Bad Bunny’s Halftime Show Had More Cameos Than A Marvel Movie — Here's Everything I Noticed Live From The Super Bowl

I respect the heck retired of these acceptable and signifier workers. They rolled retired an full tropical paradise with storefronts, a barbershop, a house, respective creation floors, a car, and a agelong database of different props. The velocity astatine which they enactment it each up was impressive. The existent MVPs.

A barrio is the Spanish connection for “neighborhood,” often utilized to picture Latino communities. The full backdrop of Bad Bunny's show was an ode to Latin culture. The acceptable was a vibrant premix of tropical vegetation and fashionable Latino hangout spots.

I would emotion to get paid to creation and vibe arsenic a prop during a halftime show.

We heard "Gasolina" play for conscionable a mates of seconds, which was a bully motion to Daddy Yankee, the Puerto Rican creator that helped popularize the dependable Bad Bunny has turned into a planetary phenomenon.

Hold up. Did Bad Bunny conscionable springiness a Grammy to Liam Ramos???

I thought this infinitesimal was truthful touching and meaningful, but if it's Liam...that times a million. pic.twitter.com/p7MTwuroGg

Although galore radical initially thought the young lad was Liam, the child detained by ICE, helium is, successful fact, kid histrion Lincoln Fox. During the performance, Bad Bunny told Lincoln (who was playing a younger mentation of Bad Bunny), "Cree siempre en ti," which translates to "always judge successful yourself."

"El Apagón" is simply a fashionable Bad Bunny opus that translates to "the blackout" oregon "the powerfulness outage." His climbing of the electrical rod is believed to symbolize the hardships successful Puerto Rico by referencing predominant powerfulness outages that person roiled the island. His single "El Apagón" besides highlights the displacement of autochthonal Puerto Ricans owed to the accomplishment of U.S. colonists.

Lady Gaga joined Bad Bunny to execute a salsa mentation of “Die with a Smile," her deed azygous with Bruno Mars. Salsa band LoS SOBRiNOS joined her and Benito connected stage.

Ricky covered Bad Bunny's azygous "LO QUE LE PASÓ A HAWAii" alongside a guitarist successful a beauteous chill tropical backdrop.

Both of my parents are immigrants from St. Lucia, an land successful the confederate Caribbean wherever English and a French-based patois are wide spoken. Towards the extremity of Bad Bunny's show, respective performers carried flags from Caribbean and Latin American countries, and I was THRILLED to spot St. Lucia represented, adjacent though it isn't a Spanish-speaking nation. Bad Bunny's prime to see and correspond the Caribbean islands and Latin America was a almighty message, uniting radical from crossed the Americas.

The shot successful Bad Bunny's possession towards the extremity of the amusement read, "Together we are American." This felt similar a nonstop effect to critics who suggested that Bad Bunny "wasn't American" capable for the halftime show, adjacent though Puerto Rico is portion of the U.S. More than 41 cardinal radical successful the US talk Spanish arsenic a archetypal language, and an further 11 to 15 cardinal radical are bilingual oregon second-language speakers. 

Not to mention, it's very clear that the NFL wants to grow its market. In the past decade, the league has hosted NFL games successful Spain and Mexico, arsenic good arsenic Germany, Brazil, and the UK. And with 19.8 cardinal streams connected Spotify past year, Bad Bunny is arguably the biggest creator successful the world, making him the cleanable prime to header this year.

"God Bless America,” helium stated successful English during the show's finale. He wanted to marque definite everyone understood that one. He past gave a shout-out to respective Latin American countries and territories, including Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Brazil, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Colombia, Venezuela, the Dominican Republic, Cuba, and more. Then, helium ended with, “And my motherland, mi patria, Puerto Rico, seguimos aquí.” That past spot translates to, “My homeland, Puerto Rico, we are inactive here.”