Production
One day, whilst working on On the 6, Lopez "happened to be" recording at the same recording studio where American recording artist Marc Anthony was too recording. Anthony, who had become intrigued by Lopez after watching her in Selena, came into her studio and asked her to appear in the music video for his song "No Me Conoces". She agreed but only if he recorded a song with her, to which he in turn agreed. Lopez recalled the events on her Feelin' So Good video album by stating: "So at that time I called Tommy and I'm like 'Look, so Marc Anthony said he would do a song and I really don't want to do a duet with just anybody, I want to do a duet with him. So can you force him to sign something, so he has to do a record with me? If I do this video!'". The two first shot the video and then began working on the song. According to Lopez, Anthony had an idea to translate "Non Amarmi", an "old Italian song", into Spanish. Two versions of the songs were produced for On the 6, a ballad and a salsa production. The ballad was produced by Dan Shea, while the other was produced by Emilio Estefan. Lopez stated: "I don't want to be straight Latin! I want it to be more like, y'know, dance-y music-y".
"No Me Ames" is a cover of the chart-topping Italian song "Non Amarmi", originally recorded by Aleandro Baldi and Francesca Alotta for Baldi's album Il Sole (1993). "Non Amarmi" was issued as a single in 1992. The song speaks of a complicated relationship between two lovers. It was written by Giancarlo Bigazzi, Marco Falagiani and Baldi, and was later adapted into Spanish by Ignacio Ballesteros. The song earned Baldi an award at the Sanremo Music Festival for Best Young Artist. The first Spanish version of the song was released by Mexican singer Yuri and her husband Rodrigo Espinoza with different lyrics titled "Hoy Que Estamos Juntos" ("Now That We're Together") on her album Huellas (1997).
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