Bad Bunny gave us one of the most exciting, thought-provoking, entertaining, and daring performances in the history of the Super Bowl Halftime Show. Like many artists who came before him, Bad Bunny had messages hidden in plain sight, with the artist using language, context, jokes, and visual cues to communicate what he was really saying.
Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, 31, from Puerto Rico, has now officially solidified himself as one of the greatest U.S. artists of all time — a title that many music fans still hesitated to give him, despite his global reach and popularity. After this extraordinary Halftime Show, such labels feel undeniable.
Bad Bunny's songs performed at the 2026 Super Bowl Halftime Show.

Bad Bunny in the official poster for the 2026 Super Bowl Halftime Show.
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The Bad Bunny songs featured on this Super Bowl Halftime Show, listed below, made great use of the artist's discography while still focusing and celebrating his Album of the Year-winning LP Debí Tirar Más Fotos. The lineup of songs included:
- "Tití Me Preguntó"
- "Yo Perreo Sola"
- "Safaera"
- "Party"
- "Voy a Llevarte Pa' PR"
- "EoO" (prefaced by a medley of classic reggaeton songs)
- "Mónaco"
- "Die with a Smile" (performed by Lady Gaga)
- "Baile Inolvidable"
- "Nuevayol"
- "Lo Que Le Pasó a Hawaii" (performed by Ricky Martin)
- "El Apagón"
- "Café con Ron" (collaboration with Los Pleneros de La Cresta)
- "DTMF"
Between fun bops, emotional lyrics, and an unrivaled passion for his craft and birthplace, Bad Bunny gave it his all on the biggest stage for music in the world.
Bad Bunny's Super Bowl ratings.

Bad Bunny performing on the 2026 Super Bowl Halftime Show.
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Official numbers from Nielsen estimate that 124.9 million viewers watched the 2026 Super Bowl telecast on Sunday, February 8, which aired on NBC (main broadcast), Telemundo (for Hispanic audiences), Peacock (via streaming), and NFL+ (for subscribers).
Compared to past years, this 2026 broadcast was the second most-watched Super Bowl of all time, only behind the 127.7 million viewers that tuned in last year for the 2025 Super Bowl.
This particular Super Bowl Halftime Show headlined by Bad Bunny averaged 128.2 million viewers between 8:15 and 8:30 p.m. ET — a very specific increase in viewership suggesting that nearly 4 million people who were not watching the game made the deliberate choice to tune in and watch Bad Bunny's performance.
(Editor's note: Initial reports regarding Super Bowl ratings estimated that 135.4 million viewers had potentially watched this year's Super Bowl, as reported by Newsweek. However, Nielsen only released its final numbers this Tuesday, February 10, with an impressive — but slightly lower — viewership total in comparison to those early estimates.)
Breaking down the Bad Bunny Halftime Show.

Bad Bunny performing on the 2026 Super Bowl Halftime Show.
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Having experienced so much backlash from conservatives who felt outraged over the fact that Bad Bunny, an artist with a Spanish-language discography, was chosen to headline the 2026 Super Bowl, fans wondered how far he would go in terms of political commentary. Benito didn't disappoint.
On that note, be mindful that Halftime Show headliners are reportedly told that they shouldn't make political statements during a performance. References made by artists are often explained using less controversial reasons in order to get the artist, the league, the sponsors, and the broadcast itself off the hook, dodging legal issues and/or even more intense reactions from elected officials.
One doesn't even have to look that far back to understand this.
Last year, Kendrick Lamar delivered the iconic lyrics "Tryna strike a chord and it's probably A minor" while performing at the Super Bowl. "A minor" can be a music-related pun that follows "tryna strike a chord." It could also mean that Lamar was accusing a hip hop rival of trying to connect ("strike a chord") with a minor (as in, a literal underage person).
The beautiful thing about art is that multiple things can be true at the same time. Do keep that in mind as you go down this list.
Entendre? Make it a double!
Read our comprehensive breakdown of references, cameos, Easter eggs, context, lyrics, and messages from Bad Bunny's performance as headliner of the 2026 Super Bowl Halftime Show.
A young man kicks off Bad Bunny's Super Bowl performance with a popular saying.

