{"id":634656,"date":"2026-06-12T10:25:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T10:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/634656\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T10:25:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T10:25:13","slug":"what-do-puerto-ricans-think-of-the-viral-song-about-their-homeland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/634656\/","title":{"rendered":"What do Puerto Ricans think of the viral song about their homeland?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Many of the videos people create online to accompany the song show people in sunglasses and summer outfits, as if they&#8217;re about to book the next flight to the island.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">At the heart of the track lies a love letter to Puerto Rico &#8211; a small island in the northeastern Caribbean Sea, with a population of around 3.2 million people.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Spanish and English are the official languages of Puerto Rico, which is a self-governing unincorporated territory of the United States. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Puerto Rico&#8217;s culture being on the global stage is something Debbie Perez, who hosts the Boriken podcast, which explores Puerto Rican history, is passionate about. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m glad the song has opened the door to have more nuanced conversations about Puerto Rico,&#8221; she says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We felt like the creator appreciated our culture. He said he would love to collaborate with Puerto Rican artists &#8211; we have some amazing people who talk about Puerto Rico&#8217;s social issues in their music.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">When mentioning those social issues, both Perez and Mercedes Grubb bring up Puerto Rican megastar Bad Bunny&#8217;s impact in raising the profile of their home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Many of the videos people create online to accompany the song show people in sunglasses and summer outfits,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":634657,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-634656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=634656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634656\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/634657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=634656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=634656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=634656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}