Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime performance explained
USA TODAY’s Rebecca Morin breaks down Bad Bunny’s halftime performance and five Easter eggs you may have missed.
A Florida Republican says someone should pay for Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl appearance.
Randy Fine posted on social media that he is warning the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission about the Grammy-winning Puerto Rican musician’s “disgusting halftime show” at Super Bowl 60.
Bad Bunny made history as the first solo Latin artist to headline the show. USA TODAY described the performance as a celebration of Puerto Rican and Latin American culture, and as expected, it was all in Spanish and filled with cultural references, numerous moving parts, a real wedding, and even one of the new Grammys handed out to a little boy.
Fine focused on another aspect of the show.
“You can’t say those words on live TV,” Fine wrote on Program
“If he had said these lyrics and other offensive and pornographic obscenities in English live on air, he would have been stopped and fined a hefty sum,” wrote Fine, a former state lawmaker who was elected to Congress in April 2025 to replace Mike Walz, now the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.
“Puerto Ricans are Americans and we all live by the same rules. We are writing to @BrendanCarrFCC asking for drastic action against @NFL, @nbc, and ‘Bad Bunny,’ including fines and broadcast license review.” Lock them up. ”
Carr, who was appointed by President Donald Trump, is known for his staunchly conservative stance and for promoting policies aligned with Trump.
USA TODAY Network reporters who are fluent in Spanish listened to a replay of the performance. They stated that many of the explicit lyrics Fine shared were authentic translations of the songs, but were not part of the performance.
Transcripts of Super Bowl performances translated online by Genius Lyrics Database included sexually explicit lyrics and abusive language. However, one reporter said Bad Bunny frequently muttered curse words or stopped speaking completely during the February 8 show.
In his post, which was not immediately available for comment, Fine shared explicit lyrics from other songs translated through Genius.
Yet another network reporter pointed out that not all of the songs were played. Bad Bunny’s performance was clocked at approximately 13 minutes.
Donald Trump Jr. echoed similar sentiments, writing to X, “Here are the lyrics. Please explain the sanity here. Maybe WAPO’s 30% layoffs weren’t enough.” Those lyrics were also incorrect or incomplete.
He was reacting to a Washington Post article that said, “In general, Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime show has a healthy, traditional family value vibe that would fit in nicely with some of the more sentimental commercials shown during the game.”
