“Every song is a truth,” Luis Coronel tells Apple Music about his new album, Dentro de Mis Ojos. “I feel like people either are going to live it, have lived it, are living it, or they just don’t know what it is.” While some of the tracks here reflect his first-person experiences, like “Te Dejé” and the emotional title track, others such as “Ahora Regresas” and “Mi Motivo” find the Mexican American singer channeling stories that have been shared with him. Deeper than his teenage beginnings in música Mexicana, the album reflects his maturity on multiple levels. Read on to learn more about the stories behind each song. “Ahora Regresas” “This song literally started off of a post on Instagram where I put, ‘All my fans, if you want, if you feel comfortable, share your story with me and I’ll write a song off of it.’ I can mention 500 stories that fans sent, but there was one that really caught my attention: She told me she had a boyfriend. She was with him since high school, they grew up together. But she found out that her man was with one of her best friends, and when she went and told the guy, he was like, ‘Oh, yeah, I’m sorry. I apologize.’ Then he asked to come back, and she’s just feeling now all her emotions as he’s trying to come back.” “Apariencias” “It’s a song composed by me, Luis Diaz, and Rolando Lesmo. We were thinking of the reality of what life is today. There’s a lot of relationships that we see on social media that are super happy, super in love. You see the pretty picture and you don’t really imagine, ‘Oh, they’re going through something bad.’ There’s love when we’re posting pictures, but there’s no love when we’re not posting pictures, when we’re not doing this. So, it’s kind of like you just want to be like on the eye of the public and you want to live a relationship based off of what people see.” “Cuando Hay Amor” “This is a very special song for me on the album because it comes from five years back. We just didn’t have the opportunity to release it, obviously, with legal issues, ownership, stuff like that. I’m super excited and super thankful that I kept the relationship with the composer, Omar Tarazón. When we first posted it five years ago, it was just like a cappella, and fans really got in love with it. That’s why I got attached to it—because I knew that it was a song that they needed to have in their hands, that they needed to listen to.” “Dios No Se Equivoca” “It was the perfect feeling of me being where I wanted to be as an artist, where I wanted to be as a human being emotionally and mentally, and it just went from there. I have a lot of faith. I’m a believer in God. Dios no se equivoca: Whatever happens, if it’s tough, if it’s good, if it’s bad, if it’s beautiful, if I cry, if I don’t, if I eat, if I don’t, it’s the reason why it’s happening. That’s why we wanted it to be the first single of the album.” “Órale” “‘Órale’ is a song composed by me, Luis Diaz, and Alex Monterrubio. It’s a song that talks about also being in a relationship—about kind of a musician’s relationship, I could say. You meet a girl at a hotel, you fall in love with each other, get attached. But then she does you dirty—she leaves you. She doesn’t want to talk to you anymore because she has someone. It’s like, ‘Hey, what about me? I’m catching some feelings here.’ But then it’s saying, ‘If you want to be like that, it’s fine, but karma’s going to come and get you.’ So, it’s a very fun song in actuality because I feel like a lot of people are actually going through these experiences.” “Palabras” “It’s really about trying to get to a girl in a different way. You’re not trying to be the normal, lovey-dovey te amo, te quiero. I’d rather tell you you’re my world. So, it talks about palabras that are loving, but it’s not being cliché. It’s more being straight-up: You’re making them really know that you love them.” “Te Dejé” “This song is actually based on a true story. At one point, I was super in love, and I felt like that’s what it was for me. She was the person that I was going to have forever. And it ended up not happening. She promised me so many things. She promised me that she would love me, but she showed me different than that promise. She told me she would be affectionate, but she wasn’t affectionate. And it was a problem because it took me a lot of time to leave you, but at the end of the day, I had to. I had to do it for me.” “No Lo Dudes” “This is a song composed by Horacio Palencia, a super-, super-amazing composer. There’s a lot of doubt in relationships nowadays, but this song really tells you like, ‘Don’t doubt it. I love you. You are the person I want to be with for the rest of my life. You are the person I want to wake up with for the rest of my life.’ It’s really pushing it into her to not have doubt in a relationship. I feel like every relationship should have that—the affirmation of ‘Don’t worry about it. I’m there.’ This song is that." “Mi Motivo” “‘Mi Motivo’ is a song that I got from Oscarito Ortiz. He’s young, an 18-year-old kid. So, when I listened to this song, it brought me back to when I was 18. I was seeing him like the way he was in love, the way his eyes were shining. You know, like that first love that you have that you cannot let go of? This is that song, like that person is my motive to feel happy, to feel in love, to feel like I’m shining. It’s more like a sincere love.” “Dentro de Mis Ojos” “This is probably the most significant track on the album. It speaks about everything that I’ve gone through with life, with my dad and me having a tattoo of my dad on my chest, obviously borders separating us, and that being like the last of us being able to be together. If you really know who Luis Coronel is—like, if I talk to you today and I tell you who I am, everything that I do, everything that I’ve been through, who my family is, what my family’s beginnings are—I feel like you know me enough to the point where you wouldn’t talk bad about me, because you know exactly what my life is. It portrays really my life, who I am, what it is I want to be, what it is I want to accomplish.”