Daily News | What Bad Bunny’s performance meant for Philly’s Latinx community
Flags from Puerto Rico, Ecuador, Colombia, Peru, Mexico, the Dominican Republic, and El Salvador filled the crowd at Made in America on Sunday night. Viewing the scene from the Rocky Stage, performer Bad Bunny told a crowd of thousands of people, “yo quiero ver las banderas,” honored to see his Latinx community in attendance.
Though he was set to play at 9:30 p.m., people started filling the area around the Rocky Stage 20 minutes beforehand, standing shoulder to shoulder, eagerly counting the minutes until the performance. The crowd started chanting “Benito, Benito, Benito” and Bad Bunny emerged on stage sitting on a beach bench with a video of the ocean in Puerto Rico as the background, singing “Moscow Mule.”
But not everyone in the crowd was a Spanish speaker. Araugo, for instance, speaks Brazilian Portuguese. Although she doesn’t quite understand Bad Bunny’s Spanish lyrics, having him as a headliner made her feel like Philly’s Latinx community was being heard and seen. “It’s a way for the community to show who we are,” she explained.
Bad Bunny was set to perform for 45 minutes, but he stayed on the stage until 11:15 p.m. The entire time, he addressed the audience in Spanish. When it seemed like “Ojitos Lindos” was going to be his final song, he took a break to thank the Latinx people for their support.
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