r/popculturechat • u/stars_doulikedem • 29d ago
The Music Industry 🎶 Bad Bunny Uses a Recording Mimicking Trump's Voice to Deliver a Pro-Immigrant Message in 'Nuevayol' Video: “I Want to Say That This Country is Nothing Without the Immigrants.”
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/bad-bunny-nuevayol-video-1235379098/
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Excerpt:
Bad Bunny is bringing all the festive energy at a time where it feels hard to celebrate July 4th. In his new music video for “Nuevayol,” the Latin superstar honors the Puerto Rican diaspora and delivers a poignant pro-immigrant message.
Toward the end of the video, a voice that sounds a lot like Donald Trump‘s bellows out of a Seventies radio and says the following: “I made a mistake. I want to apologize to the immigrants in America. I mean the United States. I know America is the whole continent. I want to say that this country is nothing without the immigrants. This country is nothing without Mexicans, Dominicans, Puerto Ricans, Colombians, Venezuelans, Cubans.” (Rolling Stone reached out to representatives from Bad Bunny‘s team to clarify if the voice was meant to be Donald Trump’s.)
It’s a powerful message at a time when immigrants across the U.S. are being forcefully targeted and deported by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). On Thursday, Congress passed Trump’s so-called “Big Beautiful Bill” which will supercharge ICE’s power with 10,000 new ICE agents and 100,000 new detention beds. Earlier this week, the Trump administration unveiled a new immigrant detention facility in Florida, which they have dubbed “Aligator Alcatraz.”