Bad Bunny's Best Guide to Puerto Rico Is His Latest Album
While tickets for the first nine shows were sold to locals only—proof of Puerto Rican residency was required for all 125,000 tickets purchased—beginning on August 1 visitors will be welcome to the 21 remaining dates. Variety magazine reports that the forthcoming influx of visitors is estimated to generate nearly $200 million in revenue for the island.
And yet the focal point of Bad Bunny's latest album, DeBí TiRAR MáS FOToS, (meaning I Should Have Taken More Photos) is Puerto Rico's fight to maintain its cultural identity and history amid its rapid gentrification by affluent outsiders and corporate interests. In the song 'Turista,' for example, Benito compares a frosty ex-lover to that of a tourist in a foreign land. 'En mi vida fuiste turista / Tú solo viste lo mejor de mí,' he sings, lamenting that she was never curious enough to fully capture his emotional complexity.
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