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Posted on 02/11/2026 3:24:18 PM PST by nickcarraway
Bad Bunny’s halftime performance at Super Bowl LX is the subject of many hot takes on Monday.
Despite appearances from Lady Gaga and Ricky Martin, many fans online were upset about the predominantly Spanish performance. This ongoing social media outrage is why Roc Nation, who books the Super Bowl halftime show, has to do something more universally beloved next season.
Listen, Bad Bunny’s performance objectively was not awful. Even if you couldn’t understand the lyrics, the stagework, choreography, and overall video production was first class. The special guests and Easter eggs were able to be identified by fans that weren’t familiar with Bad Bunny prior to the Super Bowl.
There’s no denying that the beats were groovy and even the stingiest Bad Bunny haters have to recognize that the “Together we are America” theme was supposed to be a unifying message during turbulent times in our nation.
But next year, the NFL absolutely has to get back to the basics.
After the Super Bowl’s opening night on Monday in San Jose, clips surfaced that most of the players participating in the NFL’s biggest game didn’t know any Bad Bunny songs. As the game grew nearer, similar clips from the Super Bowl’s Radio Row showcased big stars from the football world and beyond being unfamiliar with the work of Bad Bunny.
The NFL currently has an obsession with making the sport more global. During Super Bowl week, commissioner Roger Goodell didn’t slam the door shut about an international expansion team at some point.
But the majority of fans who currently tune into the Super Bowl are still American – despite the league’s ongoing global initiatives.
Check your political viewpoints at the door for this next part.
Last season, the older, boomer crowd was upset about Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl halftime performance. The older demographic completely missed the cultural impact the performance had on the history of hip-hop music, headlined by Kendrick’s beef with Drake being dragged out on a national stage.
Not only did the older crowd completely miss Kendrick’s not-so-subtle jab at Drake, but they absolutely ignored his overall message about systemic racism in America. That message was part of the reason why the halftime show was booked – and most of the core audience didn’t grasp that overarching messaging.
In the current political climate, the NFL and Roc Nation tried to shoehorn a performance from an internationally-beloved Puerto Rican star that was meant to unify the country. The issue? Most of the NFL’s core demographic had never heard of the artist. Certainly, they didn’t understand the message, either.
Love it or hate it, these boomers are not quitting football as they promised they would when Colin Kaepernick kneeled during the national anthem one full decade ago.
Instead of fanning social media flames and backlash from older generations of fans who can’t comprehend why the Super Bowl is strategically placing these halftime shows, they should just take a year off and give their core demographic what they’ve been pounding the table for.
What’s Bruno Mars up to? Metallica? They can still jam, right? Maybe Taylor Swift finally gives the country what they've been waiting for?
People will still find plenty of reasons to complain, but it feels like the rest of us just need a year off from hearing about it.
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A lot of people don’t know Bad Bunny, or care about his music.
He is the most-streamed male artist in Spotify history.
We better put on the brakes because we are headed towards lions vs Christians halftime show.
We better put on the brakes because we are headed towards lions vs Christians halftime show.
The Roman promoters really did things right
They needed a show that would clearly excite
The attendance was sparse so they put on a fight
Threw the Christians to the lions, sold out every night
Give the people what they want!
You gotta give the people what they want!
The more they get, the more they need
And every time they get harder and harder to please
-The Kinks
And, that is precisely why American “football” will never catch-on elsewhere in the world, save for a small band of aficionados!
And, as far as boomers are concerned, they at least saw football when it was truly competitive; and defensive backs weren’t trying to tackle 200 lb. running-backs and receivers with arm-tackles around the shoulders, so the defenders won’t get hurt!
I wouldn't know ... I didn't watch it.
Beginning a sentence with an imperative like "Look:" or "Listen:" tells me that whatever follows will be 100% stinking slimy bullstuff.
That phrase invariably precedes a claim that is extremely deniable.
The author is full of sewage.
I see this as an in your face attack on all the professing Christian football players.
How about some college marching bands? Didn’t that used to be?
My God, the halftime show at the Super Bowl is still making headlines?
It is a non event. There hasn’t been a good halftime show….ever. And that include the Turning Point POS that was presented as an alternative.
All of this handwringing is just silly. Feeding the drama only feeds the people making money off clicks.
Next year…plan to have another beer and a sandwich and ignore the crap on TV.
I speak Spanish and the phrases “Uh..........Uh” and “Eh! Eh! Eh! “ were so moving in 3 of the songs.....
If you didn’t understand, that is a you thing..../S
Goodell needs to stick his head up and check which way the winds are blowing. Globalist expansion is going to face a lot of problems, and it’s going to get worse as time goes on.
Until this fiasco, I never heard of him/her/it/whatever.
Now ... seen some of his stuff on da interwebz ...
No, thanks.
I’ll take some Sabaton ... or Night Wish ... or Imperial Age ...
The halftime show was hugely popular, expect more of the same in the future.
The halftime show was hugely popular, expect more of the same in the future.
ZZ Top was good.
all I could think is: I’ve never seen so many fake plants in one place in my life.
You’ve never been to Hobby Lobby?
Yep the nfl and nastycar have taken a dirt road.
Kneelers and noosances kneed to be jettisoned from our myst
Marching bands
The Nasty Faggot League...crap on ‘em.
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