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Bad Bunny Phoned Home
His new album, a spirited homage to Puerto Rico, smokes its predecessor.
Fotos is often thinking and speaking on two levels, working toward the artist’s vision of “reggaeton jíbaro” — a marriage of the glossily programmed music of metropolitans and the more bucolic sounds predating it — or sprinkling his signature fixations on romances brewing and spoiling with a secondary dusting of hometown pride and political intrigue. “Veldá” taps Carolina singers Omar Courtz and Dei V for a flirty club track whose tiny slice of the 2002 Plan B kiss-off “No Voy a Esperar Por Ti” doffs its cap to veteran producer DJ Blass and rappers Chencho and Maldy and the stars of reggaeton’s aughts crossover. Fotos cuts to the chase in the shockingly forthright “Lo Que le Pasó a Hawaii.” The track implies that securing statehood for Puerto Rico might not just mean the dissolution of draconian laws that have hamstrung the local economy, and long-overdue access to constitutional rights denied to “unincorporated territories” of the United States, but also the development of real estate and the encroachment of White Lotus –typecharacters.
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