I Should Have Taken More Photos<\/em>) to see what it was all about. Am I in any way qualified to \u201creview\u201d the album as a country music critic? Absolutely not, and that is not what this is. Though in my defense, I am not entirely foreign to Latin music either, and know a decent amount of Spanish to usually be able to discern the theme of a song. <\/p>\n\n\n\nI had no idea what to expect from this album. Because again, I\u2019m a country music critic. But what I did know about Bad Bunny was that the top line description for him was that he was a rapper from Puerto Rico. So that\u2019s generally what I expected to hear, which meant there was a chance I only got 45 seconds or a song or two into the album before bailing. Because I\u2019m not particularly interested in listening to hip-hop, especially if it\u2019s in a second language.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But what I found was not a hip-hop record at all. Deb\u00ed Tirar M\u00e1s Fotos<\/em> is very distinctly a Latin record, and probably too diverse, and at times, too traditional to even label it as distinctly Latin pop. There are most certainly pop moments in the album, just as there are hip-hop moments and influences. But it\u2019s not just the Spanish language that makes this album distinctly separate from mainstream American music culture. It\u2019s the rhythms, the instrumentation, the textures and the intent.<\/p>\n\n\n\nFrankly, this album is too rich, to eclectic, too involved and ethnic for the at-large American appetite to ever even consider adopting wholesale. Those worried that Bad Bunny will use the bully pulpit of the Super Bowl halftime show to take over American culture need not worry. This is not Ricky Martin and his sellout American Spanglish bullshit. This is not Pitbull and his hype man gimmick where he spreads bovine fertilizer all over the audience while trying to not get any on his pearly white suit.
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Cover art for Deb\u00ed Tirar M\u00e1s Fotos<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\nDeb\u00ed Tirar M\u00e1s Fotos<\/em> doesn\u2019t have any of that. Instead Bad Bunny collaborates with other Puerto Rican artists like singer RaiNao, and a traditional Puerto Rican ensemble called Los Pleneros de la Cresta. <\/p>Music critics and Bad Bunny himself have said that Deb\u00ed Tirar M\u00e1s Fotos<\/em> is his most personal record to date. But every artist says that about every single album they release. In this instance though, it\u2019s probably true. This is an album for Puerto Rico, and of Puerto Rico. And yes, let\u2019s not overlook that Puerto Rico is officially part of the United States, even if it\u2019s separated by ocean similar to Hawaii, which gifted country music the sound of the steel guitar. <\/p>\n\n\n\nReggaeton is the term that\u2019s used for the prevailing version of Puerto Rican hip-hop music, including much of Bad Bunny\u2019s material. But even that labeling doesn\u2019t seem entirely apt here. There is still a lot of Electronica happening for sure, and the album still feels distinctly modern. But the verses are way too melodic to label it rap in many instances. There is straight up salsa music on certain tracks, along with \u201cplena\u201d music, which is the more traditional and Indigenous music of Puerto Rico.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This is not a sellout record. It\u2019s a record that captures an artist entrenching himself back into his native roots. This would be the country music equivalent of an artist like Taylor Swift making a record with strong traditional country elements, soliciting Asleep At The Wheel to guest on a track, and kind of out of the blue, and kind of at the height of her career. It\u2019s probably fair to say that Bad Bunny took some risks making this project. It\u2019s also probably fair to say those risks were rewarded.<\/p>
Arguably the biggest track on the record is called\u201dBAILE INoLIDABLE.\u201d After the minute introduction, it\u2019s a straight up salsa song, and is written as a tribute to Puerto Rico and its history. The video features Bad Bunny learning how to salsa dance in scenes that are similar to going to places like The Broken Spoke, The White Horse, and Sagebrush in Austin, Texas to learn to Texas two-step. The fact that he\u2019s wearing a Yankees\/Dodgers hat symbolizes how Bad Bunny has been Americanized away from his own culture.
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