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Bad Bunny Super Bowl Halftime

CTListener said:
Landtuna asserted that the song was, or was based on, a Japanese folk song.
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And so it was according to my several Japanese friends. I'm not an expert on Japanese music so I accepted their opinion as stated.

As a teenager when the song was released I remember it well. And I also remember hearing it when stationed in Japan in the mid-60's. It is a catchy tune even if you don't understand the words.
 
I always watch the halftime show no matter who the performer is, since I have already taken my bathroom break and getting a drink already for the second half. I'm all about the music even if I'm not a big fan who is performing at halftime for The Super Bowl, and there is a lot that don't like Bad Bunny on all sides isn't just those that are conservative in my opinion even know they've been the most vocal about it.
 
Theater of My Mind said:
Bad Bunny should 100% invite a K-pop artist to perform with him at Super Bowl. I'd love to see him collab with BTS or the Huntr/X singers from K-pop Demon Hunters
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exbloguero said:
He won't do it; it's an ideological show. The surprise artist will surely be René Pérez "Residente"..
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Well surprise, he actually did team up with the Huntr/X singers from K-Pop Demon Hunters for a sketch on Saturday Night Live, and they gave each other big hugs during the closing credits. So you never know!
 
I'm not sure if the below link is going to post (it's from Daily Kos, a left-leaning newsletter I receive in my emails), but the story is definitely on this topic and, in my view, both tragic and funny at the same time.

www.dailykos.com

‘All American’ Super Bowl halftime alternative sounds about white

Right-wing backlash grows over Bad Bunny’s halftime slot, pushing for country stars like Lee Greenwood. Find out who’s being considered!
www.dailykos.com www.dailykos.com
 
ted chittenden said:
I'm not sure if the below link is going to post (it's from Daily Kos, a left-leaning newsletter I receive in my emails), but the story is definitely on this topic and, in my view, both tragic and funny at the same time.

www.dailykos.com

‘All American’ Super Bowl halftime alternative sounds about white

Right-wing backlash grows over Bad Bunny’s halftime slot, pushing for country stars like Lee Greenwood. Find out who’s being considered!
www.dailykos.com www.dailykos.com
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What most mainlanders (called "continentals" on the Island) don't get is that there is a significant percentage of Puerto Ricans, roughly half, that don't want statehood.

Of that group, a small percentage (around 3% to 4% of all voters in the plebiscites) want total independence from the US. Mr. Bunny seems to be among that group.

There is a saying in Puerto Rico, roughly translated, that "if you are young and don't want independence, you have no heart. If you are older, and want independence, you have no brain."
 
TheBigA said:
Yet it hasn't affected his popularity. Perhaps we could all learn something from that.
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Yes, what most people do on the Island is just ignore that kind of political positioning. The PIP, the Partido Independentista Puertoriqueña, has trouble even qualifying to be on the ballot any more.
 
Radionys said:
There was a song released in the US in 1963 by Kyu Sakamoto called "Sukiyaki" which was in Japanese and became quite popular among American audiences.
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Back in the 90s when R&B vocal groups were all the rage, this quartet named 4 P.M. did a cover, and even got to do it live in Japan:


Anyway, back to Bad Bunny...

I'm sure that Jim-Bob up in Green Bay probably will skip watching the Superb Owl for halftime, and might even tune into see Lee Greenwood on TP USA's competing event, but the NFL seems to be betting on pulling in enough younger (and more brown) fans by having Bad Bunny instead of some geriatric rock or country act. And while I couldn't name a Bad Bunny song myself, I'm sure my co-workers (with names like Ruiz, Guerra, Gonzales, Martinez, Ramos, Gomez, Fernandez, and Aguilera, etc.) will be more likely to tune in than they would if Kid Rock were on stage. At the end of the day, this was a business decision.
 
TheBigA said:
The NFL won't reconsider Bad Bunny at the Super Bowl:

www.espn.com

Roger Goodell: NFL won't reconsider Bad Bunny SB halftime show

The NFL is not considering dropping Bad Bunny as its Super Bowl halftime headline performer, commissioner Roger Goodell said Wednesday.
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There's a petition to replace him with George Strait. George hasn't responded.
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"It's carefully thought through," Goodell said. "I'm not sure we've ever selected an artist where we didn't have some blowback or criticism. It's pretty hard to do when you have literally hundreds of millions of people that are watching."
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Ya think that maybe there's a bit of a political slant to these choices for this event over the last decade or three?

I'm sure it's really easy to recognize the demographic shift the league is aiming for.

Crappy game? Hey, international star at halftime - stick around!!
 


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