Young man in the opening scene of Bad Bunny's 2026 Super Bowl Halftime Show.
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The very first frame that audiences see on Bad Bunny's Halftime Show is a young man exclaiming, "Qué rico es ser latino. Hoy se bebe!"
This is a popular saying in Spanish-speaking countries in Latin America, and it translates to "How great it is to be Latino. Tonight, we're drinking!" in English.
The 2026 Super Bowl Halftime Show title sequence.

The title sequence of Bad Bunny's Super Bowl Halftime Show.
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Viewers fly above sugarcane fields as the title sequence for this Halftime Show pops up on the screen. Translating to English, the title sequence is pretty straightforward: "Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio presents… The Super Bowl Halftime Show."
400 years after it was colonized by Spain, Puerto Rico's economy relied entirely on the production and sale of sugarcane. "Cutting sugar cane is, by any measure, brutal work performed by hand in the scorching sun," a landing page for the PBS series Finding Your Roots explains. "For centuries, enslaved Africans supplied the labor, but after slavery was abolished in Puerto Rico in 1873, it became the domain of the island’s working class."
A report from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) website notes that Puerto Rico "grew 12.5 million tons of sugarcane on more than 40,000 acres" at its peak in 1952, nearly 80 years after slavery was abolished.
When considering recent pop culture moments, this opening title sequence soaring above sugarcane fields comes off a bit like the first Wicked movie's opening sequence. Famously, the stories of Wicked and The Wizard of Oz include a tornado that brings Dorothy Gale to Oz and murders the sister of the Wicked Witch of the West (Elphaba in Wicked).
Why did Bad Bunny have 64 and Ocasio on the back of his jersey?

Bad Bunny performing on the 2026 Super Bowl Halftime Show.
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Bad Bunny is first seen on the Super Bowl with his back turned to the camera. It is immediately established that he's wearing an all-cream jersey that shows the name Ocasio and the number 64 on the back of that jersey.
For many news outlets that covered the Halftime Show and Puerto Rican influencers who shared reaction videos on social media, it was immediately understood that the number had a very specific political undertone (more on that later!). Yet, in a new statement shared with The Cut, Bad Bunny offered a different explanation that the number was about his uncle.
"The focal point of the outfit was the 64, which, according to a statement Bad Bunny sent to The Cut, was an homage to his late uncle Cutito, who was born in 1964 and left Puerto Rico to work in the U.S. mainland when he was only 17," Danya Issawi wrote on The Cut. "This uncle taught Benito 'much of what he knows about the NFL.'"
Bad Bunny's statement, shared with The Cut, adds: "I always dreamed of taking my uncle to a Super Bowl, and I couldn't. He left unexpectedly, without warning. So during my Super Bowl halftime show, I decided to have him on my shirt. I dedicated my performance to him before it began. I'm sure he saw it, he was present, and he felt proud of his nephew."
A different interpretation of Bad Bunny's 64.

Bad Bunny performing on the 2026 Super Bowl Halftime Show.
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Hurricane Maria, a category four hurricane that hit Puerto Rico on September 2017, caused death and destruction to the island and its residents. Unfortunately, that traumatic experience didn't end there.
Notably, first-term President Donald Trump visited Puerto Rico at the time and "threw paper towels at" its residents, which was reported by The Advocate. To add even more insult to injury, initial data from the government of Puerto Rico reported that only 64 people died as a result of Hurricane Maria — a wildly low number that didn't make any sense.
Alas, just like what's happening in 2026, residents were told to believe in a reality that didn't make any sense.
That incredibly low total number of deaths sparked several protests, forcing local government to actually disclose the real death poll on the island. The New York Times reported that local government eventually acknowledged the death of more than 1,400 people (which, sadly, was still not the actual total).
Almost an entire year after the hurricane hit Puerto Rico, the official number of deaths was finally shared with the public. Per CBS News, 2,975 people died in Puerto Rico from the devastation caused by Hurricane Maria.
Not 64.
Was Bad Bunny's nod to 64 about his uncle, or about Puerto Rico overall?

