calling out reggaeton for using the drum pattern that makes a song reggaeton is not an own
i find it funny that people don’t get the same joy out of pointing out that every garage song uses the same beat, or the 90 million uses of funky drummer
― in places all over the world, real stuff be happening (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 26 July 2022 12:01 (one year ago) link
I guess for some people it comes off as a novely beat, like calypso
what this attempt at derision gets right is that the beat is central to the genre, as when techno or house is described as untz untz music
― corrs unplugged, Tuesday, 26 July 2022 12:48 (one year ago) link
def not an own, in fact it is (imo) ignorant
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Tuesday, 26 July 2022 13:58 (one year ago) link
"andrea" is one of my favorite songs of the year. incredible sound design on that one.
― in places all over the world, real stuff be happening (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 26 July 2022 14:38 (one year ago) link
I guess for some people it comes off as a novely beat, like calypsowhat this attempt at derision gets right is that the beat is central to the genre, as when techno or house is described as untz untz music
― big movers, hot steppers + long shaker intros (breastcrawl), Tuesday, 26 July 2022 15:56 (one year ago) link
can't find a list where he's #1, looks to me like he's maybe #2 of all time (behind drake, ahead of ed) and currently #7 globally? anyway being on the top of a pile of shit is nothing to be proud of
― corrs unplugged, Tuesday, July 26, 2022 4:25 AM (eight hours ago)
his album has the most weeks at no 1 of any album this year. he's also already had the biggest streaming year in spotify history (10.3 billion streams) thru only 7ish months & is consistently their most streamed artist globally. there's also this
Prior to the May release of Un Verano Sin Ti, Bad Bunny’s El Último Tour del Mundo, which played arenas across North America from February to April, grossed $116. 8 million and sold 575,000 tickets, according to Billboard Boxscore. The trek was No. 1 on the 2022 mid-year Top Tours chart, and topped the chart for February and March, breaking several local Boxscore records.
it's pretty indisputable that he's the biggest artist in the world rn
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 26 July 2022 16:53 (one year ago) link
eleven weeks in, BB still has ten tracks of the album in this week’s Hot 100 - for comparison, after only five weeks since his album dropped, Drake has only four tracks left. there’s also this:
Bad Bunny and Chencho Corleone‘s “Me Porto Bonito,” at its No. 6 best, takes over as the most-streamed song in the U.S. – and becomes the first all-Spanish-language No. 1 in the history of the Streaming Songs chart
― big movers, hot steppers + long shaker intros (breastcrawl), Tuesday, 26 July 2022 17:06 (one year ago) link
now replace the genre names with any of your own favourite genres and see how ignorant (not “imo”, this is ILM for crying out loud) you sound.and sorry, can’t accept the “for some people” deflection, you were being derisive yourself, and again, this is ILM for crying out loud.
and sorry, can’t accept the “for some people” deflection, you were being derisive yourself, and again, this is ILM for crying out loud.
I didn't mean to sound derisive with the pile of shit comment, just find it a bad measure of anything who's topping those charts, and by "some people" I didn't mean posters here. Techno is one of my favorite genres?
Andrea is great
― corrs unplugged, Wednesday, 27 July 2022 07:34 (one year ago) link
I don't mean to dispute it, just can't figure out where to source reliable data
according to this list https://chartmasters.org/spotify-most-popular-artists/ he has more than twice the streams of Drake but according to this one https://routenote.com/blog/most-streamed-artists-on-spotify/ he's #7 in the world
― corrs unplugged, Wednesday, 27 July 2022 07:37 (one year ago) link
fine, I am going to put my money where my mouth is and give Bad Bunny a fair shake. all 81 minutes. going in now
― imago, Wednesday, 27 July 2022 14:16 (one year ago) link
half the bleedin' planet can't be wrong, eh
― imago, Wednesday, 27 July 2022 14:17 (one year ago) link
Well blow me down, first three tracks are kinda great. Fuck
― imago, Wednesday, 27 July 2022 14:26 (one year ago) link
Every track has featured thoughtful sonic design and at least one surprising switch-up, and they've all sounded distinct from each other
― imago, Wednesday, 27 July 2022 14:27 (one year ago) link
Track 4 is straight up prog or something
― imago, Wednesday, 27 July 2022 14:29 (one year ago) link
These synths!
― imago, Wednesday, 27 July 2022 14:35 (one year ago) link
― corrs unplugged, Wednesday, July 27, 2022 2:37 AM (seven hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
one list is "monthly listeners," the other is "daily streams."
