The Seattle Seahawks won the SuperBowl 29-13. Several members of my west coast family were watching and cheering for the home team.
For many of us, the only reason to watch the SuperBowl is the half-time show, and here it is stripped of the surrounding violent game and ads.
I don’t understand the lyrics, but I liked the music and dancing. I also appreciated the representation of Puerto Rican culture, and at the end when he says “God bless America”…and then lists all the countries that are part of the continent of America. Ironically, TPUSA’s alternative half-time show was called the All American Halftime Show
— I don’t think they would have got the point — and Kid Rock screaming over a poorly adjusted cheap sound system was less intelligible than Bad Bunny’s Spanish.
At this point Kid Rock has become a parody of himself.
I went in not knowing Bad Bunny’s music, but kinda got the vibe due to my previous love of Latin freestyle and exposure to reggaeton like 20 years ago. Many would have missed the electrifying callback to “Gasolina”. It floored me as brief as it was. Bad Bunny might have asked Daddy Yankee to appear. Instead we got Ricky Martin, which was ok. Lady Gaga too.
Needed more Gasolina:
But yeah that was a topnotch halftime show.
It was also good that the Seahawks shredded the Patriots 11 years later. As Denzel said in “Man on Fire”:
“Revenge is a meal best served cold.”
Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl Halftime Show Was an All-American Triumph. Turning Point USA’s Was a Boring MAGA Grift With Kid Rock
There was an actual live wedding.
And at 7:39 a serious trust fall. No thank you. I hate heights. Well done!
At around 8:00 that Bud Light sign creeps into the frame. Not so subtle slam on Kid Rock?
Ricky Martin made good music even before he went over to english-language text. And > 95% of the time, listeners no not bother to pay attention to the text.
For instance it took me a long time to learn English to the level where I could understand song texts but people in Sweden listened to Beatles, Rolling Stones and Dylan long before English understanding had percolated through the population.
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(These days I rather wish Swedes would tune down their english as teenagers swear so much in english it becomes uncool.
Give me harangue of foul language in Finnish any time)
Also, there is some kind of olympic game going on. I learned about it the day after it started as I don’t care.
But the orange one (who has little interest in winter sports) found time to criticize the US team.
Sports…
Hanoi is building a soccer stadium able to hold 130 000 people. As monuments go, it will trump Trump’s tiny monuments by two- three orders of magnitude.
Can anyone tell me what’s supposed to be so superb about this owl in the first place?
@8
Don’t give a hoot about sports? The Superb Owl might be for you
President Trump on Sunday insulted the NFL’s halftime show, writing on social media that it’s “absolutely terrible, one of the worst, EVER! … Nobody understands a word this guy is saying, and the dancing is disgusting, especially for young children that are watching from throughout the U.S.A., and all over the World.”
Speaking of disgusting, how about those Epstein files?
Reginald Selkirk @ 9
Thanks. Owls are cool.
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Off-topic. Just in
“BREAKING The Brexit Conspiracy The Epstein Files Confirm”
.https://youtube.com/watch?v=VK3Y2erkmlY
Epstein embraced disaster capitalism in a message to Peter Thiel while discussing Brexit.
#8: I don’t get it myself. Apparently, it’s a great day for capitalism.
I watched Bad Bunny to try and keep up with US culture. Or at least the few good parts left.
It was OK. I would go see him again.
A lot going on. They put a huge amount of visuals into 15 minutes with a very large number of dancers and performers.
The wedding in the middle was a real wedding.
I didn’t see the Kid Rock show.
Our existence in the USA is already very dismal and it would just add more misery.
A bit dated but might explain a reggaeton icon’s absence:
https://ew.com/daddy-yankee-explains-why-he-would-not-perform-gasolina-with-bad-bunny-at-super-bowl-11848591
I did catch a few inklings that Creed bowed out or were dropped from the other show, which is heartening. They have enough hate cast at them. Shinedown dropped out too and were more vocal about it.
I didn’t watch the game. Sports isn’t really my thing. I just watched old episodes of Best of the Worst on YouTube.
Glad Bad Bunny got the knuckle-draggers hot and bothered, though.
Way way long ago I actually used to watch football, and saw a few Super Bowl games when the idea was fairly fresh. I seem to recall one played in Green Bay on frozen ground, and a few that were actually suspenseful.The more important it became the less interesting, as the teams became more careful, and I gather from third hand this one was a dull defensive exercise. I recall high school football (spectator only) being like this. For almost all of the hour, a bunch of armored future fat guys smash into each other. (Most will grow up to be beer-soaked spectators wheezing that those were the best years of their lives, and sadly it will probably be true.) It’s been decades since I bothered with TV football, or another Super Bowl, which we generally refer to these days as the Super Bore. We watched an Italian crime melodrama streaming on PBS instead. I may have to watch the halftime show on line just to stay culturally literate, but I’m really not all that tuned to that kind of show either. Oh well, I’m always happy to see our fearless leader and his minions get their panties in a twist, so whatever Bad Bunny and his friends did, I’m all for it.