This editor missed both halftime shows during the big game, but he's seen plenty of video of Bad Bunny's performance at the Super Bowl. The show was obviously choreographed with the TV camera in mind, because the view from the stands wasn't that great:
This is hilarious. The stage designer didn’t bother to think this one out. 😂 pic.twitter.com/RlqT7wMiYe
— Freedom Enthusiast 🇺🇸 (@ThoughtCrimes80) February 9, 2026
They were more concerned with the television cattle than the stadium cattle.
— P. W. A (@fertiletownship) February 9, 2026
Gotta maximize your reach, baby!
That's right. The run with a football through the sugar cane fields with the slave workers was definitely meant for the TV audience:
— media (@mediafortwo) February 9, 2026
Matt Walsh was not a fan:
Having the halftime show for your biggest game of the year in a language almost none of your lifelong fans can understand, while waving the flags of countries that none them are from, is the biggest fuck you that I’ve ever seen a corporation give to its own consumers
— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) February 9, 2026
Most of the media was enamoured of the performance … even Elmo from Sesame Street chimed in to say that he was a fan of what The Washington Post thought was a family-friendly romp, filled with "the kind of wholesome, traditional family values that would have fit right in with some of the more sentimental commercials that appeared during the game."
To be fair, folks in the stands could see the electrical workers trying to keep Puerto Rico's fragile grid together:
A political statement - addressing Puerto Rico’s ongoing electric/power crisis. Bravo Bad Bunny!! pic.twitter.com/LE9QcteIGJ
— Steven Canals (@StevenCanals) February 9, 2026
Puerto Rico has been allocated over $100 billion in federal aid over the last 10 years.
— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) February 9, 2026
Why does it still have an electric/power crisis? https://t.co/WlW6oP05ew
And why hasn't AOC fixed her abuela's leaky roof yet … the woman is rich now.
We haven't heard much about "joy" since the Kamala Harris campaign adopted it as its theme, but Slate thought that Bad Bunny's act applied a great lesson for those who are part of an oppressed group: "joy is resistance."
Bad Bunny’s halftime show applied one of the greatest lessons you learn as a part of an oppressed group: Joy is resistance. https://t.co/SCGaGsVhx1
— Slate (@Slate) February 9, 2026
Oppressed group. https://t.co/wbhzMDopcK
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) February 9, 2026
"oppressed" pic.twitter.com/rbco3zxrcc
— jimtreacher.substack.com (@jtLOL) February 9, 2026
You should go back to writing more pro-pedophile stories because those would embarrass you less than this.
— Physics Geek (@physicsgeek) February 9, 2026
Nadira Goffe writes for Slate:
… there were plenty of other references to the politics of everyday life, including Bad Bunny’s choice to perform “El Apagón.” The song (meaning “the blackout”) is a protest tune about displacement and other inequities facing Puerto Ricans, named after the rolling blackouts the island has faced in the years since Hurricane Maria in 2017. Bad Bunny performed it while climbing a powerline pole, with a Puerto Rican flag in hand, as dancers were on top of other powerline poles. This is unsurprising for the artist, considering the album itself is about celebrating the beauty of Puerto Rico while also being heartbroken by the political reality of gentrification and the effects of the tourism industry that the island’s inhabitants face. Bad Bunny has always been good at effective political messaging because he’s not usually striving to be overtly political, but he is aware that he lives an inherently political existence—one in which nostalgia surfaces not only as an effect of time, but because of what gentrification and inequality take from you.
Oh, so that was the message: "the political reality of gentrification and the effects of the tourism industry that the island’s inhabitants face."
Literally nobody is oppressed.
— Spencer (Florida/Man) (@IslandDog) February 9, 2026
Who's oppressed?
— AAE (@AAC0519) February 9, 2026
Who is oppressed? Not this guy, clearly. 😅
— President Doctor (@LDreeniatnuom) February 9, 2026
They aren't oppressed
— GeronL (@geronl) February 9, 2026
An oppressed group who's performing at a Super Bowl Halftime Show? @ListComesForAll
— Dominic Seibert (@DomJSII) February 9, 2026
So oppressed, he made a Super Bowl Halftime show.
— Summer (@SummerELight) February 9, 2026
Dork.
— Panic Chicken (@panicchicken01) February 9, 2026
Go and look up the word oppressed and come back and delete this. Fools.
— Spare Me Your Selective Outrage! (@SomewhatHopeful) February 9, 2026
— Corynetes ♣️☢️🔬 (@ObstinateBob) February 9, 2026
Not the message that was received and if it was, you wouldn’t have had to write this nonsense as cover.
— Daytripper20 (@Day_Tripper20) February 9, 2026
Is this the worst take on Bad Bunny's halftime show? It could be.
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