On the afternoon that Variety interviewed Tainy in honor of his being named Variety’s Hitmaker of the Month, the Puerto Rican-born producer and songwriter got word that Bad Bunny’s “Un Verano…
’s “Un Verano Sin Ti” had returned to the top of the Billboard 200 album chart for its eighth non-consecutive week. The record is headed toward the fall with a top-album-of-the-year status that will be difficult for any other artist to topple by the end of 2022.
Tainy holds major real estate with production and composition credits on Bad Bunny’s previous solo albums, too, such as the artist’s 2018 debut, “X 100pre,” his 2020 two-some “YHLQMDLG” and “El Último Tour Del Mundo,” and his 2019 joint album with J Balvin, “Oasis.” That includes the first single from “Un Verano Sin Ti,” Bad Bunny’s duet with Bomba Estéreo, “Ojitos Lindos,” as well as the recently released track “Me Fui de Vacaciones.
“They were the most established producers in Puerto Rico, and they allowed me under their umbrella, and to thrive,” says Tainy of Saldaña and Cabrera . Creating with no limits also meant listening with no limits, beyond Latin music – a genre-less vibe that helps make a Tainy track like no other, and turned reggaeton on its ear. “Growing up in Puerto Rico then, reggaeton was this…. but I was heavily influenced too by hip-hop producers like the Neptunes, Kanye West and Timbaland. I was also into nu-metal like System of a Down, Blink 182, Linkin Park and Limp Bizkit.
Beyond working with early reggaeton pioneers such as Daddy Yankee, Wisin & Yandel and Don Omar and others, the producer is overjoyed at having made the acquaintance of “this generation’s most open-minded creators,” J Balvin and Bad Bunny. These two artists, like Tainy, were looking to expand the boundaries of reggaeton and electronic music, starting with, respectively, 2018’s “Vibras” and “X 100pre.
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