{"id":196013,"date":"2025-09-29T16:39:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T16:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/29\/bad-bunny-super-bowl-announcement-draws-criticism-from-taylor-swift-fans-political-extremists\/"},"modified":"2025-09-29T16:39:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T16:39:11","slug":"bad-bunny-super-bowl-announcement-draws-criticism-from-taylor-swift-fans-political-extremists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/29\/bad-bunny-super-bowl-announcement-draws-criticism-from-taylor-swift-fans-political-extremists\/","title":{"rendered":"Bad Bunny Super Bowl Announcement Draws Criticism From Taylor Swift Fans, Political Extremists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 3<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Bad Bunny announced on Sunday that he\u2019ll be headlining the Super Bowl LX halftime show.<\/p>\n<p>The King of Latin Trap was obviously overjoyed at being selected for the biggest stage in music.<\/p>\n<p>But a handful of haters felt the need to rain on his parade by either making up rivalries with fellow artists or alleging some sort of political agenda.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><noscript><\/noscript><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/09\/GettyImages-2213605944-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Bad Bunny attends the 2025 Met Gala Celebrating \" superfine:=\"\" tailoring=\"\" black=\"\" style=\"\" at=\"\" metropolitan=\"\" museum=\"\" of=\"\" art=\"\" on=\"\" may=\"\" in=\"\" new=\"\" york=\"\" city.=\"\" class=\"wp-image-536329 lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/09\/GettyImages-2213605944-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/09\/GettyImages-2213605944-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/09\/GettyImages-2213605944-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/09\/GettyImages-2213605944-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/09\/GettyImages-2213605944-960x640.jpg 960w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/09\/GettyImages-2213605944-1080x720.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/09\/GettyImages-2213605944-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 760px) calc(100vw - 20px), 720px\" data-pin-media=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/09\/GettyImages-2213605944-scaled.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" data-trellis-processed=\"1\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Bad Bunny attends the 2025 Met Gala Celebrating \u201cSuperfine: Tailoring Black Style\u201d at Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 05, 2025 in New York City.  <span class=\"image-caption-credit\"> (Photo by Dimitrios Kambouris\/Getty Images for The Met Museum\/Vogue)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-bad-bunny-shares-massive-career-move-ruffles-feathers-nationwide\">Bad Bunny shares massive career move, ruffles feathers nationwide<\/h2>\n<p>\u201cWhat I\u2019m feeling goes beyond myself. It\u2019s for those who came before me and ran countless yards so I could come in and score a touchdown\u2026 this is for my people, my culture, and our history,\u201d Bad Bunny, whose real name is Benito Antonio Mart\u00ednez Ocasio, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DPKx6L6DFz2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">wrote on Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The event will be produced by Jay Z\u2019s Roc Nation, and the CEO was equally ecstatic in his own post:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat Benito has done and continues to do for Puerto Rico is truly inspiring. We are honored to have him on the world\u2019s biggest stage,\u201d Jay enthused.<\/p>\n<p>But this is 2025, a time when everything is political, and everyone is angry. So the haters came out of the woodwork with alarming speed.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"725\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/09\/GettyImages-2074797238-725x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Bad Bunny poses in the press room during the 96th Annual Academy Awards at Ovation Hollywood on March 10, 2024 in Hollywood, California. \" class=\"wp-image-536330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/09\/GettyImages-2074797238-725x1024.jpg 725w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/09\/GettyImages-2074797238-212x300.jpg 212w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/09\/GettyImages-2074797238-768x1085.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/09\/GettyImages-2074797238-1450x2048.jpg 1450w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/09\/GettyImages-2074797238-680x960.jpg 680w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/09\/GettyImages-2074797238-765x1080.jpg 765w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/09\/GettyImages-2074797238-850x1200.jpg 850w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/09\/GettyImages-2074797238-scaled.jpg 1812w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 760px) calc(100vw - 20px), 720px\"\/><\/noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"725\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/09\/GettyImages-2074797238-725x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Bad Bunny poses in the press room during the 96th Annual Academy Awards at Ovation Hollywood on March 10, 2024 in Hollywood, California. \" class=\"wp-image-536330 lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/09\/GettyImages-2074797238-725x1024.jpg 725w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/09\/GettyImages-2074797238-212x300.jpg 212w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/09\/GettyImages-2074797238-768x1085.