27-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Condé Nast Traveler
Bad Bunny's Best Guide to Puerto Rico Is His Latest Album
This summer, Puerto Rico is about to experience a superboom of visitors rarely, if ever, before seen by its residents—and it's all thanks to Bad Bunny. On July 11, the island's homegrown superstar kicked off a series of consecutive weekend shows at the José Miguel Agrelot Coliseum in San Juan, which he has dubbed his 'No Me Quiero Ir de Aquí' (meaning I Don't Wanna Leave Here) residency. Bad Bunny will grace the stage at El Choli, as the venue is known, weekly every Friday through Sunday over the course of three months, wrapping up his home run on September 14 before setting out on a world tour across Latin America, Europe, Asia, and Australia.
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.
