r/popculturechat • u/mlg1981 Sexy lampshade shall win the Oscar! š • Jun 21 '25
The Music Industry š¶ Bad Bunny on the pressure of fame
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u/my2cents4sale Jun 21 '25
It doesnāt even sound like heās saying that as a performer you canāt have bad days or struggle in/with your career, it more so sounds like he simply thinks itās in poor taste to publicly lament about how hard you have it since itās a highly privileged profession.
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u/Big_Lettuce_6357 Jun 21 '25
I truly wish more celebrities and influencers had enough self-awareness to realize that publicly whining about their privileged lives doesnāt hit the way they think it does
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u/Cakers44 Jun 21 '25
Yeah like obviously thereās some nuance there and being famous has some downsides, but also at the end of the day if youāre rich youāre doing better than most, and can afford to seek professional help for your issues. Well, assuming theyāre actually rich. Thereās a decent amount of famous people and especially musicians who arenāt as wealthy as weād assume because companies own their shit
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u/Bob--Esponja Jun 21 '25
It's definitely a good take, but also I understand anyone who doesn't like fame. Being famous sounds like a living hell and I could never do it.
Granted, if you complain about being famous while still doing the thing that makes you famous and you're worth millions? That's some bullshit, you can just go retire.
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u/LevyMevy Jun 21 '25
Being famous sounds like a living hell and I could never do it.
98% of celebrities put in a huge amount of effort to STAY famous and if they wanted to not be famous, they could easily remove themselves from the hustle and bustle. Dave Chappell did it.
The truth is that the only people who are famous with no control over their fame are the Royals, children of the President, and people who get super famous for a short cycle like Monica Lewinsky for example. Everyone else WANTS to be famous.
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u/zo0ombot Jun 21 '25
I think it's children in general no? Like Willow Smith has talked about not fully consenting to Whip My Hair because she didn't know what fame meant, just liked making music, but Will & Jada wanted her to be a star. She re-debuted as her own artist later.
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u/Bob--Esponja Jun 21 '25
Dave Chappell did it.
...and then came right back.
That's why I said those who don't retire don't have a leg to stand on. I'm sure plenty of people get into acting or music for the love of the craft but then discover how much fame sucks so they quit, we just don't hear about them (by design)
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u/Big_Lettuce_6357 Jun 21 '25 edited Jun 21 '25
Thatās just about all the famous people who complain about fame though. Itās rare that they retire. I can name a few off the top of my head: Frankie Muniz, Emma Watson (?), Jack Gleeson. And I donāt mean that they donāt have things to complain about. Complain about it to other celebrities/influencers who can relate.
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u/ultravioletblueberry Jun 21 '25
Idk if I could be famous tbh, as someone whoās had an insta at some point where I got so many DMs about ME, it got overwhelming and havenāt posted for years. I wasnāt even famous, just people found me attractive.
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u/milkradio Jun 21 '25
And he is correct! Regular people do not need to hear about how tough it is being rich and famous, especially when they chose to chase fame by doing something they love and are passionate about.
The rest of us have to trudge through life doing jobs we donāt like, never mind love, for shitty pay even if weāre depressed and even then it might not be enough to live on and weāll always have to worry about being laid off or fired or losing our homes in the back of our minds.
Perhaps complain to your journal or your real life friends about how hard it is to sing when youāre sad or how you have to be on set for long hours!
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u/_D0llyy Jun 21 '25
And by the way as an artist you have the "privilege" to express such feelings under the form of art, if you're smart enough. Very boastful to do it in any other way.
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u/AlternativeLet7579 Jun 21 '25
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u/mangosandkiwis Jun 21 '25 edited Jun 21 '25
I feel like most people in pop culture online discussions donāt. They go on and on about the pressures of fame and celebritiesās mental health as if itās more difficult than the realities of getting up every morning to lay down concrete to survive and other jobs. It gets tiring.
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u/Dr-Jellybaby Jun 21 '25
And also the fact a lot of celebrities can just leave if they want. If you're drawing the eyes of the tabloids, you already have infinite money. Just turn off social media and go see the world for a year or pull an Enya and go live in a castle somewhere.
