 After discovering that Selena had sampled her song, Pretenders' vocalist Chrissie Hynde prevented the band from releasing "Amor Prohibido" and demanded a translation from Vela before she approved a rights agreement.At the time of Hynde's refusal, the band had $475,000 (1994 USD) of pre-sale copies in a warehouse that included "Fotos y Recuerdos".Noticing it was the shortest track on "Amor Prohibido", musicologist James Perone felt that "Fotos y Recuerdos" had "stripped some of the edge off of Hynde's text but retained the basic premise of ["Back on the Chain Gang"]".