Bad Bunny Gave A Historic Performance At The Super Bowl Celebrating Puerto Rico And Reimagining America
Flags from across the Americas filled the stage as the message “The only thing more powerful than hate is love” was displayed on screens.
@almost.world Puerto Rican musician Bad Bunny made history at the half-time show of the Super Bowl, with a performance that was almost entirely in Spanish, celebrating Puerto Rican and Latin American heritage and redefining what it means to be American with a message of unity. Bad Bunny’s 13-minute performance at the Levi Stadium in San Francisco, California, on Sunday, Feb. 8, blended music, culture and politics, putting Latino identity front and center at one the biggest championships in the US, even opening the show with the line, “How wonderful it is to be Latino.” His set mixed hits from earlier albums with songs from his latest release “DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS” (“I Should Have Taken More Photos”), an album made as an homage to Puerto Rico, an unincorporated territory of the US since 1898, and which won Album of the Year at the 2026 Grammys. The stage itself became a tribute to Puerto Rico, featuring sugarcane fields, elders playing dominoes, and shaved ice, or piraguas, stalls. Bad Bunny, whose full name is Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, also spotlighted Latin American artists and actors who made cameos in La Casita, a pink Puerto Rican style house, including Pedro Pascal, Jessica Alba, Cardi B, Karol G and Young Miko. One of the few moments performed in English featured Lady Gaga with her hit song, “Die With A Smile,” reworked with salsa-inspired elements. In one of the show’s most political moments, Puerto Rican artist Ricky Martin sang the chorus for Bad Bunny’s “LO QUE LE PASÓ A HAWAII”, a song that expresses the artist’s fear that Puerto Rico could be Americanized like Hawaii through tourism and gentrification. Bad Bunny closed with “God Bless America”, reframing the phrase to include the entire continent rather than just the US. Flags from across the Americas filled the stage as the message “The only thing more powerful than hate is love” was displayed on screens. People in Latin America raved about Bad Bunny giving a shout out to their country at the Super Bowl. His message redefined what is often seen as America, with a phrase of unity: “Together we are America” written on a football. NBC reported 135.4 million people tuned in. #badbunny #dtmf #Superbowl #latino #tiktoknews
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Puerto Rican musician Bad Bunny made history at the half-time show of the Super Bowl, with a performance that was almost entirely in Spanish, celebrating Puerto Rican and Latin American heritage and redefining what it means to be American with a message of unity.
Bad Bunny’s 13-minute performance at the Levi Stadium in San Francisco, California, on Sunday, Feb. 8, blended music, culture and politics, putting Latino identity front and center at one the biggest championships in the US, even opening the show with the line, “How wonderful it is to be Latino.”
His set mixed hits from earlier albums with songs from his latest release “DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS” (“I Should Have Taken More Photos”), an album made as an homage to Puerto Rico, an unincorporated territory of the US since 1898, and which won Album of the Year at the 2026 Grammys.
The stage itself became a tribute to Puerto Rico, featuring sugarcane fields, elders playing dominoes, and shaved ice, or piraguas, stalls.
Bad Bunny, whose full name is Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, also spotlighted Latin American artists and actors who made cameos in La Casita, a pink Puerto Rican style house, including Pedro Pascal, Jessica Alba, Cardi B, Karol G and Young Miko.
One of the few moments performed in English featured Lady Gaga with her hit song, “Die With A Smile,” reworked with salsa-inspired elements.
In one of the show’s most political moments, Puerto Rican artist Ricky Martin sang the chorus for Bad Bunny’s “LO QUE LE PASÓ A HAWAII”, a song that expresses the artist’s fear that Puerto Rico could be Americanized like Hawaii through tourism and gentrification.
Bad Bunny closed with “God Bless America”, reframing the phrase to include the entire continent rather than just the US.
Flags from across the Americas filled the stage as the message “The only thing more powerful than hate is love” was displayed on screens.
People in Latin America raved about Bad Bunny giving a shout out to their country at the Super Bowl.
His message redefined what is often seen as America, with a phrase of unity: “Together we are America” written on a football.
NBC reported 135.4 million people tuned in.
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