Stream of Consciousness 2026

My stream of consciousness notes and translation from Bad Bunny’s halftime show:

Cree siempre en ti, Benito says as he gives a grammy to his younger self.

Tú también debería de creer en ti, vale más que lo que piensas, créeme.

You should also believe in yourself, it’s worth more than you think, believe me.

Quieren quitarme el río y también la playa, quieren el barrio mío y que abuelita se vaya, sings Ricky Martin.

They want to take the river and the beach, they want my neighborhood, and for Abuelita to leave.

Sugar cane in the background, a labor intensive crop referencing slavery and oppression in the Caribbean.

Electric lines explode. Caribbean nations suffer from constant blackouts. PR suffers at least 27 hours without electricity each year. They are stuckkk with a privatized monopoly and pay double the rate of the US mainland ($300/mo?). Bad Bunny’s homeland concerts require 15 generators, practically his own microgrid.

Benito comes out in a haka-like performance carrying the original light blue flag banned from 1948 to 1957 representing national independence.

PR estoico! Aquí el calor es diferente, el sol es Taíno. Seguimos aquí.

Stoic Puerto Rico! The heat is different here, the sun is native Taíno. We persist.

God Bless America, including Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Brazil, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico, Cuba, República Dominicana, Jamaica, Haiti, Antillas, United States, Canada, and my motherland mi patria Puerto Rico.

¡SEGUIMOS AQUI!

¡y Belize tambien!

lost in the words that we speak
i dont even want do this anymore
cuz u already know what you mean to me
wherever u go thats where ill follow
nobody is promised tomorrow
ima love u everry night like its the last night like its the last night
if the world was ending
id want to be next to u
id wantt to be next to u
and our time on earth was thru
id want to hold u just for a while
and diiiieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee with a smile
if the world was ending id want to be next to u