Editor’s note: This article discusses graphic song lyrics.
When comedian Tony Hinchcliffe made fun of Puerto Rico for being a “floating island of garbage” during a Trump campaign rally at Madison Square Garden, he sent the entire American left (and some weaklings on the right) into a tizzy as they faked outrage just before the election.
Last night’s Super Bowl performance by Bad Bunny proved he was right.
Beyond the incessant clave pattern that makes most Latin pop music unlistenable, Bad Bunny’s open borders, anti-ICE messaging, along with his false sense of superiority about Puerto Rico, made for a performance that once again highlighted how horrific halftime shows have been ever since the National Football League (NFL) decided to put Jay Z in charge of producing them.
The NFL’s choice of the Puerto Rican performer has been controversial since it was announced he would do the halftime show, in part because he intended to do the entire event in Spanish. That’s already strange because football is an American sport, watched overwhelmingly by Americans — and Americans’ primary language is English, not Spanish.
The vast majority of viewers couldn’t understand what he was saying, but if they could, they would have been confronted with extremely vulgar lyrics.
Obscene Lyrics and Arrogance
One song Bad Bunny performed, “Safaera,” ostensibly included the following lyrics (here translated into English):
Real G, guiding the new generations with the OG one
Galactic style lust
Yes, so that your panties get wet
Get horny and versatile
More sl-tty than Betty Boop
The one who got horny, mami, was you
I stay killing with the U
P-ssy with d-ck, d-ck with -ss (Push it in)
Pu-p-ssy with d-ck, d-ck with -ss, yes (Push it in)
P-ssy with d-ck, d-ck with -ss (Push it in)
Your t-ts rubbing my nipples (Push it in)
This year I don’t want sl-ts (Push it in)
His performance also cosplayed caravans crossing the U.S. southern border, and supported the idea that America is not really a country in and of itself, but rather is the repository for the entire Western Hemisphere’s Third Worlders who are always trying to invade the United States — not the other way around. Bad Bunny named the countries in the hemisphere and said of that collective group, “together we are America.”
The jarring nature of his lyrics and his overtly political messaging were to be expected. After all, he arrogantly declared on Saturday Night Live that the American people have “four months to learn [Spanish].”
Bad Bunny’s “All-American Halftime,” as it was presented (seemingly to rub salt in the wound of Super Bowl fans), was done even while the performer himself has persistently rejected attempts at Puerto Rican statehood, instead preferring independence. He also criticizes the population replacement of native Puerto Ricans.
While the people who advocate Puerto Rican statehood are trying to destroy the United States, Bad Bunny’s opinions are even more absurd than he probably realizes.
On the one hand, he apparently expects the United States to absorb everyone on earth, while seeking to maintain the purity of his island; on the other hand, he does not seem to realize the utter dependence of Puerto Rico on the United States.
Puerto Rico, as a U.S. territory, is incapable of governing itself, cannot handle its debt, and has to be bailed out by U.S. taxpayer dollars. Whenever there is a natural disaster like a hurricane, the United States must step in to rebuild.
And it is not as though the United States should neglect doing so. After all, Puerto Rico is an American territory, and the federal government is responsible for its well-being. But, as Vice President J.D. Vance famously said to another arrogant, ungrateful person, “Have you said ‘thank you’ once?”
Bad Bunny wants to believe Puerto Rico could survive without the generosity of American taxpayers, but the reality is that, without the patronage of the American people, Puerto Rico would probably more resemble its hellscape neighbor Haiti than anything else.
