Puerto rico puerto rico song: Fans thank Bad Bunny for ‘giving a voice’ to Puerto Rico at exactly the right time

Fans thank Bad Bunny for ‘giving a voice’ to Puerto Rico at exactly the right time

“Maldita sea, otro apagón.” (“Damn it, another blackout.”)

For Puerto Rican residents like Noelia Torres, 22, Bad Bunny’s words in his newly released music video for “El Apagón” (The Blackout) could not have come at a better time.

Torres, a resident of the town of Caguas, is currently without electricity and water following Hurricane Fiona, which has caused devastating destruction, including an islandwide blackout and catastrophic flooding.

Bad Bunny’s new video features more than his song — it is followed by an 18-minute documentary highlighting injustices and inequalities that Puerto Ricans have been grappling with for years. 

The documentary, “Aquí Vive Gente” (“People Live Here”) by Bianca Graulau, an independent journalist from Puerto Rico, looks at the island’s ongoing struggle with the power grid, issues of gentrification and the ensuing displacement impacting the island’s residents.  

Torres loves that the Puerto Rican trap-reggaeton superstar used his platform to put a spotlight on the island’s very deteriorated electrical system — as Puerto Ricans continue to struggle without power, potable water and heavy damage following Hurricane Fiona.

“He uses his platform to educate issues that really matter,” Torres told NBC News. “He’s been a huge supporter of Puerto Rico. He is always telling us to do what we want with conscience and to always fight for our dreams and fight for a better future for our island of Puerto Rico.”

Yaisha Marie Thodes felt her eyes start to water when she saw her own great-grandmother featured in Bad Bunny’s video. 

“Thank you Bad Bunny, thank you for being who you are, thank you for representing us and having us in your heart and soul,” she wrote in a Facebook post. 

Milly Clemente, a 27-year-old from Virginia, first learned about Puerto Rico’s current issues through Bad Bunny’s music video, spurring her to ask a friend about the situation and learn more.

“This song has opened the eyes of many people who were unaware of the situation in Puerto Rico and it’s a good strategy to raise awareness,” she told NBC News. “We need people with influence and we need to let them raise their voices. It’s excellent that Bad Bunny is raising his voice for Puerto Rico. It was a great time to release this video and spread the word.” 

Javier Tomas, 27 and a resident of both Puerto Rico and New York, told NBC News that he has personally experienced tons of blackouts living in the island. He said Bad Bunny’s video is a “clear description” of the reality that Puerto Ricans live day by day.

“I think any effort to improve the quality of life in Puerto Rico is welcome,” Tomas said. “It is important that the world knows the reality of P.R., especially the United States.”

Bad Bunny also tries to capture the sound of Puerto Rico in his music, aside from focusing on the issues his homeland faces.

“I’m very proud about my music, about my culture,” Bad Bunny said in an interview earlier this year with Apple Music. “I still to this day make music for the people of Puerto Rico first. I make music from here, for the rest of the world to hear.” 

“El Apagón” resonates with residents who have been grappling with an aging and deteriorating power grid even before the destruction from Hurricanes Maria and now Fiona, and who have been very critical of price increases and rolling blackouts after a private company took over Puerto Rico’s energy transmission and distribution system.

The documentary also criticizes the displacement of Puerto Ricans on the island as tax incentives have spurred more wealthy investors to buy up real estate and push prices up significantly in many areas. 

“They’re evicting Puerto Ricans to get rich with what’s from here, with what’s native from here,” one woman, who said she was given 30 days to leave her apartment, told Graulau in the documentary. “And now, where do I go?”

The documentary also brings up the privatization of beaches, in which private tourist developments are restricting access to the island’s public beaches.  

“It’s part of this whole selling of Puerto Rico that our Bad Bunny talks about in the video, where we see that our natural resources are being sold, that our beaches are being sold, that the environment is not being taken care of,” Roberto Cruz, managing attorney for Latino Justice, a civil rights organization formerly known as the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund, said.

“All those resources that could be developed within the community in Puerto Rico are being outsourced,” Cruz said. 

