Bad Bunny is Angry: A Timeline of a Year of Fury

It’s nighttime and Bad Bunny is walking around La Romana, Dominican Republic, wearing a beige skinny suit and a white scarf on his head, when a fan harasses him with her cell phone and forces him to take a selfie so that what we already know is unleashed: Bad Bunny, very fed up, grabs and throws the fan’s cell phone. At the sea, says the rumor which becomes certainty in the comments on his Instagram which belong to the predictable literary genre of Comments on a Funado: “I always knew it”, “This is what happens to them when they are deified” and the strangest “Luckily, I never liked it.”

On the Grammy stage, Bad Bunny moves us by singing:

Now everyone wants to be Latino

But they are missing seasonings, drums and reggaeton.

These phrases, original by Tego Calderón, are the glory of a difficult journey that could begin in 1985, in Panama City, with the first reggae in Spanish, The girl with brown eyes , from Renato:

Mom, I swear to you that our destiny will be to build a Latin world.

And El General, Glory, Tego himself, Daddy Yankee, Don Omar, Ivy Queen, Wisin y Yandel, Arcángel, Plan B, J Balvin, Karol G, Tokischa, Cris MJ, Duki and an eternal etcetera that everyone can mentally complete to return to Bad Bunny on the Grammy stage singing “I love Puerto Rican pussy“.

On the Cahuines celebrity site DeuxMoix, it is said that Bad Bunny was seen with Kendall Jenner in Los Angeles.

TMZ, another cahuines, publishes photos of Bad Bunny and Kendall hugging. I have no proof of what I’m about to say, so here’s an irresponsible statement: the Kendall thing resonates more with fans than the cell phone thing. To justify my irresponsible statement, I will give moderately responsible arguments.

There are two groups: those who find it unforgivable to throw away the cell phone and those who find it understandable. Those of us in the second group think that after all, the fan is overwhelming/this must be the eight thousandth time she’s faced fans like that/someone’s having a bad day, a bad week, a bad month or a bad year; It is therefore easy to place the cell phone episode in the realm of rationality: x occurred because z occurred.

Kendall’s thing is something else.

He fell in love, nothing to say.

Nothing about x happened because z happened.

It just happened, love passes away.

And as there is nothing explainable, we stammer a suspicion Wasn’t it because he liked Puerto Rican pussy? which turns into a feeling of having been betrayed: YOU DON’T LIKE PUERTO RICO CHOCHA?

But he fell in love, no complaints. And Kardashian with less seasoning, c’est la vie. And that’s life, yes, but a fan feels what he feels and here, in the heart, a tear is felt: if Bad Bunny took Latin world-building to its climax and now he is with a gringa, what do we have left with it?

The tearing has a more primitive side than that of the Bolivarian dream: even if we know that we will never play with Bad Bunny, we do not stop thinking “now I am never going to play with Bad Bunny” when he starts with Kendall. This is not a new feeling. This has also happened to women of all time, let’s not forget that when Ricky Martin came out of the closet there were women sad because they could never be with someone they could never be with . But the Bad Bunny problem has the complexity of the fact that the woman who preceded Kendall was a Puerto Rican who was not a model, nor famous, but a normal girl who we saw – via Instagram – in the daily life of the pandemic boredom or in his photos. .T-shirts. When Bad Bunny started with Kendall, the paparazzi started at places like basketball games, Formula 1, and expensive restaurants; That boy who sang “Don’t look for me on Instagram/Mommy’s looking for me at home” was nowhere to be found.

Time magazine:

“Do you think it is unfair that these political issues come to you and that you have to speak for the entire island? »

“Yes, I think it’s unfair. And that’s why some artists don’t do it. If you don’t talk about it in your songs, you won’t get these kinds of questions. They’re not going to ask Daddy Yankee, they’re not going to ask him something like that. “I don’t know why I said Daddy Yankee, I’m sorry Daddy Yankee.”

release the song Where does she go.

a name in Englishwe jump.

Bad Bunny discovers our jump.

When asked about the song, he says he doesn’t like his songs to have generic names. On the show, I parade Mojabi Ghost, at your mercy, If I see your mother, Yonaguni, safaera and it’s true: only memorable titles. Where does she goHe says he’s inspired by the fact that a lot of people say stupid things and, with this English title, he wants to give them – give us – more reasons.

