The Puerto Rican artist Benito Antonio Martínez, popularly known as Bad Bunny, released his new album Debí Tirar más fotos on January 5 and has already positioned himself among the 20 most listened to artists in the world on Spotify.
Among the nineteen songs on his new record, the social networks of the Canary Islands have focused on one in particular: Lo que le pasó a Hawaii. This song tells the problems that the island of Puerto Rico is experiencing, a state associated with the United States, plagued by mass tourism, gentrification, the displacement of the local population and continuous blackouts, which Bad Bunny already denounced in the documentary El apagón- Aquí vive gente in 2022.
The official video, published three days ago, already has 4.6 million views and also exposes in several slides the loss of endemic species of Puerto Rico. This song has inspired hundreds of users on social networks who have already published videos with images of the Canary beaches, their landscapes and their neighborhoods in protest against the mass tourism that they have been denouncing in recent years. In addition, thousands of comments relating the song to the situation of the islands "how sad to hear these lyrics united to my land", a user highlighted.
Thus, the Canary archipelago has not been the only one to join the trend in networks of Lo que le pasó a Hawaii, the Venezuelan people, the Cuban people, and Spanish regions that have already denounced the excesses of mass tourism such as Málaga or the Balearic Islands have also joined the trend.
This is part of the lyrics of the song 'Lo que le pasó a Hawaii'
"You can hear the jíbaro crying, another one who left.
He didn't want to go to Orlando, but the corrupt one kicked him out.
And it is not known until when.
They want to take away the river and also the beach,
They want my neighborhood and for grandma to leave.
No, don't let go of the flag or forget the lelolai,
I don't want them to do to you what happened to Hawaii.
Be careful, Luis, be careful
Here, nobody wanted to leave, and whoever left, dreams of returning
If one day it was my turn, how much it will hurt me
Another jíbara fighting, one who did not give up
She didn't want to leave either and stayed on the island
And it is not known until when.
They want to take away the river and also the beach
They want my neighborhood and for your children to leave
No, don't let go of the flag or forget the lelolai
I don't want them to do to you what happened to Hawaii
No, don't let go of the flag or forget the lelolai"
