How Bad Bunny won 2022
Switched on Pop
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Reggaton Is a Type of Folk Music
I played more than a decade ago in an Afro Latin jazz band trying to play bass we attempted many different Caribbean styles. For me it was musically like trying to do advanced calculus because my subdivisions of rhythms were not substantive enough or well practiced for the entire group. I just have these horrible nightmare memories flashbacks of the drummer staring at me so angry that I could not play these rhythms properly. But that's part of why this album has such an appeal to a lot of Latinas in America because it's things that are ingrained in our bodies and in our bones. It's something innate that Bad Bunny is accessing he has sort of like a key and he's in locking different different locks
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