Bad Bunny makes history at the Grammys. Up next, the Super BBowl

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🗓️ 4 February 2026

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Last Sunday, Bad Bunny's 'DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS' became the first exclusively Spanish language album to win album of the year at the Grammys. This coming Sunday, the Puerto Rican megastar will perform at the Super Bowl halftime show. For this week's episode, Anamaria Sayre and Isabella Gomez Sarmiento chat about what these two moments mean for Bad Bunny, the island of Puerto Rico, and the role of Latin music in America more broadly.

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0:32.6	Okay, so Felix is still out and there is a lot going on in the Latin music and honestly music world right now,
0:40.3	and it all revolves around one guy we've talked a lot about.
0:44.3	Bad buddy.
0:48.9	Now, to help me parse through all of this, I've brought on once again the amazing, the incredible Isabel
0:58.0	Gomez Arimiento. Issa, welcome to the show. Thank you for having me. Okay, so we're taping this
1:03.7	episode on Monday, February 2nd. Last night was the Grammys and Bad Bunny took home the top
1:09.5	prize of the night, album of the year for his
1:12.3	album, DeVille, Tira, More Photos. This coming Sunday, he will be the Super Bowl halftime show
1:17.4	performer. I mean, this is one of the most legendary moments we've seen for Latin music in
1:22.8	maybe the last century, I'd venture to say. So let's get into it. Issa, what are your initial thoughts,
1:29.9	takeaways, feelings about last night's show? I mean, I think the thing that that really comes to
1:34.6	mind is that this accomplishment was always going to be bad bunnies and it was always going to be
1:40.2	an artist from Puerto Rico. I think it's precisely because of the space that he occupies as not only an artist from
1:47.2	the island, but an artist that has always carried the island with him as he has completely
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