The phrase "La Isla Bonita" translates to "The Beautiful Island" in English. The song has four lines sung in Spanish, a theme which Madonna later incorporated in her 1987 single "Who's That Girl". The lyrics begin by describing Madonna as a tourist who prays "that the days would last, they went so fast" simultaneously isolating the other Latin people as them ("you can watch them go by"). In her book "Women and popular music", author Sheila Whiteley said that the chorus of the song places its emphasis on the incantatory present participle ("Tropical the island breeze, all of nature wild and free, this is where I long to be"). The song draws connotations from the supplicant before its explicit focus on the chorus. In 2014, while working on her thirteenth studio album "Rebel Heart" with producer Diplo, Madonna recorded a dubplate of "La Isla Bonita" with new lyrics for his Major Lazer project. Diplo premiered the full version of it in March 2015 during his show on BBC Radio 1.