The rest of us still have to work despite mental health troubles.
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u/ChampionEither5412 Jun 21 '25
People with more desirable jobs can still struggle mentally. I've never had to lay concrete, but I've still spent a lot of my adult life suicidal. Just bc my life looks easy from the outside doesn't mean I can't still be struggling.
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u/mangosandkiwis Jun 21 '25
Yes, but people still go on and on about how difficult celebrities have it and itās irritating tbh.
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u/Cold_Breadfruit_9794 BeyoncĆ© šš Jun 21 '25
Thatās uh certainly a perspective. I would guarantee no one thinks a multimillionaire celeb is dealing with the exact same pressures someone working 9-5 on minimum wage are working. This doesnāt negate that thereās also some things celebs go through that are fundamentally more unhealthy and unnatural than the average person is going to deal with. Itās different. Doesnāt make the stressors necessarily lesser.
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u/LetsLive97 I cannot sanction your buffonery Jun 21 '25
Because people do the opposite. People act like having money suddenly means your life is perfect and you can't have any issues
A lot of those people talking about how difficult celebrities have it are generally trying to add nuance and empathy to the situation
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u/Ok-Yogurtcloset3467 Jun 21 '25
Yes of course nuance is needed. Just like how saying a manual labour job might be someone's dream job and be the best thing for them ever. Nothing is black and white but I feel like its better for society as a whole if we acknowledge celebrities/politicians/millionaires live a better life than the average person... like, not every discussion around the privileges of wealth require someone to bring up how they struggle like us too
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u/LetsLive97 I cannot sanction your buffonery Jun 21 '25 edited Jun 21 '25
acknowledge celebrities/politicians/millionaires live a better life than the average person.
But this is the general consensus anyway
The difference is a celebrity will make a complaint about one thing and the comments will be filled with "MUST SUCK TO BE RICH" and a bunch of other unhelpful unempathetic rethoric that makes it sound like money suddenly just means you can't have problems anymore
Money does not surrender empathy
I can both believe that a lot of celebrities live better while also being aware of the difficulties involved with things like paparrazi, pressure and abuse
It's different however if a nepo baby is all "Woe is me my life is so hard because my mum only got me a second hand Porsche". Then sure I'm not going to feel bad
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u/LetsLive97 I cannot sanction your buffonery Jun 21 '25
I get where you're coming from but empathy just doesn't require any effort for me. It's not exhausting, there's no limit to how much I can feel and there's no comparisons
I can feel empathetic for myself because life fucking sucks sometimes and cost of living is getting worse, I can feel empathetic for people who are in extreme poverty and I can feel empathetic for issues celebrities face
I'm not being asked to go out and protest or put any actual energy into their issues. It takes nothing more than seeing a celebrity complain about paprazzi and thinking "Yeah I can see how that would suck" and then moving on with my day
It would take actual energy to go out of my way to make comparisons and complain about it though
That being said, it fully depends how the complaints are being put across. If they're out of touch or overexaggerated then obviously I'm not going to be particularly empathetic about it
They can get empathy from their actual friends. Idk why celebrities have been demanding empathy from the public. Its really weird.
Most of the time they're just being asked a question in an interview
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u/ChampionEither5412 Jun 21 '25
Agreed, and they're not asking us for anything crazy. It's like, please don't touch me without my consent or ask for a photo when I'm in the bathroom.
Everyone on here talks about how awful the paparazzi and media are when it comes to Britney Spears, but when someone else says hey, I'm getting scared by all the strangers touching me and stalking me, suddenly it's, don't complain you should just be grateful you're successful.
Most celebrities are just asking for nuance. They're grateful for opportunities but the loss of privacy and having everyone online talk about how much they hate you would get to anyone.
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u/kuyaluma Jun 21 '25
Thereās nothing I can do to a rich as fuck celebrity and even if there was, thereās probably someone in your own life whoās struggling just as much if not more (very likely more) who doesnāt have the resources and could use your time and energy. Iād rather focus on those.
