Can someone pls explain the lure of bad bunny

[Anonymous]

NP here. Thanks for this suggestion! This was great and it did sway me. I personally liked his superbowl performance, it was unique and had so many different things to look at and think about.

For what it's worth: My 9 year old (who goes to a very diverse school with a very high number of Spanish speakers) said she heard the performance with Lady Gaga had a Hispanic twist and wasn't very good.

Anonymous wrote:Just watch his NPR Tiny Desk concert and try not to be a fan. I dare you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouuPSxE1hK4&list=RDouuPSxE1hK4&start_radio=1

[Anonymous]

I have the same question as OP but about Taylor Swift.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:05:25 and others: Some people found BB earlier, others are just listening to his stuff. BB gains more popularity when spreading messages a LEADER should be. He and Pope Leo should collab

That would be so interesting

It would be like Andrew Ridgeley & DJ Jazzy Jeff teaming up.

[Anonymous]

I’m 50 and don’t listen to his music but I see why he is so popular. He’s good looking, there’s something very endearing about him (I’ve seen a couple interviews and when he hosted SNL), he doesn’t take himself to seriously, and I was super impressed by the storytelling of the Super Bowl halftime show, which is typically just somebody on a stage gyrating for 15 minutes, which he could have done and it would have been done, but he actually told a pretty compelling story with a lot of nuance and heart.

I want to check out his Instagram, his PR people seem to have put something up with not even an image of him - just official Bad Bunny account. No picture, 0 post and 0 accounts he follows. He has 50.5 million followers.

There are celebrities that have a huge team of people boosting social media engagement and posting all the time that don’t have anywhere near this and he effortlessly just gets this many followers.

Agree with previous posters, if you know, you know.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Wow - OP asked a question and yall gave him insults. IMO. The Super Bowl preface was visually brilliant but didn’t showcase the best of Bad Bunny. This talking/rapping wasn’t as engaging as his stuff from like 2022.

OP asked a stupid question that he could have googled. And in a grammatically incorrect way.

Let’s not turn DCUM into Chat GPT.

Lure isn’t grammatically incorrect, it’s just not your chosen word. Also remember that not everyone here is a native English speaker. Not a single soul here has been able to give a simple, cogent response, just defensive nonsense. Lots of people on this board ask these questions about all manner of celebrities.

[Anonymous]

After watching his halftime performance, I’m very impressed and have been seeking out his music. He seems like a really nice person, a leader, a hero.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:After watching his halftime performance, I’m very impressed and have been seeking out his music. He seems like a really nice person, a leader, a hero.

A hero? He’s an entertainer.

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Anonymous wrote:After watching his halftime performance, I’m very impressed and have been seeking out his music. He seems like a really nice person, a leader, a hero.

A hero? He’s an entertainer.

The choices he made to lead, to highlight family, cultures, unity- that’s the hero we need right now.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Wow - OP asked a question and yall gave him insults. IMO. The Super Bowl preface was visually brilliant but didn’t showcase the best of Bad Bunny. This talking/rapping wasn’t as engaging as his stuff from like 2022.

OP asked a stupid question that he could have googled. And in a grammatically incorrect way.

Let’s not turn DCUM into Chat GPT.

Lure isn’t grammatically incorrect, it’s just not your chosen word. Also remember that not everyone here is a native English speaker. Not a single soul here has been able to give a simple, cogent response, just defensive nonsense. Lots of people on this board ask these questions about all manner of celebrities.

"Lure" is grammatically incorrect in the manner in which OP used it-the word OP should have used is "allure". And, if after 10 pages of posts, you don't find a response to explain the ALLURE of Bad Bunny that you find cogent, that speaks to your own comprehension of the English language. You are choosing not to understand, due to your own agenda.

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Anonymous wrote:He was the cover story in vanity fair this month and he still came across as bland/dumb in the interview.

Then call a spade a spade. He’s dumb.
He’s no Kendrick Lamar.
They tried to make this be that, but it was never meant to be.
Can’t wait to see him what they choose to showcase next year.

