Bad Bunny, Reggaeton, and Resistance

Code Switch

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🗓️ 30 August 2023

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Bad Bunny, the genre- and gender norm-defying Puerto Rican rapper, is one of the biggest music stars on the planet. He has also provided a global megaphone for Puerto Rican discontent. In this episode, we take a look at how Bad Bunny became the unlikely voice of resistance in Puerto Rico. This episode originally aired in January 2023.

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0:00.0	Just to heads up y'all, this episode contains some salty language, which means it's gonna be some cousin.
0:05.5	What's good, y'all? This is Code Switch, the show about recent identity from NPR.
0:09.6	I'm Jean Demby.
0:10.9	In this week,
0:12.3	how did Bad Bunny,
0:14.0	Bad Bunny,
0:15.1	gender bending,
0:16.2	trap banger producing, musical superstar become the unlikely leader slash icons,
0:22.2	slash symbol of political resistance and Puerto Rico?
0:26.2	I feel my life.
0:27.8	Alright, so last summer, Bad Bunny put on a really, really big concert in Puerto Rico.
0:34.2	It was so big that it kind of took place across the whole island all at once.
0:39.0	And my colleague, Adrian Floreito, who covers recent identity from NPR,
0:42.5	he was in Puerto Rico and found himself kind of swept up in the tsunami of Bad Bunny.
0:47.6	What's going on, Jay-Jan?
0:48.7	Hey, Jean, how's it going? It's been a long time.
0:50.5	I mean, I can't call it, I can't call it.
0:52.1	Okay, you were there, set the scene for us, man.
0:54.5	Well, this concert was in San Juan at a Choli, which is, you know,
0:58.0	Puerto Rico's main venue for concerts.
1:00.1	And people had been camping out for days to get tickets.
1:04.0	I mean, to the point where even being part of like the queue outside of the arena
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