My age is truly showing, but the kind of music Bad Bunny put on is not my kind of cup of tea. I am an unabashed classic rock fan.
BUT, I absolutely did love the show Bad Bunny put on, it was great and truly showed a compassionate story. AND...... what I love even more is the fact that it pissed the orange dumpster and all his mob members off.
Thank you. As I saw this, I immediately thought it was a smack in the face to Donald Trump and his people (Miller especially), their white vision of America. Theirs apparently is a white Christian US plus what else can be grabbed of the lands south, never mind the people as we have for over a hundred years. Heather Cox Richardson tells it well in her letter today https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/february-9-2026?
And they were joyfully dancing about the message, not afraid.
The Donald was actually watching Bad Bunny's celebratory show and not his own failed counter show. He said it was a smack in the face to the country, as if he is the country. He is not. Again, it was about him. Actually it was about a lot more.
Just watched the bad bunny vid on Youtube. What I loved about it was his embrace of his culture and nod to it's past and present difficulties. So friggin creative. The man is a powerhouse. Kudos to him and his message!
I’d like to believe it’s true that Bad Bunny’s performance was “inspiring; a paean to the people being vilified by the current occupant of the White House” and “laden with cultural significance.” I’d like to think that “[n]othing could be further from the truth” than the claim that it was a “slap in the face” of America. I’d like to believe in the accuracy of the label “Bad Bunny’s transcendent performance.” But I read a different article about Bad Bunny’s message, and I don’t believe any of the foregoing mere conclusory contentions if the facts reported elsewhere are true.
Is anything about Bad Bunny in the following piece false? Or was the Radicalist writer right? At the half-time show did Bad Bunny sing the lyrics the Radicalist reported? Who is trying to gaslight us?
I had my own reaction. This show was a response to the wave of anti-immigration, anti black and brown terrorizing, the cruelty, the outrage, the ripping apart of the fabric of our country, we all have been enduring from this administration trying to shove on us their malignant vision. And it was done by Bad Bunny creatively joyously thankfully in celebration of our country- what it is and has been for almost 250 years. You must have had your reaction. Do you have doubts? You cannot be gaslighted unless you are so weak about plain right and wrong.
Potter, you don't seem to understand my question. Who is gaslighting us? Is it this piece praising Bad Bunny or is it the other piece (for which I provided a link) reportedly revealing some of the lyrics he sang? Can you answer my question?
I don’t believe these are the lyrics Bad Bunny used from what i could research so far. I will get back to you on this but I am suspicious that this is from those trying to bring him down. It does not make sense he would get up there and sing those words. Does it? can you also do some research?
My question was for Meredith because she wrote about Sunday's show. I thought she'd know or she'd know someone who would be able to say. I don't speak Spanish, and I'm not going to ask anyone I know who does speak Spanish to tell me if those lyrics were sung on Sunday's show.
The lyrics were apparently not. But it works for a gotcha that "Genius" who publishes lyrics is being used by the ill-intentioned gotcha crowd together with people's ignorance of Spanish. As I say above. Let's have it out. Translate the songs AS SUNG at the performance. The show was totally not about what the Genius lyrics and the malicious right wingers and their need for "gotcha" purport.
Potter, I appreciate your passionate opposition to Trump and what he's doing, but it's not helping here. I'm looking for facts and information, not opinions or conclusions.
The writer for the Radicalist who posted the piece for which I provided a link is named Volodzko. In his piece, Volodzko that said he and his and his family members speak Spanish. He also said "Here are some selected lyrics from the song 'Safaera,' which Bad Bunny sang during the show." Then he quoted lyrics. I'm trying to sort fact from fiction by seeking more facts, preferably from someone who is a native speaker of Spanish and who has watched Bad Bunny's Sunday show.
The rush to grab other translations ( not the performance) from "Genius" (lyrics) by the ill-intentioned Trumpists and those who cannot stand what the message really was.