It's really weird to me that people don't realize that Bad Bunny has been like, the most popular artist by far, by FAR, for many years at this point. Nothing to do with ICE, or being "propped up" because of "DEI". Like it's been multiple multiple years that he has been epically popular. And I say this as the person who posted a few pages back about not recognizing any of his songs, because I never hear them on the radio stations I prefer, but even I, an out of the loop middle aged mom, have heard of him because he is A-list famous. It's like our parents generation claiming they have no idea who Tom Cruise or Julia Roberts are and act surprised and offended that people prefer to see them instead of a Judy Garland movie. Like.... it's ok for it not to be your thing, or to prefer your own generation's songs, but it's quite another to be 10000% culturally out of the loop

People seem to not realize that Bad bunny was in the superbowl half time show 5 years ago with Shakira and J Lo.

He’s not mainstream. They keep trying to push him as such with the recent commercials, snl and Super Bowl. But it’s not that great of music, singing, nor unique.

He’s been the number one download on Spotify for 3 of the last 5 years and won the Grammy for Album of the Year this year.

You can think whatever you want but your opinions mean nothing in the face of sales and industry recognition by people who matter.

+1

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Even the MS kids were talking and complaining today about the indecency of the butts in their faces at the halftime show.

Which MS kids? Do you know all of them? Mine certainly weren't complaining at all. (They thought the performance was cool and fun and a good way to practice their Spanish.

His Spanish is horrendous, what they teaching over there? Only slang?

True. It was slang, incorrect grammar, and actually pretty lame.

Maybe someone else wrote the political lyrics pieces.

Why you have so many girlfriends?

Put it in, put it in.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:He was the cover story in vanity fair this month and he still came across as bland/dumb in the interview.

Then call a spade a spade. He’s dumb.
He’s no Kendrick Lamar.
They tried to make this be that, but it was never meant to be.
Can’t wait to see him what they choose to showcase next year.

It's really weird to me that people don't realize that Bad Bunny has been like, the most popular artist by far, by FAR, for many years at this point. Nothing to do with ICE, or being "propped up" because of "DEI". Like it's been multiple multiple years that he has been epically popular. And I say this as the person who posted a few pages back about not recognizing any of his songs, because I never hear them on the radio stations I prefer, but even I, an out of the loop middle aged mom, have heard of him because he is A-list famous. It's like our parents generation claiming they have no idea who Tom Cruise or Julia Roberts are and act surprised and offended that people prefer to see them instead of a Judy Garland movie. Like.... it's ok for it not to be your thing, or to prefer your own generation's songs, but it's quite another to be 10000% culturally out of the loop

People seem to not realize that Bad bunny was in the superbowl half time show 5 years ago with Shakira and J Lo.

He’s not mainstream. They keep trying to push him as such with the recent commercials, snl and Super Bowl. But it’s not that great of music, singing, nor unique.

He’s been the number one download on Spotify for 3 of the last 5 years and won the Grammy for Album of the Year this year.

You can think whatever you want but your opinions mean nothing in the face of sales and industry recognition by people who matter.

+1

No one cares about downloads unclear Spotify shareholders. Doubt bad bunny agents covered their marketing spend the last 12 mos.

Check out the list next month. It’ll all be over.

Maybe he can date a Jenner again, that helps too.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:After watching his halftime performance, I’m very impressed and have been seeking out his music. He seems like a really nice person, a leader, a hero.

A hero? He’s an entertainer.

The choices he made to lead, to highlight family, cultures, unity- that’s the hero we need right now.

Huh? People dry bonking each other on live TV in public with their face contorted and tongues out? Not sure who you thinking you’re gaslighting with comments like that PP.

And have you translated the lyrics? And the ones they beeped out or omitted?

[Anonymous]

Spotify is a subscription model.

It can run stats on downloads but so what. People have 1000s of downloads in their personal cloud. And they rarely cull out what they no longer listen to.

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Anonymous wrote:Even the MS kids were talking and complaining today about the indecency of the butts in their faces at the halftime show.

Which MS kids? Do you know all of them? Mine certainly weren't complaining at all. (They thought the performance was cool and fun and a good way to practice their Spanish.

His Spanish is horrendous, what they teaching over there? Only slang?

True. It was slang, incorrect grammar, and actually pretty lame.

Maybe someone else wrote the political lyrics pieces.

Why you have so many girlfriends?

Put it in, put it in.

Music often uses "slang" (aka colloquial language). That's part of artistic expression, no matter what language you sing in.

I prefer Bad Bunny's lyrics to that of the Turning Point USA's Alternative Half Time Show Headliner Kid Rock who sings (lipsyncs) about the joys of having sex with underage girls.

So did America since 135 million people tuned in to Bad Bunny compared to the single digits for the "Alternative Half Time Show."