Bad Bunny says 2026 Super Bowl halftime show will "be a huge party"
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Bad Bunny says he's approaching his highly anticipated Super Bowl halftime performance with a mix of excitement, gratitude and perspective. In:
Bad Bunny says he's approaching his highly anticipated Super Bowl halftime performance with a mix of excitement, gratitude and perspective.
"To be honest, I don't know how I'm feeling. There's a lot. I'm still in the middle of my tour. I was just at the Grammys last week. All of that," he said in English on Thursday at a press event hosted by Apple Music. He walked out to his 2017 single "Chambea."
"I'm excited, but at the same time, I feel more excited about the people than even me — my family, my friends, the people who have always believed in me," he said. "This moment, the culture — that's what makes these shows special."
Bad Bunny, the Puerto Rican superstar born Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, is one of the most-streamed artists on the planet. He will take the Super Bowl stage just one week after he won album of the year at the 2026 Grammys for "Debí Tirar Más Fotos." It's the first time an all Spanish-language album has taken home the top prize.
During the conference, Bad Bunny joked that fans didn't need to learn Spanish to enjoy his set — but they should be prepared to dance, a reference to his "Saturday Night Live" monologue from last October.
The story of America can be told through the lyrics of folk music – songs of the Great Depression, the civil rights era, and the social revolutions of the 1960s. As folk singer Pete Seeger put it in 1967, "A song isn't a speech; a song is not an editorial. If a song tries to be an editorial or a speech, often it fails as a song. The best songs tell a story, paint a picture, and leave the conclusion up actually to the listener."