Moscow Mule

Album: Un Verano Sin Ti (2022)
Charted: 4
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Songfacts®:

  • A Moscow Mule is a cocktail of American origin made with vodka, ginger beer, and lime juice - after Russia invaded the Ukraine in 2022, it was rebranded a "Kiev Mule" in many territories. Bad Bunny opens his Un Verano Sin Ti album with this track titled after the alcoholic libation.
  • Un Verano Sin Ti, which translates to "A Summer Without You," is a seasonally inspired project. The inspiration for its opening track came from Bad Bunny's drink of choice on the beach during the hottest months of 2021. "I had been drinking Moscow mules the whole summer," he told Apple Music.
  • The song itself is a sex ode where Bad Bunny gets horny after two drinks. He details his erotic feelings for his love interest and the dirty dancing they get up to once intoxicated. There is a single reference to Moscow mule on the bridge.
  • Brooklyn born Puerto Rican-Dominican producer Marco "MAG" Borrero created the shimmering reggaetón beat. Bad Bunny's go-to producer, MAG contributed to 14 of the Un Verano Sin Ti tracks.
  • Bad Bunny's longtime collaborator Stillz directed the video. It starts with the Puerto Rican superstar being picked up by a woman while hitchhiking. They drive, dance around a campfire, and party in the club before she drops him off in his high-rise apartment. The clip ends with both of them swimming in the sea naked.

    Bad Bunny is seen as a merman, with his private parts censored. "I wanted to show an intimate, special moment," he told the comedian Chente Ydrach. "We're naked and having a good time and it feels like magic. Sex doesn't matter. What matters right now is our connection. It's about enjoying the moment and connecting our souls."
  • Un Verano Sin Ti debuted at #1 on the US Billboard 200 with 274,000 album-equivalent units. According to Billboard, this marked the biggest weekly sum for any Latin music album since they began using equivalent album units as a measurement in December 2014 on the Billboard 200 chart.
  • Bad Bunny appears in the movie Bullet Train, which went to #1 at the US box office on August 7, 2022, the sixth week Un Verano Sin Ti topped the albums chart.

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