Bad Bunny 2026 Super Bowl halftime performer

[Anonymous]

The only Super Bowl I have ever watched was 1986 but my ex and his girlfriend who are both MAGAs had a Super Bowl party last night.

They were supposedly apoplectic when they wanted to turn off the half-time show and try to make everyone watch their laptop for the "real American half time show"

Half his practice is made up of people (making up most of the forced guests) from the DR and they were all needing to use the bathroom or just flat out having "home emergencies" they needed to attend to and leave the party.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Imagine if you turned on your TV to watch your favorite show and this week they decided to do it in a language you couldn't understand and didn't even add subtitles. You would be annoyed

A TV show isn't music though. It's not at all uncommon to listen to music in a language you don't understand.

It's extremely uncommon for most people

Did you have an issue with the Macarena? Gangnam style?

I don’t get that poster. I speak decent Spanish and didn’t understand most of the lyrics. But I also can’t understand most of the lyrics when th Rolling Stones sing and I’m fluent in English. It’s hard to understand the lyrics for most rock songs, really. That’s why albums used to come with the lyrics on the inside and why Spotify runs the lyrics on the screen as you listen. The “I didn’t understand the lyrics!” Panic is so weird to me. Lots of good music (Mozart, joplin, Mangione, etc) doesn’t even have lyrics! Maybe they are country music fans, where the lyrics are more important the the rhythm/beat.

As someone who is a country music fan, I still find it weird. Lyrics ARE what I like about music, so I gravitate towards stuff like country (and show tunes), but I understand that that's not universal.

[Anonymous]

The show was amazing. A tribute to everything that the US claims to be. Very wholesome.

That being said, I don't care for his music and dont speak spanish. But I can recognize a great show when I see it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:5,000,000 watch the ALL AMERICAN HALF TIME SHOW.
NFL SHOW US YOUR RATINGS NOW
LET COMPARE

Ok, Marge. That's nice. Bad Bunny has been Spotify's number one streaming artist for four years. The other show was begging people to stream their diversion on multiple devices because they thought it would boost their ratings.

Yep it's been a nice four years of hearing him rapping about how many types of women gave him head and telling us the size of his DIC

Well, you can go listen to Taylor Swift talk about who had the key to opening her thighs instead. That is on her latest “album” The Life of a Cheeseball.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The only Super Bowl I have ever watched was 1986 but my ex and his girlfriend who are both MAGAs had a Super Bowl party last night.

They were supposedly apoplectic when they wanted to turn off the half-time show and try to make everyone watch their laptop for the "real American half time show"

Half his practice is made up of people (making up most of the forced guests) from the DR and they were all needing to use the bathroom or just flat out having "home emergencies" they needed to attend to and leave the party.

Are you ok?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You know I don't remember anyone complaining in 2002, one of the most "USA!" Times I can remember, when an Irish band was the halftime show.

they weren't complaining in...
2023 - Rihanna (Barbados)
2021 - The Weeknd (Canada)
2016 - Coldplay (UK)
2010 - The Who (UK)
2006 - The Rolling Stones (UK)
2005 - Paul McCartney (UK)
2003 - Shania Twain (Canada)
2003 - Sting (UK)
2000 - Phil Collins (UK)

Are you able to figure out the difference?

You forgot Shakira, who is probably closest to Bad Bunny. She is from Colombia.

I don’t know why MAGA even thinks it gets to have an opinion. Didn’t they make a huge stink about quitting the NFL when Kaepernick took a knee? The Super Bowl isn’t for them. The Super Bowl is for people who love America.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The end with all of the Latin American flags was pretty cool. I didn’t need to understand all of his words to understand the sentiment.

Same. The international audience is pretty tickled. He showed the ugliness of Trump policies without mentioning Trump. Great use of what was not shown.

I hate all modern music so sorry BB! But I loved the show.

[Anonymous]

Many Latinos complained they didn’t understand the lyrics. The Puerto Rican dialect is different

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/bad-bunny-spotify-super-bowl-halftime-performance/

Beat Kendrick Lamar's record from last year with iver 135 million views.

Anyone claiming this was a failure is an idiot. The networks and advertisers are beyond pleased with this.

It was a good show. High energy and appealed to a bunch of different demographics. He clearly put a lot of thought into the messages sent, from the shout out to God Bless America (listing ALL the Americas, from Canada to the USA to Brazil), the "only thing stronger than love is hate." I watched it with my kids and thought it was great.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Imagine if you turned on your TV to watch your favorite show and this week they decided to do it in a language you couldn't understand and didn't even add subtitles. You would be annoyed

A TV show isn't music though. It's not at all uncommon to listen to music in a language you don't understand.

