内容摘要：Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump is reflected in the bullet proof glass as he finishes speaking at a campaign rally in Lititz, Pa., Sunday, Nov. 3, 2024. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump is reflected in the bullet proof glass as he finishes speaking at a campaign rally in Lititz, Pa., Sunday, Nov. 3, 2024. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

We don’t have nothing that we’ve built without our fans. And for us, that’s the most important, most heartwarming, gratifying thing, that it’s somebody who loves you for what you do. … We’re one of the few groups who get onstage and them girls scream like we’re taking our clothes off, and we never take no clothes off. They scream like we got routines — we don’t do none of that, right? We always come in the arena like, “This is just us. This is who we are.” And they love us for that. And it’s no feeling that is even close.BRIAN CASEY: I don’t know that you can ever understand it while you’re still in the middle of it. … But I will say, when you meet certain people, it’s heartwarming and it gives you a sense of what that impact is, you know what I mean? And it’s not until you get to talk to people who are looking at it from the outside-in that you realize, “Man, we did an all right job.”

Follow Associated Press entertainment journalist Gary Gerard Hamilton at @GaryGHamilton on all his social media platforms.MIAMI (AP) — Last year, Puerto Rican superstarthe 2023 surprise spinoff to his 2022 record “Saturno,” brought his R&B-informed reggaeton to new heights on an extraterrestrial concept album. A year later, and he’s completely shifted gears, finding inspiration in classic sounds and imagery, pulling from a ‘60s and ‘70s Nuyorican cool — while still doing what he’s always done best: contorting familiar genres into something novel.

Alejandro is releasing his fifth studio album “Cosa Nuestra,” a title borrowed from Willie Colón and Héctor Lavoe’s 1969 album, on Friday. (There’s a sample of Colón and Lavoe’s “Qué Lío” in the opening title track.) It marries classic Puerto Rican instruments and genres, like salsa and merengue, with more modern sounds like reggaeton. And it is amplified by a number of inventive samples — like Frankie Ruiz’s “Tú Con Él” — and all-star collaborators:Alejandro’s created a kind of character for the release, whom he calls “Raúl Alejandro,” a nod to his father and the early migration of Puerto Ricans to New York, which he explored in an interview conducted in Spanish and English ahead of

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ALEJANDRO: I’m really happy. I think it’s a different stage of my career. More elevated as a music producer, writer, artist in general. I’ve also grown a lot as a person. I feel more mature in every part of my life. This feels like the whole experience of my career in one whole project.Crows fly above multi-storey apartment buildings during a blackout in Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday Nov. 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

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A municipal worker shows owlets rescued from a fallen tree after a powerful storm in Montenegro’s capital Podgorica, Tuesday, July 2, 2024. (AP Photo/Risto Bozovic)A municipal worker shows owlets rescued from a fallen tree after a powerful storm in Montenegro’s capital Podgorica, Tuesday, July 2, 2024. (AP Photo/Risto Bozovic)