{"id":457595,"date":"2026-02-09T04:12:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T04:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/457595\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T04:12:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T04:12:15","slug":"bad-bunnys-super-bowl-halftime-show-brings-the-party-and-latin-culture-to-u-s-s-most-watched-sporting-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/457595\/","title":{"rendered":"Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime show brings the party and Latin culture to U.S.’s most-watched sporting event"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bad Bunny brought the party to the Super Bowl<\/a> halftime show as he promised<\/a>, performing hits from “Deb\u00ed Tirar M\u00e1s Fotos” a week after winning Album of the Year for it at the\u00a02026 Grammys<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The 31-year-old Puerto Rican superstar took the stage dressed in all white, donning a jersey with his last name, Ocasio, and the number 64. He made history as the first halftime show performer to sing\u00a0primarily in Spanish<\/a>\u00a0at the most-watched sporting event in the United States.<\/p>\n

Bad Bunny pays tribute to Puerto Rico<\/p>\n

At halftime in the matchup between the Seattle Seahawks and the New England Patriots, Bad Bunny opened his performance at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, California, with his 2022 hit “Tit\u00ed Me Pregunt\u00f3.”<\/p>\n

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Bad Bunny performs onstage during the Apple Music Super Bowl LX Halftime Show.<\/p>\n

Kevin C. Cox \/ Getty Images<\/p>\n

Paying tribute to his homeland, the field was filled with palm trees, sugarcane and other vegetation native to Puerto Rico. Walking through the lush greens, Bad Bunny passed sugarcane farmers sporting a pava (a traditional Puerto Rican straw hat), a coconut vendor, a piragua cart and a couple of boxers as he went on to perform another hit, “Yo Perreo Sola.”<\/p>\n

The Free Press: \u00a0Arthur Brooks: Can We All Relax About Bad Bunny’s Spanish Halftime Show?<\/a><\/p>\n

Bad Bunny also performed other songs from his latest album, including “EoO,” “NUEVAYoL,” which pays tribute to the Puerto Rican diaspora in New York City, and “DTMF.”<\/p>\n

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Bad Bunny performs during the Super Bowl halftime show.<\/p>\n

Patrick T. Fallon \/AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n

Lady Gaga, Ricky Martin make surprise appearances<\/p>\n

Sunday’s halftime was packed with celebrity guest appearances, including Lady Gaga, who performed her duet “Die With a Smile” with a Latin sound.<\/p>\n

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Bad Bunny and Lady Gaga perform during the Apple Music Super Bowl LX Halftime Show at Levi’s Stadium.<\/p>\n

Kevin C. Cox \/ Getty Images<\/p>\n

Ricky Martin also made a surprise appearance. The Puerto Rican singer performed “LO QUE LE PAS\u00d3 A HAWAii,” a Bad Bunny song whose lyrics\u00a0call out gentrification<\/a>\u00a0in the island \u2014 an ongoing trend\u00a0fueled by tax incentives<\/a>\u00a0that have led to wealthy mainland Americans buying up land and homes, drawing a comparison to gentrification in Hawaii.<\/p>\n

Other celebrity cameos included Pedro Pascal, Jessica Alba, Cardi B and Karol G.<\/p>\n

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Ricky Martin performs with Bad Bunny onstage during the Apple Music Super Bowl LX Halftime Show.<\/p>\n

Neilson Barnard \/ Getty Images<\/p>\n

Bad Bunny, born Benito Antonio Mart\u00ednez Ocasio, is one of the most-streamed artists on the planet. During the performance, he gave a shout-out to the countries across the Americas.<\/p>\n

Towards the end of the show, the singer climbed an electrical pole, a reference to not only the power of Puerto Rico and its people but to power supply issues the island has struggled with. Many of his song lyrics<\/a> criticize the ineffective response by the government in Puerto Rico to crises like the hurricanes<\/a> that have pummeled the island and caused\u00a0island-wide blackouts<\/a> in recent years.<\/p>\n