Here are translations and explanations of the Bad Bunny performance which was in Spanish.
The lyrics you asked about were apparently NOT SUNG at the Super Bowl. And I gave you several links. Two just above and others, including Rolling Stone going through what the scenes were about. The lyrics published by Genius and others that news articles, including USAToday are using are not what was sung apparently. The part of the original lyrics of ONE song that was used was not anything to be upset about if people get upset about penis and vagina and a young guy going after girls. They are lyrics (not used) but nowhere near ACTUAL pedophilia that was going on with that the Epstein files show. Does that help? What are you after?
"USA TODAY Network reporters who are fluent in Spanish listened to a replay of the performance. They said many of the explicit lyrics shared by Fine were genuine translations of songs, but weren't part of the performance."
I also went to the Genius website for lyrics. This is what the "gotcha" crowd is doing, including, as usual Trump who has used more inappropriate language than anyone in power ever. These clever malicious folks who cannot stand success of their opposition and who do not know the Spanish as heard on TV. not the published lyrics on Genius, were joyous in their gotcha while Bad Bunny was joyously saying something quite different. This is evil at work with these right wingers and the people that attempt to overthrow us with hate and division.
Okay. Let's have it out. Play the performance. Translate it.
Potter, my concern here is, in part, with people doing what you're doing. You want us to see Sunday's show as "Bad Bunny was joyously saying something quite different." Apparently, that much is true. According to USA Today, the lyrics Bad Bunny sang on Sunday were an EXTREMELY sanitized (churched-up) version of the words and ideas that he NORMALLY sings and sells to young people.
I can appreciate all cultural ALLUSIONS addressed in the Rolling Stones piece. But let's not lose sight of the actual words and explicit ideas that prompted this thread, which (apparently) are the words and ideas that Bad Bunny NORMALLY sings and sells--including by means of one or more of the songs that he selected for partial performance for his Sunday performance.
As I said at the outset, my concern was, in part, that Bad Bunny’s performance was being touted as "transcendent" and “inspiring; a paean to the people being vilified by the current occupant of the White House” and “laden with cultural significance.” I was concerned with the contention that “[n]othing could be further from the truth” than the claim that Bad Bunny's performance was a “slap in the face” of America.
Those conclusions were strikingly at odds with the lyrics that Voldzko said Bad Bunny sang. Apparently, Voldzko was "gaslighting" us (Volodzko's own word) by trying to make us think that Bad Bunny sang on Sunday the words that Voldzko quoted. Such trickery, to me, is essentially lying. Now, I know more about how to judge Volodzko and his writing.
But thanks to Volodzko's deceit and deception, I also know much more of the truth about how to judge Bad Bunny. Bad Bunny's island (literally and figuratively) is different from Epstein's, but I see them as birds of a feather. They (and Trump) were or are selling and perpetuating the same evil.
Jack- There is NO comparison. Bad Bunny was not using the words of the lyrics *as published*. They are representative apparently of part Latin culture norms about the young and sex which I understand can be offensive to puritan minds. It's Latin culture. Again he was NOT using those words but conveying a *completely different message* TOTALLY.
But now you are switching your argument to the general use of these words in Bad Bunny's or any other Latin entertainer's repertoire.. not at the Super Bowl. I cannot argue like this.
Bad Bunny's message at the Super Bowl was important and potent and he deserves all the praise he is getting. What Trump is doing to immigrants and people of Latin and African/Black culture here daily, and what he is guilty of regarding the Epstein Files is in no way similar or a comparison or equivalent. How can you say that??? They are not birds of a feather morally or culturally. The message and even the behavior of Bad Bunny is so morally different than the message of Trump and Epstein. Selling Evil? What do you think is evil about Bad Bunny? Volodzko is *really off.*
Thank you for that link, but those lyrics don't match the lyrics in the piece for which I provided a link. Did Bad Bunny sing the lyrics that the Radicalist reported?
