Bad Bunny lives lavish and dines with the finest in the video for “Monaco,” which dropped Friday.
The video opens with Bad Bunny as an old Hollywood star being photographed by paparazzi as he enters a restaurant to have dinner with his friends as Al Pacino watches from another table. (Pacino has pasta fed to him.)
Sipping some white wine, Bad Bunny joins the iconic actor at his table, and the two have a conversation. It’s a fitting cameo, since later in the song he raps about The Godfather: “Yo sigo tranquilo, en la mía/Don Vito, Don Beno, de los Beatle’ John Lennon.”
The musician then heads to the kitchen to meet the restaurant’s cooks before the video transitions to show the star posing in front of a Formula 1 car. After appearing in the opening scenes with a shaved head, Bad Bunny is seen playing casino games with his full head of hair. He then drives around Monaco before dancing on a yacht surrounded by women in bikinis. (Hot!)
After the song’s outro, which samples Charles Aznavour’s “Hier encore,” the camera pans to show highlights of Bad Bunny’s trip to Monaco, including meeting Checo Perez. The end of the video circles back to Pacino and Bad Bunny’s dinner, this time with audio of their dialogue and giggles.
“You’re doing great. You really are doing great. He’s charging it up,” he says.
“Young life,” Bad Bunny says before Pacino sings out the title of Bad Bunny’s album name in English: “You never know what tomorrow brings, you never know what tomorrow takes from you.”
“Thank you for the blessing,” Bad Bunny tells Pacino before inviting him to enjoy his dinner.
The new video comes hours after Bad Bunny hosted a massive listening party for Nadie Sabe Lo Que Va a Pasar Mañana in Puerto Rico. Among the 22 tracks packed on the album are “Mr. October,” Cybertruck,” “Teléfono Nuevo,” “Acho PR,” and “Thunder y Lightning.” The LP opens with “Nadie Sabe” and ends with “Un Preview.“
Bad Bunny continued his tradition of shirking a traditional album rollout by announcing the new album on Monday, just days before its release. The LP follows another busy year in a string of busy years. For the early part of 2023, he continued touring and basking in the well-deserved accolades for last year’s Un Verano Sin Ti. The Grammy winner headlined both weekends of Coachella this past spring.
When he spoke to Rolling Stone earlier this year, he seemed hesitant to do too much. “I don’t know if maybe I’ll release a song [this year] if I like it enough, but I don’t think so. I said this year was for resting,” he said at the time.