In between the Seattle Seahawks going through off the New England Patriots, Unhealthy Bunny performed the Apple Music Tremendous Bowl LX Halftime Present. The Puerto Rican musician is the primary Latino and Spanish-speaking artist to carry out as a solo act through the large sport, which this yr goes down at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, California and airing on NBC. It was not the Latin lure star’s first time performing within the Tremendous Bowl, nevertheless; Benito Martínez Ocasio was a particular visitor of headliners Jennifer Lopez and Shakira on the Tremendous Bowl LIV Halftime Present in 2020.
Unhealthy Bunny’s efficiency tonight was a vividly choreographed 13-minute section that includes set items tied to Puerto Rican tradition and iconography from his newest album Debí Tirar Más Fotos. Carrying a customized white jersey emblazoned with “Ocasio” and the quantity 64, he kicked issues off by rising from a sugar cane farm with a soccer as he rapped “Tití me preguntó” from 2022’s Un Verano Sin Ti. There have been quickly some shock visitor singers, however not those social media predicted. Newly topped Rocket Mortgage and Pokéman spokeswoman Girl Gaga delivered a salsa model of her chart-topping Bruno Mars collab “Die With A Smile” and Unhealthy Bunny’s fellow Puerto Rican star Ricky Martin sang “LO QUE LE PASÓ A HAWAii” from DtMF. You might recall Gaga and Bunny had a viral off-air second ultimately weekend’s Grammys, the place he gained Album Of The Yr. Gaga’s cameo tonight was the one English music within the set. Martin in the meantime wrote an open letter praising Unhealthy Bunny within the Puerto Rican newspaper El Nuevo Día final week
There have been fast cameos exterior La Casita from Karol G, Alix Earle, Jessica Alba, Younger Miko, Pedro Pascal, and Cardi B, who’s recovering from a pre-game robotic accident. (Earle apparently has an unimaginable agent.) Elsewhere through the present Unhealthy Bunny climbed a phone pole, handed a Grammy to a little bit child watching his acceptance speech on a TV, officiated an actual wedding ceremony, and fell backwards off the roof of a bodega into the arms of his dancers. After shouting “God bless America,” he recited a listing of each nation in North and South America, ending with “my motherland Puerto Rico.” There was even a nod to “Gasolina,” the reggaeton smash from Puerto Rican rapper Daddy Yankee. Unhealthy Bunny closed with “DtMF” beneath fireworks as he spiked a soccer that bore the phrase “Collectively, We Are America,” and he did that in entrance of a billboard that learn “The one factor extra highly effective than hate is love.”
Watch all of it go down beneath.
Upon September’s announcement that he would headline this yr’s present, Unhealthy Bunny mentioned, “What I am feeling goes past myself. It is for individuals who got here earlier than me and ran numerous yards so I may are available in and rating a landing. That is for my folks, my tradition, and our historical past.” Unhealthy Bunny — who’s an American citizen as a result of he is from Puerto Rico — has averted touring within the mainland US out of concern for his followers amid persistent ICE raids. These fears are warranted, particularly contemplating associates of President Donald Trump had warned that ICE can be current on the Tremendous Bowl.
Unhealthy Bunny’s reserving turned a political flashpoint virtually instantly. Varied MAGA figures like Trump and Tennessee Congressman Tim Burchett claimed they’d by no means heard of the person who was Spotify’s most-streamed artist globally for 4 of the previous 5 years. No less than one NFC offensive participant didn’t know Puerto Rico is a part of america, telling the New York Instances that the NFL was “making an attempt too arduous with this worldwide stuff.”
Final fall, Unhealthy Bunny joked that People had “4 months to be taught” Spanish throughout his second stint internet hosting SNL (yet one more popular culture milestone in a yr when he additionally acted within the films Completely satisfied Gilmore 2 and Caught Stealing). Amid all of the faux controversy, he is been unbothered and busy consuming smash burgers.
Nonetheless, racists like Jake Paul had another in Turning Level USA’s counter-programming. The correct-wing platform’s halftime present featured Child Rock, Brantley Gilbert, Lee Brice, Gabby Barrett, however surprisingly not Nicki Minaj. Trump didn’t attend the Tremendous Bowl tonight, most likely as a result of he realized he would get booed, however he did trash the halftime present on Reality Social after it was over, writing that “no person understands a phrase this man is saying, and the dancing is disgusting.”
Unhealthy Bunny made historical past on the Grammys final weekend when his critically acclaimed sixth solo studio LP Debí Tirar Más Fotos turned the primary fully-Spanish language Album Of The Yr winner (it additionally gained Greatest Música Urbana Album). “Puerto Rico, there’s nothing we will’t accomplish,” he mentioned in his emotional, largely Spanish acceptance speech. “I wish to dedicate this award to all of the folks that needed to depart their homeland, their nation, to observe their goals.” Earlier within the ceremony, Unhealthy Bunny condemned ICE, including: “ICE out. We’re not savages. We’re not animals. We’re not aliens. We’re people, and we’re People.” In the present day DtMF jumped again as much as #2 on Billboard’s album chart, as Governor Gavin Newsom declared it “Unhealthy Bunny Day” in California.
Tonight’s pregame performances included a brief hits set from Inexperienced Day, Coco Jones singing “Raise Each Voice And Sing,” Brandi Carlile taking part in “America The Stunning,” and Charlie Puth doing the nationwide anthem with Kenny G. In the meantime, this yr’s commercials featured pop star appearances from Charli XCX, Sabrina Carpenter, Addison Rae, Benson Boone, and a bunch extra.
This was Unhealthy Bunny’s setlist:
“Tití me preguntó” (shortened)
“Yo perreo sola” with “VOY A LLeVARTE PA PR” outro
“EoO”
“MONACO” intro
“Die With A Smile” (Girl Gaga)
“BAILE INoLVIDABLE” (shortened)
“NUEVAYoL” (shortened)
“LO QUE LE PASÓ A HAWAii” intro (Ricky Martin)
“El apagón”
“CAFé CON RON” intro (shortened)
“DtMF”
