Bad Bunny is Puerto Rican and an American citizen as all people born in Puerto Rico ARE has Puerto Rico is a United States territory . They pay Medicare and Social Security taxes, commodity taxes among others. The “alternative family entertainment “is featuring Kid Rock .
Adam Kiningzer had a brilliant post yesterday about this “ alternative Super Bowl halftime” featuring Kid Rock which is especially relevant in light of the Jeffrey Epstein files and controversy that continues- Adam posted :
“MAGA: “I ain’t watching the halftime show!!!! I’m watching the pro-family TPUSA one headlined by KID ROCK MAGAAA!!!!”
Kid Rock song:
“ladies, young ladies, I like 'em underage, see. Some say that's statutory (but I say that's mandatory)””
Adam Kiningzer
Delve deeper into Kid Rock’s lyrics and you will be shocked!
I guess those Kid Rock lyrics about underage girls is just what the TPUSA crowd loves. Hiding their love for America behind disgusting lyrics. What hypocrites! ! !
The pre-game show is featuring Green Day who have led "Fuck Donald Trump" chants at some of their concerts. I doubt they'll do that at the super bowl, but there's always hope.
The so called “All American” halftime show will be kowtowing to a Russian puppet and his regime, many of the members who are in the Epstein files, which is looking more and more like a Russian operation. Why not just call it the “Russian half time show”?
It sounds to me like the NFL IS out of touch with their fans. I’m not particularly into NFL and I’ve never heard of this artist so I have no horse in this race.
I merely observe that people often boycott when brands rapidly change identity and what they stand for. This happened when that beer company hired a transsexual to promote their beer after years of associating the brand with traditional masculinity. It also happened to Cracker Barrel.
Brand equity models predict all of this. I should know I’ve specialized in brand building for decades.
I don’t even see it as a political response. People identify with their favorite brands and if the brand rapidly shifts identity customers get upset and stop buying.
Thanks for adding that perspective. I guess I would say that both things can be true. Political groups like to hijack phenomena that occur naturally in society to gain attention for their objectives and to “take control”. I don’t think anything is ever purely political it’s one of many ways of understanding social phenomena that emerge both politically and pre-politically.
Yes. I’m aware. They have been trying to expand their market to Hispanics for over 20 years. Just like Bud Light tried to grow its LGBTQ market with Dylan Mulvaney. I get the market logic: let’s see if it’s a net positive for their business or not.
One clarification. The response was a typical consumer response to a rapid switch in brand identity, but the brand’s choice to make the switch appears at least somewhat political. So this is partly a political phenomenon the origin of which was the deliberate politicization of a brand by management.
I haven't watched a Super Bowl half-time show in over 40 years. Of late, the featured act is typically someone (like "Bad Bunny", whatever that may be) I've never heard of and don't want to hear or watch. (If it's not blues, jazz, some country, or classic rock, I'm not interested.)
A "tragedy". Really? The author, an incoming Harvard Law student, ought to look up the definition of tragedy. Frankly, she should already know it. This hardly rises to that level.
I am a graduate of Harvard Law School (J.D., 1987) and was greatly encouraged to read this column by an incoming student.
In recent years, Harvard University was ranked dead last among American universities for its tolerance of free speech and the debate of ideas. Really. That distinction mortified and appalled me. It must change, or else Harvard will quickly and deservedly lose its international stature as a great center of higher learning.
The irreparable break has begun. Football was the one thing that brought most Americans together. Now it’s one more litmus test for MAGA. The halftime show has always been about commerce — keep the butts in the seats. Now it’s just another opportunity to fling shit at each other.
I'm Puerto Rican from New York. Bad Bunny at the Super Bowl wasn't representation—it was transfiguration.
That entire world I grew up in—the slang, the Spanglish, the sonic landscape of el barrio—I spent decades purging from my mouth. Because to sound like that was to mark yourself as other.
And then there it was: projected onto the Super Bowl stage, the nucleus of American cultural power. He didn't translate himself. He made the empire receive it without subtitles.
What I heard wasn't just music. It was Pentecost without assimilation. Flesh speaking in its own register and being understood anyway.
This is resurrection: when what you were taught to hide is raised intact—accent, cadence, heat and all—and you're finally told you were never wrong to sound like yourself.
Paul said in Romans 1 that this would happen. A degradation of mind. He also wrote the results that would follow as GOD gives you folks over to destruction. The bad bunny crowd need The Lord. Take heed to yourselves. I dropped NFL like 3rd period French. I’m all in on All American Halftime!🙏🇺🇸
Bad Bunny is Puerto Rican and an American citizen as all people born in Puerto Rico ARE has Puerto Rico is a United States territory . They pay Medicare and Social Security taxes, commodity taxes among others. The “alternative family entertainment “is featuring Kid Rock .
Adam Kiningzer had a brilliant post yesterday about this “ alternative Super Bowl halftime” featuring Kid Rock which is especially relevant in light of the Jeffrey Epstein files and controversy that continues- Adam posted :
“MAGA: “I ain’t watching the halftime show!!!! I’m watching the pro-family TPUSA one headlined by KID ROCK MAGAAA!!!!”
Kid Rock song:
“ladies, young ladies, I like 'em underage, see. Some say that's statutory (but I say that's mandatory)””
Adam Kiningzer
Delve deeper into Kid Rock’s lyrics and you will be shocked!