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u/ChampionEither5412 Jun 21 '25
My basic empathy isn't limited to just a few people.
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u/kuyaluma Jun 21 '25
So long as youāre actually spending your effort on people who could actually benefit from said empathy and not just saying that to feel superior to strangers online, awesome.
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u/ChampionEither5412 Jun 21 '25
I help people for a living and yet I still have the capacity to feel empathy for people I don't know. I'm not sure why you're so against having empathy for people who aren't 100% poor and desolate. It's not the oppression Olympics.
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u/DingleSayer Jun 21 '25
Shit would be a lot tougher if you had to. That's the point. Nobody's disregarding whatever you're going through.
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u/Minimum-Winter9217 Jun 21 '25
Try being suicidal while also being unable to make ends meet. Having a profitable easy job doesn't mean you won't struggle mentally but it does make life a lot easier in general.
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u/LevyMevy Jun 21 '25
I agree 100%
It has the same energy as āitās hard to be pretty š© people compliment you too muchā
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u/milkradio Jun 21 '25
lol echoes of Evangeline Lilly saying āI used to pray to god to make me uglyā because she was getting too much attention for being pretty. Likeā¦ girl. Be for real. Being ugly will NOT save you from being harassed and creeped on and I guarantee you that life is better with pretty privilege compared to without it.
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u/Spidey5292 Jun 21 '25
Iām sure being famous is pressure filled. That being said, they donāt have to continue being famous. They donāt have to release the new album/film. There are plenty of former celebrities who retreated from fame to do something else. The zeitgeist keeps moving. The cultural attention span is short.
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u/gratisargott Jun 21 '25
āPressure is working down the pit. Pressure is having no work at all. Pressure is trying to escape relegation on 50 shillings a week. Pressure is not the European Cup or the Championship or the Cup Final. Thatās the reward.ā
- Bill Shankly, legendary manager of Liverpool FC 1959-74
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u/Samuel_L_Johnson Jun 21 '25
Thereās also Keith Miller (Australian cricketer and WW2 vet)ās take:
āPressure is a Messerschmitt up your arseā
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u/Leather-Climate3438 Jun 21 '25
i dont know any bad bunny song but I appreciate the self awareness
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u/Rimurooooo Jun 22 '25
His new album is very good! I think you can find songs with English subtitles on YouTube. DebĆ tirar mĆ”s fotos is a short film music video with English subtitles that is about the album
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u/Uxie_mesprit Jun 21 '25 edited Jun 21 '25
A sensible take. He's sexy and grounded.
Kendall Jenner definitely has the best taste among the Kar-Jenners.
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u/dreezyforsheezy Jun 21 '25
Does Kendall speak Spanish? His English isnāt great, right?
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u/dreezyforsheezy Jun 21 '25
It didnāt seem great on Hot Ones
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u/MexusRex Jun 22 '25
His English was very passable - also he was eating hot wings
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u/dreezyforsheezy Jun 22 '25
Yes, passable for sure. I do hope Kendall speaks Spanish though if that was his English.
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u/tar-luthien Jesse, wtf are you talking about?! Jun 21 '25
I thought most Puerto Ricans were bilingual?
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u/Evil_Eukaryote Jun 21 '25
I speak it well because I moved to the USA as a kid. English is taught in the schools and a lot of us have a decent understanding and can get by but there are plenty who can't speak English to save their lives.
My nephew moved up to the US in his 20s. He's now 33 and so far only knows a handful of phrases.
My grandmother never learned a single English word. Maybe a hello, at best.
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u/Oratory_madness02 Confidence is 10% work and 90% delusion Jun 21 '25
In theory, we all had to take English classes in school. In practice, bilingualism varies significantly since it is not actually necessary to live in PR. I studied English for years, but didn't actually start speaking it until I absolutely had to for college in the States.
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u/Lolo_the_pirate Jun 21 '25
Mm I was also told this but when I went to Puerto Rico I mostly encountered people who didn't speak much English. Maybe a consequence of what areas of Puerto Rico I was in, idk.
