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Gorillaz featuring Bad Bunny “Tormenta”

I’m sure Damon Albarn recruited Bad Bunny for the same reasons he pulls any talented artist into a Gorillaz project – the promise of a fun collaboration, an interesting aesthetic combination, a new energy to pull into the Gorillaz universe. But there’s just no way he didn’t go into making this song knowing that the magnitude of Bad Bunny’s success on streaming was such that this song was almost guaranteed to become one of his most popular songs ever just because Bad Bunny showed up. This song doesn’t have to be all that good, it barely even has to work. But it does work, largely because Albarn’s taste in musical harmony diverges just enough from usual Bad Bunny productions to cast the rapper in a different light, and his Gorillaz-era mix of easy breezy vibes and understated but pervasive melancholy mixes well with Bunny’s blend of vulnerability and bravado. The lyrics center on a metaphor of the sun coming out during a storm, and a lot of what makes this click is they’re both a little bit sun and storm here.

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