(NEXSTAR) -- If you grow up Hispanic, eventually, you'll likely either participate in or attend someone's quinceañera. The iconic community tradition introduces a 15-year-old girl to society through a religious ceremony and, often, a choreographed dance. If you went to any "quinces" in the late '90s and 2000s, you likely heard one song over and over. It's so synonymous with quinceañera dances, some might even say it's the ultimate quinceañera song. Is any of this ringing a bell? If your mind immediately went to Elvis Crespo's 1998 merengue hit, "Suavemente," you're not alone. Online, the song, and its prevalence at quinceañeras, is something of an inside joke among Latinos. A simple search on X of "suavemente" + "quincenera" yields endless jokes and observations about the Grammy Award-nominated song. "When suavemente come on at the club I'm like, 'this ain't my first quincenera compa," writes one user. Another writes, "Just heard Suavemente play on the radio and now I have a sudden urge to go to a quinceañera. Who has a niece or primita who's about to celebrate. Inviten." "I miss the adrenaline rush of almost taking a bite out of my taco before running to the dance floor as suavemente starts to play at a quinceañera," wrote one user in 2020. All-in-all, the concept of "when 'Suauvemente' comes on" and "when the DJ plays 'Suavemente'" have been memes within younger Latino communities online for years. The captions are usually accompanied by photos or videos of someone (Tom Cruise in "Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning," for instance) rushing toward a dance floor. "Suavemente," was released in April 1998 as the lead single from Crespo's debut album of the same name. Fueled by the song's massive success, the album topped multiple U.S. Latin Billboard charts and went platinum in numerous Spanish-speaking countries. The song, meanwhile, even made it close to no. 1 in some non-Latin-speaking European countries -- in Hungary, for instance, the song charted at no. 4 on the country's main chart and at no. 9 on its dance Top 40 chart. Over on TikTok, a search of the song title shows its quinceañera legacy lives on. One video, posted last August, shows a quinceañera girl's surprise choreographed dance to "Suavemente," while another from February 2024 shows an all-female quinceañera party dressed in sports jerseys and dancing to a mix of the song. And it's not just Latinos who are fans of the song. Two of the most popular "Suavemente" TikToks are by Black creators joking about how much they like the song. TikTok user Big Jayda posted a "When the DJ plays Suavemente at a quincenera" video in 2022, writing in the caption, "Nah I be goin crazy when I hear this song playing." Someone in the replies, meanwhile, added: "All the sudden the African leaves my body 😭." Latin music superstar and the next Super Bowl Halftime Show performer, Bad Bunny, has even paid tribute to "Suavemente." The fellow Puerto Rican music legend paid tribute to Crespo's music video for the song in the video for his own 2022 hit, "Neverita." It may be going on 30 years since the release of Elvis Crespo's classic merengue hit, but the song continues to transport listeners, both Latino and not, straight to the dance floor -- whether they want to or not.