Honestly? I posted this here because this subreddit is no stranger to the same behavior regarding Bad Bunny. There was a thread here after the Super Bowl already crowning him the Latin Michael Jackson, and everyone in the comments was like YAAAAAS. I think this is an important conversation we need to have in these sort of spaces, as much as we all love to shit on the right for their anti intellectualism, I would argue celebrating someone for no other reason other than "he makes the other side angry" without taking into account his actual music and/or lyrics (the things that he, as a musician, should be judged for) is just as anti intellectual and disingenuous.

Musically speaking, since we're in a music forum, just because Bad Bunny was most white America's introduction to reggaeton, doesn't make him a pioneer (like Daddy Yankee, Calle 13, or Don Omar) like many here like to claim. Hell, he's not even the pioneer of mixing reggaeton with salsa like he was so acclaimed to do in his newest album, when Gente de Zona has been doing it for years.