thread of bad bunny

I’m not even opposed to the idea that this album is as good as everyone is saying (though compostionally this feels several steps down from the Travis Scott at least) based on some especially great writing that’s going over my head as an English speaker but I’m not going to listen to ppl who aren’t appreciating it on that level either tell me this is the best trap album in two years .. how could you even know?

I'm Danish. All the rap I hear is in a second language (except Malk de Koijn. Sigh...) And honestly, I don't give a fuck if you listen to me or not, I'm just writing my opinions on a message board. Who cares what you think?

xpost re: post malone, i've heard him, but i don't listen to him. why not try listening to more than anglophone artists

album still 🔥🔥🔥

caro
la romera
estamos bien

better than damn would certainly be pushing it for me... to say the least, lol. about on the level of a lil baby full-length seems about right. which is good imo!

Multiple ppl on this thread said they haven’t even heard post malone (somehow)

i reread the thread to see if perhaps i had misread but nope, this is not actually what was said at all lol, and am finding it hard to believe that this is what you actually believe was meant by those users who mentioned him.

going back to your initial posts, since that's where post malone first came up here...

Except that it’s in Spanish and the descendants of “rap is just about hoes and bling” love anything that’s like rap but slightly different

is this what's really going on here? i won't be obtuse enough to deny the latter part of this sentence refers to a v real phenomenon but you really think being in spanish helps to gain acceptance among those types? latin trap is generally pretty inseparable from a pretty narrow brand of machismo and the types you are referring to are not exactly known for their affinity for hypermasculine music/images from members of racialized groups.

so if this phenom is actually in play, what's helping assuage the typical hesitation? is it his shorts? the nails? his clumsy but '''endearing''' gesturing toward a contemporary feminist cause? i have trouble believing it's the language/barrier, as most rap-anxious whites do not even listen to the lyrics of english-language rap music before deciding it's offputting. (it could even be the drake collab, or perhaps even a feature of the music not related to image-production.)

like, idk. afaict most of the ppl who are enthusiastically discussing this album (not here, b/c little discussion of the album itself is going on) are already pretty familiar with latin trap and spanish-language music more broadly and still consider it to be a noteworthy release. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

i don't really try to listen to post malone

If Post Malone has the same thing, I should listen to more Post Malone :)

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I’m not saying it’s not noteworthy even I’m just questioning absurd hyperbole like “best trap album since culture” (culture isn’t even the best trap album since culture)

fuck deej you like Travis Scott now? thought i was still safe hating/mostly ignoring him

ILX's bad boy upset by the use of casual hyperbole to describe an encounter with music on I Love Music.

Snark aside, what is the best trap album since Culture?

xp

woahwoah we calling TS albums “compositionally good” now??

Article in the wake of the killing of openly gay trapero Kevin Fret in Puerto Rico last week:

https://noisey.vice.com/en_uk/article/ev3yjm/kevin-frets-death-highlights-latin-traps-homophobia-problem

Posting it here because Bad Bunny is mentioned in the article (Anuel AA plays a part in this story too).

this video is quite old news now but i still like it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bg64AFnRnkc

huh i didnt know thats what he looked like

nobody:#BadBunny: pic.twitter.com/TSeWhqsvwV

— chaaa 🍒 (@charis_edian) March 8, 2019

There’s also a video w/ a little kid as Bad Bunny

Don’t tell me he makes out with him at the end as well.

la cancion is a really excellent song, my god

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsGnCt-gT44

https://jezebel.com/bad-bunny-used-his-fallon-performance-to-spotlight-the-1841974571

Really enjoying his new album as well.

is he still bad and overhyped by those who only like(d) his music for being hip rap music in spanish?

please let’s not invite ilx’s bad bunny back to this thread

Damn sorry for asking for ppl to not uncritically moon over stuff itt

new album is pretty solid, very consistent for 20 songs. so far, it doesn't have the highs of x100, and it probably suffers from lack of callaita, and tainy, in . kinda funny, i listened to the album in full without looking at the credits, and three of the four tracks that immediately stood out to me were tainy productions.

*tainy, in general

generally agree with that take. I think even the tracks that come off as filler right now will grow on me as Vete and Ignorantes did. standouts so far: La Dificil, Solia, A Tu Merced, Safaera, 25/8

yeah, safaera is a highlight for me too. the 'la romana' of the new one, though it doesn't reach those heights.

