“Yo Perreo Sola,” Bad Bunny

Maria Sherman, author of “Larger Than Life: A History of Boy Bands from NKOTB to BTS”: While I’m stuck inside my Brooklyn apartment, there’s no song I hear more frequently than Bad Bunny’s dembow ode to genderfluid autonomy on the dance floor, blasted from passing cars and teens’ backpacks between sirens and the distant cadence of political protest. In that way, the song is both a soundtrack to isolation and collective action. When Bad Bunny sings, “Yo perreo sola” (I twerk alone), the sentiment reverberates. This summer, between moments of combating