\n\t\t\t\t\t\tEvery year, thousands of Americans send angry emails to the Federal Communications Commission to complain about something they found objectionable during the Super Bowl halftime show. The big game at Levi\u2019s Stadium, with Bad Bunny as the musical headliner, was certainly no different.With these complaints comes an additional tradition: the FCC\u2019s annual release of these messages, often courtesy of reporters who ask for them through public information requests. Many of the upset Americans whose words will appear in this article come from a link, and variations of it, first shared by sports reporter Matt Brown, who publishes the Extra Points newsletter.Those who have spent any amount of time on social media leading up to, during and after Bad Bunny\u2019s performance could probably guess what some of these complaints harped on. The basic ones ranged from the songs being in a language the viewer couldn\u2019t understand to the sexual nature of the dancing and even the clothing, or perceived lack thereof, the dancers wore. Others complained about what the lyrics were about after they, or someone online, translated them into English from Spanish. A fair number of the complaints seemed generated by artificial intelligence, as they followed a stilted template. For those who wrote their angry emails themselves, the main sticking point was about the \u201cvulgar\u201d and \u201cexplicit\u201d nature of some of the dance moves and song lyrics \u2014 each word was mentioned over 600 times \u2014 like one complainant from Scotts Valley exemplified. \u201cDuring the halftime show of the Super Bowl, Bad Bunny’s performance displayed explicit sexual acts, including him grabbing his crotch, dry-humping the air, and men and women gyrating provocatively in sexual positions. His Spanish lyrics included: \u2018your panties get wet,\u2019 \u2018Get horny,\u2019 \u2018P**** with d***, d*** with a**. Push it in.\u2019 (repeated), \u2018Your t*** rubbing my nipples,\u2019 \u2018Let’s go to bed to f*** you.\u2019 The song also stated, \u2018I want to grind on you\u2019 and \u2018the a** deserves it all,\u2019 with explicit dancers grinding on each other. Both fleeting and explicit references to sex acts and expletives wereAnother viewer from Greenfield wrote: \u201cI did not appreciate the superbowl halft time show. I speak spanish fluently and did not understand a word of what bad bunny said. Also the sex acts between two males my kids were watching do better. Can we keep everything PG. im very dissapointed.\u201dSince all of these messages were labeled by region, SFGATE tallied how many of them came from the Golden State itself. In total, 156 emails came from Californians, with a majority focusing on Bad Bunny; other residents complained about the lack of closed captioning during commercials and the airing of the \u201cScream 7\u201d trailer. The Central Coast had limited representation among the complaints. With three coming from Monterey County and one from Scotts Valley. These emails also weren\u2019t as viscerally angry as some of the complaints from other parts of the state.\u201cThe halftime show on Sunday was rife with savagely pornographic lyrics,\u201d wrote an angry Californian from Carmel Valley. \u201cThe fact that they were delivered in Spanish is irrelevant. Most Americans don\u2019t understand Spanish, so millions looked up the lyrics online. Even if some were left out of the performance, almost no Americans knew. Instead, they read them. Kids read those indecent lyrics! \u2026 America tunes in because this is the best that network TV has to offer. NBC & the NFL broke that covenant and they must be held to account.\u201dThis was the last complaint we could find coming from Monterey County, coming from Carmel. \u201cWhen you have a person that produces with lyrics and albums containing an explicit warning and they are allowed to perform those songs without displaying the explicit badge on the bottom. What is the matter with this nation that we have to put up with this abosolute filth and trash on TV. The NFL is a dumpster fire of an organization to allow these long lineage of disgusting (non) performers. They have turned this event into a circus full of body sexualization of provocative and sexual body movements. The FCC should hold children in their highest regard of protection. When something wholesome, non-sexual, non-provocative, non-explicit has to be platformed on another platform like the Charlie Kirk show that is nothing short of censorship. I expect the FCC to take this matter seriously and to eliminate this kind of human degradation of filling our airways.\u201dIf you\u2019d like to see the full scope of the complaints, you can look through the more than 2,000 emails the FCC published in five separate parts.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Every year, thousands of Americans send angry emails to the Federal Communications Commission to complain about something they found objectionable during the Super Bowl halftime show. The big game at Levi\u2019s Stadium<\/a>, with Bad Bunny<\/a> as the musical headliner, was certainly no different.<\/p>\n With these complaints comes an additional tradition: the FCC\u2019s annual release of these messages, often courtesy of reporters who ask for them through public information requests. Many of the upset Americans whose words will appear in this article come from a link, and variations of it, first shared by sports reporter Matt Brown<\/a>, who publishes the Extra Points newsletter<\/a>.