moment as puerto rican, notoriously performs only in spanish, it's reflecting a redefined mainstream back to us, and institutions failed to keep up in realtime. bad bunny's performance was also a reminder that there's an alternate path. one where success does not require assimilation. as novelist -- wrote a bad bunny's album of the year snub, that money may have earned some new fans, but the performance wasn't designed to please those newbies. what some saw as a show, i saw as a refusal to perform -- on any terms but our own. and that, well, that feels like a win. that's all the time i have heard today. emily sherman undoes. tune in next weekend, 6 pm eastern, for more american voices. until then, have a safe and happy rihanna day. y rihanna day.