Bunny

via Buena Vista Pictures One of the great, underrated film genres is the 1990s action flick that stars a crew of unlikely antiheroes thrown together – despite the fact they are natural enemies – to defeat a common enemy while bickering, sweating through their undershirts, and blowin’ shit up. There are the heralded classics, like Armageddon, The Rock, and Die Hard with a Vengeance. And then there’s Con Air. Released in 1997, a full year after Nicolas Cage electrified audiences in Michael Bay’s debut The Rock,…

“I’m not gonna sleep below the glass ceiling,” Jaguar Jonze sings on her debut album, her voice barely a whisper.Then, moments later with the volume turned right up: “You could’ve destroyed me, but then I got loud.”This defiance is at the heart of Bunny Mode, an 11-track juggernaut that is cutting in its specificity. Its title refers to a survival tactic that the artist employed as a survivor of childhood abuse: a freeze response to any safety threats, like a frightened rabbit. The record is a middle finger to oppressors…

Bad Bunny has long been a hero on the charts, but now he’s doing it onscreen.The global sensation opened up to GQ for a new cover story, and touched on what it was like to get the starring role in Sony Pictures’ upcoming El Muerto, the first live-action Marvel property with a Latino lead. “I grew up watching wrestling,” he told GQ of the antihero part. “This role is perfect, and I know El Muerto is going to be epic. I’m a Marvel fan and the fact that I’m now part of this family still feels like a dream.”Bunny made his WWE…

The first week numbers for Bad Bunny’s new album Un Verano Sin Ti and Jack Harlow’s Come Home the Kids Miss You are here.Bad Bunny met expectations by topping the charts, after it was initially anticipated last week that he would reach No. 1 on the Billboard 200. The album moved 274,000 equivalent album units, Billboard reports. Of the 274,000, 261,000 are from SEA units, 12,000 from album sales, and 1,000 from TEA units. It’s the Puerto Rican artist’s second chart-topping album of his career, his best sales week ever,…

If you’re young, Latino and slightly prone to melodramatics, you might be the kind of person who stays up for a midnight Bad Bunny album release. In the streaming age, the now-familiar “surprise” Bad Bunny album drop has become an online rite of passage for his global fan base, which seems to grow exponentially with every record. Upon last Friday’s release of “Un Verano Sin Ti,” or “A Summer Without You,” fans took to their phones and computers to communally revel in its 23 songs. A procession of Puerto Rican nostalgia,…

If you Google Bad Bunny – AKA 28-year-old Puerto Rican Benito Ocasio – one of the suggestions the search engine throws up is the question: “Why is Bad Bunny so big?” It’s a pertinent query, particularly on this side of the Atlantic, where he remains a marginal figure with a solitary hit single, 2018’s Drake-assisted Mia. Yet he could call himself the biggest pop star in the world: he was the most streamed artist on Spotify in both 2020 and 2021, racking up 17.4bn streams in two years. In the US, he is huge on a historic…