Bad Bunny performing on the 2026 Super Bowl Halftime Show.
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References can have several meanings, not just one. Bad Bunny's reported nod to his uncle and the reference to the death poll from Hurricane Maria could both be true.
Still, given how many times Bad Bunny said that this Halftime Show was about Puerto Rico (not just about him), it's interesting to hear that the massive number 64 seen on both the front and the back of his jersey was actually just a nod to a special uncle based on the year that said uncle was born, and apparently not about Puerto Ricans hearing lies from elected officials and being told to mistrust what they could see with their own eyes.
Bad Bunny introduces viewers to the colorful and diverse world of Puerto Rico.

Bad Bunny performing on the 2026 Super Bowl Halftime Show.
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Bad Bunny starts walking through the scenery and introduces viewers to the culture and aesthetics of Puerto Rico. For instance, he stops by a stand selling cold coconut water; by a group of seniors playing dominó (dominoes); by two girls doing their nails; and by a stand selling piragua (a dangerously delicious Puerto Rican shaved ice dessert).
These choices reflect not only Puerto Rico, but Bad Bunny himself. Dominó is his favorite sport, for instance, and he loves to get intricate and artist manicures — to the point of dragging a nail salon in Spain for refusing him service in 2018 for being a man wanting to get his nails done, which he then commented on through the gender-flip "Caro" music video.
Fans speculated that the taco stand was seemingly named after Pancho Villa…
X user @maobarraza writes (translated into English):
"Did you notice the name of the tacos? Villa's tacos. Pancho Villa has been the only person who has ever invaded the United States with his División del Norte. Bad Bunny's halftime show was loaded with symbolism. Big respect, Benito."
On the other hand, subsequent reports noted that this was an existing restaurant in Los Angeles called Villa's Tacos.
…Though subsequent reports referenced a real-life taco restaurant in L.A. named Villa's Tacos.
A report from the Los Angeles Times reads, "Right at the start of the Puerto Rican singer's performance at Super Bowl LX, as he wades through faux sugarcane fields, he passes a series of small businesses. He takes a piragua — a traditional Puerto Rican shaved ice dessert — from one seller, then hands off the cone to Victor Villa, as the Villa's Tacos owner stands behind a cart emblazoned with the business' name."
"Villa, who started the taqueria as a pop-up in the Highland Park neighborhood in 2018, posted on Instagram to express gratitude for the opportunity, underscoring his family’s immigrant background," the report noted.
To be clear: It's possible that the existing Villa's Tacos restaurant was featured on the Halftime Show as a way to spotlight the restaurant and make the aforementioned reference mentioned in the X post. References are often not mutually exclusive.
Bad Bunny dodges two shirtless boxers, but starts to get dizzy.

Bad Bunny performing on the 2026 Super Bowl Halftime Show.
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Relatable content!
Bad Bunny keeps walking through this world-building exposition to the Puerto Rico that he's brought to life for the Halftime Show, but the sense that this is a claustrophobic, maze-like setting starts to dawn on viewers.
There's a lot of turning to the left, turning to the right, and moving right along. Even the camera, fixed on Bad Bunny, starts to shake and lose focus, communicating how the protagonist of this story is feeling.
We know and love our readers, so here's the tea on those two handsome boxers.
Boxer?! We hardly know her!
It's only a matter of time until the gays start searching for more information on the good-looking boxers (who, yes, are real-life athletes — not actors pretending to be boxers). So let's just make that easier for you.
The boxer wearing shorts with the colors of the Mexican flag and appearing on Bad Bunny's left in the photo above is "El General" Emiliano Vargas. You can follow him on Instagram at @emilianofvargas.
The other boxer standing to Bad Bunny's right in the photo is Xander Zayas, who's also from Puerto Rico (like Bad Bunny) and a professional boxer (like Emiliano Vargas). You can follow him on Instagram at @xander.zayas.
La Casita (Super Bowl edition) is filled with celebrities.
As Bad Bunny finds his way out of the sugarcane fields maze, viewers are introduced to La Casita, which was a famous setting for his concerts within the Puerto Rico residency. In English, "La Casita" means "The Little House."
The celebrities dancing and partying at La Casita (Super Bowl 2026 edition) include Pedro Pascal, Cardi B, Young Miko, Karol G, and Jessica Alba.
And just like that, Bad Bunny emerges on the rooftop of La Casita.

