When Harry Styles took home Grammy For this year’s album on 2023 ceremonyhis nominated colleague, Bad rabbitDid not think he had been stumbled. And why should he? His album, The Chart-Popped “Un Verano,” was already a big winner in several ways: it was the first Spanish-speaking album ever nominated in the top category, and it was also the most commercially successful record in 2022, according to IFPI, which made him the first Latino who received the Handels Organization.
Still, his perception of the loss mentioned Much: “Maybe they were not ready for a Spanish -speaking album to win the big prize,” he told Vanity Fair the following year. “I didn’t even feel that (this year’s album) had been stolen from me until the media began to say (it), and I saw that everyone thought I deserved the prize and everyone thought it was a robbery … It was when they were convinced me and I said,” Well, yes, it was a robbery then. “
With its latest effort, the 17 songs ”I had to throw more pictures” Bad rabbit Have again noted a best -selling album. But this time, the project represents the strongest artistic and political statement he has so far made, focused on his home in Puerto Rico. It is also undoubtedly his most ambitious and far -reaching project that contains its own high -speed and Raunchy reggaeton with visual and lyrical references to the region’s rich and complex history.
Each song on the album received a matching music video that contains history lessons on topics such as the effects of colonialism and its debt crises. The project also serves as a cultural conservation effort and highlights a legacy that has long been threatened with deletion.
In the latest news, streaming juggernaut has been dropped to the heading 2026 Super Bowl Halftime Show – A move that ignites hard debate. While many people applaud the milestone, the detractors claim to choose an artist who primarily behaves in Spanish is inappropriate for an event that they see as substantially American.
In addition to language issues, the decision is read as a political action, which is developed against a background of escalating tensions that affect the Latin community – and marginalized groups wider – throughout the United States.
It will take us to a striking pointed question this upcoming Gramm Season: Will voters follow and assign their highest honor to a politically charged Spanish -speaking album? Or will it retire from the cultural change that is now developing on the national scene?
Judging by the last story, a nomination seems likely, but a win is still a long shot.
At this point, Bunny Bady has infiltrated American pop culture enough to be recognizable to the average Grammy selector. (2022 told an anonymous Grammy voter Amount They believed that few people knew who the rapper and the reggaeton star was, and therefore would get people voting on him compared to the other nominees.) He has been a recurring face on “Saturday night live” and will host this season’s opener tomorrow night (October 4)-and has played in several US-produced movies. Nevertheless, none of it will guarantee that voters will pass the language barrier to get involved in the entire depth of their work.
Of course, his chances are higher with the Latin recording academic voters: he is the most nominated document at the upcoming price exhibition in November. The organization traditionally benefits Latin legends with decades in the industry for the major categories, although 2022, the year for “Un Verano its Ti”, was it Rosalía’s innovative “Motomami” It claimed the Latin Grammy for best album, which left Bad Bunny also closed from the best honor.
There is still a long -term uncertainty about where he fits in and how to recognize within these two organizations, which are widely recognized as distributing the best awards in their areas. Att förflytta honom enbart till de latinska Grammys känns inte längre korrekt – inte när hans turnéer regelbundet fyller oss stadioner (även om han medvetet lämnade USA på sin massiva “Debí Tirar Más Fotos” -turné på grund av pågående ICE -raid, och Trump -administrationen har sagt att agenter kommer att vara vid The Being at the the Wot the Weat the Weat the Weing at the Wot the Weat Super Bowl), and his music regularly dominates global charts and reasoning deeply with millions of Spanish-speaking listeners in a country where Latinos is now the largest racial or ethnic minority.
Between mainstream visibility and institutional validation, there is still an unspoken expectation that he must prove himself within a framework that is familiar to a largely English -speaking vote base.
If Grammy for this year’s album is still treated as the ultimate marker for mainstream acceptance, is it fair to ask: Should Bad Bunny still care about winning it?
And at a time when Recording Academy has worked hard to get back artists who felt they had been stumbled before, if it will nominate him, voters have a responsibility to get acquainted with this album and all others-long beyond a brief needle-drop.
