Music, laughter and dancing filled the Portola Pavilion for Bad Bunny Night on Friday, drawing students in to enjoy a night of fun.<\/p>\n
Associated Students held a night dedicated to Bad Bunny just in time for his performance in the half-time show at the NFL\u2019s annual Super Bowl.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Bad Bunny, a Puerto Rican artist, recently won his sixth Grammy with Album of the Year for his sixth album “DeB\u00cd TiRAR M\u00e1S FOToS.” For many, the album has had a personal impact,\u00a0 influencing fans on a personal level.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe current culture of what’s going on right now in the world, especially with the Super Bowl going on, we felt like celebrating something that not everybody in the world is celebrating felt really important, especially acknowledging Spanish culture,\u201d said Jade Estrada, ASI student programmer and lead coordinator of the event and fourth-year communications major.<\/p>\n
ASI holds nights like this one to give students the ability to experience a night of music, dancing and fun, highlighting different artists, cultures and genres of music that they may not get to see firsthand.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey have one other room that’s just a dance room. It\u2019s supposed to be like a club experience,\u201d said Jorge Lua, a fourth-year communications and advertisement major and student programmer of ASI. \u201cThe reason why we have these nights is (for) people who can’t afford actually going to go see Bad Bunny, just so you can have the experience.\u201d<\/p>\n
Aside from music, the event was hosted to include students in something special. Events like these bring the community together and create a safe space, according to Mikayla Rodriguez, ASI student programmer and co-coordinator of the event and third-year communicative disorders major.<\/p>\n
\u201cJade and I really wanted to promote Bad Bunny performing at the Super Bowl, and we really wanted to make it a safe space for anyone who really likes this type of music, especially with what’s going on in the world,\u201d Rodriguez said. \u201cThere’s so much to put good in it. It brings so much community and fun and friendship.\u201d<\/p>\n
There has been controversy surrounding Bad Bunny being the performer for the NFL Super Bowl Halftime Show, due to his criticism of President Donald Trump’s immigration policies.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Students, however, are excited for his performance and have even given the event its own nickname.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt’s \u2018Benito Bowl\u2019 all the way,\u201d Rodriguez said. \u201cThat\u2019s what we’re excited for.\u201d<\/p>\n
Many students attended Bad Bunny Night to support ASI, as well as support Bad Bunny. Jenny Casta\u00f1eda, a fourth-year business administration, entertainment and hospitality major, attended the event as a result of her past experiences.<\/p>\n
\u201cI went my freshman year and it was fun, so I had to come here. He\u2019s also doing the Super Bowl so I had to come here for support,\u201d Casta\u00f1eda said.<\/p>\n
Aside from supporting ASI, the event supports Bad Bunny as an artist and dives deeper into bringing not just the Cal State Fullerton community together, but bringing everyone together.<\/p>\n
Students who have seen him live and have shared their immense love and support for his music were excited to share his artistry, which has brought people together in an impactful way.<\/p>\n
\u201cI actually saw him live in (Puerto Rico), so that was super fun. And that was what really sparked my interest in the community he builds, the way that everyone was supporting it at the stadium was actually insane,\u201d Rodriguez said.<\/p>\n
Bad Bunny is currently one of the top artists worldwide, which is why it is not surprising for this event to have many students come in support of it. Aside from the Super Bowl, Bad Bunny Night shares the massive love for Latin culture.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe just felt like highlighting the culture and that we acknowledge that it’s special and accepted here,\u201d Estrada said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Music, laughter and dancing filled the Portola Pavilion for Bad Bunny Night on Friday, drawing students in to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":170841,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164,1043,81938,330,11730],"class_list":["post-170840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news","tag-event","tag-latin-pop","tag-music","tag-super-bowl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170840\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}