Bad Bunny on the attack: launches 'A summer without you', an album with 23 reggaeton whiplashes

It was February 2020, the pandemic had not yet broken out, and Bad Bunny, artistic name of Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio (28 years old, Vega Baja, Puerto Rico), launched

acronym for

, with which he won a Grammy for best Latin pop album and ended up consecrating himself as the brightest star in Latin music.

In it, the singer waited until the last eight verses to threaten his retirement, in the song

: "This album is a bastard, I made it for you / And in nine months I'll come back and get another one / To retire quietly like Miguel Cotto" .

Said and done: in November

arrived and the

went on vacation... until today, Friday.

Bad Bunny returns with

, an album of 23 songs with a Caribbean atmosphere to accompany the good temperature that is already threatening us.

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In the hour and twenty duration of the album, the Puerto Rican artist returns to do tandem with La Paciencia, a Puerto Rican music producer with whom he began to take off in his early days.

That is why the sound is reminiscent of the Bad Bunny of the origins, which places more emphasis on reggaeton than on the experimental and fusion sounds that have been heard on

or

Although 23 songs go a long way and he has also left room to explore new fields, and incorporates genres that he had not dealt with until now, such as

reggae

or lambada

beach in the summer,

" the Puerto Rican said in the only interview he has given about this work, with

.

Most of the album has been recorded in the eastern part of Puerto Rico and in the Dominican Republic, where Bad Bunny has explored new beaches.

The Spanish actor Mario Casas has also been present in them, who has participated in the promotional videos that began to be published from this Monday, when the album was announced.

Until then there has been no progress or any news about him.

Martínez returns to the themes of partying, the beach and love relationships, although he also leaves room for vindication and social protest.

As in

a song that the artist wrote in defense of Puerto Rico and as a denunciation of the continuous power cuts that the country has suffered in recent months, after the management passed into private hands.

At the end of the song, in the words of her partner, Gabriela Berlingeri, she sends a message to these companies: "I don't want to leave here / Let them go, let them go / What belongs to me they keep / This is my beach, this is my sun / This is my land, this is me”.

It is no longer a surprise that the album reaches an hour and twenty in duration, something that in recent months has become common among artists of the genre.

by Jhay Cortez, lasts up to one hour and four minutes, and

by J Balvin, at one hour and 19 minutes.

A phenomenon that responds more to the

generation and that moves away from the classic and conceptual album model, in which all the songs defend an artistic idea from start to finish.

Among the collaborations of

are Jhayco

Rauw Alejandro or the Colombian group Bomba Estéreo.

In this time that has been inactive in music, except for four songs and some collaborations, the artist has not stopped having fun in other areas.

He has repeatedly appeared in WWE, the world's greatest wrestling show, where apart from singing he has participated in matches.

As a result of there the role that he has achieved in one of the future films that Sony is preparing in the Marvel universe.

Bad Bunny will play El Muerto, a Latino

and Spider-Man villain.

He will also act in

starring Brad Pitt, in which he will have a supporting character.

Bad Bunny on the red carpet of the Met Gala 2022, on May 2. Jamie McCarthy (AFP)

In addition to his foray into the cinema, the

has earned his place in the fashion industry.

The Puerto Rican has signed campaigns with Adidas and Crocs, has posed for Vogue, where he has worn garments by Dior, Prada or Dolce & Gabbanna, and has been a model for the latest Jacquemus collection.

The culmination was this Monday with his presence at the 2022 Met Gala, in which he appeared with a Riccardo Tisci design for the Burberry house, adorned with flowers in his hair and a tiara.