Bad Bunny appears on the rooftop of La Casita while performing on the 2026 Super Bowl Halftime Show.
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A party between Latinos that involves a few random guests, a rooftop, and lots of dancing?! Groundbreaking.
Bad Bunny emerges from the rooftop of La Casita, and the crowd goes wild.
Bad Bunny recreates the 'dwerking' meme.
There is plenty of choreo, twerking, and dwerking in the La Casita rooftop segment of the Halftime Show.
To the delight of fans who thirst over Bad Bunny, he recreates the famous "dwerking" meme that came out of his residency in Puerto Rico.
The rooftop collapses, causing Bad Bunny to fall inside La Casita. He just gets up and keeps moving.
This Super Bowl Halftime Show is packed with references, symbolism, and nuances. In this case, Bad Bunny falls inside La Casita as a result of the roof collapsing.
The musician is shown falling to the floor inside the house… But instead of feeling hurt or asking for help, Bad Bunny just gets up, brushes off the dust, and keeps it pumping with a smile.
This moment is metaphorically about the resilience of Latinos to keep going and never give up, no matter the consequences. But this is also commentary on the infrastructure of Puerto Rico (and many other countries around the world) that is actually crumbling, whether it is due to Hurricane Maria or just a lack of proper maintenance.
A medley of reggaeton anthems play as an intro to 'EoO' by Bad Bunny.
Bad Bunny exits La Casita through the front door. But, instead of greeting the various celebrities on the front porch, he keeps walking toward something else.
The broadcast shifts focus from Bad Bunny to his ensemble of dancers, as the song "EoO" is introduced by a medley of reggaeton classics such as "Pa Que Se Lo Gozen" by Tego Calderón, "Dale Don Dale" by Don Omar, "Noche de Travesuras" by Hector El Father, and "Gasolina" by Daddy Yankee.
The dancers are all horny, including these two gays by the car.

Two dancers performing on the 2026 Super Bowl Halftime Show.
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Viewers eventually realize that Bad Bunny has walked right into a crowd of performers who are dancing very intensely and taking horny on main to the maximum degree.
Girls grinding on boys grinding on boys grinding on girls grinding on girls is the vibe. As seen in the image above, those two get an A+ for understanding the assignment.
From one rooftop to another.

