RAPPER Bad Bunny shared a kiss with a male backup dancer while performing at this year’s VMA concert.
The historic moment happened at the MTV Video Music Awards ceremony that was held at New York’s Yankee Stadium on August 28.
Bad Bunny was singing his hit track Tití Me Preguntó when he kissed a female dancer.
Then the Reggaeton star, who was wearing large white sunglasses, shared a smooch with a male performer before performing the rest of his song.
Fans rushed to comment online about the star’s performance.
One viewer described the Puerto Rican artist as “undefinable”, while others said the kiss was the “most iconic” moment of the night.
The kiss came almost 20 years after Britney Spears and Madonna famously shared a smooch at the 2003 edition of the VMAs.
Bad Bunny took to the stage after he was named artist of the year.
He defeated a slew of A-listers including Harry Styles, Drake, and Ed Sheeran as he won the top gong.
He told the crowd: “I always believed that I could become great without having to change my culture, my language, my jargon.
“I am Benito Antonio Martinez from Puerto Rico for the whole world.”
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Bad Bunny is known for his outlandish and colorful outfits but told GQ in May that his fashion sense is always shifting.
He said: “It depends on my state of mind. Everybody has to feel comfortable with what they are, and how they feel.
“Everybody has to feel comfortable with what they are, and how they feel.
“Like what defines a man, what defines being masculine? What defines being feminine?”
He revealed that he cannot gender clothes.
He said: “It’s a dress, and that’s it. It’s not a man’s, it’s not a woman’s. It’s a dress.”
In his music video for his track, “Yo Perreo Sola”, the rapper performed in drag.
And, in 2020, he told the LA Times that his sexuality doesn’t define him.
In a CNN article from November 2019, journalist Vanessa Rosales said that the star “champions a new masculinity”.
Bad Bunny has often worked with artists such as J Balvin, Daddy Yankee, and Jhay Cortez.
In 2020, he received a Grammy Award for his album YHLQMDLG – his second solo studio album.
Bad Bunny was also the first non-English language act to be Spotify’s most-streamed artist of the year in 2020 and 2021.
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