Behind the scenes of Bad Bunny's Tiny Desk

Alt.Latino

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4.5 • 673 Ratings

🗓️ 9 April 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Bad Bunny's Tiny Desk concert was the most watched premiere in the series' history. In this episode, Alt.Latino's Anamaria Sayre speaks with the superstar at the Desk and takes you behind the scenes of the performance. NPR reporter Isabella Gomez Sarmiento, who also was in the audience, sits in for Felix Contreras this week.

Featured artists and songs:

• Bad Bunny, "PIToRRO DE COCO" (Tiny Desk Version)

• Bad Bunny, "VOY A LLeVARTE PA PR" (Tiny Desk Version)

• Bad Bunny, "KLOuFRENS" (Tiny Desk Version)

• Bad Bunny, "LO QUE LE PASÓ A HAWAii" (Tiny Desk Version)

• Bad Bunny, "LA MuDANZA" (Tiny Desk Version)

Credits:

Audio for this episode of Alt.Latino was edited and mixed by Simon Rentner. Our project manager is Grace Chung. NPR Music's executive producer is Suraya Mohamed. Our VP of Music and Visuals is Keith Jenkins.

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0:00.0	Support for NPR and the following message come from Yarl and Pamela Mohn, thanking the people who make public radio great every day and also those who listen.
0:10.3	A quick note before the show, this podcast contains explicit language.
0:14.5	This is really exciting. Okay. We need to calm ourselves because this is going to be good.
0:24.2	I'm Felix Contreras. Let the Chisme begin. Oh my God, I love that.
0:31.9	I'm Anna Maria Sayer. We're here with the amazing, venerable, wonderful, fabulous.
0:37.1	Isabella Gomez-Armiento.
0:38.8	Oh, wow.
0:40.0	I'm never going to say your name again.
0:41.6	You got to do it every single time.
0:49.0	Two days ago.
0:50.8	Two days.
0:51.9	We released the most legendary, amazing internet-breaking tiny desk to ever exist, in my opinion.
0:59.0	I'm snapping.
1:00.0	What de Benito?
1:01.0	Bad Bunny Tiny Desk.
1:03.0	If you haven't watched it already, I would highly recommend going and watching it.
1:18.3	Now, we're talking about this happening during arguably what is maybe the biggest peak of Bad Bunny's career.
1:25.3	I need to set the scene a little bit.
1:27.4	So he comes in on a cold Washington
1:29.8	DC day. We packed the room. There had to be 250 people in there maybe, like full maxed out.
1:37.7	There was a lot of buzz and a lot of anticipation in the building, people waiting in the
1:41.4	hallway before he got there, everyone kind of nervously
	...

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