Super Bowl Halftime Show

By: Kaitlyn Glickman '31

Did you watch the Super Bowl? If so, you can't deny that Bad Bunny’s halftime show was amazing. The show even broke the record for most viewers, with 128.2 million people tuning in to watch the captivating performance.

Bunny started off the show with his hit song Tití Me Preguntó. In the song, he walked through a sugar cane field and Puerto Rican neighborhood surrounded by over 400 dancers. (FUN FACT: the sugar canes were performed by over 300 real people so that the set could be changed quickly). Bad Bunny then performed his songs Yo Perreo Sola and Safaera where the set changed from a Puerto Rican neighborhood to a block party at a casita. During these songs, Cardi B, Pedro Pascal, Jessica Alba, and Carol G made brief cameos. Next, Bunny sang the song Gasolina in which he emerged on top of the casita and theatrically crashed through it. He landed in a living room filled with awards, photos, and other memorabilia from Bunny’s childhood and sang the song MONACO.

After that song, we saw a suspended platform on what seemed to be a wedding party where Lady Gaga performed a salsa rendition of her song Die With a Smile. After, a real couple legally married with Bad Bunny being their witness. The set then transitioned to Ricky Martin (a famous Puerto Rican actor, singer, and author) sitting under a plantain tree, which was a reference to the cover of Bad Bunny’s album DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS, where he sang the song LO QUE LE PASÓ A HAWAii.

The set transitioned to several light poles suspended in the air with real pyrotechnics coming out of them. Dancers dressed as lineworkers scaled these poles. Bad Bunny then climbed up a pole and sang the song El Apagón. This set served as a protest to chronic power grid failures that Puerto Rico faces. The set shifted to a parade where dancers held flags to every American country as Bunny sang the song CAFé CON RON. 

Bad Bunny ended the performance by revealing and spiking a football that he had been holding the whole performance inscribed with the words ‘’Together, we are America.’’ Bunny then walked off the field singing his most popular song tdMF.

Though controversial, there is no doubt that Bad Bunny had a stellar performance with a powerful message. ‘’The only thing more powerful than hate is love.’’