This previous weekend Dangerous Bunny started his long-awaited and unprecedented 30-show residency on the Choli in San Juan, Puerto Rico. It’s a becoming association to assist Debi Tirar Más Fotos, his newest file, which celebrates and pays homage to the music and tradition of his homeland—and which, above all, works as a powerful assertion on amor a la patria, or love of the nation, and the significance of preserving the island’s traditions. The residency is titled No Me Quiero Ir de Aqui, which references each the artist’s want to remain dwelling after years of touring and tasks that took him overseas and the thought of getting to to migrate to the mainland United States looking for extra alternatives, like so many Puerto Ricans have been compelled to do. The primary 12 dates have been solely out there to island residents, additional emphasizing the purpose that this can be a file devoted to Boricuas.
For the previous few years, methodology dressing at live shows has turn into the norm, however at these Dangerous Bunny reveals, the strategy additionally held a deeper which means as attendees embraced components of the Puerto Rican nationwide costume. Many younger folks got here dressed like jíbaros, a time period that was coined within the 1800s to check with the poor individuals who lived within the mountains and labored as farmers however has since turn into a logo of nationwide Puerto Rican id. For ladies, that meant ruffled skirts and off-the-shoulder white ruffled blouses, whereas males wore white button-down shirts with sleeves rolled up, white or khaki pants, and a purple scarf tied across the neck, all topped off with a pava: a brimless hat woven from straw, with the leftover items making a sort of fringe throughout it. The pava was a very standard accent on the reveals, since Dangerous Bunny has included it into his private type (together with on the Met Gala, the place he had a particular model made by the Puerto Rican milliner De León Headwear to accompany his Prada look).
Apart from the pava, the preferred motif was clearly the Puerto Rican flag, seen on every part from hats to bikini tops and attire and in make-up. The Flor de Maga, the nationwide flower of the island, was one other recurring accent, often seen tucked behind younger girls’s ears. The vibe completely encapsulated a preferred saying on the island: “Yo soy Boricua, pa’ que tu lo sepas.”
