Honestly, depending on your ethnicity or where you live, touring as a musician in the U.S. these days seems difficult because of that for you and your fans. I don’t get why anyone overseas would want to tour in the U.S. right now.
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I don't get why anyone from overseas would come to the US right now. They can just randomly decide today's your day and throw you in prison in Louisiana for no reason at all.
It's based on entitlement. "That would never happen to me because I'm a good person"
It shouldn't really be an "entitlement" mindset to think that you shouldn't go to prison if you didn't do anything wrong.
It's completely and utterly anti-american to be forced to have that mindset.
Whoever would cause that mindset is the active enemy of every single citizen.
Trump couldn't even answer a reporter's basic questions about the Declaration of Independence. He certainly wouldn't understand the concept that God himself endowed ALL people with Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness - three things that MAGAs despise.
It shouldn't but in America you can be detained for less. And my ethnicity makes me worried if I was ever detained so yeah, Americans need to realize the reality shift in this fascist landscape. It might not affect you but MANY of us have cause for concern.
The problem is that the determination that you are a good person or not, is being made by very bad people. Your characterization of yourself as "good" is irrelevant.
It's not even that. They are demanding to go through visitor's phones, and denying entry if they've criticized Trump on social media.
Imagine you've saved for a few years for a big trip to America, bought plane and theme parks tickets, put down deposits on lodging, pre-paid for car rentals, arrange for time off for everyone in the group, etc., only to get turned away at the border because you said something negative about the worst president in American history.
There are an infinite number of places in the world to visit that will be just as fun and relaxing. No need to go to the one place that won't welcome you and your money.
I've never heard of him, but I don't blame him. It makes sense
In addition to being an insanely popular musician he's also been in several WWE matches (and actually did great,) has been on SNL, and played the waiter-turned-caddy in Happy Gilmore 2 in a guest spot. So he's pretty well known. Not to be aggro or suggest that's the creme de la creme of celebrity, just to let you know the level he operates on. He's pretty well recognized at a glance to a lot of people.
My sister in law last year accused me of being a misogynist because I don't like Taylor Swift's music. She argued that since Swift is the most-downloaded artist ever on Spotify, that means she is objectively the greatest singer-songwriter in history and the only reason I could possibly dislike her music is that I don't like women. I suggested that she must be racist because she doesn't like Kanye West and Bad Bunny (who are the second- and third-most downloaded or thereabouts artists on Spotify) and she was like "who is Bad Bunny?"
Don’t forget he was also in the movie Bullet Train with Brad Pitt!
I actually still haven't watched it! I've been told it was fun enough, but I keep putting it off...
Really cool action movie that just never stops. Highly recommended.
Fun movie!
Bad Bunny is outside of my orbit, and I hadn't heard of him until he was first on SNL, but you can tell that he did SNL once and decided this is what he was all about now. He is very cute that way.
Every time I hear his name, I get mixed up with Bhad Bhabie and wonder WTF is wrong with people for still paying her any attention. Then realize, apparently it's just me. I'm the problem.
I don't know either of these people.
He's a ~~Mexican~~ Puerto Rican club music musician, his stuff is actually pretty good but rather raunchy if you speak the language.
If you're a honky like me you may take a liking to his recent work with the Gorillaz
He's Puerto Rican
Somebody should tell his president that his president is a piece of shit! Lol
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Completely reasonable
Someone cares about their fans
I imagine he doesn't want to see a news headline that says "ICE snatches x amount of people from Bad Bunny concert" I wouldn't want that either.
I thought he held the US shows all in Puerto Rico so people would visit there? I just heard a story about it on npr
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