Carín León & Alejandro Fernández Team Up for Ballad ‘Me Está Doliendo’: Watch the Video

Mexican powerhouses Carín León and Alejandro Fernández have joined forces for “Me Está Doliendo,” the pair’s new collaboration released on Thursday (May 8).

León and Fernández could have gone the regional Mexican route, or quite honestly in any direction as two of the most versatile artists in Latin music, but they went the acoustic-pop ballad route — and it does not disappoint.

“Me Está Doliendo” is a gorgeous, stripped-down ballad powered by prickly and acoustic guitars and a thumping drum beat that serve as a canvas to León and Fernández’s pathos-fueled delivery. They each take turns expressing just how they’re dealing with a heartbreak that doesn’t seem to heal. “It’s hurting me, and I ask myself if maybe you’re thinking of me, I’m not meant for someone else to be hugging me,” Fernández sings evocatively. “That’s how things happen in this heart, it’s good at loving you but bad at forgetting you,” León responds, just before we get a mesmerizing electric guitar solo.

The new collaboration comes just a few days after León and Fernández uploaded a clip on social media singing Fernández’s hit song “Me Dediqué a Perderte” together, which prompted many to think that they were releasing a new version of the 2004 classic. “Thank you [Alejandro Fernández] for singing with me one of my favorite songs,” León wrote on Instagram. Shortly after, the two announced it was actually a new song they were releasing, titled “Me Está Doliendo,” which will be part of an extended version of León’s Palabra de To’s.

Watch an exclusive premiere of “Me Está Doliendo” below: