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I took a couple of minutes to listen to Bad Bunny to see what the fuss is about. Its funny because his is exactly the kind of music we listened to in our youth in 2001. There was this dance club in Montreal called Salsathèque, and it was very popular, with exactly the stuff that Bad Bunny does. It’s nice, harmless. Definitely better than Taylor Swift because at least there’s rhythm and melody here.

It’s funny that the aesthetic hasn’t changed at all in a quarter century. Pop music is stuck in a long rut. Other than that, I have no idea what there is to discuss here. Students are writing research project on Bad Bunny when he’s one in a trillion completely identical artists in a genre that by definition can’t come up with anything new.

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    ShadowsCollide

    I agree, his music is very meh and not to my taste but not offensive or weird at all. I suppose the big fuss is that he’s a Puerto Rican singer who doesn’t sing in English and he openly loathes Trump, plus he dresses in an androgynous way. Many Americans seem to hate any entertainment which isn’t in English or is vaguely foreign or male entertainers who aren’t masculine, it’s the idea that Bad Bunny isn’t a “real American” even though Puerto Ricans are American citizens

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      Clarissa

      He’s trying to spice up the genre that can’t produce anything new on the level of the music. It’s pure marketing. But at least the music is lively, gets people moving.

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        cliff arroyo

        ” genre that can’t produce anything new on the level of the music”

        That seems kind of universal… popular music died in the late 1980s or early 90s and everything since is just recycled.

        I compensate for it by deep dives into older music and finding modern weird ethnic music videos. Lately a Javanese (from Indonesia) music video showed up on my youtube timeline and I’ve been listening to a lot of them since.

        A pretty typical offering:

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1vjtHgTmy4

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