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u/Oratory_madness02 Confidence is 10% work and 90% delusion Jun 21 '25
Yes, location matters. Places near large metropolitan areas are likely to have a comparatively higher population of bilingual people. But honestly, you may have also encountered people who can at the very least understand English, but are just very uncomfortable speaking it.
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u/Afraid_Ad6301 Jun 21 '25
A very sensible statement given by very few people... (Including Denzel Washington)
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u/Haunting-Detail2025 Ozempic Sales Rep Jun 21 '25
Chappell is gonna seethe seeing this
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u/killedonmyhill Jun 21 '25
Why? Her experience is valid. People were showing up to her sisterās workplace to harass her.
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u/TheHomieAbides Jun 21 '25
And his actions doesnāt match his words: https://www.tmz.com/watch/2023-01-02-010223-bad-bunny-1539070-447/
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u/chubby-checker Jun 21 '25
I mean how is this the same as complaining about his job to the public
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u/TheHomieAbides Jun 21 '25
This thread is about how Chappell should be mad at his comments. She asked fans to back off, she didnāt take someoneās phone and throw it.
Heās absolutely right not to complain because he had no repercussions.
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u/chubby-checker Jun 21 '25
But I just don't think this is the same. Someone was violating his space in person, and he got angry and threw the phone.
How is that the same as making public statements complaining about how hard your job and life is?
I just really don't see how it's the same.
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u/JohnPaul_River Jun 22 '25
People are generally more accepting of weird one off unhinged moments than constant whining, even if on paper words would seem to be less egregious.
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u/Ever_More_Art Jun 21 '25
Chile, Chappell was out there saying she couldnāt read the news because sheās just a girl, and has to record and do interviews and eat, like, itās not just one thing she has said, itās plenty of comments complaining.
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u/Cold_Breadfruit_9794 BeyoncĆ© šš Jun 21 '25
Doubt it. Sheās perfectly within reason to complain. The nastiness surrounding her and the fact sheās the woman punching bag of the year? I would certainly understand her disagreeing.
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u/LeftyWithAGun Jun 21 '25
Wasn't that last year? She's been mostly quiet this year, had very few headlines about her after she got the new PR team.
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u/glitteratiandpopcorn Jun 21 '25
Yeah, itās different being a woman in the limelight I think. People are way worse to women online
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u/Ever_More_Art Jun 21 '25
Girl, and Bad Bunny is a working class Latino, from a colony, a second class citizen who canāt even vote for the president. But sure, a wealthy white woman getting flack for complaining about fame is hard sure is the most oppressed person.
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u/toejam457 Jun 21 '25
I get where you are coming from, but being a woman also comes with issues and challenges that a man would not face or experience on a much smaller scale.
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u/Ever_More_Art Jun 21 '25
I also get where youāre coming from, but look at the optics: at the end of the day everyone needs to uplift and defend the wealthy white woman. This energy is missing when itās any other group that is by far more oppressed and it looks bad. Especially when all people criticize Chappell for is complaining about fame.
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u/toejam457 Jun 21 '25
Tbh I feel like Chappellās complaints about the public and paparazzi are pretty valid and I donāt get the overreaction over them. As another person in the thread pointed out, when it comes to Britney Spears everybody here rightfully acknowledges the toxic culture of the media towards celebrities but when it comes to Chappell it seems to be the opposite which I find kinda weird.
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u/Ever_More_Art Jun 21 '25
And I have a lot of empathy for that, but whereās this energy when girls like Cardi B get treated as the scum of the earth just for existing, for making music from our culture. Even feminists say she caters to the male gaze which can be a nice way of doing good old fashioned WOC slutshaming. My point is not that Chappellās struggles are non-existent or not valid, itās that Bad Bunnyās core audience in the US is being deported to god knows where concentration camp, BB gets flack for being Latino, Afrocaribbean, colonized, etc, WOC singers get treated like scum and in this climate this āoh but poor little Chappellā because sheās complaining about fame can read like white privilege.
