Bad Bunny, a Puerto Rican artist born Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, is known for his eccentric style, feminist lyrics and reggaeton rhythms imbued with Caribbean salsa and mambo influences and is known as who always put their heart and soul into their performances. It’s not just an evening of entertainment, it’s an experience: Aerial videos from recent concerts show crowds jumping in unison so hard that they look like they’re in a pool Giant waves at the water park while the fire-breathers shoot around them.
Not all of his Mexican fans were so lucky last weekend.
Claudia Murillo, 38, brought her 8-year-old son to the show and said it took about an hour to get in. Ms. Murillo, a medical device consultant, was frustrated she was dropped from the Ticketmaster website last spring when she tried to line up online to buy tickets when they were officially released.
After losing her spot on Ticketmaster’s website, she ended up buying tickets from a speculator for 9,000 pesos each, about $455, three times the official price.
On Friday night, she and her son had to squeeze through a crowd of angry people to get to the entrance.
“A girl behind me started praying when we saw all these people walking towards the exit, angry and screaming that they were turned down,” Ms. Murillo said. “The girl said, ‘God, I never asked you for anything. If there’s one thing I ask of you in my life is to be at this concert.’”
When Murillo and her son finally entered the stadium, they discovered half of the floor was empty.
Ms. Rodriguez, who works as a night guard and in a veterinary clinic, said she was told she would be reimbursed for the ticket she had to pay with her savings. But she recalls meeting another Bad Bunny fan amid the chaos last week, who traveled to the capital more than 600 miles from the Mexican city of Torreon. Ms. Rodriguez says that fan will never get back the full amount she spent on hotels, flights and accommodation to attend a concert she never attended.
Ms. Rodriguez said many people have saved their paychecks and “want to spend that money on an experience that matters to them”. “I paid a lot, for nothing.”
