Después De La Playa

Album: Un Verano Sin Ti (2022)
Charted: 6
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Songfacts®:

  • "Después de la Playa" translates to "after the beach." Here, Bad Bunny sings about his plans with his love interest after a beach day.
  • After starting with a slow, psychedelic beat, "Despues De La Playa" transitions to a fast-paced merengue de mambo bop. Bad Bunny then sings on a live mic over the Dominican band Dahian el Apechao. "We had a whole band of amazing musicians," he told Apple Music. "It's part of my culture. It's part of the Caribbean culture."
  • Merengue is a type of music that originated in the Dominican Republic, becoming popular all over Latin America. Created in New York City, Merengue de Mambo is a sub-genre whose proponents include Dominican musician Dahian El Apechao, whom Bad Bunny namechecks in this song.

    (Translated into English)
    Walking with El Apechao
    Don't let anyone call me today, okay?
  • "Después De La Playa" is the second track on Bad Bunny's fourth solo album, Un Verano Sin Ti. According to the Puerto Rico rapper, the record begins on a high before descending to more emotional tracks. "The album starts with a lot of energy, a lot of perreo, mambo, dembow, and suddenly there's a bossa nova. It's like when you go out to party, you're excited but then you get drunk and sentimenta," he told the comedian Chente Ydrach.
  • Bad Bunny opened the Grammy Awards in 2023 with a performance of "Después De La Playa" and "El Apagón."

    Un Verano Sin Ti won for Best Música Urbana Album and was the first Spanish-language album nominated for Album Of The Year, which it lost to Harry's House by Harry Styles.

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