{"id":7468,"date":"2025-12-17T15:09:28","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T15:09:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/the-good-the-bad-and-the-bunny\/"},"modified":"2025-12-17T15:09:28","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T15:09:28","slug":"the-good-the-bad-and-the-bunny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/the-good-the-bad-and-the-bunny\/","title":{"rendered":"The Good, the Bad, and the Bunny"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2025\/09\/GettyImages-2224720679-scaled.jpg\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1706\" alt=\"Bad Bunny performs in Puerto Rico in July 2025 (Credit: Kevin Mazur \/ Getty Images)\"><figcaption>Bad Bunny performs in Puerto Rico in July 2025 (Credit: Kevin Mazur \/ Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>On the song \u201cCaf\u00e9 con Ron\u201d from Bad Bunny\u2019s latest and greatest album, DeB\u00cd TiRAR M\u00e1S FOToS (I Should Have Taken More Photos), the musical ensemble Los Pleneros de Cresta creates a sonic bomb of classic plena, a Puerto Rican folk-rhythm originated by the j\u00edbaros on the island\u2019s mountains. The track, mixed with an electronic production, lyrically illuminates one of the central tenets of the record \u2014 make the effort to meet the man where he\u2019s at, even if it means breaking a sweat climbing up a sacred mountain deep in the heart of El Yunque.<\/p>\n<p>The first leg of the massive world tour Bad Bunny is set to embark on in 2026 kicked off in his native Puerto Rico, during prime festival season. Bad Bunny performed a 31-date residency at San Juan\u2019s Choliseo, the biggest stadium on the island. By the end, more than $200 million was added to the island\u2019s economy, during hurricane season.<\/p>\n<p>More from Spin:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2025\/11\/2026-grammy-nominees\/\">Kendrick, Lady Gaga Top Grammy Nominee Field<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2025\/09\/bad-bunny-super-bowl-halftime\/\">Bad Bunny Boards Super Bowl LX Halftime Show<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2025\/09\/snl-season-51\/\">\u2018SNL\u2019 Books Bad Bunny, Role Model, Sabrina Carpenter<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In his shows, he certainly used the space, sandwiching the stadium floor with two stages: one, a mountain and rainforest, teeming with chickens and backup dancers in traditional outfits (some wearing pava hats), and the second a traditional house, a casita. Bad Bunny ripped through his expansive discography, and featured guests from emerging Puerto Rican artists like Omar Courtz and Chuwi to OGs like Ivy Queen.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For his tour, the only mainland U.S. show he\u2019s set to play is at the Super Bowl, his choice as the half-time performer upsetting the Republican far right, starting with the president, but subsequently schooling some ignorant people that, yes, Puerto Rico is a part of the U.S., and Puerto Ricans are American.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"712\" src=\"https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2023\/04\/GettyImages-1484042632-1024x712.jpg\" alt=\"Bad Bunny performs with Gorillaz on the Coachella Stage during the 2023 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival on April 21, 2023, in Indio, California. (Credit: Michael Loccisano\/Getty Images for Coachella)\" class=\"wp-image-403535\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2023\/04\/GettyImages-1484042632-1024x712.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2023\/04\/GettyImages-1484042632-300x209.jpg 300w, https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2023\/04\/GettyImages-1484042632-768x534.jpg 768w, https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2023\/04\/GettyImages-1484042632-1536x1068.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2023\/04\/GettyImages-1484042632-2048x1424.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Bad Bunny performs with Gorillaz on the Coachella Stage during the 2023 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival on April 21, 2023, in Indio, California. (Credit: Michael Loccisano\/Getty Images for Coachella)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The logic behind bypassing the U.S. he at first coyly explained as the States being an \u201cunnecessary\u201d tour stop. But he later clarified in an interview for i-D magazine his understandable concerns about the menace of ICE presence at shows, mindful of his predominantly Latino fan base.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And though Spanish-speakers and Latinos may be his most ardent fans, it\u2019s a mistake to pigeonhole Bad Bunny, an artist with four consecutive No. 1 albums in America, who doesn\u2019t break a sweat breaking streaming records across language barriers. He addresses that issue in DTMF\u2019s opening song, \u201cNUEVAYoL\u201d (which samples a classic track by El Gran Combo De Puerto Rico) \u2014 \u201c\u00bfC\u00f3mo Bad Bunny va a ser rey del pop, ey \/ Con reggaet\u00f3n y dembow?\u201d (\u201cHow is Bad Bunny going to be the king of pop, hey \/ With reggaeton and dembow?