Bad Bunny showed up to the Met Gala as his own abuelo — and suddenly that Benito Antonio trademark makes a lot more sense. This is Bad Bunny Daily Fancast, and today we’re getting into why Benito aged himself fifty years and then quietly moved to lock down that name legally. We’ve got the prosthetics breakdown, the trademark filing, and Eladio Carrión talking his neck — and then what all of that might mean for the next era. Puerto Rico Twitter is not calm right now, and I’m right there with it. Let’s get into it. Here’s Sophia Panych at Allure:
In reality, according to his prosthetics designer, Mike Marino, the process took three hours—plus a half hour of makeup removal at the end of the night (micellar water, in this instance, would not cut it). Then there was the six weeks of prep: the scanning, designing, sculpting, and sewing until the multiple, hyper-realistic prosthetic pieces were complete.
Okay, the Met Gala look finally has a real breakdown — six weeks of prep, prosthetics from Mike Marino, the guy behind The Irishman and The Batman — and Benito showed up looking like himself at 80. And his joke was, “it took 53 years,” which is honestly the most Benito response possible. The craft hit before anybody even caught up to the bit. What I like is the intent here — he didn’t just walk in wearing a costume. He picked a section of the exhibit about bodies fashion usually ignores: aging bodies, pregnant bodies. That’s a curatorial choice, not just a style flex. Three hours in the chair, then another half hour just getting it off — micellar water wasn’t cutting it. And Marino had been turning Heidi Klum into a marble statue that same morning. That man’s schedule is unhinged. From Maya Georgi at Rolling Stone:
Bad Bunny is currently in the process of filing a trademark on Benito Antonio. Records reviewed by Rolling Stone show that Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, who is also identified as “AKA Bad Bunny” in the filings, filed to trademark “Benito Antonio” in January 2026. It doesn’t appear that the trademark has been finalized quite yet, but the move feels aligned with the new logo.
Bad Bunny at the Met Gala dressed as an abuelo — full aged makeup, custom black Zara tux — but the bigger story is what was on the chair behind him: a bubbly logo reading “Benito Antonio,” which Rolling Stone confirmed he’s been quietly filing to trademark since January. Fans clocked the chair before any outlet even ran the story — that’s the thing. Puerto Rico Twitter had screenshots of the glam-session photos before the red carpet was over. So the real question is what the trademark is saying here — is “Bad Bunny” getting retired, or is “Benito Antonio” just a new lane he’s carving out alongside it? I don’t think he’s retiring Bad Bunny. That feels too neat. This reads more like he’s building a Benito Antonio brand apart from the music persona — merch, maybe a label, maybe something we haven’t guessed yet. The abuelo look was already a whole statement about legacy and identity, so the trademark isn’t random. This one’s from Kookloofeed:
Bad Bunny continues his streak as the artist with the most videos in YouTube’s Billion Views Club with “Tití Me Preguntó” becoming his 19th entry. He’s followed closely by J Balvin, who has 15 videos that have reached the milestone.
Nineteen videos with a billion views on YouTube — Benito is now the undisputed leader of that club, four ahead of J Balvin, and the gap is only getting wider. And look at the range in that list — “Amorfoda” sitting next to “Un X100to” with Grupo Frontera. That’s not one sound, that’s an entire era map. Plus four number-one debuts on the Billboard 200 in Spanish — nobody else has done it once. The “Top Latin Artist of the 21st Century” award from Billboard last October wasn’t a gift, it was just accurate. From r/popheads (6 upvotes):
What a fantastic lineup! Some classic songs, some bops on albums we'll probably never rate, some bops on albums I really hope we still rate (Bad Mode, Euro-Country, and Access All Areas, hello), some artists I have never heard of in my life, and Lonely Road. I'm so ready.
That comment wandered in from a completely different thread. Whoever’s excited about “Bad Mode” and “Lonely Road,” I respect the energy, but we are very much not on the same frequency right now. Hard pass. Skip. This one’s from The Japan Times Alpha Online:
It’s her, hi! Taylor Swift has topped Spotify’s first ever list of the most streamed artists of all time, published April 23. She’s followed by Puerto Rican superstar Bad Bunny. That comes as no surprise: In 2025, the artist born Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio was named the streaming giant’s most played artist of the year for a fourth time, dethroning Swift.
Spotify dropped its first-ever all-time most-streamed artists list, and Benito lands at number two globally — right behind Taylor Swift. For a reggaetón artist rapping almost entirely in Spanish, that’s not just a chart position, that’s a statement. And let’s be real — he’s been Spotify’s most-streamed artist four years running. Four. The all-time list just caught up to what the yearly numbers were already telling us. The back-and-forth with Swift is genuinely wild from a music-industry lens — one artist owns English-language pop at a scale nobody touches, and Benito is right there matching her in streams without ever chasing that lane. From Carl Lamarre at Billboard:
Like the great wrestling heels and heroes before him, Carrión understands that charisma matters just as much as skill. A former competitive athlete, the “Coco Chanel” artist is an elite musician well-versed in sports psychology and the value of entertainment. Whether he’s tag-teaming with rap heavyweights like Lil Wayne and 50 Cent, or lyrically sparring with his Puerto Rican brother-in-arms, Bad Bunny, Carrion is a scene-stealing showman looking to win listeners over one song at a time.
Billboard sat down with Eladio Carrión to talk the new CORSA era, and naturally the conversation went straight to wrestling — because at this point that’s basically mandatory whenever Bad Bunny’s orbit is involved. Eladio said his wrestler name would be “Don Cabrón” and his finisher would be The People’s Elbow — and honestly? That’s a fully realized character. Creative should be calling. What I actually want to know is what Eladio said specifically about Benito’s wrestling skills, because “celebrity who did WWE” and “artist who can actually work a match” are very different sentences. You’ll find links to everything we talked about today in the show notes. If a headline or detail stuck with you, take a minute and follow it through there.
That’s Bad Bunny Daily Fancast for this Wednesday. This is a Lantern Podcast.