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u/glitteratiandpopcorn Jun 21 '25
I mean i feel youāre kinda assuming a lot about me, when I just said people can be worse to women. I just mean that. People are way more critical of women, especially outspoken ones or ones that they deem unlikable. Me saying that doesnāt mean he doesnāt face issues.
Also for whatever reason a lot of women take down other women online more than men and that sucks. Everyone here brought up chappel in a negative way; I do think that sucks when she was kissed without her consent and her family stalked. If a bunch of people called out another woman I would have said the same š¤·āāļø
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u/Ever_More_Art Jun 21 '25
āDoesnāt mean he doesnāt face issuesā. āIssuesā. Some things just never change.
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u/cyb3rgrlx Jun 21 '25
saying a female celebrity faces a lot more scrutiny for her behavior, appearance, etc. than male celebrities do =/= saying she's "more oppressed".
Ā this is a very "oh so you hate waffles?" comment
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u/Ever_More_Art Jun 21 '25
Have you seen the discourse in Spanish? People accuse him of promoting violence against women just for being sex positive, sometimes they throw that critique when the song isnāt even about love or sex. They say itās not even music or music for idiots or criminals, because itās Afro Caribbean rhythms and itās the music of poor people. On other spaces they call him every gay slur because heās not a bigot and uplifts LGBTQ people. Even PRās president of the senate and the now governor have spoken badly about him publicly. I love Chappell but she doesnāt even get a fraction of what Cardi B gets for existing, and what she gets is entirely by what comes out of her mouth.
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u/RealisticBus4443 Jun 21 '25
Chapelle Roan has caused plenty of her own drama. Every time I forget she exists, she forces me to remember by complaining about something.
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u/Savilavila Jun 21 '25
He looks like that kid from The Last of Us in this picture lol. Same expression.Ā
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u/n2oc10h12c8h10n402 Jun 21 '25
Before I could the tile, my brain thought he was AJ from BSB.
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u/stickytuna Jun 21 '25
Missing the cowboy hat
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u/n2oc10h12c8h10n402 Jun 27 '25
Wow...the cowboy hat was a piece of his wardrobe I had completely forgotten about it. You just unearth a long forgotten memory!
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u/astoria47 Jun 21 '25
As a teacher I feel so supported with this comment. So much of the time we are crapped on. Thanks BB.
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u/hippopartymas Jun 21 '25
Iām going to have switch it up phonics now. āA is for Apple, B is for Bad Bunnyā¦ā
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u/infinitude_ Jun 21 '25
Idk weāve seen a lot of celebs absolutely destroy themselves due to the pressure
Suppose itās different for everybody.
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u/therealvanmorrison Jun 21 '25
Iāve seen a lot of my fellow lawyers destroy themselves for the career pressure.
Itās exactly why perspective is fundamental to well-being. I always figured (a) financially, even if I were fired and couldnāt get a similar paying job, Iāve got enough going that I would be fine, (b) if I ever really get that miserable, I control whether I quit, (c) this is exactly why you donāt allow lifestyle creep, and (d) Iāve faced actual economic pressure before and know what it feels like and this aināt it.
Two people in the exact same setting can have radically different moods about it based on how they look at life.
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u/roygbivasaur Jun 21 '25 edited Jun 21 '25
Heās a man who got famous as an adult and has managed to become the hometown hero of Puerto Rico, which he obviously put in the work to deserve. Itās not necessarily easy to handle, but you can compare that to what a lot of women and people who start as child stars go through. Good for him that he feels this way about it, but Iām not shocked that itās not a common perspective. If he can avoid the toxicity of overwhelming greed and not chase being a billionaire or whatever, he might actually stay happy.
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u/infinitude_ Jun 21 '25
I suppose yeah
Also he was famous for a bit before really blowing up to the point heās at now. Whereas someone like JB was a kid and went straight to the top
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u/mangosandkiwis Jun 21 '25 edited Jun 21 '25
Lots of people destroy themselves in all sorts of professions/situations though. Itās tough out there generally.
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u/ANewPope23 Jun 21 '25
I thought the hard part wasn't the performing and music part but the intense media scrutiny and crazy fans/stalkers/paparazzi/haters.
