Rosalía and Bad Bunny Smolder in Saturday Night Live Appearance
We can only hope glasses of ice water were distributed to those lucky enough to sit in Studio 8H for Saturday night's episode of Saturday Night Live. As if Bridgerton's "dreamboat Duke" Regé-jean Page appearing as an "extremely hot sex man" guest host (as Aidy Bryant put it) weren't enough, musical guest Bad Bunny put things over the top in the hunk department.
The 26-year-old Puerto Rican singer (whose non-malicious leporine name is Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio) opened big, sharing the stage with Rosalía, the 27-year-old singer from Barcelona, Spain, performing their just-dropped single "La Noche de Anoche." Its 6.63 million Spotify streams on its first day was a record for a Spanish-language song.
"La Noche de Anoche" translates as "Last Night's Night," but one hardly needs a Spanishto-english phrasebook to understand what's happening between these two. Were this a Max Fleischer cartoon, all of us viewing on the couch would have our mouths agape making olde timey car horn sounds.
The song was co-written by Bad Bunny, Rosalía, Chris Jeday, and Tainy, and the lyrics concern two lovers recounting their first night of intimacy.
Musical guests singing in languages other than English are rare on SNL, but not unheard of. BTS sang in Korean in 2019, Shakira and Alejandro Sanz performed "La Tortura" in Spanish in 2005, Luciano Pavarotti sang in Latin (!) in 1998, and the Gipsy Kings sang their Spanish hit "Bamboléo" in 1989. When Queen Ida & the Bon Temps Zydeco Band performed in 1985, they most likely sang in French, but video evidence is hard to come by. It's entirely possible The Pogues slipped in a little Gaelic during their 1990 St. Patrick's Day performance; it's hard to understand exactly what Shane Macgowan is saying.