Bad Bunny on the rooftop of a car while performing on the 2026 Super Bowl Halftime Show.
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The scene of Bad Bunny on the rooftop of a car is stunning, with dancers surrounding him on all sides. In many ways, it doesn't feel like Benito is the center of this narrative at all, nor a leader to this group. Rather, the singer comes off as a visual narrator and orchestrator whose body language and movements command the crowd to dance harder, get freakier, and have fun.
There's an energy to Bad Bunny that feels like he's the conductor of an orchestra. Except that the dancers are the instruments who respond to his cues with movement rather than sound.
A real wedding happens during Bad Bunny's Halftime Show.
As reported by @PopCrave, this is indeed a very real wedding that takes place in the middle of Benito Bowl.
"The wedding during Bad Bunny's #SuperBowlLX Halftime Show was real, his rep confirms," the X post reads. "The couple had invited Bad Bunny to their wedding, and in turn he allowed them to get married during his show."
As of this writing, the X post has earned 4.6 million views and 370,000 likes.
Lady Gaga is a guest singer on Bad Bunny's Super Bowl Halftime Show.
Bad Bunny has been spotted wearing Lady Gaga merch several times over the years and "has always been a Little Monster," as noted by Vulture. While many viewers were confused about Mother Monster (or, in this case, Madre Monster) being a guest performer on "Benito Bowl," diehard Little Monsters already knew this about the Halftime Show headliner.
In 2020, Bad Bunny discussed how a gay cousin of his, who does drag, introduced him to the magical mayhem of Gaga's discography. "I may not be gay, but I'm a human who cares," Bad Bunny told Rolling Stone.
That cousin ultimately influenced Bad Bunny to fall in love with Gaga's music. "He would come to my house so I could make his mixes. He explained the choreography to me. They were all Lady Gaga songs," the Puerto Rican superstar recalled.
Madre Monster delivers a salsa version of 'Die With a Smile.'

Lady Gaga serving Madre Monster as a guest performer on Bad Bunny's 2026 Super Bowl Halftime Show.
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She doesn't speak Spanish, but she can if you'd like.
Lady Gaga is the queen supreme of alter egos, with notable examples like Jo Calderone, Yüyi the Mermaid, Morgana Devacelli, Mary Jane Holland, and Mistress of Mayhem, just to name a few. And, well, we're kind of living for Madre Monster at the moment.
She may be Italian, and come from New York City, and have a man in Nebraska, and sleep inside an egg/vessel, and even come to Earth straight from Chromatica… During Benito Bowl, Gaga's "Die With a Smile" is salsa, and you better call her Madre.
Stanning Lady Gaga helped Bad Bunny understand, respect, and support drag culture.

Bad Bunny and Lady Gaga performing on the 2026 Super Bowl Halftime Show.
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While helping his cousin create drag mixes for live performances and falling in love with Gaga's discography along the way, Bad Bunny also started to understand, respect, and embrace drag as a fierce art form.
(For context, this Rolling Stone interview by Suzy Exposito was published in May 2020, two months after Bad Bunny released the "Yo Perreo Sola" music video in which the reggaetonero himself is seen in drag.)
It didn't take much for Bad Bunny to understand drag as a similar creative expression as wrestling. "Each [wrestler] has their way of being, and it's respected. They have long hair, they can paint their face, [but] they're strong and powerful beings," he said in the Rolling Stone interview.
You better clock that tea, Benito!
(And if you, dear reader, still haven't seen the 2023 biopic Cassandro starring Gael García Bernal as a gay wrestler, you should give it a watch! In the film, Bad Bunny plays a character who seduces Cassandro but isn't actually into him.)
Even off-camera, Bad Bunny couldn't stop himself from dancing while Gaga performed.
Another adorable behind-the-scenes moment caught by fans on social media is Bad Bunny being unable to stop himself from enjoying and grooving to Lady Gaga's performance of "Die With a Smile."
As seen in the clip above, Bad Bunny was getting his life during Gaga's performance even as he was fully off-camera and had to change costumes as quickly as possible.
Toñita is a special guest who has a cameo at the Super Bowl, and people lose their minds upon seeing her.

