Reggaeton superstar Bad Bunny’s new single “Yonaguni” showcases his ability to produce game-changing music for the culture yet again. The song includes lines in Japanese and has scored millions of plays online.
Released this month, the song is the first single the Puerto Rican singer has dropped since his last album El Último Tour del Mundo came out last November. The album debuted #1 on the Billboard 200 chart, the first all-Spanish-language album ever to top the popular list. Bad Bunny has one of the greatest accumulations of songs on the Billboard’s Hot Latin Songs, more than 80.
El Conejo Malo seems to be full of surprises.
Last year he dressed in drag for his video of “Yo perreo sola,” a song that earned him a Latin Grammy, the second one of his career.
This past January he released a music video with Robert Booker Tio Huffman Jr., who is a WWE professional wrestler under the stage name Booker T.
This time around, “Yonaguni” makes listeners wonder if the Latino artist has an interest in things Japanese. The sing’s title refers to Japan’s westernmost inhabited island of Japan, located nearly 70 miles from Taiwan.
Taking fans by surprise once more, the outro of the single is completely in Japanese. Bad Bunny also mentions Itachi Uchiha, a character from the popular Japanese anime Naruto, hinting at a potential linkage to his interest and anime pop-culture of the Land of the Rising Sun.
“Yonaguni” already has more than 100 million plays on Spotify while the music video has also scored over 110 million plays on YouTube.
Coming to the music scene just five years ago, Grammy Award-winning Bad Bunny proves to his listeners that he is not done yet. Some may say he is just getting started. The top-selling artist appears in the new installment F9: The Fast Saga, the latest installment of the blockbuster The Fast and the Furious movie franchise starring Michelle Rodriguez and Vin Diesel, and is set to start his first post-pandemic tour in 2022.
