Doing Reggaetón However He Wants: Bad Bunny’s YHLQMDLG (Review) | NACLA

YHLQMDLG is a reggaetón album that will only sound groundbreaking outside of the genre's vanguard.

Hours before releasing his much anticipated sophomore album, Bad Bunny performed his latest single, featuring Panamanian urbano singer Sech, on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. Bad Bunny’s attire—pink jacket and long skirt—was an unsurprising choice for an artist who has continuously broken away from the gendered expectations fostered in both urban and pop music genres. What sparked attention was under his jacket: an oversized white t-shirt with a message that read “MATARON A ALEXA NO A UN “HOMBRE CON FALDA” (They killed Alexa, not a “man with a skirt”). U.S. and non-Puerto Rican…

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