― in places all over the world, real stuff be happening (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 27 July 2022 15:02 (one year ago) link
This should, to be fair, have been two albums. The first can end with La Corriente and it's pretty complete, and good
― imago, Wednesday, 27 July 2022 15:20 (one year ago) link
the second half has some absolute highlights tho, like "andrea," "el apagón," "efecto," "ojitos lindos," etc.
― in places all over the world, real stuff be happening (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 27 July 2022 15:25 (one year ago) link
I'm just getting to the second half (after a pause)! Just saying where a natural break feels it should be
― imago, Wednesday, 27 July 2022 15:25 (one year ago) link
The song 'Party' has been the only out and out filler so far
― imago, Wednesday, 27 July 2022 15:26 (one year ago) link
all major albums in the streaming era are gonna be bloated, but i think un verano sin ti uses its bloat for good–more experimentation, unexpected collaborations, more explorations of the wide swaths of latin music styles
― in places all over the world, real stuff be happening (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 27 July 2022 15:26 (one year ago) link
Yeah, I'm finding that. I didn't know he used his powers for good tbh!
― imago, Wednesday, 27 July 2022 15:27 (one year ago) link
There's indeed a v strong run on the second half, broken up regrettably by Dos Mil 16, which...I guess not every experiment was going to work
― imago, Wednesday, 27 July 2022 15:43 (one year ago) link
i was a little disappointed with "party" too, considering how sharp and genre-fluid rauw alejandro's own album was. it sounds too much like a commercial ploy, and i think even reggaeton fans felt that, since the true big hits from the album have been "me porto bonito" (beat-switching reggaeton with a great melody) and "titi me pregunto" (dembow assault gives way to '00s r&b throwback)
― in places all over the world, real stuff be happening (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 27 July 2022 15:45 (one year ago) link
if you don't like "dos mil 16" i wouldn't check out much of his pre-2020 stuff lol
― in places all over the world, real stuff be happening (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 27 July 2022 15:46 (one year ago) link
i still have space for some of that stuff, but i much prefer the artist he's become
Yeah those two were huge xxp. The people want it proggy, what can I say
― imago, Wednesday, 27 July 2022 15:47 (one year ago) link
so yeah - lose Party, Aguacero, Dos Mil 16, the title track and Agosto, split the remaining 18 tracks into two albums, done
enjoyed that though!
― imago, Wednesday, 27 July 2022 17:52 (one year ago) link
Lol it’s fun reading imago enjoying Bad Bunny.
As a latinamerican yeah it’s a bit weird how it seems most US/UK is unaware of him and the rest of the world seems to love him. I still remember how confused I was hearing artists like Luis Fonsi, Ricky Martin, J Balvin, Enrique Iglesias and Bad Bunny being played non-stop as party music in Singapore and Thailand when I went there.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Wednesday, 27 July 2022 18:18 (one year ago) link
i don't think most americans are unaware of him... he's had the biggest selling album in the country this year bar none. apple music has top 25 charts based on cities around the world, bad bunny is all over the charts for nyc, LA, chicago, miami, houston, dallas, san francisco, DC, seattle, philadelphia, phoenix, san diego. can't speak for the UK tho
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 27 July 2022 19:06 (one year ago) link
uk charts still have quite a phobia of non english lyrics yet i hear bad bunny everywhere i go here. maybe because i am happy to hear his music i notice it more?