It's extremely uncommon for most people

Did you have an issue with the Macarena? Gangnam style?

I don’t get that poster. I speak decent Spanish and didn’t understand most of the lyrics. But I also can’t understand most of the lyrics when th Rolling Stones sing and I’m fluent in English. It’s hard to understand the lyrics for most rock songs, really. That’s why albums used to come with the lyrics on the inside and why Spotify runs the lyrics on the screen as you listen. The “I didn’t understand the lyrics!” Panic is so weird to me. Lots of good music (Mozart, joplin, Mangione, etc) doesn’t even have lyrics! Maybe they are country music fans, where the lyrics are more important the the rhythm/beat.

+1 They must hate the World Cup where they play Pavarotti's Nessun Dorma constantly. Or is that ok because it's opera, and opera is ok for white people, even if it's in other languages?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The only Super Bowl I have ever watched was 1986 but my ex and his girlfriend who are both MAGAs had a Super Bowl party last night.

They were supposedly apoplectic when they wanted to turn off the half-time show and try to make everyone watch their laptop for the "real American half time show"

Half his practice is made up of people (making up most of the forced guests) from the DR and they were all needing to use the bathroom or just flat out having "home emergencies" they needed to attend to and leave the party.

Are you ok?

I'm fine, I just thought it was funny. I didn't even know he was having a party until my son told me this morning that everyone left after he pulled that stunt.

My son used to work for his dad so he knows a lot of the people who quietly exited stage left. The scuttlebutt is that everyone knows he's getting ready to retire and fewer and fewer people care every ongoing year about blowing smoke up his donkey.

On the other hand, are you ok? You seem triggered.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:That performance was so awful, I expect the NFL to give into Taylor Swift's demands for next year

The HT show was full of symbolism. You need to have at least some level of awareness of Latino culture to understand it.

Over 90% of people that watched have no idea what the message was and we're just sitting there bored.

No…I can recognize that something is not very specifically directed at me and doesn’t reflect my cultural background and still enjoy it. I can still appreciate it and connect to it. How do you travel? Or go to a museum? Or watch movies?

And please tell us why the main show at the Super Bowl, the ultimate in American entertainment, should not reflect our cultural background?

Exactly this. I love learning about different cultures and respect all of them, but I’m not sure the Super Bowl, which is known for being American, should be about only other cultures. If they had made it “all American”, there would be so much backlash. Can you imagine if there were only white people in it? I thought it was a beautiful performance, just not appropriate for this situation.

One of the three singers in the show, the one who performed for the second longest was white. So people asking where the white people in this show missed the white lady front and center?

I mean A) PR is American and B) I'm from Florida and this heavily resembled home for me.

There was one white person in the show. And yes, I know that Puerto Rico is a part of America, but this show was not American. They spoke a language that most people in America don’t speak.

I just don't know how anyone could write a sentence like this and not get it.

Let me clarify then. Puerto Rico is technically an American territory, but not like the rest of the country try… they have no electoral college or voting rights. Puerto Rico, as a country is typically known to represent a Latin culture. The language that they speak, the food etc. I don’t think that most people who are from Puerto Rico claimed to be American, they claimed to be Latino. Puerto Rico is a fairly new addition to the United States, within the last 125 years, and it’s history is that of Spain.

So... Puerto Rico has been part of the US for more time than say... Hawaii?

Seriously just stop. You're not helping yourself here at all.

+1

Stupid. New Mexico is relatively new but you are not pooping all over New Mexicans.

[Anonymous]

I understood the message of joy, history, the embracing of our multiple cultures, and celebration of PR, the US, and the Americas.

I didn’t understand the lyrics but inals didn’t understand Green Day’s lyrics or Lady Gaga’s lyrics. But you can vibe and understand even if you don’t catch the words. Great show!

[Anonymous]

I find it amusing that people complain about his music because he sings in Spanish which they don't understand. Hell, I can't understand the lyrics of most English-speaking singers these days but it doesn't stop me from appreciating their music.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Great article about a Wisconsin professor partnering with BB to provide historical info for the album.

https://news.wisc.edu/pop-star-bad-bunny-needed-a-puerto-rican-history-scholar-uw-madison-had-just-the-one/

There was a lot of thought that went into the Bad Bunny show. Lots of elements embedded about Latino culture/history, but he was careful not to be too "political" so the MAGA didn't scream. I'm not Latino, so I didn't pick up on everything, but if the posters here would read the New York Times or LA Times and read about the various messages embedded into the show, rather than "quoting a Latino they saw on YouTube who hated it," they might actually learn something.