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[Order Michael Finch’s new book, A Time to Stand: HERE. Prof. Jason Hill calls it “an aesthetic and political tour de force.”]
Latin music, at least most contemporary pop versions, tends to be for Puerto Ricans only. Unlike ‘black rap’ which has found its way into billions of white wedding receptions, Latin music has had no such cultural expansion.
As the saying goes, “You have to be Puerto Rican to appreciate it.”
That’s why when it was announced that a rap singer named Bad Bunny (Benito Antonio Martinez Ocasio) would be the star entertainer at the February 2026 NFL Super Bowl 60 Halftime show in Santa Clara, California, like many others I said, “Who?”
After the announcement, Bad Bunny’s promoters were quick to fill in biographical details, stating how this 31 year-old actor and fashion runway icon (Ru Paul with a mustache) has drawn more than 500,000 attendees at his concerts in Puerto Rico.
That high number makes him just as popular (yet considerably lesser known) than the Beatles, they said.
But Puerto Rico, however overcrowded, is still an isolated bubble. The “average” American sports fan has never even heard of…Bad Bunny.
I asked one of my ‘underworld’ music fiend friends in his 30s if he’d ever heard of him and he told me, “Bad Bunny?! He’s corny.”
Yet the rapper was Jay Z’s pick for Super Bowl 60’s chief entertainment slot when negotiations with Taylor Swift fell through. Jay Z, of course, happens to be the NFL’s entertainment promoter, so he gets his way. (Jay Z used to host horrendous annual Benjamin Franklin Parkway concerts in Philadelphia that were so raucous nearby neighbors would make it a point to leave town until the concert was over).
Jay Z, who is said to be friends with race-baiter Barrack Obama, wanted Bad Bunny because he said he was “relevant,” as in anti-Trump and anti-ICE.
Bunny, meanwhile, who says he’s heterosexual, plays with gender roles the way Kamala Harris plays with ‘word salads.’ He’s a diehard leftist who calls the crackdown on illegal immigration an attack on all immigrants. In a way he is no worse than Pope Leo, who recently attacked the Trump Administration for its inhumane “treatment of immigrants.”
Now, you’d think a Villanova grad pretending to be holy because he is the Pope of Rome would understand the difference between legal and illegal, but like many “humane empathizers” Leo refuses to make a distinction which then marks him as an agenda-driven leftist.
This should scare the living daylights out of every good Catholic on the planet, but for some reason it doesn’t.
The inability to tell the difference between legal and illegal has become a trademark of the globalist Left.
Bad Bunny’s hatred of Trump quadrupled after a Trump 2024 election rally where an unknown comedian, Tom Hinchiffe, made disparaging remarks about Puerto Rico, calling it an island of garbage. While Trump had nothing to do with the selection of Hinchiffe or his “gotcha material,” the “corny” rapper assumed there was a correlation.
The rapper began to boycott mainland USA for concerts after Trump was elected and gave ICE the kick start it needed to fix the disaster Biden had created: getting rid of the millions of illegal border crashers who were turning the United States into a third world country.
News that Bad Bunny had been selected to headline Super Bowl 60 hit media outlets like a hydrogen bomb.
MSNBC philosophized that while Republicans may have won the White House, where they may not be ‘winning’ is in the pop culture space, an observation that-sadly-carries considerable weight.
While many football and sports audiences in stadiums across the country were engaged in spontaneous chants mourning the assassination of Charlie Kirk, here was the NFL employing a leftist, ICE Trump hater to perform all his songs in Spanish-songs the average NFL fan has never heard of in a language other than English-on the world’s biggest stage.
More shocking still was the NFL’s disconnect from the values and rhythm of the American heartland when it comes to Super Bowl entertainment. After all, ICE protesters-and this includes you, Pope Leo-who do not know the difference between legal and illegal and cheer on lawbreakers as if they were saints and victims, should not be celebrated on a world stage.
Coming on the heels of the Kirk assassination and the Jimmy Kimmel debacle, the easy endorsement of Bunny by the NFL can only be seen as an attack on MAGA and the Trump presidency.