reportedly sung.... reportedly sung! The lyrics he writes about were not the ones sung. This is a hit piece by an ill-intentioned radical BY ADMISSION! Jack you are exasperating! No not *merely* trying to understand.. You are not thinking like you want to understand. You want to believe what you believe and now I question your honesty about what you say.
reportedly sung... people who do not know Spanish are reading the published lyrics of one of the several clips of songs ( from a list of songs he sung parts of) and not what he actually sung. These people are ignorant or rushing to claim horror to bust the good vibes the Bad Bunny brought. Do I suspect the radical right Trumpers?- yeah I do. They will take it and run with it true or not because a lie gets halfway around the world before the truth gets it's pants on. Please see my links above.. much more believable for those who are not into gotcha and addicted to hate. .. as Bad Bunny was trying to promote- love is more powerful than hate.
The hypocrisy should not be lost either with the Trump crowd trying to deflect from Epstein by being horrified by lyrics, lyrics!, that were not even used even if they were published on websites.
My age is truly showing, but the kind of music Bad Bunny put on is not my kind of cup of tea. I am an unabashed classic rock fan.
BUT, I absolutely did love the show Bad Bunny put on, it was great and truly showed a compassionate story. AND...... what I love even more is the fact that it pissed the orange dumpster and all his mob members off.
Thank you. As I saw this, I immediately thought it was a smack in the face to Donald Trump and his people (Miller especially), their white vision of America. Theirs apparently is a white Christian US plus what else can be grabbed of the lands south, never mind the people as we have for over a hundred years. Heather Cox Richardson tells it well in her letter today https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/february-9-2026?
And they were joyfully dancing about the message, not afraid.
The Donald was actually watching Bad Bunny's celebratory show and not his own failed counter show. He said it was a smack in the face to the country, as if he is the country. He is not. Again, it was about him. Actually it was about a lot more.
Just watched the bad bunny vid on Youtube. What I loved about it was his embrace of his culture and nod to it's past and present difficulties. So friggin creative. The man is a powerhouse. Kudos to him and his message!
Hurray! ¡hurra! Hurray! ¡hurra!
Excellent writing!
I’d like to believe it’s true that Bad Bunny’s performance was “inspiring; a paean to the people being vilified by the current occupant of the White House” and “laden with cultural significance.” I’d like to think that “[n]othing could be further from the truth” than the claim that it was a “slap in the face” of America. I’d like to believe in the accuracy of the label “Bad Bunny’s transcendent performance.” But I read a different article about Bad Bunny’s message, and I don’t believe any of the foregoing mere conclusory contentions if the facts reported elsewhere are true.
Is anything about Bad Bunny in the following piece false? Or was the Radicalist writer right? At the half-time show did Bad Bunny sing the lyrics the Radicalist reported? Who is trying to gaslight us?
https://open.substack.com/pub/volodzko/p/no-bad-bunny-we-are-not-all-americans?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
I had my own reaction. This show was a response to the wave of anti-immigration, anti black and brown terrorizing, the cruelty, the outrage, the ripping apart of the fabric of our country, we all have been enduring from this administration trying to shove on us their malignant vision. And it was done by Bad Bunny creatively joyously thankfully in celebration of our country- what it is and has been for almost 250 years. You must have had your reaction. Do you have doubts? You cannot be gaslighted unless you are so weak about plain right and wrong.
Potter, you don't seem to understand my question. Who is gaslighting us? Is it this piece praising Bad Bunny or is it the other piece (for which I provided a link) reportedly revealing some of the lyrics he sang? Can you answer my question?
I don’t believe these are the lyrics Bad Bunny used from what i could research so far. I will get back to you on this but I am suspicious that this is from those trying to bring him down. It does not make sense he would get up there and sing those words. Does it? can you also do some research?
