

Some of that hard-earned freedom could be attributed to the fact that Benito became famous outside of the U.S. It's disrespectful that they keep trying to fool us and take us for pendejos, but they f***** with the generation that won't be taken advantage of."Īlt.Latino Alt.Latino presents our favorite music of 2022 It's disrespectful that people in this country still don't have access to hospitals or healthcare systems. It's disrespectful that schools keep closing year after year. "It's disrespectful for Puerto Rico to go without power one, five, four times a day. Pedro Pierluisi a "c*********." Predictably, the statement was labeled "vulgar" and "disrespectful" by some online, though Benito had thoughts for his detractors the next night: "You know what's also disrespectful?" he asked. During the televised show, he lambasted the island-wide blackouts that have affected Puerto Rico since LUMA, a private consortium, took over the energy system last year. When the song ended, the floor erupted in chants: "Benito! Benito! Benito!"īut a month earlier, during the first night of the album's debut in San Juan, Benito delivered a searing speech that granted his concert a different kind of force. Once the show was in full swing, Bad Bunny mounted a floating island, affixed himself to its massive palm tree, and sang Un Verano Sin Ti's "Un Coco." He glided across the sky, the crowd bellowing in the stands.


After waiting outside for an hour and a half, the police finally opened up the gates and fans started to filter in.

Most of the 50,000 attendees had already shuffled inside, but for the hundreds of guests still in line, that meant listening to the cawing seagulls and seesawing synths that open his fourth studio album Un Verano Sin Ti from outside the stadium. Twenty minutes before the show was slated to begin, a swarm of unticketed fans rushed the gates of the arena and attempted to claw their way past the NYPD officers stationed at the entrance (the cops promptly shuttered the doors and restrained anyone who tried to sneak in). Just consider his record-breaking, sold-out, two-night run at Yankee Stadium. It makes his fame feel delightful and deviant.īy several measures, Bad Bunny became the world's biggest pop star in 2022. Bad Bunny has a preternatural gift for realness, one that he wields with fluidity, because that is what Caribbeanness demands.
