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Ran across this podcast outlining that viewership of the NFL halftime show collapsed 39% compared to last year. This from a ratings source used for advertising (and thus much more reliable as companies use this for real-$$ decisions.) It's pretty plain that profanity laws were also violated, so we'll see if LEO will give lawlessness a pass or hold them accountable.

Super Bowl halftime has devolved into a stale Roman bacchanal—gaudy, raunchy, and empty—leaving millions bored, alienated, and wondering who the spectacle is even for anymore. In recent years, Americans have known what to expect from our Neronian Super Bowl halftime shows: mediocre music veneered over with gaudy, flashily lit, but ultimately empty and meaningless sets. As seen again this year, the usual array of supporting dancers twerk and simulate intercourse, in sync with the main singer, mindlessly grabbing his/her genitals—apparently to highlight the explicit sexual allusions of mostly nonsensical lyrics. For some strange reason, this Roman orgiastic ritual is supposedly...

Viewership for Bad Bunny's Super Bowl LX halftime performance fell 7% compared to the game's peak total, Nielsen's quarter-hour ratings data showed. Sunday's championship in San Francisco maxed out at a record 137.9 million viewers -- 134.3 million on NBC and 3.6 million on Spanish-language broadcaster Telemundo -- during the 7:45-7:59 p.m. ET window as the Seattle Seahawks inched away from the New England Patriots in the second quarter. Total viewership fell to 128.2 million while Bad Bunny was on stage in the 8:15-8:29 p.m. ET window, Front Office Sports reported Wednesday. NBC lost almost 10 million viewers from the...

An 18-year-old has been named as the suspect in a shooting that killed eight people and injured dozens more in British Columbia, Canada.Police said Jesse Van Rootselaar was found dead at the scene from a self-inflicted gunshot injury. The motive for the attack is not yet known.Six people were killed and at least 25 others were injured at Tumbler Ridge Secondary School. Two others - the suspect's mother, 39, and step-brother, 11 - were found dead at a nearby home. Authorities said Van Rootselaar was born a biological male but identified as a woman. "I can say that Jesse was...

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...

New Media Victory: Kid Rock Tops Bad Bunny on iTunes Chart After Halftime Show Face-Off 5,507 WICHITA, KANSAS - APRIL 18: Kid Rock performs in concert at Intrust Bank Arena on April 18Gary Miller; Chris Graythen/Getty Images Warner Todd Huston9 Feb 20262,486 2:31 On the day after TPUSA’s “All America Halftime Show,” Kid Rock has zoomed to the #1 spot on iTunes with his rendition of “‘Til You Can’t,” knocking Bad Bunny out of the top spot despite the Puerto Rican rapper’s appearance as the star of the NFL’s Super Bowl Halftime Show. As February 9 dawned, Kid Rock’s version...

VIDEOThis isn't AI. What you are seeing and hearing in this video is the REAL voice of Bad Bunny from 2023 when his Autotune went out during a performance. As a result his real voice which ended up losing a talent contest to a singing seal.

The Queens of the Stone Age frontman appears on a new episode of the podcast ‘Norah Jones Is Playing Along.’Norah Jones and Josh Homme of Queens of the Stone Age have shared a tender cover of Frank and Nancy Sinatra‘s “Somethin’ Stupid” for an upcoming podcast episode. On a new episode of Norah Jones Is Playing Along, the duo performed the cover of “Somethin’ Stupid,” written by C. Carson Parks and made famous by the father-daughter duet version. Homme’s appearance on the podcast will air February 10. In the latest episode of Norah Jones is Playing Along, the two...

Recorded over three sessions between 1949 and 1950, Miles Davis’ ‘Birth Of The Cool’ is a landmark jazz album. The history behind the recording of the music that would ultimately become Miles Davis’ Birth Of The Cool album, released in 1957 by Capitol Records, is fascinating, complex, and the subject of some creative confusion, but there is absolutely no doubting the brilliance and the importance of this record. In 1947, Miles Davis was playing in Charlie Parker’s quintet, having replaced Dizzy Gillespie, who had left in 1945. Davis recorded with Parker for the Savoy and Dial labels, and his...

SANTA CLARA, CA - Following this year's Super Bowl halftime show featuring the musical stylings of Bad Bunny, surveys show support for Immigration and Customs Enforcement skyrocketed 99 percent overnight. Numbers show the support came immediately following Bad Bunny's performance, which featured strong references to Latino and Puerto Rican culture. "I don't know what that was, but I don't like it," one survey respondent said. "I love America, but that performance had zero apple pie, no cheerleaders, and a shocking lack of bald eagles. Disgusting." Many who answered the survey say they were put off by the performance's lewd lyrics...

