\u201cYou might not know this, but I\u2019m doing the Super Bowl halftime show,\u201d he said to cheers from the audience at NBC studios in New York.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m very happy and I think everyone is happy about it, even Fox News,\u201d he said, leading into a montage of one-word clips from network personalities and Republican politicians saying: \u201cBad Bunny is my favourite musician and he should be the next president.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m very excited to be doing the Super Bowl and I know that the people all around the world who love my music are also happy…\u201d he said, changing to Spanish to explain how his appearance was a win for all Latinos in the United States.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur footprints and our contribution in this country \u2013 no one will ever be able to take that away or erase it,\u201d he added in Spanish.<\/p>\n
He then switched back to English to conclude: \u201cIf you didn\u2019t understand what I just said, you have four months to learn.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Super Bowl is on February 8, 2026 in Santa Clara, California.<\/p>\n
The National Football League in 2019 entered into a multi-year partnership with entertainment company Roc Nation, founded by rap legend Jay-Z, to boost in-game presentations.<\/p>\n
Under the deal, Roc Nation advises the NFL on the selection of artists for the halftime show.<\/p>\n
Since then, the headliners have included Jennifer Lopez, Shakira, The Weeknd, Dr Dre, Snoop Dogg, Rihanna, Usher and Kendrick Lamar.<\/p>\n
-Agence France-Presse<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cYou might not know this, but I\u2019m doing the Super Bowl halftime show,\u201d he said to cheers from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":62791,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1975,1863,15435,51242,51237,15436,51241,13504,156,8619,18693,51238,293,4960,51243,157,111,139,2551,69,1118,90,20248,51236,51239,51240,18938,1534,6926,1305,313,49519,11744],"class_list":["post-62790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-at","tag-back","tag-bad","tag-bilingual","tag-bowl","tag-bunny","tag-clapped","tag-critics","tag-entertainment","tag-fun","tag-gig","tag-halftime","tag-his","tag-live","tag-monologue","tag-music","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-night","tag-nz","tag-of","tag-on","tag-opener","tag-pokes","tag-puerto","tag-rican","tag-rightwing","tag-saturday","tag-season","tag-show","tag-super","tag-superstar","tag-upcoming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62790\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}