Five Things We Learned From Bad Bunny’s ‘Un Verano Sin Ti’

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Elaborate album rollouts usually aren’t Bad Bunny‘s style — most of his projects have dropped into the universe in an unexpected, last-minute burst of chaos,

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His latest, Un Verano Sin Ti, has been a little different: The Puerto Rican singer started posting playful Instagram videos in January that extended a running gag about him leaving his girlfriend

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Gabriela Berlingeri with the handsome Spanish actor Mario Casa all summer so he could work on new songs.

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From there, he kept sharing short clips of Casa and Berlingeri hanging out together while he cranked out music on bright tropical beaches

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He finally dropped Un Verano Sin Ti last night. It’s his longest album yet, with 23 songs, but also his most mellow and carefree.

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“People, we have to worry less and enjoy more because life goes too fast,” he said in one of the first Instagram videos that showed Berlingeri and Casa.

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The album is often as leisurely as a beach vacation, blending gentle dembow beats and twinkling production with sudden twists of mambo, house, and reggae.

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Claude Giroux a perfect fit with the Florida Panthers

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