\"AMFOOT-SUPERBOWL-PATRIOTS-SEAHAWKS-HALFTIME-SHOW<\/p>\n

Bad Bunny waves the flag of Puerto Rico as he performs during Super Bowl halftime show.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Patrick T. Fallon \/AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n

As he exited at the end of the show, trailed by U.S. and Puerto Rican flags and the flags of nations across the Americas, the message on a giant screen across the field read: “The only thing more powerful than hate is love.”<\/p>\n

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Flags of nations across the Americas were featured in the halftime show at Super Bowl LX.<\/p>\n

Mike Blake \/ REUTERS<\/p>\n

President Trump reacts to Super Bowl halftime show<\/p>\n

Following the star-studded performance, President Trump took to social media to criticize the halftime show.<\/p>\n

“The Super Bowl Halftime Show is absolutely terrible, one of the worst, EVER!,” he wrote on Truth Social<\/a>. “Nobody understands a word this guy is saying, and the dancing is disgusting, especially for young children that are watching from throughout the U.S.A., and all over the World.”<\/p>\n

Mr. Trump attended last year’s Super Bowl in New Orleans but he didn’t make an appearance this year. In an interview with\u00a0The New York Post<\/a>\u00a0last month, he said the game was “just too far away.” The president also criticized the entertainment chosen by the NFL, which also included\u00a0Green Day<\/a>, a vocal critic of Mr. Trump and his administration.<\/p>\n

“I’m anti-them. I think it’s a terrible choice. All it does is sow hatred. Terrible,” Mr. Trump told The Post.<\/p>\n

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Bad Bunny, left, performs during halftime of the NFL Super Bowl 60 football game between the New England Patriots and the Seattle Seahawks.<\/p>\n

Godofredo A. V\u00e1squez \/ AP<\/p>\n

Bad Bunny has also spoken out against the Trump administration. Last week at the Grammy Awards, the artist used one of his acceptance speeches to denounce U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, saying “ICE out.”<\/a><\/p>\n

“We’re not savage, we’re not animals, we’re not aliens. We are humans and we are Americans,” he said as he accepted the Grammy for his album “Deb\u00ed Tirar M\u00e1s Fotos” in the m\u00fasica urbana album category.<\/p>\n

Aiming to bring “a lot of my culture”<\/p>\n

At a press event last week hosted by halftime show sponsor Apple Music, Bad Bunny said: “I wasn’t looking for album of the year. I wasn’t looking to perform at the Super Bowl halftime show … I was just trying to connect with my roots, connect with my people, connect with myself.”<\/p>\n

He also promised his Super Bowl show would be “a huge party,” adding, “I want to bring to the stage, of course, a lot of my culture. … I don’t want to give any spoilers. It’s going to be fun.”<\/p>\n

With a total of six Grammys and 17 Latin Grammys, he has become a global ambassador for Latin music. He has also been featured in Hollywood films such as “Bullet Train,” “Caught Stealing” and “Happy Gilmore 2.”<\/p>\n

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Bad Bunny performs during halftime of the NFL Super Bowl LX football game between the New England Patriots and the Seattle Seahawks, Sunday, Feb. 8, 2026, in Santa Clara.<\/p>\n

Mark J. Terrill \/ AP<\/p>\n

Did Bad Bunny get paid for his Super Bowl halftime performance?<\/p>\n

Super Bowl halftime show performers typically get paid less than\u00a0the cost of the game’s ticket<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Bad Bunny will\u00a0earn union scale<\/a>, a minimum fee guaranteed under labor contracts, like\u00a0previous halftime artists<\/a> at the Super Bowl.<\/p>\n

Under the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists union’s most recent contract, that would come to about $1,000 a day. The NFL typically covers artists’ expenses, which can run into the millions of dollars.<\/p>\n

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Faris Tanyos<\/a>, <\/p>\n

Luis Giraldo and <\/p>\n

Megan Cerullo<\/a><\/p>\n

contributed to this report.\n <\/p>\n

\n Go deeper with The Free Press\n <\/p>\n

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