Anonymous wrote:Liberal here who didn’t care for the show. Not bothered by the show being in Spanish, not bothered by the dancing, just didn’t care for it or find it entertaining.

Anonymous wrote:Lousy show.

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People magazine described the performance as a “fun-filled dance party” that largely abandoned politics in favor of sexiness, joy and tropical flavor. A friend texted to say she was especially annoyed when one media outlet referred to the plants onstage as “shrubbery,” oblivious to how those sugar cane fields recalled a long history of chattel slavery and colonialism in the Caribbean.

During the set, Bad Bunny performed “El Apagón,” a searing critique of Puerto Rico’s failing electrical grid and the long legacy of colonialism behind it. The jíbaros were recast as electrical workers, evoking the ingenuity of Puerto Ricans rebuilding after Hurricane Maria amid federal negligence. Where some viewers may have seen only electrical poles, we saw an acknowledgment of one of the most painful chapters in Puerto Rico’s recent history. And yet, the workers and Bad Bunny still danced, still partied, still lived.

Our friends in Los Angeles cheered when they saw the popular Villa’s Tacos stand, while those in Brooklyn lit up when Toñita of Williamsburg’s Caribbean Social Club handed Bad Bunny a drink. Nearly halfway through the show, the music stopped, and the camera cut to a real couple — two fans who had originally invited Bad Bunny to their wedding — being pronounced husband and wife during the performance.

Anonymous wrote:^Trump is lucky that they didn’t throw paper towels

Anonymous wrote:Show was alienating. People didn’t enjoy it. The ideas were disconnected, the dancers used indecent gyrations and touching privates. Very vulgar for family audience. People needed subtitles which weren’t provided. Seeing twerking on telephone poles was gross. 🤮 The spectacle was obnoxious with all those booty shakings and touching one’s crotch. His voice lacks melodious tones. Poor job.

Anonymous wrote:Liberal here who didn’t care for the show. Not bothered by the show being in Spanish, not bothered by the dancing, just didn’t care for it or find it entertaining.

Anonymous wrote:I absolutely love how conservatives are bothered or saying how "bad" the performance was. It's delightful.

A Latin man, who dates women, but supports LGBTQ rights, is comfortable enough in his masculinity to wear dresses and paint his nails, is strong, popular, makes great music, is a decent guy, and is a clear winner.

They're so threatened by him. It's really quite lovely to witness.

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Anonymous wrote:One thing I really loved about this performance is it offered joy, love and playfulness that we are so desperately missing these days. And it was visually stunning - very impressive. The collective effect was able to create a vibe and atmosphere so well

It was a visual disaster. Total chaos.

Could not disagree more. The sugar cane backdrop added a lot of visual unity. The flags ended it with a strong statement that drove home the verbal message.

The visual depictions of latino culture and verbal and visual shout outs to NYC and Puerto Rico worked.

It was just incredibly well thought out and planned. And fun!

Agreed. There was a lot of meaning packed into that performance.

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...ime-puerto-rico.html

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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Anonymous wrote:I thought that Gaga and Martin just brought down the vibe.

Martin was important. You had to listen to the words (which I know were in Spanish, so look it up) to get the message. They sang in Spanish for a reason. Puerto Rico does not want to become Hawai'i. They do not want to lose more of their culture, language and history.

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Anonymous wrote:I thought the show was well done but I can not stop thinking of what it all cost and how much good that kind of money could have done for Puerto Rico itself. What a colossal waste of resources all these type of shows are.

They say it's 10-20 million to produce a halftime show. The headliner doesn't get paid. I don't think that would go very far to helping Puerto Rico's problems.

10-20 million might help some, no?