"Last night, during halftime at Super Bowl LX, the musician Bad Bunny paid homage to his home of Puerto Rico. He weaved his way through a set that featured barber shops and bodegas, family gatherings and elders playing dominos. But he also expanded his lens to make an argument about the place of Puerto Rico within a larger American context."
"Puerto Rico has long struggled to find its place in the Americas. Too Latin for some in the United States, as reinforced by much of the controversy leading up to Sunday night's performance and too closely associated with the United States to be fully accepted by some in Latin America. As Bad Bunny often does, he turned not fitting in into a super power, leveraging Puerto Rico's caught-between-two-worlds cultural identity to create an inclusive, All-American image."
Bad Bunny used a 13-minute Super Bowl LX halftime set to celebrate Puerto Rican culture while asserting Puerto Rico's place within a broader American identity. He presented scenes of barber shops, bodegas, family gatherings and elders playing dominos and performed more than a dozen mostly Spanish-language songs. He opened with the indulgent phrase "Que rico es ser Latino" and referenced his San Juan residency with "Puerto Rico, estamos en casa." He mixed high-energy hits with songs from his Grammy-winning album to showcase Puerto Rico's cultural hybridity as a strength.
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