Amazing, incredible — a compliment, not a criticism.
In Puerto Rico "brutal" is the highest praise: "esa canción está brutal" means that song is incredible. The intensity of the word gets repurposed as enthusiasm.
In most other Spanish-speaking countries brutal keeps its literal, negative sense. Complimenting someone's cooking as "brutal" in Madrid will land oddly.
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