Bad Bunny keeps winning
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What recent achievements has Bad Bunny celebrated?
It's been a huge week for Bad Bunny. Last Sunday, he made history by winning Album of the Year, a first for a Spanish-language album.
I want to dedicate this award to all the people that had to leave their homeland, their country to follow their dreams.
This Sunday, he'll be performing at the Super Bowl halftime show.
It might be your first chance to see Bad Bunny perform this album.
That is, unless you were one of the lucky few who got to see him perform in Puerto Rico last summer. He spent the summer doing a 30-show residency celebrating the island and Puerto Rican identity and history. So to help you prepare for this weekend's show, we wanted to bring back an episode from last summer, How Bad Bunny Made Puerto Rico the Center of the Universe. Coming up on Today Explained from Vox.
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Están escuchando a Hoy Explicado. You're listening to Today Explained. My name is Andrea Gonzalez Ramirez. I'm a senior writer at The Cut, and I grew up in Puerto Rico. I would say it's like one of the biggest cultural events that we've seen, I think, in the island. Bad Bunny, born Benito Antonio Martinez Ocasio, for those who would like his legal name, too, is holding a 30-show residency in Puerto Rico, pegged to his most recent album, Debitieran Mas Fotos. The first nine shows were open only to residents of Puerto Rico. You had to go in person to purchase tickets at different selling points across the island. And then from August 1st onwards, so like the next 21 shows, those you could purchase the tickets online, which is how I was able to do it.
The experience of trying to get tickets for it, now I understand how Taylor Swift fans felt during the Eros tour. Because that morning I did not get a code and I went through the five stages of grief before I actually got one to get tickets, right? But once we got there, I went with my husband outside El Choli, which is what we call the arena. This was kind of like a town festival, a fiesta patronal. You could get like beers, you could get your hair done, you could get your makeup done. And once you come in, obviously the arena holds about like 18,000 people. So it's a lot of people and the energy is unhinged. I think like everyone's really excited to be there. There's a screen with a projection where they're like showing like Puerto Rican facts.
Like Puerto Rico is a U.S. colony. Salsa was invented between Puerto Rico and New York. There's two main areas where he performs.
How did Bad Bunny's concert residency celebrate Puerto Rican culture?
In the main stage, he kind of recreated rural Puerto Rico. And then the second stage is a pink casita that resembles a lot of homes in Puerto Rico. And that's where, like, the really filthy perreo happens. Like, that area is reserved for the songs that you would probably not play to your parents because they're so, so filthy. Yeah. I was pretty high up. I was in the last, literally the very last row of the top section. Closer to God than Bad Bunny, but you can see everything. And yeah, like it's really incredible because like a lot of people are wearing traditional clothing like pavas or jibara dresses. I was wearing a Roberto Clemente jersey and then When the music starts, like, basically you get a musical arrangement of his newest song, Alambre Púa.
That sounds a lot like bomba and plena, which are two traditional Oregon music genres. And then he comes in with a bunch of like dancers in traditional garbs. And it just, you know, everyone went a little bit crazy when he was on stage. But it really looks like you are dancing. transported back in time to a Puerto Rico from 100 years ago, but also kind of like what a school performance would look if you celebrated Puerto Rican week, like La Semana de la Puerto Ricanida at school, right?
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Chapters
7 chapters
1
What recent achievements has Bad Bunny celebrated?
0:00–3:47
2
How did Bad Bunny's concert residency celebrate Puerto Rican culture?
3:47–6:33
3
What unique experiences did concert-goers have during the residency?
6:33–10:26
4
How did Bad Bunny incorporate Puerto Rican history into his music?
10:26–14:46
5
What political messages are embedded in Bad Bunny's songs?
14:46–19:01
6
How does Bad Bunny's music resonate with the younger generation in Puerto Rico?
19:01–23:24
7
What impact does Bad Bunny have on the perception of Puerto Rican identity?
23:24–24:33