Bad Bunny | Matt Connarton Unleashed

0:00 Speaker 1: By the way, so you mentioned too, bad Bunny, I just won an award.

0:04 Speaker 2: Congratulations Bad Bunny. How proud are we? An American has been named the Top Latin Artist of the twenty first century at the twenty twenty five Latin Billboard of Music Awards that happened this past Thursday.

0:18 Speaker 1: Bad Bunny's an American? Wow?

0:20 Speaker 3: Well yeah, do we not know our geography?

0:23 Speaker 1: So yes?

0:24 Speaker 3: So for America has states and territories that we.

0:28 Speaker 1: All own, that's right.

0:29 Speaker 4: Part of why why we bring that up is because you know, and and it's it's been a number of weeks now, but it was there was some controversy or there still is some controversy about about Bad Bunny being selected to play the Super Bowl this year because some people like to say, wow, you know, you should have an American, and it's like, yeah, Bad Bunny is an American.

0:49 Speaker 2: We've had lots and lots of Super Bowls with artists from all around the world.

0:53 Speaker 1: Well it's not like it's a fur yeah.

0:55 Speaker 3: First anyway, because it's not true.

0:58 Speaker 4: But the point being bad he is an American because he's from Puerto Rico, and Puerto Rico is a part of the United States and I'd put something on social media when this whole controversy first erupted. It's like, you know, it's maybe it's a failure in our education system.

1:14 Speaker 3: If we don't know what America comprises.

1:16 Speaker 4: But I think a lot of it, too, is just willful ignorance supporting people's pre existing biases. And we won't get too far into that because we don't do politics on this version of the show, but just an observation. It always frustrates and disappoints me whenever I'm reminded that there is a large portion of the American population that doesn't seem to understand that Puerto Rico is a part of the United States. It's not a separate country. It is a part of the United States. Puerto Ricans and this will really annoy some people, but I'm going to say it because it literally is true.

1:45 Speaker 1: Puerto Ricans are just as American as you or me.

1:48 Speaker 3: Yes they are.

1:48 Speaker 4: They are born American citizens.

1:52 Speaker 3: Their certificates from America, American.

1:55 Speaker 1: Passport, they are born on American soil.

1:57 Speaker 4: Puerto Rico is a part of this great country, you know, And I'm sorry for the people who don't seem to understand that.

2:04 Speaker 1: But get it through your skulls and get over it.

2:08 Speaker 3: See.

2:08 Speaker 2: And one of the reasons I particularly have have followed Bad Bunny because he did a thing on w W.

2:17 Speaker 3: So awesome.

2:18 Speaker 2: Like you know, sometimes are you'll see like superstars or whatever get involved with wrestling and stuff, and then you know they make an appearance. But once in a while you see artists come in that really get into it, like, oh, who's the other one? The country singer Jelly Roll he did too, just like that Bunny. They both like took it so seriously. They did trainings and everything. And if you've never seen Bad Bunny's entrance when they had when he did the battle against Damien, my favorite entrance.

2:49 Speaker 2: It's awesome they do it's it's it's one of the best entrances to a match I think ever.

2:55 Speaker 3: I love it. The people go absolutely insane. You can feel the floor.

2:59 Speaker 2: I can't, but you'd see people posted about they could feel the floor.

3:02 Speaker 3: That was like the building was moving. It was so amazing.

3:05 Speaker 2: And just the thing about Bad Bunny too, I want to say what he said about getting this award because I think it's really awesome and.

3:13 Speaker 4: Oh, what's what's the ward again? Remind us I'm sorry. What is the award again? Remind us of So this is he.

3:18 Speaker 2: Was awarded the twenty twenty five Latin Billboard Music Awards. It's very prestigious, it's an honor, and it's you know. The ceremony was held. I don't remember exactly what forgive me. I don't remember exactly what the ceremonies. Oh, it was Thursday night. They had the ceremony Thursday night, and he had talked about like facing barriers and trying to break in into music and stuff. But he said, quote, for me, it's an honor to receive this award from your hands. I respect you and admire you so much.

3:49 Speaker 2: Every time I hear other artists speak as you did of me, it tells me that doing things from a good place and with your heart is always the best decision.

4:01 Speaker 3: He also told.

4:01 Speaker 2: Marino that quote, I know how much I have worked, and not just me, but my whole team. At the same time, I'm one hundred percent aware that any one of my colleagues could have been given this award. So he was very honored to receive it. It's you know, and he talks about how it's hard to be a Latino artist, and to really to fight to get your career going.

4:25 Speaker 4: And well to get to break into the mainstream can be really can be really challenging.

4:30 Speaker 2: But when you are doing it in Spanish, yeah, oh yeah, it's much harder.

4:35 Speaker 1: Absolutely. Yeah.

4:38 Speaker 2: The show that you guys did on retro a few weeks ago where it was artists who did their songs and other languages.

4:44 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, that was so cool on retrospect radio. Yeah, check out that episode. Yeah.

4:49 Speaker 3: I think there was a David Bowie one that was like in French.

4:51 Speaker 4: Yeah, and there was David Lee Roth who, of course, at least at least one, maybe two of the early David Lee Roth solo albums he recorded separate versions because he's fluent in Spanish. I had no idea he grew up in where he grew up in South Texas.

5:05 Speaker 1: He said Spanish was just as prevalent. I know.

5:09 Speaker 4: Another thing that will annoy some people, but get over it. Spent where he grew up Spanish was. I think it might have been al Paso. Spanish was just as prevalent as English languages.

5:19 Speaker 2: Yeah, no, kid, I did teaching people languages and the little kids, like I went overseas and I'm leeting like these little kids that are like nine years old and they speak English, Dutch and Freesian and I'm like, I'm struggling to figure out how to.

5:32 Speaker 3: Tell you thank you.

5:33 Speaker 2: So it's really cool when you see an artist who is in a genre that's harder than other genres because it is in a different language. It does make it that much harder. So it's great to see an American gainness award and with such grace. But like I said, I'm a fan of him. I've been a fan of him basically since I was introduced to him because of WWE. Yeah, yeah, you didn't see that. I highly recommend it. It's fun to watch musicians involved in WWE, especially when they take it seriously and they really go all in, like Jelly Rold did and like Bad Bunny did.

6:10 Speaker 2: So I mean, so congratulations out there to Bad Bunny. I think it's great you're playing at the super Bowl. Thank you for being a great American.

6:18 Speaker 1: Yes, love from us, Yes, Yes,