\u201d)<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1800\" src=\"https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2025\/01\/GettyImages-2154571638.jpg\" alt=\"Bad Bunny performs during his Most Wanted Tour at Kaseya Center on May 24, 2024, in Miami, Florida. (Credit: John Parra\/Getty Images)\" class=\"wp-image-452901\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2025\/01\/GettyImages-2154571638.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2025\/01\/GettyImages-2154571638-340x510.jpg 340w, https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2025\/01\/GettyImages-2154571638-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2025\/01\/GettyImages-2154571638-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2025\/01\/GettyImages-2154571638-498x747.jpg 498w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Bad Bunny performs during his <em>Most Wanted Tour <\/em>at Kaseya Center on May 24, 2024, in Miami, Florida. (Credit: John Parra\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Reggaeton as a genre has been racking up streaming records that match, or overtake, traditional pop music. It\u2019s warped the landscape entirely. And with the presence of Latinos in the U.S. growing (despite the efforts and to the horror of the current administration), those aren\u2019t the only sounds el conejo malo is playing with on this record. He\u2019s no stranger to experimentation, as past rock and trap-heavy efforts show.<\/p>\n<p>DTMF sees Bad Bunny lean heavy into an exploration of Puerto Rican identity, from his visual aesthetic \u2014 his take on traditional jibaro garb topped with a straw pava hat \u2014 to the sound that moves between the island\u2019s key exports: el perreo, la salsa, la bomba, and la plena. His mastery of these classic genres and the traditional attire, could have been corny if it wasn\u2019t so authentic and done so well.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Bad Bunny\u2019s always been one to lift others as he\u2019s climbed, collaborating with a new generation of salseros and bomba musicians, as well as featuring Los Pleneros de Cresta, masters in the Afro-Puerto Rican genre.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1290\" height=\"860\" src=\"https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2025\/09\/GettyImages-2224720679-1290x860.jpg\" alt=\"Bad Bunny performs in Puerto Rico in July 2025 (Credit: Kevin Mazur \/ Getty Images)\" class=\"wp-image-472813\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2025\/09\/GettyImages-2224720679-1290x860.jpg 1290w, https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2025\/09\/GettyImages-2224720679-340x227.jpg 340w, https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2025\/09\/GettyImages-2224720679-240x160.jpg 240w, https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2025\/09\/GettyImages-2224720679-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2025\/09\/GettyImages-2224720679-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2025\/09\/GettyImages-2224720679-498x332.jpg 498w, https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2025\/09\/GettyImages-2224720679-1668x1112.jpg 1668w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1290px) 100vw, 1290px\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Bad Bunny performs in Puerto Rico in July 2025. (Credit: Kevin Mazur \/ Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>If the album extends a hand for us to enter his world, it\u2019s also about remembrance as an act of resistance, what the Swiss art curator Hans Ulrich Obrist called \u201ca protest against forgetting.\u201d This manifests itself in anti-colonial warnings transmitted as somber history lessons (his roaring \u201cLO QUE LE PAS\u00d3 A HAWAii\u201d), to heartbroken reminiscing (\u201cBAILE INoLVIDABLE\u201d, a salsa-centric ode to love long gone), and deeply tender reminders to stay present (the title track, with a bomba-fueled closing chorus that would warm the hardest of hearts).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Eyebrows have been raised regarding the Puerto Rican nationalism inherent in the symbols and some of their ties to local parties. And there\u2019s Bad Bunny\u2019s use of the pava hat and the sounds of j\u00edbaro and traditional Afro-Puertorican genres. But why would he not be proud? Reggaeton and salsa, genres with origins on that little island, have influenced the entire world, despite the island\u2019s insecure status under the world\u2019s greatest superpower.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Here is a map to the mountaintop. Even if you can\u2019t (or refuse) to make the climb toward the coffee and rum-fueled bacchanalia, rest assured you\u2019ll hear the drunken drums as laughter drowns out tears. With any luck you\u2019ll feel it, preferably in your hips.<\/p>\n<p>To see our running list of the top 100 greatest rock stars of all time, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2021\/07\/the-greatest-rock-stars-of-all-time\/?utm_source=yahoo&amp;utm_medium=bottomlink&amp;utm_campaign=yahoolink\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bad Bunny performs in Puerto Rico in July 2025 (Credit: Kevin Mazur \/ Getty Images) On the song \u201cCaf\u00e9 con Ron\u201d from Bad Bunny\u2019s latest and greatest album, DeB\u00cd TiRAR&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1267,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bad-bunny","category-features"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7468\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}