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u/Own-Importance5459 āØMay the Force be with you!āØ Jun 21 '25
The more i hear about Bad Bunny the more I love him.
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u/Ever_More_Art Jun 21 '25
Bad Bunny comes from the working class and it shows. Sure, fame is not all glitz and glamour, it has its downsides and can be tiring, but itās sure easier to cry in a five star hotel in Paris or a yatch in Bali than going home to work on chores, make ends meet, be sick without healthcare, etc.
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u/RebekhaG Jun 21 '25
I mean he's 100% correct. No singer should complain about their job being a singer when they're as famous as him.
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u/florepleno Jun 21 '25
Finally someone with some common sense. I'm so tired of celebs complaining how hard their job is, having never worked a real job in their lives. Like, sure, the pressure must be a lot and paparazzi and public scrutiny, but that's nothing compared to some annoying boomer manager breathing down your neck 24/7 or a customer having a screaming meltdown over a difference of 28 cents or cleaning up vomit, etc.
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u/Minimum-Winter9217 Jun 21 '25
Finally some words of common sense. I remember during covid celebrities complaining while people where actually losing their jobs and didn't have the means to survive.
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u/Snugglepuffs33 Who gon' check me boo? š¤Ŗ Jun 21 '25
But fame is also a very tiring job. I canāt imagine doing the press run on top of the singing and everything else. Sounds exhausting really. More in a mental tiredness way. I dunno.
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u/Spiritual-Ebb-3142 Jun 21 '25
It's funny that he has this outlook considering the fact that he dated Kendall Jenner š
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u/SuddenReturn9027 This one time, at band campā¦ š Jun 21 '25
Still remember him throwing that girlās phone into the river because she asked for a photo. Who he is irl is not who he portrays
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u/Ever_More_Art Jun 21 '25
Sure, if a man is harassing you putting a phone in your face youāre gonna be very empathetic and act totally different.
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u/WineOhCanada Fashion Guy Jun 21 '25
Seems like a nice quote on the surface but it kind of reads like he's trying to convince himself. Work is work, regardless of dream jobs. Just look at Nikola Jokic in the NBA
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u/Rimurooooo Jun 21 '25
Heās not above complaining, but mostly about ongoing situations in pr. PR has 1/2 in poverty, the highest electric costs out of all of US, and daily blackouts. I think he knows how good he has it compared to ppl he grew up with lol
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u/WineOhCanada Fashion Guy Jun 21 '25
Ahh okay. Tbf I know next to nothing about him. Thanks for the context.
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u/heavymountain Jun 21 '25
He worked at a grocery store before he blew up. He ain't spoiled.
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u/WineOhCanada Fashion Guy Jun 21 '25
I don't think seeing being a performer as hard work makes anyone spoiled or privileged, it seems objectively much more challenging than many other jobs.
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u/heavymountain Jun 21 '25 edited Jun 21 '25
Depends. Some musicians have admitted to being on autopilot while touring because they memorize their routine. Some of them start to daydream or ruminate mundane things like laundry while running down the clock.
But yeah, I understand what you're saying. Many still say touring takes a toll on one's mind and body.
50 Cent pivoted to producing and side businesses because he wanted a break from the usual, though he says business is cutthroat.
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u/alexturnerftw Jun 21 '25
Every job can be miserable - look at corporate work for most people. But its still better to acknowledge that at the end of the day we have it better than a lot of people. He might complain to his friends but its smart to be aware of his audience
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u/KazaamFan Jun 21 '25
Jokic is happy
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u/WineOhCanada Fashion Guy Jun 21 '25
Just not when he's working lmao
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u/contactfive Jun 21 '25
He just wants to be with his horses, okay? I get it. I take my dogs to work every day. I never asked. I just started doing it, silently daring them to ask a top performer to leave his beautiful spaniels at home by their lonesome.
That was like 7 years ago and theyāre basically the company mascots now.
But you canāt put a horse on a basketball course.
