"Most people didn't write in about the immigration-reform message in Lopez's "Let's Get Loud." They weren't that concerned with lyrics being sung in Spanish. Their tiffs were almost entirely about women dancing suggestively on prime-time television. The outrage infrastructure that has cropped up around the game since then conveys a totalizing hunger for culture war. Bad Bunny's announcement as this year's headliner ignited endless rhetoric from MAGA pundits and influencers;"
"The notion that Bad Bunny's performance, as an idea, was appalling is rooted in his notable 2024 vote for Kamala Harris. It followed a wave of endorsements from Latin artists horrified by Tony Hinchcliffe's set at the Republican National Convention, where the comic called Puerto Rico a "floating island of garbage." The next Bad Bunny album, last year's history primer and musicology master class DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS, pointedly tapped local artists and recording facilities to address centuries of displacement in Puerto Rico."
The FCC received about 1,300 complaints in 2020 when Bad Bunny first appeared as Shakira and J.Lo's special guest at the Super Bowl halftime show. Most complainants focused on women dancing suggestively on prime-time television rather than Spanish lyrics or Lopez's immigration-reform message. Political actors and outrage infrastructure have since amplified culture-war grievances around the game. Bad Bunny's 2024 backing of Kamala Harris and broader Latin artist endorsements after Tony Hinchcliffe's RNC insults intensified backlash. His subsequent album DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS engaged local Puerto Rican artists and addressed historical displacement and the island's ambiguous territorial status. The controversy reflects efforts to shape messaging on major American platforms.
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