― stirmonster, Wednesday, 27 July 2022 19:55 (one year ago) link
americans whose familiarity w/ pop music extends solely to what has been ratified by (anglo) hits radio + similar center-of-mainstream avenues of exposure are likely still relatively unaware of bad bunny, or may know who he is + vaguely recall that he was on cardi's "i like it" but otherwise not rly know his other music. his amazing success is a reflection of the feverish level of consumption of his music among, generally, younger listeners (especially but far from exclusively latino). his songs that have been riding high in the top 10 of the singles chart have essentially zero anglo airplay aside from a smattering of weekend mixshow spins
― dyl, Thursday, 28 July 2022 03:18 (one year ago) link
it is bizarre to me that these mainstream outlets still basically ignore him as much as possible. the situation is different when you go to some of the cities that j0rdan mentioned, but not by a whole lot
― dyl, Thursday, 28 July 2022 03:21 (one year ago) link
it was funny to me when i saw some article about pop radio ppl deciding what to do about the encanto song "we don't talk about bruno" being a streaming smash. someone was quoted as saying, "these are drake-level streaming numbers, we have to pay attention." it was like, um, you mean, the artist whose material you routinely ignore and whose streaming numbers you generally dismiss as being irrelevant to your target audience? in the end they didn't acknowledge "bruno" much, and "running up that hill" is really the only out-of-nowhere streaming-first phenom they've bothered with in recent memory
― dyl, Thursday, 28 July 2022 03:24 (one year ago) link
got around to this and it's pretty good but absolutely way too long! enjoyed it more than his previous albums which i never really managed to vibe with
― ufo, Thursday, 18 August 2022 06:19 (one year ago) link
haha good, now we need to hear how YOU would shorten it
― imago, Thursday, 18 August 2022 06:21 (one year ago) link
there aren't any obvious dud tracks so idk that i'd necessarily cut anything, just split it into two for convenience
it almost gets away with the length, there's enough ideas to go around, but it's just too much at once as is
― ufo, Thursday, 18 August 2022 09:52 (one year ago) link
yeah, that was kind of my answer except for the 5 tracks i would cut obv lol
― imago, Thursday, 18 August 2022 10:12 (one year ago) link
did we ever find a satisfactory reason as to why he, two albums and three years later, added "caillaíta" to the end of this album? great song, regardless
― comedy khadafi (voodoo chili), Thursday, 18 August 2022 22:30 (one year ago) link
The song was released through Rimas Entertainment on May 31, 2019 as the first single from Bunny's fourth studio album, Un Verano Sin Ti (2022), appearing as the last song from the album acting as a bonus track.
― big movers, hot steppers + long shaker intros (breastcrawl), Thursday, 18 August 2022 23:41 (one year ago) link
Fun show seeing Bad Bunny at Nationals Park stadium in Washington DC. A big production with an island beach with palm trees, a portion of which elevated above the crowd with Bad Bunny on it. Lots of backing visuals, fireworks, a team of dancers and for encore some horn players. He had a beach chair he sat in at times . They were giving out light up wristbands before the show to members of the crowd too. A little over 2 hours
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 24 August 2022 03:57 (one year ago) link
Emphasis was on new album songs but he dug back too
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 24 August 2022 04:34 (one year ago) link
Bad Bunny is scheduled to do 2 shows this weekend at Yankee Stadium. Old-school salsa fans love that a 70s salsa multi-act bill filled Yankee Stadium one night. This is topping that.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 25 August 2022 15:13 (one year ago) link
Bad Bunny brought on a number of special guests at Yankee Stadium— Romeo Santos, ArcAngel, Jowell & Randy and more. Plus per Rolling Stone even folks who didn’t splurge for tickets , enjoyed the show:
Elated cheers filled the stadium, but the people inside weren’t the only ones listening: Massive crowds flooded the surrounding area, with fans dancing and celebrating outside the security gates, overjoyed that the music was loud and clear enough to travel across multiple city blocks. Entire families and throngs of children packed the nearby Macombs Dam Park to the brim, picnics and Puerto Rican flags in tow. It wasn’t just an event for people who got a ticket; it was one for all of the Bronx. His links there are deep: Bad Bunny famously drove through the borough during his memorable pandemic concert atop a moving van in 2020, and recorded part of his video for “Tití Me Preguntó” there.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 29 August 2022 01:20 (one year ago) link
One song from Yankee Stadium Sunday gig was live on MTV Awards .
A friend who had seen him on earlier tours liked the DC stadium show also. A pretty quick rise to mega- stardom -- saw some tweets from folks who had seen him in clubs not that many years ago
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 30 August 2022 15:16 (one year ago) link
I can't express how huge Bad Bunny is in South Florida across every young demographic.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 30 August 2022 15:18 (one year ago) link
he's absolutely the biggest pop star that i can remember, maybe in my lifetime. like i think he's on mj levels at this point.
― (grim) pump track (wales) (map), Tuesday, 30 August 2022 15:53 (one year ago) link
He has already done way more live performances than MJ iirc
His concerts this year have sold out in minutes and people buying from scalpers at ridiculous prices.
I saw people buying tickets to see him in Monterrey for prices above $900
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 30 August 2022 16:49 (one year ago) link
Real prices were around $150/$200
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 30 August 2022 16:50 (one year ago) link
What no mention of his WWE antics itt? They should set up a match between him and (also surprisingly good) Logan Paul.
― nashwan, Tuesday, 30 August 2022 16:58 (one year ago) link