We’ve raved about Mexico’s sweetheart Natalia Lafourcade, the folky chanteuse who has pushed the pre-teen look since her first album premiered in 2003. (She’s 26 now).

Her plucky, girly pouty music was charming Central America long before Kate Nash became UK’s similar-sounding darling.

But Venezuelan folk-tronica duo Jóvenes y Sexys (Young and Sexy) remixed one of Lafourcade’s latest minimalist love lamentations into a round, womanly song made for dreams.

The original version of “No Viniste” (“you didn’t come”) is adorable, staccato and melodic with simple instrumentation.  Like a nursery rhyme.

The newer version takes the song, adds a touch of Enya, tons of reverb and a sprinkle of glitch hop percussion. Look who sounds all grown up now! The song is sexier, fuller and more deliberate than the original, which sounds like Lafourcade is singing it inadvertently while skipping.

Jóvenes y Sexys’ singer Cheky took over the vocals,  said Club Fonograma, but the ladies don’t sound terribly different from one another to begin with.

Here’s a remix of “No Viniste,” originally off Lafourcade’s Hu Hu Hu album.

Natalia Lafourcade – No Viniste (Jóvenes y Sexys remix) by Jóvenes y Sexys.

We’re happy to see Lafourcade in adult form. The child act will only get creepier with age.

If you like the remix, watch Jovenes y Sexys traipse in a garden for their hit song “El Reloj” (“The Clock). The band started making waves with their earthy tunes through MySpace in 2007. They were one of the inaugural bands to play at the much-buzzed-about MtyMx Festival in Monterrey, Mexico this year.

Asked in an interview if they were actually young and sexy, Cheky responded (translated):

“Young we are, hahaha. But sex appeal is in the eye of the beholder.”

Tell us what you think, beholders!

Loocila and Cheky from Jovenes y Sexys. Photo Credit:MySpace

Photo Credit: Ximena Romero