The theme of displacement also connects to the last sentences in Bad Bunny’s song, which are sung by Bad Bunny’s girlfriend, Gabriela Berlingeri. She sings in Spanish: “I don’t want to leave here, let them go. This is my beach, this is my sun. This is my land, this is me.”

In the documentary, a man tells Graulau, the filmmaker, that “it isn’t fair to be displaced by economic interests. … We were born here.”

The music video has more than 6 million views and an outpouring of comments from fans thanking Bad Bunny for raising awareness and advocating for his community.   

Cruz, holding back tears, said that through Bad Bunny’s colorful language, the music star articulated the feeling many Puerto Ricans have about economic and environment injustices.

“We are proud and grateful to Bad Bunny,” Cruz said, “for giving a voice to the people of Puerto Rico during Hurricane Fiona.”

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Bad Bunny’s Latest Music Video Doubles as a Documentary on Gentrification in Puerto Rico | Smart News

Bad Bunny, a global reggaeton sensation whose latest album just topped the Billboard 200 for the 11th week, released a short documentary on Puerto Rico’s infrastructure failures and gentrification.
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“Maldita sea, otro apagón” (“Damn it, another blackout”) is a lyric from global reggaeton superstar Bad Bunny’s “El Apagón,” a track from his latest album, Un Verano Sin Ti. It’s also an apt description of what Puerto Ricans endured this week, as Hurricane Fiona ripped through the island and caused its power grid to fail.

Bad Bunny, who grew up in public housing in Puerto Rico’s Vega Baja, has long incorporated commentary on social and political issues in Puerto Rico—including gender inequality, transphobia, gentrification and colonialism—into his music. On Friday, just before Fiona made contact with the island, Bad Bunny released his most explicitly political work yet: a music video for “El Apagón” that transitions into an 18-minute documentary about Puerto Rico’s power grid failures, gentrification and colonialism.

“I hope people in PR can watch my video before the lights go out,” Bad Bunny posted to his Instagram story on Friday. As of this writing, the video has over six million views, which is perhaps unsurprising for the global sensation whose latest album just spent its 11th week at the top of the Billboard 200.

In the video, “El Apagón,” a song already political in its own right, is paired with breathtaking drone footage of Puerto Rico’s beaches and clips of residents dancing in the streets. About one minute in, the music is abruptly interrupted with a brief report by freelance journalist Bianca Graulau on Puerto Rico’s recurring blackouts, which, she explains, have worsened since the power grid was placed in the private hands of Luma Energy. Joyful footage of Puerto Ricans dancing at a Bad Bunny concert runs for the rest of the song.

Graulau, an independent Puerto Rican journalist who has amassed a following on social media for her independent reporting on her island’s socioeconomic and political issues, takes over again for the documentary portion of the video, which is called “Aquí Vive Gente” (“People Live Here”). She begins her report in the home of a woman named Maricusa Hernández, who is sitting at a table with two other Puerto Ricans and discussing gentrification. “They’re displacing native Puerto Ricans,” says Hernández.

The documentary tells numerous personal stories: Hernández, the viewer learns, has lived in her apartment building for 26 years, but she received a 30-day vacate notice when her building was purchased by a new owner and rent skyrocketed. Laura Mía González was a victim of the same series of events. Jorge Luis González, a longtime resident of public housing neighborhood Puerta de Tierra, has seen schools close and neighbors kicked out. “Public housing projects are the heart of Puerta de Tierra,” he says. “If they remove us, Puerta de Tierra will die.”

These personal stories of gentrification and displacement are then situated in their larger context: Incentivized by major tax breaks available to new residents, individuals and companies have been coming to Puerto Rico, buying up real estate and raising rents. 

In its last seven minutes, “Aquí Vive Gente” turns its attention to the privatization of Puerto Rican beaches and protests against it. By law, Puerto Rican beaches are public property, but developers have increasingly attempted to privatize them. In Rincón, a condominium began building a private pool right next to the beach last year, which sparked protests and a legal battle. (A court eventually ruled that the development violated the law.)