Yes, good but uneven and not quite the heights of last one , sounds right.

Forgot BB had own thread & commented on Rolling reggaeton and more one

Rolling Afro-Latin Music 2020: Reggaeton, Salsa, Bomba, Latin Jazz, Bachata, Merengue, Urbano and more Latinx

no mention yet of the arguably already-iconic "yo perreo sola" video?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtSRKwDCaZM

Not super into the new album. Too many guitars, not enough straight-ahead bangers (although obviously that's the point).

i've found i enjoy it if i ignore everything before "dákiti". not sure what the last track is doing there but i like it too

this thread completely died after early enthusiasts on here were informed that maybe-kinda-liking his first album wasn't as woke as they perhaps thought :( lol

oh well at least he's still putting out good music and might be better-known now than ever

Indeed. He was the #1 most streamed artist on Spotify this year.

La difícil was my top played track on spotify for this year

coming round on the album, it's good actually

"yonaguni" song and video both really good

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doLMt10ytHY

yep.

As the westernmost inhabited island of Japan, Yonaguni has also been constantly associated with the myth of the island of women (Nyōgo no Shima) since the Edo period.

im listening to this too much.

un verano sin ti is so compulsively listenable

it is

man was the most streamed artist on spotify 2 years in a row, has the highest grossing tour in the world atm, and has the most streamed album of the year so far. but yeah go ahead and tell me how ed sh**ran is the king of pop!

— Isabelia Herrera (@jabladoraaa) July 25, 2022

case in point: the way that US pubs continue to write about bad bunny is fascinating to me, as though he is a niche artist and not the biggest pop star on the planet lol. not even trying to be a stan or a sycophant; i have my critiques. but it's just quantitatively true.

— Isabelia Herrera (@jabladoraaa) July 25, 2022

Are people trying to argue with science again ?

can't find a list where he's #1, looks to me like he's maybe #2 of all time (behind drake, ahead of ed) and currently #7 globally? anyway being on the top of a pile of shit is nothing to be proud of

part of being a responsible poptimist is calling out bad pop

here’s some damn fine pop for your responsible poptimist ass(es):

“Andrea” ft. Buscabulla: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjvTQTGogUM

“Ojitos Lindos” ft. Bomba Estéreo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10EX-_h4pYc

okay I knew which beat both songs were going to have beforehand, but I didn't know one was going to be half the speed of the other, that is progress

In reggaeton it counts as a change of time signature
Interesting that Bomba Esteréo is credited and not just Li Saumet

calling out reggaeton for using the drum pattern that makes a song reggaeton is not an own

i find it funny that people don’t get the same joy out of pointing out that every garage song uses the same beat, or the 90 million uses of funky drummer

I guess for some people it comes off as a novely beat, like calypso

what this attempt at derision gets right is that the beat is central to the genre, as when techno or house is described as untz untz music

calling out reggaeton for using the drum pattern that makes a song reggaeton is not an own

def not an own, in fact it is (imo) ignorant

"andrea" is one of my favorite songs of the year. incredible sound design on that one.

I guess for some people it comes off as a novely beat, like calypso

what this attempt at derision gets right is that the beat is central to the genre, as when techno or house is described as untz untz music

also speaks to their complete lack of reckoning with the actual republican voter base. there are a lot of hispanic conservatives! probably a reasonable number that like bad bunny, too?

I mean what can you even say about "I suspect this is much worse than the Janet Jackson wardrobe malfunction", how is that real life and not a dumb SNL skit

Thank goodness the FCC will issue a blanket ban of any Bad Bunny material.

Bad Blanket Bunny Ban Band

Bad Bunny's Bible Bonkers

Bad Bunny in 'Bicho' Bowl Blowup! Broadcasters Boiling Over Boffo Ballgame Bash!

cabron" is not a swear word lol

― The Luda of Suburbia (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn)

That’s why I didn’t include it. In some spanish speaking countries it’s considered vulgar in others it is not. In Puerto Rico it is not.

Conservative media started focusing on how the halftime should be an American artist in their heads. It didn’t hold up because there’s been several non-American artists already and Bad Bunny is an American citizen which I guess helped some of their audience to learn some history.

Then they started focusing on how vulgar some of his lyrics are and then they chose Kid Rock as the antithesis and it didn’t hold up either because only one of them is singing about fucking underage girls.

