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Rubén Blades responds to those who label Bad Bunny's music "trash"
Renowned singer-songwriter Rubén Blades defended Bad Bunny, who made history by winning the Grammy for Album of the Year, the most important category awarded for the first time to a Spanish-language production, but which, according to detractors, is considered "trash."
TL;DR
- Rubén Blades defended Bad Bunny after he won the Grammy for Album of the Year with a Spanish-language production.
- Blades criticized detractors who call Bad Bunny's music "trash" and "badly sung."
- He compared the criticism of Bad Bunny to the historical backlash against Elvis Presley.
- Blades advised critics to simply not listen to music they dislike instead of insulting artists.
- He defended genres like reggaeton, trap, rap, and hip-hop as new ways of interpreting the world.
- Bad Bunny had previously faced criticism from figures like Donald Trump and Mike Johnson regarding his Super Bowl performance.
- Conservative Latino figures like Eduardo Verástegui also criticized Bad Bunny's music as "cultural trash."