Bad Bunny looks like he’s swallowing saliva. Create a WhatsApp channel that we can follow. We always read him outraged by the rumor that he would release a new album this year, when that – he says – will not be the case.

The new album comes out, Nobody knows what will happen tomorrow, and I remember the time Chente Ydrach, a Puerto Rican interviewer-standupero-podcaster, told Bad Bunny something beautiful and accurate: his work – albums, videos, concerts, everything – is governed by surprise. Surprise at the turns of safaera. Surprise in the explosion of energy which marks the end of Just from me. Surprise warning discs without notice. Surprise and gift.

Does it work this time?

“THIS ALBUM IS FOR THOSE WHO FOLLOW ME SINCE DAY 0!!! NOT FOR YONAGUNITOS haha ​​Lie, it’s for everyone. “I love you!” he says on his WhatsApp channel, in a playful way but on the album it becomes dense.

He no longer spits saliva, now he spits tar.

He sings that the real bugs are in Puerto Rico, fucking Karol G., what did he do to her.

He is disconcerting in launching J. Balvin, who was one of the first to collaborate with him.

Sing: “You’re not my real fan, that’s why I threw my cell phone at you» and there is something uncomfortable in the use of the tiradera when it is not framed in the competition of two equal parties: someone who throws, someone who can send back.

After three listens, I think the album could be summed up like this:

-Bad Bunny says he’s the best.

-And that he is a billionaire.

-And he doesn’t care if we say “leseras” because he’s the best and he’s a billionaire.

-And that we know nothing of his famous loneliness as a billionaire (and it’s true).

-And we are fools if we become addicted to him because of “A Summer Without You”.

It is possible to fall while climbing. As I read comments on social media from half-exhausted fans of the album -maybe not real fans-, Nobody knows what will happen tomorrow breaks the record of being the most played album of 2023 in a single day on Spotify, his songs occupy all positions in the Billboard ranking and at the moment he is the protagonist of Saturday Night Live, accompanied by Mick Jagger, Lady Gaga and Pierre Pascal.

the song comes out Nostalgia, in which Flow GPT covers Bad Bunny.

Curiosity of the country: behind Flow GPT, there is a Chilean who had been trying to find a good subject for some time. Well: Nostalgia enters among the most listened to on Spotify in Chile and Spain, the singer Bad Gyal -mentioned in the song- continues on Tiktok dancing to it, also on Tiktok there is a video of a nightclub in Mexico playing the song and Bad Bunny, the real one, he gets angry and writes on his Whatsapp channel, he writes on his Whatsapp channel that we like it shit song, we better leave the band.

The fury can come from the understandable terror of something newly known that could replace you, and although for a while I have been careful not to say things that age too poorly, I believe that certain subtleties of language are not so easy to achieve and that having the illusion that there is an autobiographical story behind a song can beat the artificial. Maybe this belief is innocent, I don’t know, but for now the music industry and the singers themselves are protecting what is theirs. Bad Gyal downvoted TikTok dancing when he found out it was AI, the Grammys stressed they wouldn’t award any song or album made by anything non-human, and Spotify was deleted Nostalgia of its platform. There are curious turns, yes. The viral My first job, also performed by IA with the voice of Eladio Carrión, was sung by himself during a concert. A joke that Bad Bunny should perhaps have followed given that he spent his 2023 Fury cartridges on one of them. It also happens that it is a pleasure to laugh at a complainer because he will complain more . At the moment, some songs are circulating with his voice: “there are no donuts at McDonalds” says one of them and there is a version of “Hello, don Pepito, hello Don José” in a combination impossible between J. Balvin and Bad Bunny. , but possible in the world of Artificial Intelligence.

I end with the origin: the cell phone video of the moment, which has something that I like. It’s the voice of someone watching – who knows if it’s a friend of the wrong fan – saying:

“Crazy, Benito, we love you no matter what.”

Maybe.

And otherwise, I remember that in an interview with Rolling Stone, Benito said that he never threw his cell phone into the sea, that he only went into a bush; It’s about going and finding him.