The party had already started in the Madrid metro, in a crowded car where Juan, a Colombian, entered with a powerful speaker from which he was playing I behave pretty. around you those who went to the Bad Bunny concertmany with Puerto Rican flags, although not all were Puerto Ricans because “Benito represents us all”said a Venezuelan.
When getting off the subway at the station Metropolitan Stadiumthe pavas (Puerto Rican hat) and the magas (an endemic flower of that Caribbean country) pinned to the hair followed the owner of the speaker, because that’s what they were all there for: to dance and feel like members of a Latin community proud of its roots and twinned with Europe.
“What great pride!” Gabriela expressed excitedly, already inside the concert, while Bad Bunny sang Nuevayol with the winds of the Los Sobrinos orchestra and the dedicated dancers on stage.
Gabriela is a Puerto Rican who lives in Texas and traveled to Madrid to see the most famous of her compatriots perform. because the tour I should have taken more photos It does not go through the United States.
“I’m not complaining that he hasn’t passed through my city,” he comments. “It’s fine with me; It is a form of protest for what is happening with the persecution of the immigrants. “In addition, he has been performing in Puerto Rico for many days, so Americans who have wanted to see him have been able to go there and spend their money in my country.”
That is one of the feelings shared by the “rabbits”, a community with numerous members that in Madrid sold out the tickets for their ten concerts in record time, which is about 600 thousand people.
To them we must add those who have been left out, like those who gather every night near gates 47 and 20 of the Metropolitan stadium, which are the two where the music is best heard, and those who have not been able to pay a ticket dance.
There is Giuseppe, an Ecuadorian who lives in Madrid and who comes every day to listen to Bad Bunny from abroad.
“He sings about the real problems of Latin Americans. Things that the world doesn’t know about, like Hawaii,” he says in reference to the song. What happened to Hawaiiwhich addresses gentrification and the loss of identity of territories near the United States affected by cultural colonialism.
That musical theme did not play that night at the Metropolitano in Madrid, but it was not due to lack of delivery of the “Bad Rabbit”, which He performed 26 songs for almost three hours.
More than 60 thousand people danced in Madrid as if there were no tomorrow to the rhythm of I twerk alone, Effect, safaera, tell them and Monaco.
While Bad Bunny searched the audience for someone to shout his war cry, “Acho, PR is not anything,” the spectators were able to take a break, and Yiselis, a Venezuelan who came from Germany to see “the best,” confessed that These concerts are also “a place to listen to the music” that she heard as a child in her country before emigrating and remember her loved ones.
“It reminds me of my country, I miss it a lot“She says while trying to hold back tears.
Doris, born in Mexico and resident in the United States, adds that “Bad Bunny talks about all of us. In Europe they now know us better thanks to him. They even understand us better, because there are words that are used there that were not understood before, and now people know them.”
The artist fed this feeling from the stage, with a musical repertoire in which the reggaeton and trap They were twinned with traditional Latin American rhythms such as plena, bomb and salsa.
He also did it with words when, in the final section of the concert, he encouraged those present to proudly raise their flag. Many Puerto Ricans appeared, but also Colombians, Venezuelans, Brazilians, Spanish, Catalans and Canary Islands. A fusion.
Bad Bunny “sings from the heart and shows humble and hard-working Latin America —adds Sebastián, Venezuelan—. There have been others who have done it before, but none is as great as him,” he concludes.
The Puerto Rican singer Bad Bunny continues his tour in the Madrid Metropolitan Stadium on June 6, 7, 10, 11, 14 and 15, 2026.