Bad Bunny is served a drink by Toñita during the 2026 Super Bowl Halftime Show.
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The next exciting cameo comes from none other than Toñita, the owner of Brooklyn's Caribbean Social Club, "one of the last surviving Puerto Rican social clubs" in New York City, @sarahyanezr writes.
The Cut reports, "Singing 'NUEVAYoL,' he [Bad Bunny] nodded to the Puerto Rican diaspora in New York City, with their barber shops and bodegas and, of course, Toñita."
Bad Bunny is served a drink by Toñita, and everyone is thrilled to see this icon at the Super Bowl.
In case you didn't know: New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani invited Toñita to join his inaugural committee.
She's an icon, she's a legend, and she is the moment, OK?
Protect Toñita at all costs.
Bad Bunny greets a little boy (playing 'young Benito') and gives him a Grammy Award.
The next scene shows a family in a makeshift living room watching the Grammy Awards. Bad Bunny approaches them, and a little boy walks in his direction.
The Halftime Show headliner gives that little boy — referred to as "young Benito" — a Grammy Award, which symbolizes a connection between Bad Bunny and his younger self.
That young actor, who's been identified as Lincoln Fox, shared a statement on his Instagram and discussed his experience playing "young Benito" at the Super Bowl. The caption reads:
"An emotional, unforgettable day being cast as the young Benito — a symbolic moment where the future hands the past a Grammy. A reminder that dreams come true and that it’s never too early to dream big. Sending love to Liam Ramos. We all deserve peace and love in America, a country built by and home to so many hard-working immigrants."
Lincoln Fox says he'll 'remember this day forever,' and everyone is crying all over again.
Another post shared by Lincoln Fox reads, "I'll remember this day forever! It was my truest honor."
A star is born.
Ricky Martin performs 'Lo Que Le Pasó a Hawaii.'
Most tracks in the Debí Tirar Más Fotos album, which recently won the 2026 Grammy Award for Album of the Year, centers on Bad Bunny grappling with the fact that he doesn't want Puerto Rico to become "the next Hawaii."
To be clear, this song — titled "Lo Que Le Pasó a Hawaii," which translates to "What Happened to Hawaii" — doesn't criticize Hawaii or its people. Rather, it comments on the slow and deliberate whitewashing of Hawaii as a result of investments that turned the location into just a beautiful place for tourists — dismissing and disregarding the people who had been there all along in the name of capitalism — not to mention the gentrification that came with it.
At the Super Bowl, Ricky Martin is revealed as Bad Bunny's second guest singer for the Halftime Show, and is first seen sitting on the same chair featured on the cover art of Debí Tirar Más Fotos. It is Martin who sings "Lo Que Le Pasó a Hawaii" on the Halftime Show, which feels even more powerful and poignant in his voice.
There wouldn't be a Bad Bunny without Ricky Martin.
The interesting juxtaposition between Bad Bunny and Ricky Martin is that the latter didn't have points of reference that could inspire him, warn him, and/or guide him toward a path of his own.
Don't get it twisted: Martin did stay true to his Puerto Rican roots over the years. Even his biggest songs in the U.S. have Spanish lyrics in them, and celebrate his identity as Latino, unlike many of his peers. Nonetheless, much like the gentrification of Hawaii, it felt like a given that Martin could only succeed in the U.S. during the late 1990s and early 2000s if he engaged in English-language music and assimilated into U.S. culture as much as possible.

Ricky Martin performing on the 2026 Super Bowl Halftime Show.
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Bad Bunny and other Latine artists are only able to take a stance based on their personal preferences (whatever they might be) because of groundbreakers like Martin, who paved the way for generations to come. Also, this wasn't necessarily just about the U.S. and the English language, which is worth noting.
In case you didn't know, Ricky Martin is fluent in five languages: Spanish, English, French, Italian, and Portuguese. His roots as a Latino never went away, but it was clear how many additional steps Martin had to take in order for someone like Bad Bunny to win Grammys and do a Halftime Show with an all-Spanish body of work.
There's a world in which a legendary musician like Martin declines to appear on the Halftime Show of an artist like Bad Bunny. Martin himself didn't get this opportunity, and it's not crazy to imagine a scenario (with different people) in which a veteran artist would politely decline to appear as a featured singer.
The fact that Martin enthusiastically cheered for Bad Bunny's Album of the Year win and went into this Super Bowl to fully support a new generation of Latine stars that he absolutely inspired — and held the doors wide open for them to follow — is probably the most remarkable thing about his involvement on Bad Bunny's Halftime Show.
A legendary groundbreaker and pioneer, who's also generous, forward-looking, and focused on love above all else.
Bad Bunny confronts 'El Apagón' (the blackout).

