TMZ<\/a> while signing memorabilia in New York. \u201cDon\u2019t let them fool you.\u201d His brief response came after the woman behind the camera insisted that \u201cwe gotta talk Bad Bunny,\u201d to which he responded, \u201cI don\u2019t wanna talk about nothing.\u201d He caved only when she asked more specifically, \u201cWhy are people hating on him?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\tLast week, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell addressed the backlash for the first time. \u201cHe\u2019s one of the most popular entertainers in the world,\u201d he told The Atlantic. \u201cThat\u2019s what we try to achieve. It\u2019s an important element of the entertainment value. It\u2019s carefully thought through.\u201d<\/p>\n
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\n\tGoodell added, \u201cI would say I\u2019m not sure we\u2019ve ever selected an artist where we didn\u2019t have some blowback or criticism. We have hundreds of millions of people watching, but I have full confidence it\u2019ll be a good show.\u201d There\u2019s a petition floating around to have country singer George Strait replace Bad Bunny as the halftime show performer. Even if all 80,000 people who have signed it so far decide to boycott watching the performance, it\u2019s unlikely their lack of participation would make a dent in the Puerto Rican superstar\u2019s viewership. <\/p>\n
\n\tHe won\u2019t be there for them, anyway. \u201cWhat I\u2019m feeling goes beyond myself,\u201d Bad Bunny said in a statement when news of his performance<\/a> broke. \u201cIt\u2019s for those who came before me and ran countless yards so I could come in and score a touchdown \u2026 this is for my people, my culture, and our history. Ve y dile a tu abuela, que seremos el HALFTIME SHOW DEL SUPER BOWL.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Several right-wing figures and conservative commentators have slammed Roc Nation and the NFL\u2019s decision to have the Puerto…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":230227,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[29787,59,57,58,57945,50,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-230226","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-kingdom","8":"tag-bad-bunny","9":"tag-gb","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-greatbritain","12":"tag-jay-z","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230226\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}