Bad Bunny’s New Album and the Future of Puerto Rican Rap and Reggaeton
The Pitchfork Review
Pitchfork
3.3 • 844 Ratings
🗓️ 16 November 2023
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Ryan Dombal, Isabelia Herrera, and Julianne Escobedo Shepherd talk about Bad Bunny’s remarkable rise to superstardom and how his latest record, nadie sabe lo que va a pasar mañana, doesn’t quite live up to his own high bar. Also, we highlight a few new queer femme artists from Puerto Rico who are taking the island’s music to exciting new places. Read Isabelia's review here, and her feature story here.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Pitchfork Review. |
| 0:05.0 | I'm Ryan Domble, a features editor at the site. |
| 0:09.0 | This week on the show will be discussing perhaps the most exciting music superstar of the last six years or so, Bad Bunny. |
| 0:17.0 | He recently released his T heavy, fifth studio album, |
| 0:21.7 | Nadiazabe Loque Va to Pazard Manana, |
| 0:24.7 | which immediately went to number one on the charts when it came out last month. |
| 0:30.3 | And then at the end of the episode, we're going to zoom out a little bit |
| 0:33.3 | and talk about some new artists who are changing the face of Puerto Rican rap and reggaeton in the wake of Bad Bunny's explosive success. |
| 0:42.8 | Joining me today are a couple of scholars on all things Bad Bunny, contributing writer Julianne Escobedo Shepard. |
| 0:51.8 | Hey, Julianne. |
| 0:52.7 | What's up? |
| 0:53.6 | And contributing editor is A Isabella Herrera. |
| 0:56.5 | Hello. |
| 0:57.2 | Great to have you. |
| 0:58.8 | So to start off, I just wanted to kind of chronicle the rise of Benito Antonio Martinez Ocasio, |
| 1:06.9 | a.k.a. Bad Bunny. |
| 1:09.4 | Julian, do you remember when you first heard him? |
| 1:12.3 | Like, when did you realize this person is going to be it, the guy? |
| 1:16.9 | I mean, I think the point that most people realized was in 2016 with Soi Peor. |
| 1:22.4 | It was his really big trap hit that sort of blew up and blew him out of SoundCloud, basically. |
| 1:42.1 | I also think really early on, for me, Tuna Bezi withi with Archangel 2016, when he was still kind of like the features man in Latin trap. |
| 1:50.5 | Everybody wanted a verse from Bad Bunny because who is this man with the graphics on his scalp and he wears short shorts? |
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