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In the context of the song, a "bichiyal" is a woman who exists between two worlds: the privileged life of Puerto Rico's upper-middle class and the violent, vulnerable experience of the island's poorest neighborhoods. As a Puerto Rican, I hadn't thought twice about the newly minted term, because it's a mashup of two popular slang words in Puerto Rico: "bicha" and "yal." ![]() "What does 'bichiyal' mean?" a Colombian co-worker asked a few days after the album dropped. It's the title of one of the album's songs-a nostalgic love letter to the old school perreo of the '90s and early 2000s-featuring the veteran reggaetonero Yaviah. ![]() ![]() When Bad Bunny released his sophomore album YHLQMDLG (an acronym for Yo Hago Lo Que Me Da La Gana, or I Do Whatever I Want) on February 29, he also introduced a new word into the world: bichiyal.
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