Here’s the Thing About Bad Bunny’s Light Poles |
Bad Bunny performs during the halftime show of the Super Bowl in Santa Clara, Calif.Vera Nieuwenhuis/AP
While watching Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime show on Sunday, you may have noticed the artist climbing electrical poles with other performers while singing “El Apagón.”
The song comes from the artist’s fifth studio album Un Verano Sin Ti, the most-streamed album globally on Spotify back in 2022. The album, which translates to A Summer Without You, is an exploration of a metaphorical absence in Bad Bunny’s life and the resulting feelings that stem from Puerto Rican experience. His song “El Apagón” does just this, literally translating to “the blackout” and referencing the devastating and ongoing power outages in Puerto Rico.
According to the US Energy Information Administration, Puerto Rico residents lost about 27 hours of power each year from 2021........