8 WWE Royal Rumble 2021 Impulse Reactions

5. Bad Bunny

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Your writer can't commit the requisite number of words for this entry to the career of Bad Bunny, nor offer much in the way of an impartial critique of his hit song "Booker T", nor the performance of it between matches on this pay-per-view.

Here's what this was though - one of the biggest artists of 2020 on Spotify, performing something current and likely beloved by a sizeable portion of WWE's audience, featuring a Hall Of Fame star in a role that makes him more relevant than any Kickoff gabfest could have done. Or did, for that matter. He had absolutely f*ck all to offer as usual on yet another clunky waste of an hour.

This was far from wasteful. The sort of timely co-promotion the company are so typically rotten at, this was an objective success regardless of anybody's subjective take on the performance itself. (Check out WhatCulture Music for Actually Decent Takes on this sort of thing...)

 
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