Bad Bunny performing on the 2026 Super Bowl Halftime Show.
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In 2017, The Washington Post reported that Puerto Rico "was in the dark for 181 days, 6 hours, and 45 minutes" following the devastation of the island by Hurricane Maria and the lack of significant support from Trump's first administration to help this U.S. territory facing a humanitarian crisis.
The Puerto Rican government awarded a new contract to LUMA Energy, a private operator based in Calgary, Canada, which only brought new issues to Boricuas and led to a lawsuit, per reports from the Associated Press. Despite $2.4 billion investments, electricity continues to be a struggle for Puerto Rico, and power outages have unfortunately become a new normal.
In a story from CBC News titled, "Why a Canadian CEO could be Puerto Rico's most-hated man," LUMA CEO Wayne Stensby argued that such "anger was misdirected."
A blackout that has plagued Puerto Rico both literally and figuratively in recent years.

Bad Bunny performing on the 2026 Super Bowl Halftime Show.
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In this darker and absolutely necessary segment of the Halftime Show, background performers are seen working on the utility poles behind Bad Bunny while he raps to "El Apagón" (which translates to "The Blackout"). Those performers symbolize the various attempts from Puerto Ricans to fix the utility poles themselves and bring electricity back to Puerto Rico.
Within this theatrical framing, the performers get electrocuted repeatedly, to the point of falling to the ground, only to get back up and keep trying. Again, and again, and again. Just like Bad Bunny's nonchalant reaction to falling into La Casita after its roof collapses, the idea of giving up is a truly foreign concept to the resilient and self-determined Latine community (that this writer also belongs to).
God bless America.

Bad Bunny performing on the 2026 Super Bowl Halftime Show.
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This final chapter in Bad Bunny's Super Bowl Halftime Show resurfaces an age-old discussion about how the United States refers to itself as "America," even though it is the United States of a greater continent named America, home to several other countries.
"God bless America…" Bad Bunny says while holding a football, and the audience cheers for that statement as soon as it leaves his mouth. However, that idiom is not where the point ends. It's where it begins.
Bad Bunny positions himself front and center, looks at the camera, and resumes: "…be it Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay, Bolivia, Perú, Ecuador, Brasil, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala, México, Cuba, República Dominicana, Jamaica, Tila, Antilla, United States, Canadá, y mi patria, Puerto Rico."
To be clear: The debate over the U.S. referring to itself as just "America" isn't as big of a hot topic now as it was when Bad Bunny grew up in Puerto Rico (and this writer grew up in Brazil), making it a safe but still thought-provoking point that highlights a certain superiority complex that, at the moment, we are all seemingly protesting against.
'Together, we are America.'
Going through that list of countries and noting that they're all in America (just outside of the U.S.) shouldn't be a shocking remark. But it is wildly surprising to hear it during the climax of an otherwise polite, fun, and easygoing Halftime Show broadcast.
If Bad Bunny was an actual drag queen, which some of the stupidest politicians in the country have mentioned as yet another reason for MAGA voters to dislike him, it could be described as a pretty iconic stunt to add this surprising layer to such a traditional and patriotic expression, subverting it in a way that challenges the original expression.
Yes, the Benito Bowl is packed with political references and call-outs, but they aren't highlighted with this bright of a yellow until the very end. It's remarkable that the same Bad Bunny who talked about losing sleep over this special concert just a few days before the event had the cojones to deliver this moment looking straight into the camera, barely blinking, with flags from all of the aforementioned countries being waved behind him.
"Together, we are America," the football held by Bad Bunny reads.
A post shared on the NFL's official Instagram page — which shows the football held by Bad Bunny with more clarity — has accumulated 1.3 million likes in just 16 hours.
In the end, Bad Bunny tosses the ball to the ground. A big, beautiful touchdown, indeed.
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