANCE MÁS” is about, it’s not a breakup song or an angry song, it’s about desperately wanting to know where you went wrong, trying, begging, and convincing them that if you just got one more chance, you would be able to fix everything. There are lines in the songs that sound exactly like what I was texting and what I was thinking. The first thing I wrote was the very first line:

"Mensajes perdidos..."

Below is the original draft of “UN CHANCE MÁS” that was written in my school journal where I wrote down all my notes for my classes. I usually start writing my songs with what I want them to be about, themes, cool lines, things I want to say, and kinda just start free writing and then picking things I like and organizing them together to tell a story.

Because that's what I was looking at, my double-triple texts left on open (or seen, one of them had an Android so I’ll never know if they read them). The begging throughout the song ties into that same feeling, especially in:

"Estoy atrapado en un hoyo sin salida."

is me being too deep in a hole to talk my way out of it and I have to accept that I messed up and they were leaving. 

One of the girls involved in this story was obsessed with Brent Faiyaz. Her favorite song at the time was “Best Time,” and that song ended up influencing the chorus melody of “UN CHANCE MÁS.” I mean I didn't intentionally sit down and say "I'm going to write something like Brent so when she hears it it’ll remind her of me, but like… when you're listening to something enough, little pieces of it naturally sneak into your writing you know?

The line:

"Sabes que nunca quise darte una mala impresión"

was basically me trying to explain that stealing a few fries wasn't exactly a character flaw and that I could do better than that. When I was writing the song, I also started thinking about all those relationship videos that constantly show up on social media. Stuff like "if he wanted to, he would" or girls talking about wanting a guy to step up and change, so I leaned into that perspective and started writing from the mindset of somebody who's willing to do anything if it means getting another chance. Which is true I would do those things, I’m a man of action and I am a romantic, it’s in my blood, but that's where lines like:

"Cambiaré por ti como lo haría un hombre de verdad."

come from. The entire song is basically a negotiation, me trying to convince somebody that I'm capable of becoming whatever they need me to become if they'll just stay. Now whether that's healthy is a completely different conversation haha, but in the context of the beat and the song, some people might be like “awww” and completely gloss over the lyrics, which I like. Usually for club songs, lyrics are more throwaway, they’re about cool sounding bars and mainly rely on the melody and vibe to make them a hit. I like that if you were to read my lyrics without context, just how they are, you might think it’s a sad heartbreak song or something, but it turned out pretty upbeat. I do have songs where the lyrics doesn’t matter, but this isn’t one of them.

"Te comería y serás como el tesoro de un bandido."

is a line I like but only came about because was looking for a rhyme for "dimos" and "reunimos" haha, since I had already written them and needed something to finish the rhyme scheme. Sometimes songwriting is deep and meaningful, and other times you're just trying to make the rhyme work and it turns out in your favor.

A lyric I actually do think sounds cool is:

"Derribaría imperios si eso fuera lo que querías, lo haría de cualquier manera."

I just liked how dramatic and romantic it felt. The idea of tearing down empires for somebody, very intense but who wouldn’t want someone like that for you, they’d go to war for you? 

The beat switch is where the song really became special to me.

If you've listened to my music for a while, you know I love beat switches, they’re a Chipelo staple. “SIRENA,” “Belleza de Dios,” “AMANECER,” “Windows Low,” a lot of my music has them because I like the feeling of the story evolving instead of repeating the same thing for three minutes.

Originally that part was just sitting in the beat as an outro, but the second I heard it I knew I wanted to do something bigger. The first half of the song lives in this hip-hop world, that's the side of me influenced by artists like Tyga, Omar Courtz, and a lot of American music, but I needed to bring it back to my reggaetón roots before the song ended. This is where having J. Medina as my engineer completely elevated the record, he was able to add the reggaeton drums and bass line into it. This section also references “Que Tengo Que Hacer” by Daddy Yankee. I love making little references to songs and artists that inspired me, but thematically, it fit perfectly too. Both songs are about guys begging to know what they need to do to keep someone from leaving.

The voicemail section wasn't originally planned either. I was at the studio with J. Medina and my girlfriend at the time. We were listening through the song and Medina mentioned that it might be cool to put something in that space to help the transition feel more natural, so my girlfriend jokingly volunteered but we threw her in the booth and recorded two takes. After finishing the reggaeton section, it really felt like a Chipelo song. The second I heard those synth stabs, I knew this song was getting a music video with choreography, dancers, performance scenes, acting, everything. I love dancing. I love club music. I love creating moments that feel larger than life, so this song was perfect to go all in for, which is something I had been wanting to do for a while. I had “SIRENA” out earlier and we did a music video, but this would surpass anything else I’d made before.

I recorded the first draft in September 2024, and it didn't officially release until August 2025 alongside the music video. Sometimes songs take a long time because they aren't ready yet. This one took a long time because I knew exactly what I wanted it to become. The music video deserves its own breakdown, and trust me, we’ll get there.