It’s also, in a way, an example of woke “pop culture” fighting back, an opportunity to stick its tongue out at ICE and give it two middle fingers. Though some conservative commentators dismiss Bad Bunny’s alliance with the NFL as nothing to get too concerned about, we have to ask ourselves: what impact will this massive “f-you’ to the president have on future entertainment spectacles?
Will it inspire even greater (and far more dangerous) anti-American messaging?
Of course it will.
The day Bad Bunny was announced as the NFL’s chief entertainer for Super Bowl 60, Trump haters celebrated the way they did when Jimmy Kimmel was brought back on the air and when Charlie Kirk died. They saw it as a Paul Revere moment, a rustic cry to “save democracy.”
“Trump will have his day,” they said, referring to Super Bowl 60. “Bad Bunny will bury him.”
MSNBC’s contention that pop culture remains unaffected by the Trump counter-revolution in Washington should be both a warning to conservatives as well as an incentive to work harder to change the larger, deeper culture.
No counter-revolution can be complete without the overturning of the “messages” and propaganda coming out of Hollywood. This includes putting entertainment types like Jay Z into positions of power and influence. The shape-shifting revolution taking place in President Trump’s Washington will ultimately prove temporary and ineffective as long as the culture continues to embrace figures like Jay Z, Bad Bunny, Jimmy Kimmel and the women on The View.
How do you change the culture? Slowly and incrementally, one “pop culture” space at a time.
A good starting point: Remove Jay Z from his NFL power position; make it so that wannabe Kimmel’s and Colbert’s can never rise to the top in late night television; diffuse the Leftist threads from cancerous TV shows like TMZ.
As long as the Left “owns” these cultural forces they will always act as a parallel presidency whenever there’s a conservative in the White House.
“What I’m feeling goes beyond myself,” Bad Bunny said about his Super Bowl 60 gig. “It’s for those who came before me and ran countless yards so I could come in and score a touchdown… this is for my people, my culture, and our history. Ve y dile a tu abuela, que seremos el HALFTIME SHOW DEL SUPER BOWL.”
This is precisely the problem.
America is bigger than your people, your culture, and your history. That stuff is parochial and belongs where it came from-on an island. If you can’t assimilate, its best that your whole Super Bowl 60 act be put on ICE.
But I’ll leave the last part to Tom Holman.
Spanish or English or any other language the musical garbage started with Elvis and Rock and Roll. Music has been slowly collapsing ever since.
“I have no objection to the Twist as such. But it does represent some kind of change in our standards. What has happened to our concepts of beauty and decency and morality?” – President Eisenhower, 1962
This quote is from former President Eisenhower, who expressed a mixed view on the dance craze known as the Twist, suggesting it represented a change in societal standards. The dance was controversial at the time, with some viewing it as a departure from traditional values.
The phrase “I have no objection to the Twist as such” was famously stated by former President Dwight D. Eisenhower. He expressed this sentiment during a time when the dance was becoming popular in the early 1960s. However, he also implied that the dance represented a shift in societal standards regarding beauty, decency, and morality.
The Twist, which gained immense popularity around 1960, was seen as controversial because it was a dance that did not require a partner and featured loose, uninhibited movements. This led to mixed reactions from the public, with some embracing the new trend while others criticized it for being vulgar or ungraceful.
The dance was notably popularized by Chubby Checker’s hit song “The Twist,” and it became a cultural phenomenon, even making its way into high-profile events, including those attended by First Lady Jackie Kennedy.
Lighten up,, great-grandpa
And yet another musical history lesson from THX:
Gee T, maybe we could have a revival of “How Much is that Doggy In The Window?” That’s about your speed. But there might have been one of those ear piercing EEElectric geetars on the track. An old hollow body Gibson may have been used.
Or how about a rousing Ed Ames festival. Oh I know…..”The Yellow Rose of Texas” by Mitch Miller with his Orchestra & Chorus (September 1955)
60 years after the fact don’t you think it’s a little late to bash a trend that disappeared by the early 60s especially with those “loose, uninhibited movements.”
But don’t worry T, you’re only about a half century behind the times. Somehow in spite of the Twist, American civilization is still standing.
Enjoy your misery.
