It will always cause emotions to see people get so excited and receive you that way. People screaming and dancing at his shows-“You never get used to that,” he says.“It never becomes normal. There has to be a certain amount of vertigo involved in an ascent as dizzying as his. Maybe it’s because he’s coming off the tour-he’s overstimulated, pumped up on adrenaline. I go days without sleeping.”Įveryone jumps in to speculate as to why. Sometimes, I can’t sleep thinking about that. “But I’m the opposite-the more I acquire an audience, the more I go up, the more pressure I feel to keep going. “Maybe, for some people, it’s different in that the higher they go, the less pressure they feel, because maybe they’re confident that everything they do will be a success,” he continues. Later in April he was tapped to star as El Muerto, the Spider-Man antagonist and superpowered wrestler who is the first Latin Marvel character to get a standalone live-action film-the latest chapter in a burgeoning acting career. “I don’t know if it’s just me or everyone, but the higher I go, the more pressure I feel,” he says.Īnd he’s certainly continuing to soar ever higher. and wakes up around 10, but lately he’s been having trouble sleeping. Today, in mid-April, it’s been only a week since his last show and he hasn’t fully come down. “Here, you get up, you eat something, and we get on it.” “From the moment I get in the car, I lose the desire to go,” he adds. “I rent a house like this one, put the equipment in, and record the songs there.” He avoids recording studios whenever he can. “I go to a specific place with my people, and we stay, we have a good time, and we work,” he says. Released on May 6, Benito’s latest record, Un Verano Sin Ti ( A Summer Without You), is less political, but his sensibility remains as proudly Latin as ever a large portion of the album was recorded at a house in the Dominican Republic. I don’t know if it was because I was a little drunk, or what.
We were drinking, and suddenly René played that song. “Ever since I heard that song, I’ve loved it,” Benito says. imperialism and violence in Latin America. Inspired by Childish Gambino’s “This Is America,” Residente offers a searing critique of U.S. Specifically, it reminds him of “This Is Not America,” a recent song by his friend René Pérez Joglar, the Puerto Rican rapper better known as Residente, who helped awaken Benito’s political consciousness when in January 2019 they paid an early morning visit to then governor of Puerto Rico Ricardo Rosselló to discuss the island’s violent crime, and later joined protests that ultimately resulted in his resignation. The idea that America is about more than just the United States is something he’s been thinking a lot about-something, in fact, that governs his entire approach to global stardom. He says that when he heard the theme, he thought he’d wear something inspired by Latin America.
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“It’s not ‘American’?” Janthony Olivares, his creative director, asks.īenito explains that the dress code is “gilded glamour, white-tie,” and that the theme, In America: An Anthology of Fashion, is inspired by an exhibit from the Met’s Costume Institute. Then he remembers something: “ Cabrón, I saw a post that they announced the theme.” “If I knew, I would tell you,” he says with a smile. I ask what he’s going to wear to the upcoming Met Gala.
If I wear a dress, would it stop being a woman’s dress? Or vice versa? Like, no. Like, what defines a man, what defines being masculine, what defines being feminine? I really can’t give clothes gender. “Everybody has to feel comfortable with what they are, and how they feel. “It depends on my state of mind,” he says. His boldly colored outfit feels tropical and refreshing, transmitting a summer energy-but he explains that his approach to style is always shifting.
The chef brings over some sushi for Benito to sample.
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