Bad Bunny's Halftime Show Is About So Much More Than Symbolism

Joy Is an Equal Part of Protest as Rage

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On Sunday night, Bad Bunny transformed the Super Bowl LX field in Santa Clara, Calif. into an homage to the Puerto Rican countryside for a historic, almost entirely Spanish set. Weaving through sugar cane fields and scenes of everyday life in Puerto Rico, he carried a football that said, "TOGETHER, WE ARE AMERICA" as he sang a career-spanning medley of his own songs, also splicing in a few classic hits from some of reggaeton's pioneering voices like Tego Calderón, Don Omar and Daddy Yankee, and a surprise salsa rendition with Lady Gaga of 2025's most popular song "Die With a Smile." As red, white, and blue fireworks—specifically a light shade of blue similar to that seen