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Speaker 1: Well, they're offering a Bad Bundy class at LMU Loyola

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Speaker 1: Marymount University here, and I've got the professor of the

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Speaker 1: Bad Bunny class on the line with us right now.

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Speaker 1: I wish they offered these classes when we were in school.

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Speaker 1: I mean to go to a Bad Bunny class and

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Speaker 1: get a credit for it, say I would have stayed

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Speaker 1: in college.

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Speaker 2: You're like, this is the fact that I want to do.

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Speaker 1: This is what I was trying to say. Nobody wanted

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Speaker 1: to listen. Uh, let's get to a professor Vanessa Diaz

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Speaker 1: on the line of l MU. Good morning, Professor Diaz,

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Speaker 1: how are you.

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Speaker 2: Good morning. I'm doing well. Thanks, live from Puerto Rico

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Speaker 2: right now.

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Speaker 1: What can you tell us? Right now?

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Speaker 2: From Puerto Rico, it's very hot and everyone is eagerly

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Speaker 2: awaiting the drop of Bad Bunny's new album. There's already

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Speaker 2: people waiting outside of places suspecting that he might do

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Speaker 2: some of that. There's a lot of excitement. I bet so.

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Speaker 1: I just what is the class? If we signed up

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Speaker 1: for the Bad Bunny class, how do you frame the lesson?

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Speaker 2: So Bad Bunny is really a hook to talk about

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Speaker 2: bigger issues in Puerto Rico? Just like his music is

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Speaker 2: a hook to talk about Puerto Rico. We focus not

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Speaker 2: just on Bad Bunny and his lyrics and how he

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Speaker 2: is a groundbreaking artist in so many different ways, but

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Speaker 2: we talk about the Puerto Rican debt crisis, political struggles,

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Speaker 2: issues of gender, race, music, history of Puerto Rico. So

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Speaker 2: looking at the history of regazzon, but obviously Bad Bunny

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Speaker 2: is also this critically important cultural figure. The way he

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Speaker 2: represents for Puerto Rico, the way he represents for gender fluidity,

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Speaker 2: the way he speaks out about LGBTQ rights and issues.

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Speaker 2: It's you know, he's reached unprecedented levels of fame for

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Speaker 2: a Spanish language artist, and so we have to take

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Speaker 2: that really seriously.

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Speaker 1: I think it's interesting this concept of using someone who

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Speaker 1: is in the center of the zeitgeist and so popular

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Speaker 1: in culture, especially with young people, as using that as

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Speaker 1: a hook to talk about greater issues that are so

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Speaker 1: important to all of us. I wonder why that didn't

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Speaker 1: happen sooner.

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Speaker 2: You know, it's a really great point. I think we're

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Speaker 2: at a moment where some people still think that this

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Speaker 2: isn't serious scholarship, that this doesn't reserve you know, that

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Speaker 2: this doesn't deserve a university course. But what we see

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Speaker 2: is that not only does it motivate young people to

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Speaker 2: want to learn about these broader issues that the artists

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Speaker 2: they love care about, but it's also that this is

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Speaker 2: history happening in real time. You know, I'm a cultural

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Speaker 2: anthropologist and I study the contemporary. We are documenting history

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Speaker 2: as it happens. And so you know, this is bigger

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Speaker 2: than Bad Bunny or any of the other artists who

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Speaker 2: kind of get these courses. He is doing major work

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Speaker 2: shifting cultural practices, and so you know, he's putting Porto

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Speaker 2: ric Go on the map in a very important way.

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Speaker 2: He's creating space for people, especially young people, to feel

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Speaker 2: affirmed and their gender and sexual identities. And I think that,

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Speaker 2: you know, we really have to understand that popular culture media,

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Speaker 2: you know, the work you do, this is really our

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Speaker 2: cultural reality, and if we don't take it seriously, then

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Speaker 2: we're missing some really important parts of our history as

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Speaker 2: it happens.

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Speaker 1: It's such a great idea and I'm so happy you're

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Speaker 1: doing it, and I love your enthusiasm. This is Professor

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Speaker 1: Vanessa Diaz at LM. You teaching the Bad Bunny class. Okay,

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Speaker 1: so will you analyze the sketches he does on SNL

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Speaker 1: this weekend.

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Speaker 2: I absolutely will be watching for a close analysis and

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Speaker 2: we will talk about that in class. And we look

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Speaker 2: at his lyrics closely. We look at any performance of

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Speaker 2: Bad Bunny and put it in these broader context of

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Speaker 2: kind of what he wants to talk about.

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Speaker 1: Well, thank you have fun in Puerto Rico. Thanks for

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Speaker 1: coming on with us from there today. We really appreciate you.

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Speaker 1: Nice to meet you.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, thank you so much. It's nice to meet you too.

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Speaker 1: Take care, okay, bye bye you too. Just a little

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Speaker 1: hook right gets people to listen sometimes more to things

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Speaker 1: that exactly bigger issues, bigger issues, all right, coming up.

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Speaker 1: So that album's coming out when it comes.

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Speaker 2: Out tonight at nine pm, so everybody's anticipating it. It's

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Speaker 2: called Nadi Manyana. Nobody knows what, nobody knows what will

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Speaker 2: happen tomorrow tonight.

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Speaker 1: But tomorrow tonight, well nine pm midnight basically, but yes,

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Speaker 1: it drops technically Friday, October thirteenth, which is tomorrow.

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Speaker 2: But you know, right,