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[quote=Anonymous]Bad Bunny Delivers a Love Letter to Puerto Rico at Super Bowl Halftime
His performance featured a sugar cane field, a wedding seemingly officiated onstage and a New York-style street scene, along with appearances by Lady Gaga and Ricky Martin.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/08/arts/music/bad-bunny-super-bowl-halftime-puerto-rico.html

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In the end, Bad Bunny managed to hit all those notes at his halftime performance, walking out in an off-white football jersey labeled “OCASIO” (after his full name, Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio) and the number 64, and leading a show that featured a joyful celebration of Latin heritage, before he spiked a football in triumph.

His performance included Lady Gaga doing a salsa-style version of her streaming smash with Bruno Mars, “Die With a Smile” (in English), and later Ricky Martin — who arguably began the crossover process for modern Latin pop that led to Bad Bunny — performing Bad Bunny’s track “Lo Que le Pasó a Hawaii.” (Both stars had been cited by online bettors in the run-up to the show, with decent odds.)

Featuring a sugar cane field, a wedding seemingly officiated onstage, a New York-style street scene complete with a bodega and a pan-American parade, the show spanned country and city, family and hemisphere, work and play and dancing everywhere. It placed Bad Bunny’s beloved Puerto Rico at the center of a communal celebration, where vintage salsa and traditional bomba and plena easily segued out of reggaeton and dembow. The sounds were mostly organic, not electronic: a brassy salsa band, a white-clad band of plena percussionists. Bad Bunny was summoning a Latin heritage across generations, one that recognized hard work — cane-cutting, electric-grid repairs — alongside the good times workers sweated to earn.

He drew on his latest album, “Debí Tirar Más Fotos,” as well as hits from his previous ones, and he put Latin rhythms up front. Cultural and political messages were tucked in. “Lo Que le Pasó a Hawaii” worries that, as in Hawaii, Puerto Rico’s culture could be overwhelmed by outsiders. “El Apagón” (“The Blackout”), which mentions Puerto Rico’s too-frequent power failures, accompanied a sequence of workers on utility poles.

He also nodded to his historic win, just last week, of the Grammy for album of the year, handing the award as an inspiration to a young Latino boy.
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