My question was for Meredith because she wrote about Sunday's show. I thought she'd know or she'd know someone who would be able to say. I don't speak Spanish, and I'm not going to ask anyone I know who does speak Spanish to tell me if those lyrics were sung on Sunday's show.
here is another good link
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-latin/bad-bunny-super-bowl-meaning-1235513218/
Translations and explanations of the Bad Bunny performance which was in Spanish.
https://youtube.com/shorts/nzJJQKmfy68?si=C9TC6W7iIWGECcog
https://youtube.com/shorts/DuPe1x2jG9w?si=-qIrPN5q2nwyPv-e
The lyrics were apparently not. But it works for a gotcha that "Genius" who publishes lyrics is being used by the ill-intentioned gotcha crowd together with people's ignorance of Spanish. As I say above. Let's have it out. Translate the songs AS SUNG at the performance. The show was totally not about what the Genius lyrics and the malicious right wingers and their need for "gotcha" purport.
Potter, I appreciate your passionate opposition to Trump and what he's doing, but it's not helping here. I'm looking for facts and information, not opinions or conclusions.
The writer for the Radicalist who posted the piece for which I provided a link is named Volodzko. In his piece, Volodzko that said he and his and his family members speak Spanish. He also said "Here are some selected lyrics from the song 'Safaera,' which Bad Bunny sang during the show." Then he quoted lyrics. I'm trying to sort fact from fiction by seeking more facts, preferably from someone who is a native speaker of Spanish and who has watched Bad Bunny's Sunday show.
Here's a link to what is described as BB's Super Bowl lyrics. Make your own decision as to it's appropriateness for a national TV presentation.
https://genius.com/Genius-english-translations-bad-bunny-super-bowl-lx-halftime-show-ft-lady-gaga-and-ricky-martin-english-translation-lyrics
Described as but really? Or malicious fake? Do more research.
OK:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/state/2026/02/09/bad-bunny-super-bowl-show-sparks-randy-fine-fcc-complaint/88595752007/
Mark, thank you for that link. That's the kind of information I was seeking.
another good link:
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-latin/bad-bunny-super-bowl-meaning-1235513218/
The rush to grab other translations ( not the performance) from "Genius" (lyrics) by the ill-intentioned Trumpists and those who cannot stand what the message really was.
Here are translations and explanations of the Bad Bunny performance which was in Spanish.
https://youtube.com/shorts/nzJJQKmfy68?si=C9TC6W7iIWGECcog
https://youtube.com/shorts/DuPe1x2jG9w?si=-qIrPN5q2nwyPv-e
That link didn’t help. The clip was very short and it didn’t provide any insights regarding the lyrics I asked about.
The lyrics you asked about were apparently NOT SUNG at the Super Bowl. And I gave you several links. Two just above and others, including Rolling Stone going through what the scenes were about. The lyrics published by Genius and others that news articles, including USAToday are using are not what was sung apparently. The part of the original lyrics of ONE song that was used was not anything to be upset about if people get upset about penis and vagina and a young guy going after girls. They are lyrics (not used) but nowhere near ACTUAL pedophilia that was going on with that the Epstein files show. Does that help? What are you after?
Okay what?
"USA TODAY Network reporters who are fluent in Spanish listened to a replay of the performance. They said many of the explicit lyrics shared by Fine were genuine translations of songs, but weren't part of the performance."
I also went to the Genius website for lyrics. This is what the "gotcha" crowd is doing, including, as usual Trump who has used more inappropriate language than anyone in power ever. These clever malicious folks who cannot stand success of their opposition and who do not know the Spanish as heard on TV. not the published lyrics on Genius, were joyous in their gotcha while Bad Bunny was joyously saying something quite different. This is evil at work with these right wingers and the people that attempt to overthrow us with hate and division.
Okay. Let's have it out. Play the performance. Translate it.