The documentary ends with footage of activists demolishing the pool themselves earlier this year. As they celebrate their victory in the face of privatization and gentrification, the end of “El Apagón” plays again. “I don’t want to leave here,” Bad Bunny’s partner, Gabriela Berlingeri, sings in Spanish. “This is my beach. This is my sun. This is my land. This is me.”

After the video’s release, Graulau shared her gratitude on Instagram. “What an honor to be trusted to tell the stories of our communities, to have the opportunity to work with such a talented team of people, and to have your support to do this work,” she wrote in a post. She also thanked Bad Bunny for “sharing your platform and supporting independent journalism.”

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Original lyrics and lyrics

Puerto Rico :

Wake up Angelita, your mama just turned off the light
Manolo is already waiting by the old water-pipe
Her shoes in one hand she carefully walks down the stairs
Holding her breath ’cause there’s danger and love in the air.

Aie aie aie aie aie aie Puerto Rico
Aie aie aie aie aie aie Puerto Rico

Your papa will beat him if he ever finds out
Begging the Virgin won’t help when you hear Manolito shout,
Manolito shout
He’s already standing under the starlit sky
You run to his arms and you laugh and you cry as he holds you tight

Aie aie aie aie aie aie Puerto Rico
Aie aie aie aie aie aie Puerto Rico

He says he’ll be leaving you soon still you beg him to stay
But he wants to make it somewhere in the U.S.A.
And though he’ll be far he promises he’ll write every day
When time will be right, he’ll come back and he’ll take you away

Aie aie aie aie aie aie Puerto Rico
Aie aie aie aie aie aie Puerto Rico

Your papa don’t like him, he says he’s no good
He steals and he fights and he never behaves, like a young man should
Angelita she knows, he’s not that bad inside
She takes the medal, she wears on a chain, and presses it into his palm.

Aie aie aie aie aie aie Puerto Rico
Aie aie aie aie aie aie Puerto Rico

Translation into Russian or English of the lyrics – 9. air.

Ai AEI AEI AEI AEI Puerto Rico
Ai AEI AEI AEI AEI AEI Puerto Rico

Your dad will beat him if he ever finds out
Please Virgin won’t help when you hear Manolito cry,
Manolito cry
He was already standing under the starry sky
You run him up in your arms and laugh and you cry as he holds you tight

Ai AEI AEI AEI AEI AEI Puerto Rico
Ai AEI AEI AEI AEI AEI Puerto Rico

He says he will be leaving you soon yet you beg him to stay
But he wants to do it somewhere in the U.S.A.
And although he will be far away he promises he will write every day
When the time is right he will return and he will take you

Ai AEI AEI AEI AEI AEI Puerto Rico
Ai AEI AEI AEI AEI AEI Puerto Rico

Your dad didn’t want him, he says he’s no good
He steals and he fights and he never behaves like a young man should
Angelita she knows he’s not that bad inside
She takes the medal she wears on a chain and presses it in her palm.

Ai AEI AEI AEI AEI AEI Puerto Rico
Ai AEI AEI AEI AEI AEI Puerto Rico

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90,000 50 best songs by Bad Bunny – release 5 – all about music – February 17 – 43013994973

This release with the best songs, Puerto -Rikanskaya BAD Bunny ( Bad Rabbit) ends, start here, part 2 here, part 3 here,

10 ‘Chambea’ 2017

from “Chambea” he announced his decision to enter this world. It’s a song and music video rife with references to the WWE stars , he admired as a kid, all wrapped up in a brash boastful track with one of his most memorable chants that always gets the crowd moving. This is a song that could only come out of the pen of someone who strives to live carefree and dares to ruin his day for you.

09 ‘Callaita,’ Bad Bunny feat. Tainy – 2019

This sentimental ode to the quiet girl who can party with the best of them has become a live performance darling thanks to its instantly recognizable chorus and luscious production of Tainy’s dreambow . The atmospheric intro—the song begins with the cawing of seagulls and breaking waves before moving into gentle piano—made it the perfect complement to Un Verano Sin Ti despite being released in 2019 . But Bad Bunny seems to have figured it out for the album – this track sounds like a sunset on a beach.

