Bad Bunny’s famous ‘casita’, which is part of the scenography of his current tour, has raised controversy during his residency in Madrid due to the selection criteria of the people chosen to inhabit it during the concert, which many followers consider “sexist” and “classist”.
The ‘casita’ is a replica of a traditional Puerto Rican home that the artist uses in the second part of the ‘Debí tirar más fotos tour’ show, when he leaves the main stage to perform several songs as if he were at a family or friends reunion.
During the first concerts in Madrid, which started last May 30, the guests have been celebrities such as actor Noah Schnapp (‘Stranger Things’) and soccer players Marcelo and Achraf Hakimi.
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A selection that has been criticized in networks as “classist” and for turning this alleged neighborhood party into a VIP area.
But the most viral controversy has been raised by the criteria followed by the Bad Banny’s team to choose the anonymous people who access to the ‘little house’.
“It’s a historical machismo,” complains a user on the Internet who complains that only “pretty girls” who approach the stage fences before the concert begins go on stage.
Videos abound in networks in which the artist is seen in the ‘casita’ dancing surrounded by young girls who comply to the letter with the normative physical canon.
The comments on these videos point out the contradiction of the artist objectifying women in his concerts, when he himself has questioned machismo in songs such as ‘Yo perreo’.
These criticisms were answered on Wednesday by other Internet users, who saw other guest profiles enter the ‘little house’ during Tuesday’s concert, in what may be the beginning of a change of strategy by the artist’s team, which still has seven performances in Madrid ahead of it.
Using the ‘casita’ to denounce the housing crisis
The famous ‘little house’ has also been used in networks to denounce the problem of access to housing in Spain, especially in big cities like Madrid and Barcelona, where the tour ‘I should have taken more pictures’ has stopped.
Last Sunday afternoon, a housing rental platform picked up a fake ad offering Bad Bunny’s ‘casita’ to denounce the effects of tourism on rising housing prices in the Spanish city of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.
Other Internet users have made estimates of the cost of the “little house”, which has a surface area of some 163 square meters, if it were put on sale in Madrid or Barcelona to denounce the high price per square meter in these cities, reported Agencia EFE.
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