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Super Bowl Half-time Performer, Latin Thirst Trap Rapper Bad Bunny is a uniter, according to NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell. So many questions from that sentence. Is the Super Bowl still a thing? What is Latin Thirst Trap Rap? Is Roger Goodell sentient? What does this Bunny UNITE?
There have been some wicked great Super Bowl Half-time performances over the years. I loved Prince and Michael Jackson. Madonna was sad, trying to dance her aged but like a 20 year old. Most performers try to put too much razzle dazzle in with no good music.
Speaking of good music, I listened to a few Bad Bunny hits today. What a meh, mid, mediocre performer. I don’t want to say he got a DEI record contract, but that is what it seems like. Behold:
Meh, mid, mediocre, ugh. I guess Jay-Z personally selected Mr. Bunny for the show:
Bad Bunny remembers exactly what he was doing when he got the call from Jay-Z confirming that he’d be headlining the 2026 Apple Music Super Bowl LX Halftime Show.
On Monday, Sept. 29, just one day after Apple Music, the NFL, Roc Nation and the 31-year-old Puerto Rican rapper (whose real name is Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio) shared a joint social media post announcing he would serve as the Super Bowl LX halftime performer, the “Monaco” artist opened up about his initial reaction.
“I was in the middle of a workout,” Bad Bunny told Apple Music 1’s Zane Lowe and Ebro Darden of where he was when he got the career-changing news.
“I remember that after the call, I just did like a hundred pull-ups,” the “I Like It” rapper said. “I didn’t need more pre-workout s— or whatever. It was very special. was so special.”
He continued, “”I’m really excited for my friends, my family. Puerto Rico, all the Latino people around the world. I’m excited about my culture. I’m excited about everything, not just for me. It feels really good. The beach where we recorded the announcement is my hometown beach. So it’s a very special thing for us.”
Maybe, I am jealous because I can’t be mediocre and do something mid to uplift all the Scots-Irish diaspora. No autotune for me.
I don't know a single Bad Bunny song but ignorant stuff like this makes me want to learn them all https://t.co/GpNPQ9WaD1
— redacted (@AvoidTIMtation) February 3, 2026
Oh, we hear you, anonymous NFL player. They are trying way too hard. But, what does Roger Goodell say. From Fox News:
“Listen, Bad Bunny is, and I think that was demonstrated last night, one of the great artists in the world and that’s one of the reasons we chose him,” Goodell said. “But the other reason is he understood the platform he was on and this platform is used to unite people and to be able to bring people together with their creativity, with their talents and to be able to use this moment to do that and I think artists in the past have done that.
“I think Bad Bunny understands that and I think he’ll have a great performance.”
Is Roger Goodell a pandering White guy? It seems so. Only a PanderBear would go so cringe after the speech Bad Bunny gave Sunday night:
“Listen, Bad Bunny is, and I think that was demonstrated last night, one of the great artists in the world and that’s one of the reasons we chose him,” Goodell said. “But the other reason is he understood the platform he was on and this platform is used to unite people and to be able to bring people together with their creativity, with their talents and to be able to use this moment to do that and I think artists in the past have done that.
“I think Bad Bunny understands that and I think he’ll have a great performance.”
Bad Bunny doesn’t give a fig or a feather about anyone except his core Puerto Rican audience. He already told the rest of us if we didn’t understand him to learn Spanish. From Turning Point USA:
Singer and rapper Bad Bunny has responded to critics questioning his selection as the headliner for this year’s Super Bowl halftime show, dismissing those who disagreed with the decision due to his performances being in Spanish.
The Puerto Rican artist, whose real name is Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, hosted Saturday Night Live last weekend, where he said he was “excited” to perform at the upcoming Super Bowl in Santa Clara this February.
“I’m really excited to be doing the Super Bowl, I know that people all around the world who love my music are also happy,” he said during the show’s monologue.
He then started speaking in Spanish, adding, “Especially all of the Latinos and Latinas in the world here in the United States who have worked to open doors.”
“It’s more than a win for myself, it’s a win for all of us. Our footprints and our contribution in this country, no one will ever be able to take that away or erase it.”
Switching back to English, he teased non-Spanish speakers about the upcoming show.
“If you didn’t understand what I just said. You have four months to learn,” he mockingly said.
Lord, spare us. You can watch this dreck or you can watch Turning Point with Kid Rock OR you can go super old school with me and make a playlist with the Live Sultans of Swing, Layla Live with Eric Clapton, everything by Jimmy Page. Dayum, I am old. Although, I was watching First Reaction to some group the other day and the emo kid hosting said, I can’t hear the auto tune”. Maybe that’s what we need. Artists with talent instead of Bad Bunny lip syncs through half time.
That might unite us. It’s a thought.
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