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Bad Bunny’s ‘Yo Perreo Sola’ Video Is a Latin Genderfluid Bop

Ian Kumamoto

On Friday, Bad Bunny released the music video for Yo Perreo Sola— a bop that translates to “I Hoe Alone”— that seems like a cruel nod to our lonely quarantined lives but is really a celebration of female autonomy. The music video features Bad Bunny dressed in drag, complete with synthetic breasts and a latex mini dress that looks achingly tight. It ends with a powerful message: “If she doesn’t want to dance with you, respect her, she twerks alone.”

“I wrote it from the perspective of a woman,” the rapper told Rolling Stone. “I wanted a woman’s voice to sing it — ‘Yo Perreo Sola’ — because it doesn’t mean the same thing when a man sings it. But I do feel like that woman sometimes.”

Bad Bunny, whose real name is Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, has never publicly identified as queer but has spoken out about what he believes is his responsibility as an artist to combat regressive gender roles and bring awareness to gender-based violence. In February, Ocasio performed on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon wearing a shirt that said “They killed Alexa, not a man in a skirt,” referring to a homeless trans woman who was murdered in Puerto Rico after she used the women’s bathroom at a fast food restaurant.

The rapper’s allyship with the LGBTQ community has been praised but also criticized by some who regard his use of queer symbolism as ‘opportunistic.’ Although members of the queer community have had mixed feelings around his advocacy, the reactions to Yo Perreo Sola were overwhelmingly positive.

“How could you not stan?!”- Random queer king on Twitter, March 2020

Meanwhile, Anuel AA— another Puerto Rican rapper with ongoing beef against our fluid Latin prince— took to Instagram stories to criticize the music video.

“You guys are weird as balls and dumb and hypocrites! I can’t go against my ideals for a business,” he wrote.

All we gotta say is…

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