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/09\/GettyImages-2074797238-1450x2048.jpg 1450w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/09\/GettyImages-2074797238-680x960.jpg 680w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/09\/GettyImages-2074797238-765x1080.jpg 765w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/09\/GettyImages-2074797238-850x1200.jpg 850w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/09\/GettyImages-2074797238-scaled.jpg 1812w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 760px) calc(100vw - 20px), 720px\" data-pin-media=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/09\/GettyImages-2074797238-scaled.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" data-trellis-processed=\"1\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Bad Bunny poses in the press room during the 96th Annual Academy Awards at Ovation Hollywood on March 10, 2024 in Hollywood, California. <span class=\"image-caption-credit\"> (Photo by Rodin Eckenroth\/Getty Images)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>For starters, there were the diehard Taylor Swift fans who thought that their queen should\u2019ve been chosen to perform at halftime.<\/p>\n<p>We guess those folks would have been upset by <em>any<\/em> non-Taylor selection, but some of them got pretty personal in their anti-Bunny commentary.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are really running out of superstars to the Super Bowl halftime show. BAD BUNNY??? Really!?! Taylor Swift was right there,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/breezybar023\/status\/1972488929149689880\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">one X user wrote<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Others reacted to the unconfirmed rumors that Taylor was offered the gig and declined:<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/09\/GettyImages-2184019175-1-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Taylor Swift looks on prior to a game between the Kansas City Chiefs and the Denver Broncos at GEHA Field at Arrowhead Stadium on November 10, 2024 in Kansas City, Missouri. \" class=\"wp-image-536331\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/09\/GettyImages-2184019175-1-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/09\/GettyImages-2184019175-1-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/09\/GettyImages-2184019175-1-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/09\/GettyImages-2184019175-1-1365x2048.jpg 1365w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/09\/GettyImages-2184019175-1-640x960.jpg 640w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/09\/GettyImages-2184019175-1-720x1080.jpg 720w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/09\/GettyImages-2184019175-1-800x1200.jpg 800w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/09\/GettyImages-2184019175-1-scaled.jpg 1707w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 760px) calc(100vw - 20px), 720px\"\/><\/noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/09\/GettyImages-2184019175-1-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Taylor Swift looks on prior to a game between the Kansas City Chiefs and the Denver Broncos at GEHA Field at Arrowhead Stadium on November 10, 2024 in Kansas City, Missouri. \" class=\"wp-image-536331 lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/09\/GettyImages-2184019175-1-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/09\/GettyImages-2184019175-1-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/09\/GettyImages-2184019175-1-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/09\/GettyImages-2184019175-1-1365x2048.jpg 1365w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/09\/GettyImages-2184019175-1-640x960.jpg 640w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/09\/GettyImages-2184019175-1-720x1080.jpg 720w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/09\/GettyImages-2184019175-1-800x1200.jpg 800w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/09\/GettyImages-2184019175-1-scaled.jpg 1707w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 760px) calc(100vw - 20px), 720px\" data-pin-media=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/09\/GettyImages-2184019175-1-scaled.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" data-trellis-processed=\"1\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Taylor Swift looks on prior to a game between the Kansas City Chiefs and the Denver Broncos at GEHA Field at Arrowhead Stadium on November 10, 2024 in Kansas City, Missouri. <span class=\"image-caption-credit\"> (Photo by Jamie Squire\/Getty Images)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m fine with Taylor Swift declining, but who or what the heck is Bad Bunny?\u201d wrote one such hater.<\/p>\n<p>The answer, of course, is that Bad Bunny is, without question, one of the biggest recording artists in recent history.<\/p>\n<p>His showmanship is the stuff of legend, and his halftime show is certain to be a spectacle worthy of the year\u2019s biggest sporting event.<\/p>\n<p>Just don\u2019t tell that to the curmudgeonly folks who are criticizing the political optics of the NFL\u2019s decision.<\/p>\n<p>These range from people who are critical of the league for selecting an artist who performs almost entirely in Spanish to those on the opposite end of the ideological spectrum who believe Ocasio is disappointing his fans by aligning with the conservative-leaning NFL.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019d like to think that all of that will be forgotten when Bad Bunny wows the crowd on February 8, 2026. <\/p>\n<p>But sadly, no one lets go of their political grievances nowadays.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async defer src=\"https:\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehollywoodgossip.com\/2025\/09\/bad-bunny-super-bowl-announcement-draws-criticism-from-taylor-swift-fans-political-extremists\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading Time: 3 minutes Bad Bunny announced on Sunday that he\u2019ll be headlining the Super Bowl LX halftime show. The King of Latin Trap was obviously overjoyed at being selected for the biggest stage in music. 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