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 report, which celebrates and pays homage to the music and tradition of his homeland—and which, above all, works as a convincing 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 need to remain residence after years of touring and initiatives that took him overseas and the concept of getting to to migrate to the mainland United States searching for extra alternatives, like so many Puerto Ricans have been compelled to do. The primary 12 dates had been solely out there to island residents, additional emphasizing the purpose that it is a report devoted to Boricuas.
For the previous few years, methodology dressing at live shows has turn into the norm, however at these Dangerous Bunny exhibits, the strategy additionally held a deeper that 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 consult with the poor individuals who lived within the mountains and labored as farmers however has since turn into an emblem of nationwide Puerto Rican identification. 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 crimson scarf tied across the neck, all topped off with a pava: a brimless hat woven from straw, with the leftover items making a type of fringe throughout it. The pava was a very common accent on the exhibits, since Dangerous Bunny has integrated 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).
Aside from the pava, the preferred motif was clearly the Puerto Rican flag, seen on the whole lot 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.”