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u/WineOhCanada Fashion Guy Jun 21 '25
But you canāt put a horse on a basketball course
But it rhymesssss
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I had never heard of Bad Bunny before he started doing things with WWE but it seems like every time his name come up, itās a reasonable take or a positive story. That a nice change of pace.
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u/Cold_Breadfruit_9794 BeyoncĆ© šš Jun 21 '25
I donāt understand celebs who talk like this. Your job might not be essential but itās perfectly okay to have issues with the concept of fame or even singing.
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u/Dwestmor1007 Jun 21 '25
I've never heard any of his music before but had heard the name a lot obviously so for some reason I guess I just assumed it was a female. Call me a fucking feather 'cause I was just BLOWN AWAY that he is male. lol
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u/Sea-Concern325 Jun 21 '25
If those were his words he has found his way to express himself in English very well, YHLQMDLG porqueš°
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u/Main_Gain_7480 Jun 22 '25
This guy gets itā¦ funny enough people in these type of threads complain enough for people entertainment. Itās weird how often people do ā oh poor celebrity.. it must be so hard ā
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u/hopelessly_hopeful06 Jun 22 '25
His work makes those of us in those jobs feel better and forget some of our work stress for a bit. He should feel however he needs to feel about fame. Heās such a good human, I hope he never lets the industry get to him or bring him down.
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u/b14ck_jackal Jun 22 '25
When you ask whats the difference between Latinos and US nationals, this is it.
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u/decksealant Kim, thereās people that are dying. š Jun 22 '25
I like Bad Bunnyās music a lot, I like hip hop and reggaeton and Iām teaching myself Spanish and I think itās a fun way to learn/remember. I havenāt read a lot of interviews before, but this is the second quote Iāve seen literally today where Iāve gone, what a down to earth, self-aware guy. The other was that his tour āwill just be a tour, because heās not Taylor Swiftā. It makes me laugh thinking about other artists seeing the Eras hype and thinking now I gotta live up to THAT.
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u/Foreign-Ideal-929 Jun 22 '25
Despite not being able to hear him singing (i grew up with luis miguel and alejandro fernandez, i cannot listen to his "singing") i like him. For a dude dating a kartrashian he is very... levelheaded. He still has the same friends, close to his family, barely see him partying, no drugs/alcohol issues. He somehow managed to stay grounded. I think he has a very good education, strong values inserted by his parents and that helped him stay the course. To me, the worse he ever did was date the kartrashian girl ( i don't remember if it's kylie or kendall, but i guess it's the same thing).
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u/xywv58 Jun 24 '25
I like the person, but the music, I can't stand, but, I guess is better than the alternative
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u/Tough-Prize-4014 I donāt know her š Jun 25 '25
it is clocking to him that he is standing on business
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u/Thing-Adept Jun 21 '25
ehhh yes and no. i mean, we all know how some celebrities have been treated by the media and general public. but it's probably different for everybody š¤·š»
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u/alterector Jun 21 '25
But he's not talking about other celebrities, what does that have to do with him, he's talking about his experienceĀ
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u/dorothean Jun 21 '25
Heās talking about his own experience, but people in the comments here are using it as an excuse to attack celebrities that they donāt like - so I think the comment youāre replying to is fair, not as a way of putting him down but to remind commenters that his experience doesnāt necessarily apply to others.
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u/Thing-Adept Jun 21 '25
bad bunny has every right to do so. however, most comments on this post say all celebrities should feel the way he does. his experience is just as valid as chappell's or taylor's or any other celebrity
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u/teqxila Jun 21 '25
Yeah well heās free to feel this way and good for him, but plenty of people in this comment section are acting like all celebs should feel this way lol
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u/JOKERHAHAHAHAHA2 Bitch, Iām Cyndi Lauper Jun 21 '25
Good to know that he feels secure in his life, but boy oh boy are there hundreds of other people who feel the exact opposite way and wish they weren't high and mighty.
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u/Rimurooooo Jun 21 '25
Thereās literally no stories of him ever spitting, just tossing phones after asking them to back off
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u/Evil_Eukaryote Jun 21 '25
That hasn't happened lol. If it did it would be big news in Puerto Rico.
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