Dr. Shaya let me pick this Friday’s song of the day, so I immediately decided to focus on Puerto Rican / global superstar Bad Bunny’s performance at the 2022 MTV Video Music Awards. Bad Bunny has been the most streamed artist on Spotify for the past two years.

Bad Bunny broadcast this performance live from his show at Yankee Stadium, and then Carmelo Anthony presented him with the award for Artist of the Year.  BB’s gave his acceptance speech entirely in Spanish, a first for the awards show.

Foregrounding his Puerto Rican identity is central to Bad Bunny’s work as an artist.  He is best know for reggaetón, but experiments with rock, merengue, cumbia and bossa nova.

I hope you enjoy this performance!