And if Bad Bunny’s music was the best response of Puerto Ricans to the excesses of Donald Trump, president-elect of the United States, of whom one of the drivers had described the country “floating garbage island” during a meeting at Madison Square Garden in New York, October 27, 2024?
The success of this artist, one of the most listened to in the world with Taylor Swift, The Weeknd and Kendrick Lamar, is a scathing response to this racist metaphor pronounced during this event. Bad Bunny, whose real name is Benito Antonio Martinez Ocasio, released his new album on Sunday January 5, the day before Dia de Reyes (Kings’ Day), the emblematic holiday of his country, I should have taken more photos (“I should have taken more photos”). Since his modest beginnings on the SoundCloud platform, the Puerto Rican rapper, 30 years old, navigates between reggaeton and hip-hop, pop and salsa, and has managed to conquer Anglo-Saxon popular culture, remaining faithful to his language, Spanish , a true manifesto against the monopoly of American pop culture.
Nostalgic, he looks back on the highlights of his life, hence this title in the form of regret at not having preserved more traces of his journey. The album is accompanied by a short film broadcast on YouTube. An old man in sneakers finds his land there and says: “ I’ve traveled to many countries, and nothing is like Puerto Rico. »
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