DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS
Tatiana Lee Rodriguez
created: Jan. 14, 2025, 5:02 a.m. | updated: Aug. 26, 2025, 3:34 a.m.
Listen to the captivating six-minute salsa “BAILE INoLVIDABLE,” where a heartbroken Benito pictures life as a party that must one day end.
Later, as Benito sings, “Y yo tenía mucha’ novia’/Pero como tú, ninguna” (“And I’ve had a lot of girlfriends/But nobody like you”) the words wash like seafoam, affirming: It’s me, not you.
DeBí TiRAR MáS FOToS is more than just a means of liberating the hips; it arrives amid a broader narrative of the island’s struggle for sovereignty, rooted in compounded centuries of Spanish, then American, colonization.
And on the muted bachata “BOKeTE,” or “Potholes,” Benito swerves around deception as if primed by the island’s crumbling roads.
One scene imagines a Borinquén so depleted of Boricuas that hearing reggaetón blasting from the street is a distant memory.
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