Bad Bunny rises to the fashion of the Mexican regional genre by the hand of Grupo Frontera

Puerto Rican singer Bad Bunny with Grupo Frontera, in a promotional image for the single 'Un x100to'.badbunnypr (RR SS)

The Puerto Rican singer Benito Martínez Ocasio,

, has deciphered the path that for a few months has led directly to the lists of fashionable musical successes: the exponential rise of the regional Mexican genre.

Led by Grupo Frontera – a group originally from the United States but with a great character of the Mexican genre – has released this Monday

, a Mexicanized cumbia grupera, in the pure style of groups like Bronco, Selena or even the rhythms of Los Ángeles Azules .

El Conejo Malo thus captures his participation in the collaborative theme with an intervention of just over a minute of references to heartbreak and melancholy derived from the breakup, a common denominator of the classical repertoire that the Puerto Rican, which he shares along with the most partying reggaeton.

A sample of that melancholic trend was reflected in the title of his latest album,

.

The chorus of

is a clear summary of the general trend in which the song flows:

.

From a musical point of view, Bad Bunny takes a journey from his sculpted style, his comfort zone of

and reverberation, to the pure regional style.

In his intervention, a change can be seen from the first words, beginning with "a long time ago", which reminds others of his songs such as

;

to “rogándote”, which progressively introduces him to the classic rhythm of Grupo Frontera's Mexicanized cumbia.

The genre of cumbia, originally from Colombia, found Mexico as its essential speaker at a global level during

of the last century, as the historian specialized in music from CIESAS, Luis Omar Montoya, points out.

“Mexico is the one that sets cultural trends in Latin America, it is the largest consumer market, a cultural powerhouse,” he explains.

Grupo Frontera emerged in Texas, in the US, from the Mexican roots of its six musicians: Adelaido

Solís, Julian Peña, Carlos Frontera, Alberto Acosta, Carlos Zamora and Juan Javier Cantú.

The American region has great influence of the genre, with singers like Selena Quintanilla (better known only as Selena), Bobby Pulido or the band Los Palominos.

The collaborative theme follows the guidelines that have led to the name of Grupo Frontera being molded to the charts.

The version of the song

by the Colombian pop group Morat led the group to join Spotify's Top 50 in the country;

and

, along with Fuerza Regida, helped them maintain their success in the country.

At the time of publication of this note, the Mexican group has five songs on the Mexican hit list, four of them collaborative:

(ranked 14),

(15),

(28) ,

(33) and

(36).

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