Good Fight Ministries does a great deep dive into who Bad Bunny is with this YouTube video. Some might not even care, but I personally would. This present evil world is absolutely saturated with the demonic breeding and cultic practices that seek to destroy our youth and indoctrinate our world. At the Super Bowl, Bad Bunny might have looked innocent and harmless, but his deception and master are at full work to outwork evil (Eph. 2:1-3). Let us pray for Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio (aka, Bad Bunny) that he would come to an ETERNAL saving relationship with His ETERNAL RIGHTEOUS...

On Sunday night, Hispanic entertainer Bad Bunny performed at the halftime show at Super Bowl LX. Commissioner Roger Goodell and his team picked this anti-American act, who no one has heard of and most people cannot understand, to play at the Super Bowl this year. This was infuriating to millions of Americans. And that is when TPUSA stepped in and decided to hold their own halftime show. At least 25 million people tuned in to the alternative show. As The Gateway Pundit’s Gregory Lyakhov reported earlier, Bad Bunny’s performance itself was horrible. There was little actual singing, minimal engagement, and...

As we reported, there was a lot of controversy about the performance of Bad Bunny for the Super Bowl halftime show, with many thinking it was a bit of a finger to the U.S. on multiple levels. I watched it, and I admit, I've never really heard of him until the advertising for this program started showing up. I understand Spanish, but some of it was difficult to discern. If you don't know his songs, it was a bit of a miss, even before you get to the political questions. I imagine it was for a lot of Americans who...

Well, Bad Bunny ended up not wearing a dress during yesterday's Super Bowl halftime show. We have to wonder if Roger Goodell or someone in the NFL put the kibosh on that plan, especially after Goodell said the program wouldn't be political. President Trump slammed the show as "terrible" and "one of the worst." Meanwhile, the TPUSA alternative show attracted tens of millions of views so far. TMZ put up a poll last night asking which show was better, and it's not going well for them. Who had the better halftime show -- Bad Bunny or Kid Rock? — TMZ...

It’s all backstage now. This fraught moment, the power centers locked in the coldest cold of the year, the Spanish language lessons of Bad Bunny behind us, all the real action in the battle to save the country is out of sight, moiling and churning in the deep background. Everybody’s on edge waiting for shoes to drop, praying they don’t drop on their heads. You should have seen Senator Mark Warner (D-VA; Vice-chair of the Senate Intel Committee) on Face the Nation Sunday, frothing at the mouth over Tulsi Gabbard, Director of National Intelligence (DNI). He cannot believe she turned...

The Daily Wire’s own Megan Basham shared screenshots of some of Bad Bunny’s lyrics in an X post, most of which were graphic depictions of body parts, sex acts, drug use, and drug use during sex acts. “These are the most obscene lyrics ever to be performed at a Super Bowl half time. And you have professing Christians in the Kentucky senate and at America’s most recognized evangelical magazine saying Christians should have embraced and celebrated this to show love and to show that we are welcoming. Also, the kids would get a ‘kick’ out of hearing this Spanish,” Basham...

"You can't say the f-word on live TV...Had he said these lyrics – and all of the other disgusting and pornographic filth in English on live TV, the broadcast would have been pulled down and the fines would have been enormous."

A Super Bowl Sunday meltdown over Bad Bunny turned into a viral win for a Florida bar that refused to cave to an entitled customer armed with a camera and an accusation. At Zoo Sports Club in St. Petersburg, Florida, TVs were rolling during halftime—but not with what one furious patron demanded. Instead of catering to his personal playlist, the bar opted to air the Turning Point USA (TPUSA) halftime programming, a conservative alternative that clearly struck a nerve. The customer immediately made it clear this wasn’t just about football. “I came here for the halftime show. The whole experience,”...

Super Bowl viewers were left 'sickened' after social media users began circulating English translations of Spanish lyrics from Bad Bunny's music following his headline-making halftime performance. Following the show, critics branded the content 'pure degeneracy' and questioned why the NFL put the global superstar on its biggest stage. The backlash erupted hours after the show, when conservative commentator Megan Basham posted screenshots of translated lyrics, which she described as 'the most obscene lyrics ever to be performed at a Super Bowl halftime.' In his track, Safaera, Bad Bunny boast about explicit sexual acts, drug use and casual hookups, with repeated...

Americans were forced to sit through one of their biggest cultural events of the year in a language that is not theirs, surrounded by symbols of other, foreign places. The Super Bowl is supposed to be one of the cultural cornerstones in American life that still belongs to Americans. There are only a handful of days each year when most of the country pauses and gathers around the same screen to participate in something recognizably ours. It’s a shared experience — rooted in common language and culture and tradition. Which is why the Super Bowl half time show this year...