Bad Bunny Has A Message For Your Mom

Switched on Pop

Vox Media Podcast Network

Music Interviews, Music History, Music, Music Commentary

4.6 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 17 March 2020

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Latin Trap megastar Bad Bunny may be best known to American audiences for his feature on Cardi B’s #1 “I Like It’, but the Puerto Rican native is known to music-lovers worldwide for more than just those few bars. Bunny started off as a student in Universidad de Puerto Rico studying audio visual communications. He was bagging groceries at a supermarket in PR when he posted his song ‘Diles’ on SoundCloud. That moody, 808-fueled track turned into a record deal, as well as huge feature opportunities with bigger acts like Becky G, and of course--Cardi. His newest project, YHLQMDLG (an acronym that stands for the Spanish translation of “I do what I want”) is currently smothering the Hot Latin Billboard Chart. The albums opening track, "Si Veo a Tu Mamá" had us listening to the origins of Bossa nova, and investigate how elevator music-sounding samples and overused chord progressions add up to latin trap magic for El Conejito Malo. Special thanks to Bad Bunny super fan and listener Maita, for never giving up hope :) Songs discussed: Bad Bunny - Diles Becky G ft. Bad Bunny - Mayores Cardi B ft. Bad Bunny, J Balvin - I Like It Bad Bunny ft. Drake - MIA Bad Bunny - Si Veo a tu Mamá Antônio Carlos Jobim - The Girl From Ipanema Bad Bunny - Soliá Bad Bunny ft. Kendo Kaponi, Arcangel - P FKN R Bad Bunny ft. Jowell & Randy, Nengo Flow - Safeara Missy Elliot - Get Ur Freak On Bad Bunny - <3 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	First, sweet tarts dare to combine sweet and tart, but they didn't stop there.
0:06.0	Now they've combined soft and bouncy to bring you new sweet tarts, gummy fruity splits.
0:12.0	A uniquely delicious dual-sided gummy with one side that's sweet, and the other side that's tart.
0:19.0	But entirely smooth and squishy.
0:22.0	A powerfully perfect combo.
0:24.0	Sweet tarts dare to combine.
0:27.0	Hey, it's Charlie.
0:29.0	Times are pretty nuts right now, and we feel like more than ever, the music must go on.
0:35.0	So, here we are.
0:43.0	Sweet tarts dare to combine.
0:50.0	Welcome to Switched On Pop. I'm songwriter Charlie Harding.
0:53.0	And I'm musicologist Nate Sloan.
0:55.0	Right, today I want to take a listener request.
0:57.0	Great.
0:59.0	I'm Misa. I'm Puerto Rican. I'm a student.
1:03.0	Misa started listening about a year ago and went through most of her back catalog of episodes.
1:07.0	I began to wonder if there was one on Bad Bunny.
1:11.0	So, I requested one through DMs.
1:15.0	Basically, every month since then.
1:19.0	Every single month.
1:21.0	Yeah, that is persistent. I love it.
1:23.0	We need to cover Bad Bunny.
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