Bad Bunny Grapples With Fame in ‘Nadie Sabe Lo Que Va a Pasar Mañana,’ a Trap-Infused Diary Entry: Album Review

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Thania Garcia “What’s next for Bad Bunny?” has become a polarizing question in the Puerto Rican artist’s fanbase this year.

After releasing his culturally shifting record “Un Verano Sin Ti” in 2022, the Grammy award winner has had a magnifying glass pressed up to his career (more recently on his love life) and even more immediately on his newly released, surprise LP “Nadie Sabe Lo Que Va a Pasar Mañana” (“Nobody Knows What Will Happen Tomorrow.”) After spending most of last year on tour, Bunny proclaimed 2023 as his year of rest, emerging only to headline Coachella or to claim verses on Travis Scott’s and Drake’s new albums, but “Nadie” proves he’s had a plan all along — or at the very least, that he’s had a lot on his mind: One hour and 21 minutes’ worth of trap, reggaeton, drill and electronic beats represent his present and previous muses, while lyrically he appears more vulnerable than ever.

Album opener “Nadie Sabe” begins with an orchestra that propels Bunny’s six-minute prose about adjusting to his acquired level of global fame and his place in the music industry (“the industry bores me, I swear I’ll retire at age 33,” he raps later in “Vuelve Candy B”).

You can hear the anger or frustration in his voice when he prompts “Who the hell said that I want to be an example?” in the first 30 seconds of the album.