Benny Blanco is totally embracing the mix-up—and actually, he’s not mad about it. Throughout his look on The Jennifer Hudson Present on Monday, April 7, the producer opened up a few latest Oscars blunder that by accident labeled him as none apart from Dangerous Bunny.
“They did?” Blanco, 37, mentioned with shock after Hudson introduced up the Oscars second that had social media buzzing.
The slip occurred final month when The Academy’s official X account mistakenly captioned a photograph of Blanco and fiancée Selena Gomez as “Selena Gomez and Dangerous Bunny.”
Whereas the submit was shortly corrected, the web (as all the time) had receipts, with screenshots residing perpetually within the replies.
However in the event you thought Blanco can be offended—suppose once more.
“I like that,” he laughed. “What do you imply? He’s so sizzling! I’ll take it, I’ll take it. What do you imply?”
Clearly having fun with the flattery, Blanco doubled down when proven a photograph of the reggaeton celebrity.
“Have a look at how fairly he’s — are you kidding?” he mentioned. “Yeah, I’m Dangerous Bunny now.”
The lighthearted second comes sizzling on the heels of Blanco’s newest musical enterprise, a collaborative album with Gomez titled I Mentioned I Love You First, launched March 21.
Based on a press launch, the mission “provides followers a singular window into their relationship” and got here collectively naturally by means of their artistic chemistry.
“This album got here collectively organically as a direct results of the consolation that they each felt when working collectively creatively, permitting them to supply artwork that authentically displays their experiences,” the discharge famous.
“It chronicles their whole story—earlier than they met, falling in love and trying to what the longer term holds.”
So, whether or not he’s being mistaken for one of many world’s largest Latin music stars or dropping deeply private tracks with the love of his life, Benny Blanco’s residing his finest life—and apparently doing it with Dangerous Bunny power.