I guess those Kid Rock lyrics about underage girls is just what the TPUSA crowd loves. Hiding their love for America behind disgusting lyrics. What hypocrites! ! !
Is Kinzinger going to censure Lorenzo da Ponte ?
"Delle vecchie fa conquista
Pel piacer di porle in lista;
Sua passion predominante
È la giovin principiante."
{Don Giovanni, Act I, scene 5]
How about Tom D'Urfey?
"Would ye have a young virgin of fifteen years,
You must tickle her fancy with sweats and dears,
Ever toying, and playing, and sweetly, sweetly,
Sing her a love sonnet and charm her ears,
Wittily, prettily, talk her down,
Chase her, praise her, if fair or browns,
Sooth her and smooth her,
And tease her and please her,
And touch but her smicket, and all’s your own."
[Pills to Purge Melancholy, 1698]
At least they didn't propose to have a man prancing about the state in a dress.
Republicans decided to seize on cancel culture. Not to reject it, but to embrace it and dial it up to 11.
It turns out they want to cancel about 99% of the world.
The pre-game show is featuring Green Day who have led "Fuck Donald Trump" chants at some of their concerts. I doubt they'll do that at the super bowl, but there's always hope.
We don't generally watch football, but we will certainly be the there to watch BadBunny!
The so called “All American” halftime show will be kowtowing to a Russian puppet and his regime, many of the members who are in the Epstein files, which is looking more and more like a Russian operation. Why not just call it the “Russian half time show”?
Good. The Bad Vlad show. Or maybe Vlad the Bad Skunk.
It sounds to me like the NFL IS out of touch with their fans. I’m not particularly into NFL and I’ve never heard of this artist so I have no horse in this race.
I merely observe that people often boycott when brands rapidly change identity and what they stand for. This happened when that beer company hired a transsexual to promote their beer after years of associating the brand with traditional masculinity. It also happened to Cracker Barrel.
Brand equity models predict all of this. I should know I’ve specialized in brand building for decades.
I don’t even see it as a political response. People identify with their favorite brands and if the brand rapidly shifts identity customers get upset and stop buying.
This is branding 101.
Your analysis is accurate in most cases.
In this case, it is entirely 'political' because the whiner-in-chief had a fit about it, and the maga-verse jumped right into the slop in support.
Thanks for adding that perspective. I guess I would say that both things can be true. Political groups like to hijack phenomena that occur naturally in society to gain attention for their objectives and to “take control”. I don’t think anything is ever purely political it’s one of many ways of understanding social phenomena that emerge both politically and pre-politically.
NFL chose him because he’s very popular and they want to expand their audience to Hispanics.
Yes. I’m aware. They have been trying to expand their market to Hispanics for over 20 years. Just like Bud Light tried to grow its LGBTQ market with Dylan Mulvaney. I get the market logic: let’s see if it’s a net positive for their business or not.
One clarification. The response was a typical consumer response to a rapid switch in brand identity, but the brand’s choice to make the switch appears at least somewhat political. So this is partly a political phenomenon the origin of which was the deliberate politicization of a brand by management.
How about Bad Don-Key.
Ridiculous to have a TPUSA half time show. It's time for you to get over your narrow mindedness and bigotry.
Maybe call it the Epstein Bad Potus halftime show.
Negotiating tool. He wants halftime show named for him and proceeds to go to him.
I haven't watched a Super Bowl half-time show in over 40 years. Of late, the featured act is typically someone (like "Bad Bunny", whatever that may be) I've never heard of and don't want to hear or watch. (If it's not blues, jazz, some country, or classic rock, I'm not interested.)
A "tragedy". Really? The author, an incoming Harvard Law student, ought to look up the definition of tragedy. Frankly, she should already know it. This hardly rises to that level.
I am a graduate of Harvard Law School (J.D., 1987) and was greatly encouraged to read this column by an incoming student.
In recent years, Harvard University was ranked dead last among American universities for its tolerance of free speech and the debate of ideas. Really. That distinction mortified and appalled me. It must change, or else Harvard will quickly and deservedly lose its international stature as a great center of higher learning.
The irreparable break has begun. Football was the one thing that brought most Americans together. Now it’s one more litmus test for MAGA. The halftime show has always been about commerce — keep the butts in the seats. Now it’s just another opportunity to fling shit at each other.
If it’s any consolation, New England’s offense apparently also boycotted the Super Bowl.
I'm Puerto Rican from New York. Bad Bunny at the Super Bowl wasn't representation—it was transfiguration.
That entire world I grew up in—the slang, the Spanglish, the sonic landscape of el barrio—I spent decades purging from my mouth. Because to sound like that was to mark yourself as other.
And then there it was: projected onto the Super Bowl stage, the nucleus of American cultural power. He didn't translate himself. He made the empire receive it without subtitles.
What I heard wasn't just music. It was Pentecost without assimilation. Flesh speaking in its own register and being understood anyway.
This is resurrection: when what you were taught to hide is raised intact—accent, cadence, heat and all—and you're finally told you were never wrong to sound like yourself.
Paul said in Romans 1 that this would happen. A degradation of mind. He also wrote the results that would follow as GOD gives you folks over to destruction. The bad bunny crowd need The Lord. Take heed to yourselves. I dropped NFL like 3rd period French. I’m all in on All American Halftime!🙏🇺🇸
Losers gonna lose; haters gonna hate. Fuck 'em.