Our West Coast Editor breaks down everything that happened at the Latin superstar's sold-out LA Staples Center show.

I don&rsquo;t speak Spanish, so this is an impressionistic take on the Bad Bunny concert at Staples Center last night. I don&rsquo;t feel bad that I don&rsquo;t speak Spanish&mdash;I studied French in high school because I grew up on the border of French Canada&mdash;but I did wish I knew what Bad Bunny was saying during his &ldquo;dramatic banter&rdquo; moments.

In front of the entrance to Staples Center in Downtown Los Angeles, people pose in front of a 20-foot inflatable Bad Bunny head. Bad Bunny&rsquo;s inflatable head has a third eye.

A girl with green hair in a painted-on sequined dress has drawn a third eye on her forehead. She is in line for a hot dog, and she orders a Corona. She says she&rsquo;s been a Bad Bunny fan &ldquo;for forever&rdquo; (which I take to mean 2017, when he released his first single).

The line for Bad Bunny merch is pretty long. Bad Bunny&rsquo;s logo is dead Miffy. Instead of an X for a mouth, the &ldquo;bad bunny&rdquo; has Xs for eyes. You can get a dead Miffy t-shirt for $35. I kind of want one, but the green-haired girl inspired me, and I only have enough money for a hot dog and a Corona.

A video plays on the jumbotron, a sort of pastiche of Vega Baja, the Puerto Rican town Bad Bunny comes from. A man rides a bicycle through town and almost gets hit by a car, while Bad Bunny narrates the events. Eventually, we come to a church, and the camera pans in on a choirboy standing in front of the lecturn. The choirboy turns, and it is young Bad Bunny, denoted by a glowing third eye.

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Bad Bunny comes on stage wearing a matching Louis Vuitton print jacket and pants, a Lakers jersey, and his signature low-sitting glasses. He runs through&nbsp;his hits, like &ldquo;Dura,&rdquo; &ldquo;El Ba&ntilde;o,&rdquo; &ldquo;Est&aacute; Rico.&rdquo; The tiny girl in the seat next to me hands me a blunt. I haven&rsquo;t smoked a blunt in a while, so I only take on hit. The girl smokes the rest of it and then lights up another one, and smokes that one too. Then she hits a vape.

Dancers come on stage, dressed in neon yellow tops. They all have braided hair, mostly a dark purplish red. The blunt makes that color pleasing. Bad Bunny&rsquo;s hair is cool too, a diamond tip shaved down into the widow&rsquo;s peak area, perhaps pointing at the (invisible to non-seers) third eye on Bad Bunny&rsquo;s forehead.

The first big surprise of the evening for me comes about an hour in, when Bad Bunny breaks into &ldquo;Tenemos Que Hablar,&rdquo; which is a sort of pop-punk-meets-trap track. The jumbotron shows a collage of Social Distortion and Sonic Youth album covers. I didn&rsquo;t know this side of Bad Bunny, and I immediately download the song to my phone.

The rest of Bad Bunny&rsquo;s tracks are hip hop, with a few getting into more reggaeton territory and even fewer in bachata style. Most are smattered with Bad Bunny&rsquo;s signature synth stab, which kind of sounds like a futuristic spaceship zipping off.

Then, Bad Bunny gets to &ldquo;Mia,&rdquo; the song that everyone knows that&rsquo;s on the radio every ten minutes (the video has 773 million views on YouTube). It&rsquo;s really catchy, and Drake guest stars on the remix, but this version is all Bad Bunny. The hook hits me so hard, I can&rsquo;t help but dance.

Then, the special guest of the night, Becky G, comes out. I love Becky G, and I love the track she does with Bad Bunny, &ldquo;Mejores.&rdquo; She&rsquo;s wearing a sequined dress with the Playboy logo on it. Then Bad Bunny gets on a small contraption and flies out over the audience, before wrapping up the evening by telling the screaming audience, &ldquo;Gracias de coraz&oacute;n.&rdquo;

That part I understood.

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