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Watch Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl LX Halftime Show
Bad Bunny performed the Apple Music Super Bowl LX Halftime Show tonight, February 8, at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, California. The reggaeton star brought out Lady Gaga, Ricky Martin, and more for a joyous set that paid homage to Puerto Rico and his desire to unite people around the globe. Watch clips from the show below or on YouTube.
Bad Bunny first took the field in a literal sense, rapping the Un Verano Sin Ti single “Tití Me Preguntó” inside a sugar cane farm while people in pava hats harvested the crop. Clutching a football to his chest and wearing an all-white outfit—including a football jersey emblazoned with the number 64 and his mother’s last name, Ocasio, on the back—Bad Bunny walked through the field, passing people going about their daily lives: men playing dominos, women painting their nails, two athletes boxing, and stands selling coconut water, tacos, and piraguas.
Singing YHLQMDLG’s “Yo Perreo Sola,” Bad Bunny then emerged in front of a traditional pink house—a staple of his shows, it’s affectionately labeled La Casita—while dozens of dancers performed a synchronized routine on its front yard. Cardi B, Karol G, Pedro Pascal, Jessica Alba, Young Miko, and more hung out on the building’s porch as Bad Bunny scaled its roof, occasionally rapping to a top-down camera hanging above him before sneaking in a bit of “Voy a Llevarte Pa’ PR.” After crashing through the house’s roof and landing in a family’s living room, Bad Bunny exited to a brief sample of Daddy Yankee’s classic “Gasolina” before launching into his own Grammy-winning single “EoO.”
“Everybody, believe in yourselves!” Bad Bunny called out in Spanish. Costa Rican conductor Giancarlo Guerrero—sporting a brown suit adorned with a sequined flor de maga, the national flower of Puerto Rico—led over a dozen string players in a romantic rendition of “Monaco” while a couple got married (for real!) on a courtyard. Dancers then stepped back to reveal Lady Gaga in a blue dress as she launched into a salsa take on her Bruno Mars duet “Die With a Smile” with Bad Bunny’s backing band Los Pleneros de la Cresta. While wedding guests danced in circles and the happy couple sliced into an enormous tiered cake, Benito sang “Baile Inolvidable” then took Gaga in his arms and salsa danced with the pop star.
Bad Bunny later performed the Debí Tirar Más Fotos cut “Nuevayol.” Then, while everyone paced before a barbershop and corner mart, the reggaeton star called out “San Francisco!” and took a shot poured by Toñita, who oversees Brooklyn’s last Puerto Rican social club. Off to the side, a family watched Bad Bunny’s viral Grammy Award acceptance speech on a small, old-school TV set before the star himself approached them, handing the young boy his actual trophy.
The camera then panned to a musician playing the Puerto Rican cuatro as Ricky Martin popped up to sing “Lo Que Paso a Hawaii”—a song in which Bad Bunny considers the gringo-ification of Puerto Rico gaining U.S. statehood, akin to Hawaii’s experiences. Riding that high, Bad Bunny picked up a Puerto Rican flag and bust out “El Apagón,” his Un Verano Sin Ti song, while three dancers twirled from power lines in pavas. Soon Benito joined them up there, scaling one of the utility poles—a reference to Puerto Rico’s ongoing power grid struggles, a years-long reality the star documented in a short film.
When the jubilant beat of “Cafe con Ron” kicked in, Bad Bunny took off across his maze of a stage setup while all of the performers followed behind him playing instruments, waving Latin American flags, and jumping around. “God bless America,” he yelled, staring at the football in his hands. Bad Bunny then turned to the camera and, as if clarifying what that statement truly meant, proceeded to name every country in North and South America. Behind him, the football stadium’s billboard displayed giant letters: “The only thing more powerful than hate is love.” He lifted up the football, emblazoned with the words “Together we are America,” and spiked it into the ground. At last, Bad Bunny allowed himself to experience the joy of it all, ripping out his in-ear monitors to sing “DtMF” while pogoing in the air and hugging his friends.
Technically, this wasn’t the first time Bad Bunny performed at a Super Bowl halftime show. Back in 2020, he sang “I Like It” and “Chantaje” with Shakira, who co-headlined that year alongside Jennifer Lopez in Miami.
Earlier in the evening, Green Day performed a medley of American Idiot songs during the pregame Super Bowl LX segment. Afterward, Charlie Puth sang “The Star-Spangled Banner” while also playing keys, Brandi Carlile performed “America the Beautiful” with acoustic guitar, and Coco Jones sang “Lift Every Voice and Sing.”
The halftime show marked Bad Bunny’s only stateside performance for the foreseeable future. His Debí Tirar Más Fotos World Tour, which kicked off last November and runs through May, includes no stops in the U.S. or Canada. In an interview with i-D, he explained, “there was the issue of—like, fucking ICE could be outside [my concert].” After Bad Bunny was announced as this year’s halftime show performer, Corey Lewandowski, Donald Trump’s former campaign manager, said during a podcast appearance “ICE will have enforcement at the Super Bowl.”
Last weekend, at the 2026 Grammy Awards, Bad Bunny took home the evening’s top honor of Album of the Year, as well as Best Música Urbana Album, for Debí Tirar Más Fotos. He also picked up Best Global Music Performance for “Eoo.” At the beginning of the year, Bad Bunny was sued by a woman claiming that a recording of her voice was sampled on “Eoo”—the sample first appeared on “Solo de Mi,” from his 2018 debut X 100pre—without her permission
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