Marilyn's Photos - Dec 17 2025 - Bad Bunny vs Coast-to-Coast Clipper
I listen to CBC radio when in the car and they said the most-streamed artist on Spotify is again Bad Bunny in 2025, with over 8 billion streams on Spotify alone. They played a Bad Bunny song and I wondered how an Hispanic singer can be the number 1 artist in the world. The Guardian has an answer. Before Spotify there was no way to tally the listening habits of the planet in a single chart - and Latin America, Bad Bunny’s biggest market, is becoming more influential in the global headcount. One article says “his pleasure-inducing sounds trigger dopamine and foster community.” I somehow get satisfaction when European (includes colonial North America - that is, U.S. and Canada) dominance gets toppled. The dominance is rooted in the historical global spread and subsequent “canonization” of Western classical music during the colonial era, and then the “whitewashing” of Black American innovations of the 20th century. I read that European/white sounds have traditionally been seen as the default or inherently superior. Seems to me that Bad Bunny is doing a good thing.
Doesn’t the weather interrupt all our intellectual musings? I turn to the news that a coast-to-coast storm is coming - it is coming here given we are in the middle of the coast to coast. The headline lets you know this is big: “Massive, 4,000-km cross country low brings alerts from coast to coast” - this kind of storm has a formal name - a clipper. It is a fast-moving, low pressure system that forms in western Canada and races southeast across the northern U.S. named for their speed, like old clipper ships.
This is a Chihuly glass globe at the St. Louis Botanical Gardens. This was a long time ago, but I couldn’t resist the water reflections so thought I’d crop it to showcase them. Looks so calm.
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