He’d have a heart attack if he knew that “How Much Is That Doggy In The Window” was used in an infamous disgusting scene in John Water’s 1972 movie “Pink Flamingoes”.
I’m kind of surprised that in 2025 there are still cultural retrogrades wailing about rock and roll. I thought those days of burning records and admonishments about the evils of “primitive negro rhythms” were far behind us. I think someone needs a fainting couch.
The Twist as comparison to satanic Bad Bunny, who I have never heard of and have no desire to listen to his crap, is utter nonsense at best.
You were closer with your comments when you incessantly quoted Ayn Rand.
Please don’t go back to Ayn Rand and I applaud you having your own mindsets.
It’s a process so push on regardless. We are all in some development or another.
So the applause sign is on for your emerging out of the Ayn Rand rabbit hole.
I once worked with an older radical feminist who told me that in the mid 1960s before she became radicalized that she was a fashion model and had an affair with Chubbie Checker who rocked her white ass with his wild thang horizontal Twist. I told her that as a kid before I began experimenting with LSD at age 14 that I’d always loved the cartoon version of the Twist performed by the Flintstones on tv.
So I guess we prove your theory about moral degeneracy resulting from a popular dance craze.
Well…… looks another half time show I’ll skipping. Seems like I’ve skipped ’em all for the last 20 years. When are the NFL execs going to wake up and smell the coffee.
Woke is just so five minutes ago.
Prove it assling.
boys, boys, boys now —- can’t we all just get along — jeeze for crimeny sakes! Bwaaa haaaa haaaa ha
Looks like Sebastard got censored again. Total loser.
how cute – you still have a crush on Intrepid
Now that’s good! (And they called it puppy love)
“crush”? Sebastapol is sexually obsessed — it’s embarrassing to witness his unrequitable “heat” — good god, man, give it up and go find another leg to hump
Tito puente=Latin. Bad bun=Shite
As they used to say in the UN ” And thank you for consecutive translation”
There is quite a lot of People who are now saying they could end up Boycotting the Superbowl over this choice of Bad Bunny for their Halftime show. The NFL is walking into the Mire
Does NFL ratings systems know when we mute the half time show and use the bathroom and prepare snacks for the 3rd quarter?
I can’t say I will not be watching the Superbowl but I can definitely say I will mute and not look one minute to the half time satanic display
I wouldn’t think they could tell you “muted” it or had gone to another room, either. I’m pretty sure they’d know if you turned it off and back on when halftime was over. It’s unlikely to happen but, IMO, it’s time for a house cleaning in the upper ranks of the NFL They have been captured by the vulgar rot that controls the entertainment industry.
Maybe they can replace Bad Bunnie with Lyin’ Leo?
As far as I can remember there has never been a pope on the Super Bowl halftime show.
It would be historic. (everything is historic these days)
He could sing “This Land is Your Land” accompanied by super cute altar boys playing ukuleles.
It will bring the retractable roof down.
Apparently, the NFL has learned little from their profligate stupidity. They compulsively side with the empty-headed orators of violent, racist, abusive, Marxist, pedophilic, transgender and cross-dressing malcontents for whom reality is a collapsing mental construct they have either almost or already lost.
Well, I can foresee many either skipping the superbowl all together or viewers costing the advertisers a fortune when they switch channels, cease live-streaming the half-time entertainment (or rather depravity on display) and then return only when the third quarter commences.
Apparently the NFL C-suite is chock full of the same idiocy as before. If these executives refuse to learn about their viewership, they deserve what they are paying for; a flaming, foul-mouthed, cross dresser with minimal talent who hates the United States but wants to benefit from it.
We, the viewers have seen this before…yawn!!
It will be interesting to see if this deal goes through. With all the controversy already sparked there may be a reconsideration depending on how tightly JayZ has a hold of their balls. But, let’s be hopeful. Maybe the NFL will get the message and it will cost them millions to get out from under his thumb. I say pay him off, show him the door and get back to entertainment suitable for a family audience. Pressure on sponsors could, also, go a long way towards cleaning up the woke NFL weenies perception of just who is in the audience.
They didn’t even reply to my suggestion.
Have the national champion high school or collegiate
marching band provide the half time entertainment.