Chuwi

One Liner: Spanish stuff from Puerto Rico
Wikipedia Genre: Tropical
Home: Isabela, Puerto Rico

Poster Position: Bottom Quarter - Line 23
Day: Sunday
Weekend One Only.

BMI Stage at 3:15.

Thoughts:  I want every song to start with a Chewbacca roar, like the little MuzzyOnABeatHoe thing that DJ Mustard does.  Sadly, this is all in Spanish and with a heavy salting of Auto-Tune, so it does absolutely zero for me.  I would actively prefer silence.

Chuwi is apparently an electronics manufacturer headquartered in Shenzhen, China.  Maybe that is who sells me all of the weird crap on Amazon with seller names like HIJOPLAY and JUNIFUN.  Interesting that they would start a band that sings only in Spanish.  Actually, this is a Tropical band formed in Puerto Rico in 2019.  Their very limited Wikipedia says "The group grew up in the context of the protests in Puerto Rico in the wake of Telegramgate since in their lyrics, they vindicate themes such as the independence of Puerto Rico, migration and gentrification, among others."  I was unfamiliar with Telegramgate, and honestly wish that we didn't feel the need to just add -gate to the end of things just because the Watergate was named the Watergate.  This was a scandal involving the Governor of Puerto Rico, when his Telegram chat messages were leaked to the world.  I gather they were not very nice.

It seems as though the reason we know about these folks now is that they are featured on a Bad Bunny song called "WELTiTA."  That song has 328.3 million streams.  The top stream for these dudes is "Tikiri" with 2.1 million.

There you have it.  A song by Chuwi.  I hope that you found pleasure in it and it makes you excited to go see them jam it in person in a few months.