In a way, this is indicative of how streaming-era music has become a lot more chaotic, with widespread availability of music on services like Apple Music and Spotify as well as platforms like the white-label service Bandcamp and the crate-diggers’ paradise Discogs - not to mention traditional record stores like Newbury Comics and Coolidge Corner’s Village Vinyl & Hi-Fi. (Previous holders include former Patriots tight end Rob Gronkowski, the masked EDM DJ Marshmello, and former Boston College and NFL quarterback Doug Flutie.) 15 episode of “WWE Raw” true to its name, the 24/7 Championship can be won - and lost - at any time, inside or outside the ring.

He’s been the 24/7 Championship holder since pinning the Japanese grappler Akira Tozawa backstage during the Feb. That wasn’t just pop-star posturing the Puerto Rico-born Bad Bunny is, as of this writing, among the roster of champions in World Wrestling Entertainment. Maybe they don’t understand the words, but they feel the music.When the Latin trap superstar Bad Bunny performed on “Saturday Night Live” this month, he appeared in a couple of sketches - including a turn as a wisdom-dispensing plant in the pandemic-panic throwdown “Loco” - and performed two tracks from his latest album, last year’s chart-topping, rock-tinged “El Último Tour Del Mundo.” As he perched on a step and sang “Te Deseo lo Mejor,” a bummed-out ballad punctuated by fluttery snares, a championship belt, green leather with gold plating, lay across his lap. And Bad Bunny is breaking down barriers because he’s appealing to people who don’t speak Spanish at all. There are a lot of us who speak Spanish, and we like to sing in Spanish. Remember “Despacito,” the Luis Fonsi hit with Daddy Yankee and un cachito con Justin Bieber? That song was everywhere - and it didn’t get a Grammy either. The point is, his album beat out the ones entirely in English by Miley Cyrus, Michael Buble and Taylor Swift.Īnd that says something about America. So maybe it makes more sense to say that Bad Bunny’s latest album is primarily or overwhelmingly in Spanish. In another, he says he is “ en mi peak.” We get it, because we rock the Spanglish, too. In one song, he rhymes ascendor with dinosaur.

Bad Bunny has been nominated in two categories in the 2021 Grammys.Īll of this is great for Bad Bunny, who plays with language in his music.

And that’s saying something - not just about Bad Bunny, but about the award. He didn’t win the Grammy but, according to the Los Angeles Times, he became the most listened to artist on Spotify during 2020. He got his first Grammy nomination in 2019 for Record of the Year with “I Like It,” which features superstars Cardi B.

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