Potter, my concern here is, in part, with people doing what you're doing. You want us to see Sunday's show as "Bad Bunny was joyously saying something quite different." Apparently, that much is true. According to USA Today, the lyrics Bad Bunny sang on Sunday were an EXTREMELY sanitized (churched-up) version of the words and ideas that he NORMALLY sings and sells to young people.
I can appreciate all cultural ALLUSIONS addressed in the Rolling Stones piece. But let's not lose sight of the actual words and explicit ideas that prompted this thread, which (apparently) are the words and ideas that Bad Bunny NORMALLY sings and sells--including by means of one or more of the songs that he selected for partial performance for his Sunday performance.
As I said at the outset, my concern was, in part, that Bad Bunny’s performance was being touted as "transcendent" and “inspiring; a paean to the people being vilified by the current occupant of the White House” and “laden with cultural significance.” I was concerned with the contention that “[n]othing could be further from the truth” than the claim that Bad Bunny's performance was a “slap in the face” of America.
Those conclusions were strikingly at odds with the lyrics that Voldzko said Bad Bunny sang. Apparently, Voldzko was "gaslighting" us (Volodzko's own word) by trying to make us think that Bad Bunny sang on Sunday the words that Voldzko quoted. Such trickery, to me, is essentially lying. Now, I know more about how to judge Volodzko and his writing.
But thanks to Volodzko's deceit and deception, I also know much more of the truth about how to judge Bad Bunny. Bad Bunny's island (literally and figuratively) is different from Epstein's, but I see them as birds of a feather. They (and Trump) were or are selling and perpetuating the same evil.
Jack- There is NO comparison. Bad Bunny was not using the words of the lyrics *as published*. They are representative apparently of part Latin culture norms about the young and sex which I understand can be offensive to puritan minds. It's Latin culture. Again he was NOT using those words but conveying a *completely different message* TOTALLY.
But now you are switching your argument to the general use of these words in Bad Bunny's or any other Latin entertainer's repertoire.. not at the Super Bowl. I cannot argue like this.
Bad Bunny's message at the Super Bowl was important and potent and he deserves all the praise he is getting. What Trump is doing to immigrants and people of Latin and African/Black culture here daily, and what he is guilty of regarding the Epstein Files is in no way similar or a comparison or equivalent. How can you say that??? They are not birds of a feather morally or culturally. The message and even the behavior of Bad Bunny is so morally different than the message of Trump and Epstein. Selling Evil? What do you think is evil about Bad Bunny? Volodzko is *really off.*
And I am sorry you were taken in by this.
Thank you for that link, but those lyrics don't match the lyrics in the piece for which I provided a link. Did Bad Bunny sing the lyrics that the Radicalist reported?
Apparently not.. the gotcha crowd is busy grabbing their crotches.. see my links above,
What are you trying to say? Think it out and try to put together some interesting thoughts.
Your initial review does not make sense.
Judith, did you read the article (or at least the lyrics that reportedly were sung by Bad Bunny) for which I provided a link?
reportedly sung.... reportedly sung! The lyrics he writes about were not the ones sung. This is a hit piece by an ill-intentioned radical BY ADMISSION! Jack you are exasperating! No not *merely* trying to understand.. You are not thinking like you want to understand. You want to believe what you believe and now I question your honesty about what you say.
reportedly sung... people who do not know Spanish are reading the published lyrics of one of the several clips of songs ( from a list of songs he sung parts of) and not what he actually sung. These people are ignorant or rushing to claim horror to bust the good vibes the Bad Bunny brought. Do I suspect the radical right Trumpers?- yeah I do. They will take it and run with it true or not because a lie gets halfway around the world before the truth gets it's pants on. Please see my links above.. much more believable for those who are not into gotcha and addicted to hate. .. as Bad Bunny was trying to promote- love is more powerful than hate.
The hypocrisy should not be lost either with the Trump crowd trying to deflect from Epstein by being horrified by lyrics, lyrics!, that were not even used even if they were published on websites.