Selena - Como La Flor (Live From Selena:The Last Concert Letra/Lyrics)

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"Como la Flor" ("Like the Flower") is a song that was recorded by American singer Selena for her third studio album Entre a Mi Mundo (1992). It was written by A. B. Quintanilla and Pete Astudillo. The song was conceptualized in 1982 after A. B. saw a family selling illuminated plastic flowers at a concert in Sacramento, California. In 1992, an infectious melody stuck in A. B's head; he ran from the shower of their hotel room in Bryan, Texas, pulled out a keyboard, and immediately began working on it with Astudillo. It took A. B. 20 minutes to complete the music and took Astudillo another hour to complete the lyrics. It is an up-tempo, Tejano cumbia torch song that fuses tropical and cumbia rhythms with reggae and pop music. In the song's lyrics, the female protagonist addresses her former lover, who abandoned her for another partner. The narrator is unsure of her ability to love again, though wishing her former partner and his new lover the best.

Released: June 1992
Studio: AMEN
Genre: Tejano cumbia
Length: 3:02
Label: EMI Latin
Songwriter(s): A. B. Quintanilla, Pete Astudillo
Producer(s): A. B. Quintanilla

"Como la Flor" received widespread acclaim from music critics, who praised Selena's emotional delivery of the song's lyrics of heartbreak and loss. At the Premio Lo Nuestro 1993, the song won Regional Mexican Song of the Year. It was nominated for Single of the Year at the 1993 Tejano Music Awards but was removed in preliminaries; a move music critic Rene Cabrera criticized. The song peaked at number six on the US Billboard Hot Latin Songs chart and became one of the most-played songs on Latin music radio stations in Texas. José Behar booked Selena for a press tour in Monterrey, Mexico; following Selena's visit, the song peaked at number three on Mexico's Grupera Songs chart, becoming her first commercially successful single in the country.

Since its introduction as part of Selena's live set list and as its popularity grew, she either opened or closed her concerts with "Como la Flor". During her live performances, the song was often played in a down-tempo form while Selena performed a flamenco-inspired floreo hand gesture. Selena followed this with her enunciations of agony and the beating of her chest, singing "como me duele" ("how it hurts me") before the song's tempo becomes upbeat. Music critics and scholars received Selena's performances with critical acclaim, and found them an encapsulation of Latino mournfulness and praised her stage presence, choreography, and emotional tones. The song was the closing number of Selena's final live performance in Bryan, on March 19, 1995; she was shot and killed on March 31. It has been regarded as Selena's signature song and her "trademark", and has become her posthumous epithet and swan song. The recording has become one of her "most celebrated songs" and has since become part of the Texas musical cannon.

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