Bad Bunny Says His Super Bowl Halftime Show Will Be A 'huge Party' - Beritaja

Leave it to Bad Bunny to make history doubly successful 1 month.

After taking location the Grammy for medium of the twelvemonth for “DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS” (the first all-Spanish-language medium to beryllium recognized successful the coveted category) connected Feb. 1, the Puerto Rican creator will adhd a caller accolade to his database of accomplishments.

When he takes the section Sunday astatine Levi’s Stadium successful Santa Clara, California, the 31-year-old will go the first Spanish-language Latin solo creator to header the Super Bowl halftime show.

Bad Bunny, whose existent sanction is Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, first sang astatine the Super Bowl successful 2020 alongside headliners Shakira and Jennifer Lopez successful Miami, delivering an unforgettable capacity that showcased Latin music’s mightiness and rising mainstream success.

While that show remains a culturally important arena for Latinos successful the U.S., Bad Bunny’s capacity represents a caller milestone, according to Petra Rivera-Rideau and Vanessa Díaz, the co-authors of “P FKN R: How Bad Bunny Became the Global Voice of Puerto Rican Resistance.”

Bad Bunny will besides beryllium the first reggaeton creator to header a Super Bowl halftime show. Interpreter Celimar Rivera Cosme, who performed astatine Bad Bunny’s residency successful Puerto Rico past year, will besides do a multilingual signing programme featuring Puerto Rican Sign Language.

Here’s what other to know.

Bad Bunny gives spoiler-free preview of show

While avoiding imaginable spoilers, Bad Bunny said viewers could expect him to bring “a batch of my culture.”

“I conscionable want group to person fun. It’s going to beryllium a immense party,” Bad Bunny said astatine a news convention hosted by Apple Music, the halftime show’s main sponsor, connected Tuesday.

He besides poked nosy astatine his “Saturday Night Live” speech from October successful which he told non-Spanish-speaking viewers they had 4 months to study Spanish up of the halftime show.

“They don’t moreover person to study Spanish,” he said Tuesday. “It is amended if they study to dance.”

As for imaginable astonishment guests? “Well, you know, that’s thing that I’m not going to show you,” he joked.

Why has location been backlash toward Bad Bunny?

Bad Bunny will beryllium performing arsenic the Trump management continues its wide-scale migration crackdown and arrests Latino immigrants successful ample numbers.

In January, national migration authorities who were carrying retired operations successful Minneapolis fatally shot 2 U.S. citizens. Their deaths person amplified calls for Immigration and Customs Enforcement to time off Minneapolis, Los Angeles, Chicago and different cities wherever migration raids person taken place.

Bad Bunny has not shied distant from politics, peculiarly erstwhile it comes to Puerto Rico. The vocalist was among a fistful of artists astatine the Grammys who made bold “ICE out” statements. He besides antecedently called retired the U.S. government’s botched response to Hurricane Maria successful Puerto Rico successful 2018 and demanded justice successful the sidesplitting of Alexa, a trans female successful Puerto Rico, successful 2020.

The creator has described his Grammy-winning album, which translates to “I Should Have Taken More Photos,” arsenic his about Puerto Rican merchandise yet. To salary tribute to his heritage, the vocalist blended reggaeton and different Latin municipality rhythms pinch much accepted genres for illustration salsa and Puerto Rican people sounds for illustration bomba y plena.

“The about important point is that there’s an unapologetically Spanish-language creator astatine the Super Bowl,” Rivera-Rideau said. “And then, the truth that it’s happening successful this peculiar governmental ambiance conscionable adds moreover much significance.”

Since 2020, Jay-Z and his intermezo institution Roc Nation person booked the talent for the halftime show.

After Bad Bunny was announced arsenic the headliner successful September, he drew disapproval from a fistful of blimpish pundits and Fox News commentators.

“Do I see Bad Bunny to beryllium an ‘American artist?’ No,” blimpish commentator Tomi Lahren said successful October. (Puerto Rico is an American territory and Puerto Ricans are U.S. citizens.)

The NFL has stood by its determination to enlist Bad Bunny. When asked about the artist’s “ICE out” remarks astatine the Grammys, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell defended him and said the Super Bowl halftime show “is utilized to merge people.”

“I deliberation Bad Bunny understands that,” Goodell said Tuesday. “He’ll person a awesome performance.”

The NFL has besides said location will beryllium nary ICE operations astatine the Super Bowl, NBC Bay Area reported.

In anticipation of the Super Bowl, Trump told the New York Post that he’d beryllium skipping the arena this twelvemonth and called Bad Bunny a “terrible choice.”

Is anyone other performing connected Sunday?

Green Day is group to footwear disconnected the Super Bowl’s opening ceremony.

The set is known to beryllium rather political, pinch its 2004 medium “American Idiot” criticizing then-President George W. Bush and the U.S. penetration of Iraq.

The group has besides been vocal about MAGA and Trump.

After Green Day plays, Charlie Puth will singing the nationalist anthem, Brandi Carlile will singing “America the Beautiful,” and Coco Jones will execute “Lift Every Voice and Sing.”

How to watch

Kickoff for the existent crippled is astatine 6:30 p.m. ET/3:30 p.m. PT. That intends the halftime show will apt hap astatine — you guessed it — the halfway point, about 8-8:30 p.m. ET.

Viewers could watch the crippled connected NBC. Peacock subscribers could besides watercourse the crippled connected the service. The crippled will besides beryllium disposable successful Spanish unrecorded connected Telemundo.

Meanwhile, Turning Point USA, the blimpish statement co-founded by the precocious Charlie Kirk, will beryllium hosting an replacement halftime show headlined by state and stone vocalist Kid Rock. Country singers Brantley Gilbert, Lee Brice and Gabby Barrett are besides participating.