"To a massive crowd singing every word, he performed a surprise concert, along with friend and collaborator Arcangel, that was part hype-y music video shoot, part exultant post-tour homecoming, and part pointed critique. He ended the set with El Apagon (The Power Outage), a clubby protest anthem about local displacement and the rolling blackouts that have plagued Puerto Rico, a US commonwealth (read: colony), since Hurricane Maria in 2017."
"Bad Bunny sang it from a roof on Santurce's Calle Loiza, a thoroughfare in a former working-class Black neighborhood now dotted with Airbnbs. But you do not need the full context to get the show's contagious energy. Though I have never walked Calle Loiza, nor do I speak Spanish, the gas station show is still my favorite concert to rewatch via online fan clips: electric, organic, genuinely popular."
"In terms of reach, critical acclaim and longevity, Bad Bunny rivals and sometimes outsells the likes of Taylor Swift, Kendrick Lamar, Beyonce and Drake, though it is hard to imagine those peers appearing so unguarded, so public, as he does on that roof. That particular combination of pure charisma, irreducible identity and undeniable beats has propelled Bad Bunny, born Benito Antonio Martinez Ocasio, to the height of global superstardom, transcending language barriers to a heretofore unseen degree in the continental US."
Bad Bunny performed a surprise rooftop concert on a Gulf Oil gas station in San Juan days after Christmas 2022, drawing a massive crowd. He performed with Arcangel and ended with El Apagon, a clubby protest anthem about local displacement and the rolling blackouts that have affected Puerto Rico since Hurricane Maria in 2017. The show occurred on Santurce's Calle Loiza, a former working-class Black thoroughfare now dotted with Airbnbs, and displayed contagious energy that transcended language. Bad Bunny’s charisma, distinct identity and genre-smashing Caribbean Spanish music propelled him to global superstardom, selling out arenas and reaching diverse audiences.
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