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3. J Balvin and Bad Bunny: “La Canción”
“Oasis,” Bad Bunny’s 2019 collaboration album with the Colombian reggaeton star J Balvin, wasn’t fairly the world-dominating inventive team-up it might need been, but it surely did spawn “La Canción,” a blissfully ethereal duet about heartbreak wherein Balvin sounds sweetly cloying, and Bad Bunny sounds as if he would possibly faint of heartache.
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4. Bad Bunny, Jowell & Randy and Ñengo Flow: “Safaera”
Especially early in his profession, Bad Bunny was pegged as a type of outsider curiosity, an eccentric with a fluid strategy to songcraft and visible presentation. But what’s at all times been lurking beneath these poses is a reverence for the historical past of Latin music. His nods to traditional reggaeton are clear on this observe from his second studio album, “YHLQMDLG,” which options earlier-generation artists just like the duo Jowell & Randy and the rapper Ñengo Flow.
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5. Bad Bunny and Zion & Lennox: “Más de Una Cita”
This teamup with the essential reggaeton duo Zion & Lennox — from “Las Que No Iban a Salir,” an odds-and-ends compilation from 2020 — demonstrates how Bad Bunny innovated on the reggaeton he was raised on. There’s a sure acidity within the voices of Zion & Lennox, a way of scraping towards the beat, whereas when Bad Bunny arrives, he floats, after which sighs, after which melts.
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6. Bad Bunny and Jhayco: “Dákiti”
One of the largest songs of Bad Bunny’s profession — a profession virtually overflowing with huge songs — is “Dákiti,” a duet with Jhayco from the third Bad Bunny venture launched in 2020, “El Último Tour del Mundo.” This is reggaeton-shaped club-pop, dreamy and celebratory and anchored by some of the convincing drum patterns of the final 5 years.
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7. “Tití Me Preguntó”
The industrial peak of Bad Bunny’s profession thus far has been the 2022 album “Un Verano Sin Ti,” his most musically formidable and various launch. “Tití Me Preguntó” exhibits him dabbling in Dominican dembow, a quick and salacious type, with equally quick and salacious lyrics.
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8. “Cybertruck”
Bad Bunny’s 2023 album “Nadie Sabe Lo Que Va a Pasar Mañana” felt a tiny bit like a dare — after the massive pop success, a retrenchment. Some of the experimentation on this LP was with essentially the most forward-thinking manufacturing types of the yr, together with this relentless, plain flirtation with drill music.
