"STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Sunday's Super Bowl halftime show with Bad Bunny included a lot of Easter eggs - you know, little surprises - mostly talking about the U.S. Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, where he grew up. In conversation, I realized some people got the references and some didn't. So we've called an expert, NPR Music's Anamaria Sayre, and we did a lightning round, naming things in the show, starting with rows of sugarcane on the football field."
"ANAMARIA SAYRE: Oh, the plastic chairs. There's a lot to be said. So this is actually a main image from his last album, "Debi Tirar Mas Fotos." It was the image featured on the cover of the album to show something that's usually used in Puerto Rico, at outside gatherings, family functions. Also, the image of the kid falling asleep on the plastic chairs, that is, like, the most identifiable Latino image."
Bad Bunny incorporated multiple Puerto Rican cultural markers into the Super Bowl halftime performance. Rows of sugarcane evoked the island's natural landscape and agricultural history. People playing dominoes referenced a classic, cross-generational Puerto Rican pastime. Plastic chairs mirrored imagery from the album Debi Tirar Mas Fotos and symbolized outdoor family gatherings, with the familiar image of a sleeping child on plastic chairs signifying shared Latino experience. Light poles referenced Puerto Rico's chronic electrical problems, the apagones. Some viewers recognized these references while others did not, prompting explanation and unpacking of the show's visual details.
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