One of the most surprising moments of Bad Bunny's world tour took place at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in London, where the Puerto Rican rapper welcomed Damon Albarn onstage for a special version of "Clint Eastwood". Seated at the piano, the Gorillaz frontman accompanied the author of "Debí tirar más fotos" on what Bad Bunny himself called "my favourite song of all time", turning a simple cameo into one of the most significant moments of the tour.
The performance went beyond mere surprise value. Bad Bunny, today one of the most influential artists in the world despite still singing almost exclusively in Spanish, hardly needs a collaboration with a britpop legend to legitimise his success. It was in fact he who invited Albarn onstage, paying tribute to one of the songs that most shaped his musical upbringing, before the two went on to perform "Tormenta" together as well, the collaboration Gorillaz released in 2023.
The most interesting aspect of the performance, however, came with a brand-new verse Bad Bunny added to "Clint Eastwood": "My life isn't a movie, it's a documentary because it's real. Thanks to everyone who, in 2014, helped spread my music. Now there's no one left who can stop it". Words that take on particular significance alongside Albarn, founder of the virtual band par excellence. Gorillaz were born in the early 2000s as a multimedia project designed to challenge the artificiality of pop culture, while Bad Bunny sets against that universe the concreteness of his own trajectory, championing the rise that took him from his earliest tracks uploaded to SoundCloud, back when he still worked in a supermarket, all the way to the top of global music.
Bad Bunny interpretando "Tormenta" junto a Gorillaz en su última función en Londres. 🇬🇧 pic.twitter.com/G516PX9u4L
— BAD BUNNY DAILY UPDATES (@keiveiec) June 28, 2026
The reference to 2014 is no coincidence either. If in 2001 "Clint Eastwood" helped redraw the boundaries between alternative rock and hip-hop, in 2014 Bad Bunny was beginning to build his own artistic identity by blending trap, reggaeton and pop sensibility. Two different paths, yet united by an ability to escape labels and rewrite the rules of the market. The London duet thus takes on the value of a symbolic passing of the torch between two artists who, in different eras, have each managed to redefine the language of contemporary pop music.
Meanwhile, Gorillaz performed in Italy at the La Prima Estate festival in Lido di Camaiore (Lucca). Here is the setlist played by Damon Albarn and co. on that occasion:
The Mountain
The Happy Dictator
Tranz
19-2000
Rhinestone Eyes
The Moon Cave
El Mañana
On Melancholy Hill
Orange County (with Kara Jackson)
Delirium
Andromeda
Charger (with Pauline Black)
Kids With Guns
Stylo (with Yasiin Bey)
Damascus (with Yasiin Bey)
Dirty Harry (with Bootie Brown)
The Shadowy Light
Feel Good Inc.
Clint Eastwood
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This article is an English translation of the original Italian text by OndaRock Staff, published on OndaRock.it. It was translated with the help of artificial intelligence, under the editorial responsibility of OndaRock's editor-in-chief, Claudio Fabretti.
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