It's Been a Minute Bad Bunny's Super Bowl: a radical act of resistance
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Feb 9, 2026 Alana Casanova-Burgess, La Brega host who centers Puerto Rican and Caribbean perspectives. Reanna Cruz, music critic who analyzes staging and cultural meaning. They unpack Bad Bunny’s vivid Puerto Rican imagery, the parade of flags and hemispheric unity. They discuss wedding and everyday scenes, plantation history references, joyful resistance, queer visibility, and the politics of performing on the NFL stage.
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Spectacle As Unifying Theater
- Stephen Thompson calls Bad Bunny's Super Bowl set one of the top five halftime shows ever for its stagecraft and unity.
- The show worked as spectacular, unifying theater that undercut culture-war attacks by centering joy.
Parade Of Nations Moment
- Alana Casanova-Burgess describes the parade of flags and Bad Bunny saying "together we are all America."
- The ending explicitly reframed America to include Puerto Rico and nations across the Americas.
Decolonial Themes On A Mass Stage
- Reanna Cruz highlights Ricky Martin singing an anti-colonial song about Puerto Rico and Hawaii.
- Placing that song on the Super Bowl stage signaled decolonization themes reaching a mainstream audience.