The problem with Bad Bunny is that he’s not talented. There are crowds of people doing this kind of music who are enormously more talented. Bad Bunny is the remodeled Blue Bar at the Algonquin of the Latin musical scene. He’s the Jaguar rebrand. He’s trying and failing to reproduce what the music is actually like. His corporate-style, soulless performance is barren.
The genre itself is actually pretty great. But have you noticed how it’s always the most mediocre, deracinated, and barren look, feel and sound that get promoted these days?
These are products for people who want to face a cement wall and recite passionate ideological speeches at it. They don’t want to see human faces. They don’t want to have conversations. The new Blue Bar is not a place of sociability. It’s where you sit alone, staring at monthly projections on your screen and ingest alcohol in an industrial, joyless manner.
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Same homogenized spirit-of-the-age that for the last five years possessed house flippers to paint everything gray?
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This tendency towards the uniform, the gray and the barren is an expression of the desire for barrenness that resides inside these people’s minds. They hate life itself because life is unpredictable and messy. They want clean, predictable, and dead.
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“Bad Bunny is that he’s not talented”
I love so much Latin Music and this guy becomes a superstar for…. what?
I feel the same about almost all famous artists now that people are supposed to find endlessly fascinating…. some are…. okay…. but little gnats compared to the past.
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Right? Are people not noticing? I spent my youth listening to Daddy Yankee and Don Omar. They are Puerto Rican, and ok, they are older. But there’s tons of talent in Puerto Rico. If Hispanic people are good at anything, it’s creative fields. But this Bad Bunny dude? Honestly? Like somebody quipped on X, he’s Ludacris without the rizz. Plodding, pedestrian slop.
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