Then they switched to attacking his language. Which is just the mask coming off to what really bothered them about it. Hope it helps the spanish speaking conservatives in the US understand how much this administration hates them but I wouldn’t put my hopes up.

Then they switched to attacking his language.

The gall, because Kid Rock is the musical manifestation of functionally illiterate.

Fun story I don't think I've ever relayed. A friend of mine played in a pickup band backing Eddie Vedder at a private party. There were tons of celebrities there, in the band and elsewhere. Models, athletes, etc. (it was a party for an athlete). After the set my friend was talking with Eddie Vedder, joking around, when out the corner of his eye my friend saw the arrival of ... Kid Rock. Guess he was a friend of the athlete, too? Anyway, Vedder suddenly clams up nervously, leans in to my friend and mutters how he's got to get out of there, since he can't be caught in the same room as that guy. So Vedder bids adieu and vamooses, but my pal, one of the nicest guys and a true professional, decides to introduce himself to Kid Rock, and apparently Kid Rock, despite having politics also totally opposite my pal, was a nice enough dude for an utter clown.

And that athlete's name was...Pete Rose. I'm Paul Harvey.

the idea of getting mad at the lewd lyrics of a pop song when the government just sent people out to blow unarmed people's brains out on camera is psychotic.

in other news i never really listened to bad bunny before but since the grammys & the halftime show i’ve had that dtmf song stuck in my head every day this week

most enjoyable earworm i have had in some time

I teach in a district that is majority latino. I love that my students are into this album. Lots of artistry and compositional risk taking. And it integrates genres and sounds that haven’t been in mainstream American pop music for a long time. (Ever?) Really stands out from other music that they’ve been into in years past.

I think it is really fun for them too to have songs in Spanish that are popular among the American mainstream. Especially given our horrific political climate where the administration treats people from latin america like they are criminals.

I lol'ed, Ned (xps)

in other news i never really listened to bad bunny before but since the grammys & the halftime show i’ve had that dtmf song stuck in my head every day this week

most enjoyable earworm i have had in some time

― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, February 11, 2026 6:53 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

Apparently Meghan McCain is smitten, too

in other news i never really listened to bad bunny before but since the grammys & the halftime show i’ve had that dtmf song stuck in my head every day this week

most enjoyable earworm i have had in some time

unfortunately I have the opposite, where I keep singing that ridiculous country song in a funny accent from the TPUSA show of the guy talking about driving his truck and drinking beer.

those songs are called beerworms

actual lols

Man, beerworms is A+. Also works for songs you only like and singalong to when you're drunk.

Truly grand neologism.

The latest Pat Finnerty follow-up, btw, is a pretty brutal (if digression-prone) deconstruction of the TP/Kid Rock disaster. Didn't even occur to me (or him) that that shit was pre-recorded, and that (according the K. Rock's defense) all the bad synching and whatnot was basically (no surprise) due to TP's incompetence.

I checked in on some Trump forum, and one loser basically boasted that the TP halftime was a huge success because it proved you could take audience away from the Super Bowl. And someone responded, like, maybe 5 million people vs 150 million, and the Trump loser was, exactly, this is how it begins!!

Must feel especially good to be Bad Bunny right now.

Argument's even more pathetic considering the idea of an alternate halftime show isn't unprecedented - the Wichita Eagle just did a story reminding people of In Living Color's halftime alternative, which siphoned a far larger share of 22 million viewers in 1992 (when Super Bowl ratings were also much lower) which supposedly rattled the NFL so much that it was the main reason why they began to sign major acts for the halftime shows.

Wasn't the Puppy Bowl a halftime thing?

so does this mean they're gonna do this every year now even if the halftime performer sings in English? is the headliner gonna be Kid Rock again or are they gonna splurge for 3 Doors Down?

ah shit guys, just got some bad news about 3 Doors Down

Well, if you're reading this, Kid Rock, they are looking for a singer ...

Puppybowl is a thing and had 12M viewers. So 2.4 times the crowd for that TP thing.

Poopybowl

Bad Bunny charts four songs in the Hot 100’s top 10 following the Super Bowl:

#1: DtMF
#2: BAILE INoLVIDABLE
#5: NUEVAYoL
#7: Tití Me Preguntó

Yeah, but at what cost?