08 ‘P FKN R,’ BAD Bunny and Arcangel and Kendo Kaponi – 2020

Each fan of Benito ( Benito ) remembers, where they were on that night, where they were on the night YHLQMDLG dropped, and if you tuned in from his homeland, “ P FKN R ” became the anthem. Bad Bunny named their wildly successful two-day festival in San Juan after the title of a song that also went viral on social media for the people of Puerto Rico. The track is an unapologetic maliantheo featuring bombastic guest verses from Bad Bunny fellow countrymen Kendo Kaponi and Arcangel ( Kendo Kaponi and Arcangel ) that help him prove how loyal he is to his island.

07 ‘CARO’ – 2018

in 2018 BAD Bunny Actually enjoyed the catchy princes, perfectly covered nails of nails and cords above knaels, which attracted the attention of the village and homophobes. His answer was “Karo”, one of his most memorable hymns of pompous self-love. He delivered the message with a swagger that only he was capable of: Ricky Martin’s hidden function ( Ricky Martin ), an upbeat trap beat and music video featuring non-gendered models and neurodiversion models. It was another sign that he would continue to fail at every stage of his career.

06 ‘ESTAMOS BIEN’ 2018

REGETON ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS AND THE BAD Bunny emphasized the relationship between them in a delicate, inspired by the Elegy of the Elegy of the Eleig0003 Estamos Bien ”. Released after Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico and claimed thousands of lives, the trembling 808s and the track’s small loops highlight a difficult period, but they also speak of Puerto Ricans’ irresistible strength and moments of finding joy. When Bad Bunny made his television debut on The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon ( Jimmy Fallon ) he bluntly called out what the island went through and the shameful reaction Donald Trump .

05 ‘El Apagón’ – 2020

BAD Bunny created many hymns that reflect the strength and viability of the Puerticians. However, “ El Apagon ” is a tribute to island pride like no other. With charged electronic production, poignant lyrics calling for gentrification and brilliant samples of “Controversia” by Ismael Rivera ( Ismael Rivera ) and “ Vamos a Joder ” by DJ Joe he reveals the true essence of the archipelago. His longtime girlfriend, Gabriela Berlingeri ( Gabriela Berlinger i), sings in the ethereal finale: “ Esta es mi playa /Este es mi so l” – conveying the message to the listeners that Puerto Rico will never be put up for sale. To make it even more impressive, Bad Bunny premiered the video along with a short documentary showing what’s going on at P.R.

04 ‘Solo de Mi’ – 2018

x100pre contains many surprises, but few of them respond stronger than “ SOLO de MX ”. There are dark piano keys, a slow-burning dembow riddim and an electrifying rhythm switch Taini and La Paciencia that act like a static shock on the body. But most important is the song’s underlying message of self-determination, especially given the possessive undercurrent of modern love. The video only highlights these themes and it even anticipated future accusations Bad Bunny in gender violence

03 ‘La Romana,’ Bad Bunny feat. El Alfa – 2018

This standout model from the X100PRE is already a classic, remembered for the electrical interplay between the Bad Bunny and the Dominican dembow godfather El Alfa —and legendary as well. Halfway through, the jingling bachata strings and airhorns that start the song give way to a nasty bass and throaty scream of “ fuego-fuego-fiya-fiya .” The song is a brilliant cross-island connection that jump-started both artists and placed them at the center of the genre’s most exciting experiments.

02 ‘YO Perreo Sola’ – 2020

with “YO Perreo Sola” Bad Bunny (and carrying, Puertoorican artist, whose cunning holes are not indicated) brings reggaeton back to its roots. An amazing track (and an even more amazing video) affirms women who take to the dance floor alone (or at least without men), believing in their own strength. ” Yo Perreo Sola ” is reminiscent of the erotic yet communal African dances that influenced Caribbean traditions, evoking the world before Europeans co-opted such gestures and refocused them on heterosexual partnership Safaera,’ Bad Bunny featuring Jowell & Randy and Ñengo Flow – 2020

How soon can a musician be considered an icon? For Bad Bunny took only a few short years – and in that time the Puerto Rican superstar went from releasing ‘s truncated Soundcloud records to shocking the world with intricate masterpieces like ‘s “Safaera”, ‘s audacious centerpiece in his career.