<\/p>\n Those who have spent any amount of time on social media leading up to, during and after Bad Bunny\u2019s performance could probably guess what some of these complaints harped on. The basic ones ranged from the songs being in a language the viewer couldn\u2019t understand to the sexual nature of the dancing and even the clothing, or perceived lack thereof, the dancers wore. Others complained about what the lyrics were about after they, or someone online, translated them into English from Spanish. <\/p>\n A fair number of the complaints seemed generated by artificial intelligence, as they followed a stilted template. For those who wrote their angry emails themselves, the main sticking point was about the \u201cvulgar\u201d and \u201cexplicit\u201d nature of some of the dance moves and song lyrics \u2014 each word was mentioned over 600 times \u2014 like one complainant from Scotts Valley exemplified. <\/p>\n \u201cDuring the halftime show of the Super Bowl, Bad Bunny’s performance displayed explicit sexual acts, including him grabbing his crotch, dry-humping the air, and men and women gyrating provocatively in sexual positions. His Spanish lyrics included: \u2018your panties get wet,\u2019 \u2018Get horny,\u2019 \u2018P**** with d***, d*** with a**. Push it in.\u2019 (repeated), \u2018Your t*** rubbing my nipples,\u2019 \u2018Let’s go to bed to f*** you.\u2019 The song also stated, \u2018I want to grind on you\u2019 and \u2018the a** deserves it all,\u2019 with explicit dancers grinding on each other. Both fleeting and explicit references to sex acts and expletives were<\/p>\n Another viewer from Greenfield wrote: <\/p>\n \u201cI did not appreciate the superbowl halft time show. I speak spanish fluently and did not understand a word of what bad bunny said. Also the sex acts between two males my kids were watching do better. Can we keep everything PG. im very dissapointed.\u201d<\/p>\n Since all of these messages were labeled by region, SFGATE tallied how many of them came from the Golden State itself. <\/p>\n In total, 156 emails came from Californians, with a majority focusing on Bad Bunny; other residents complained about the lack of closed captioning during commercials and the airing of the \u201cScream 7\u201d trailer. <\/p>\n The Central Coast had limited representation among the complaints. With three coming from Monterey County and one from Scotts Valley. <\/p>\n These emails also weren\u2019t as viscerally angry as some of the complaints from other parts of the state.<\/p>\n \u201cThe halftime show on Sunday was rife with savagely pornographic lyrics,\u201d wrote an angry Californian from Carmel Valley. \u201cThe fact that they were delivered in Spanish is irrelevant. Most Americans don\u2019t understand Spanish, so millions looked up the lyrics online. Even if some were left out of the performance, almost no Americans knew. Instead, they read them. Kids read those indecent lyrics! \u2026 America tunes in because this is the best that network TV has to offer. NBC & the NFL broke that covenant and they must be held to account.\u201d<\/p>\n This was the last complaint we could find coming from Monterey County, coming from Carmel. <\/p>\n \u201cWhen you have a person that produces with lyrics and albums containing an explicit warning and they are allowed to perform those songs without displaying the explicit badge on the bottom. What is the matter with this nation that we have to put up with this abosolute filth and trash on TV. The NFL is a dumpster fire of an organization to allow these long lineage of disgusting (non) performers. They have turned this event into a circus full of body sexualization of provocative and sexual body movements. The FCC should hold children in their highest regard of protection. When something wholesome, non-sexual, non-provocative, non-explicit has to be platformed on another platform like the Charlie Kirk show that is nothing short of censorship. I expect the FCC to take this matter seriously and to eliminate this kind of human degradation of filling our airways.\u201d<\/p>\n If you\u2019d like to see the full scope of the complaints, you can look through the more than 2,000 emails the FCC<\/a> published<\/a> in five<\/a> separate<\/a> parts<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Every year, thousands of Americans send angry emails to the Federal Communications Commission to complain about something they…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":308574,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[11432,129631,29160,1471,729,11105,47928,66541,1406,88,90,89,67994,10390,6610,44783,315,27721],"class_list":["post-308573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-americans","tag-angry-email","tag-bad-bunny","tag-central-coast","tag-complaint","tag-fcc","tag-lack","tag-lyric","tag-performance","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-sex-act","tag-song","tag-spanish","tag-super-bowl-halftime-show","tag-time","tag-word"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308573\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/308574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}