Hey, y'all, Russ here, just dropping a preview of this week's Pop Pantheon, All Access

episode in which myself and NPRs Isabella Gomez Sarmiento discuss the ever-expanding

world of Latin pop, including the latest Bad Bunny album and a whole bunch of other new

Latin pop songs.

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podcast app. To set some table stakes, I'd love to hear you talk a little bit about what you're

sort of seeing in Latin pop at this moment, what genres or subgenres are really cooking in different areas. What has happening, I guess, so far in 2025 or any trends that you've identified further than that as well. Yeah, I mean, I think so far in 2025, it's been a lot of, I think overall within Latin music, there's been a big trend of people listening domestically. So like people in Mexico are listening to a lot of Mexican artists, people in Argentina are listening to a lot of artists from Argentina. Like people are really sort of like roughing their home countries and even the folk sounds of those countries. And I think obviously the biggest, most massive example of that is Bad Bunny's new album. Deby Tiroires Most Foto's very, very grounded in Puerto Rican sounds, Puerto Rican folk music, Puerto Rican, like, mythology almost. So I think that is one of the things. But in general, like over the past few years, reggaeton has sort of been dominating Latin pop for, I would say, the last decade. And now we're seeing some really cool offshoots of, like, Mexican regional has become a huge

dominating factor.

Like, what used to be a very particular kind of working class music in Mexico has just, like,

completely exploded and intersected with hip hop and regitton in these really cool ways.

It's, like, cousin, the quartetto in Argentina has also seen a massive rise.

There's a big tropical, psychedelic

pop thing happening in the Caribbean, the Venezuelan band Rawayana, Colombian band Bombasario

just kind of formed a supergroup and they've really like played with Champetta and like

Afro-Caribbean rhythms and indie rock. So there's all kinds of exciting things happening at once

and it really just depends on

like where you drop in on the map. You're going to be hearing a wide range of things. Yeah, I was doing

a little bit of background research and I was looking back at when Spanish language songs started

to hit the Hot 100 in America and going back to sort of like the macarena and then despicitos. But after despicitos,

like since then, that was a huge gap in time. And now not necessarily the top 10 other than

bad bunny or a hit here and there, peso pluma, I think has had some recently. But within the hot

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