{"id":265285,"date":"2025-09-30T01:40:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T01:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/265285\/"},"modified":"2025-09-30T01:40:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T01:40:09","slug":"will-he-sing-in-english","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/265285\/","title":{"rendered":"Will He Sing In English?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tBad Bunny<\/a> is no stranger to making history. Since he arrived on the music scene in 2016, the Latin superstar continues to break new records and test the boundaries of the industry in every direction. Most notably, though, Benito has charted his success with one unflinching goal: to remain true to his Puerto Rican roots and native Spanish language.<\/p>\n

\n\tNow, with the news that Bad Bunny<\/a> will headline the Super Bowl LX halftime show<\/a>, the musician is set to become the first artist to deliver a fully non-English performance during his 15-minute set. The musician isn\u2019t the first Latin or Spanish-speaking star to take over the Super Bowl<\/a> halftime stage as a headliner; he joins a list of trailblazers like Gloria Estefan<\/a>, Shakira, and Jennifer Lopez<\/a>. (Back in 2020, he even joined Shakira on the Super Bowl stage<\/a> to deliver a few bars from his Cardi B collaboration \u201cI Like It.\u201d) However, Bad Bunny\u2019s discography is notably in Spanish, to the dismay of many right-wing critics<\/a>, save for a few English lines here and there. So unless Benito uncharacteristically whips out a slate of cover songs, his set will be entirely in Spanish.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn a statement following the announcement, the star even made sure to include a note in Spanish: \u201cVe y dile a tu abuela, que seremos el HALFTIME SHOW DEL SUPER BOWL,\u201d he said, which translates to, \u201cGo and tell your grandma that we\u2019re going to be the Super Bowl halftime show performer.\u201d If the show is anything like his historic 2023 Grammy performance<\/a>, the television will continuously display subtitles<\/a> like \u201cspeaking non-English,\u201d and \u201csinging non-English.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThroughout his career, Bad Bunny has refused to compromise when it comes to language. With seven studio albums<\/a> under his belt, the Latin star has yet to offer a single English-language song. He teased fans slightly with the 2023 hit \u201cWHERE SHE GOES,\u201d but even that was primarily in Spanish. The language barrier hasn\u2019t stopped him from becoming a superstar. In the past few years, Bad Bunny continues to be one of the most streamed artists on Spotify, proving he doesn\u2019t need to alter anything about himself or his art to be successful.<\/p>\n

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\n\tBut Bad Bunny\u2019s primarily non-English performance at the 2026 Super Bowl, has repercussions that go beyond his career. His history-making set will put the Spanish language, and the entire Latin diaspora, front and center during one of the biggest, most-watched events of the year in the U.S. Despite right-wing detractors who claim speaking Spanish is \u201cun-American,\u201d the U.S. Census Bureau tells a different story. In 2019<\/a>, Spanish was the most common language besides English. By 2025<\/a>, 22 percent of people ages five and older reported that they spoke another language other than English at home. Of those people, approximately 61 percent spoke Spanish. Benito\u2019s performance will appeal to these groups along with the NFL\u2019s growing Latino viewership<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tThis focus on the Spanish language, and what is bound to be a multicultural celebration, also comes at a time when the Latin community in the U.S. is actively under attack as the Trump administration<\/a> ramps up mass deportations and anti-immigrant rhetoric against them. To actively honor the community at this pivotal moment is a pointed choice \u2014 and one that has been top of mind for Bad Bunny.<\/p>\n

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\n\tLast month, the star revealed he made the conscious choice not to tour his Deb\u00ed Tirar M\u00e1s Fotos<\/a> album in the U.S. out of concern that his fans may be targeted by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. \u201cThere was the issue of \u2014 like, fucking ICE could be outside [my concert],\u201d he told i-D<\/a>. \u201cAnd it\u2019s something that we were talking about and very concerned about.\u201d As soon as the Super Bowl news was announced, the star called back to his early comments with an X post<\/a> in Spanish: \u201cAfter speaking with my team, I think I\u2019ll do just one show in the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tBad Bunny\u2019s Super Bowl show just happens to be one of the most-watched musical events of the year. With this platform, not only will the Latin star deliver a Spanish-language production, he\u2019s also promised to put on a spectacle celebrating Puerto Rican and Caribbean culture. In an interview with Apple Music<\/a>, Bad Bunny shared his excitement about the performance. \u201cI\u2019m really excited for my friends, my family,\u201d he said, adding, \u201cPuerto Rico, all the Latino people around the world. I\u2019m excited about my culture. I\u2019m excited about everything, not just for me.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bad Bunny is no stranger to making history. Since he arrived on the music scene in 2016, the…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":265286,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[71844,171,21686,138482,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-265285","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-bad-bunny","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-super-bowl","11":"tag-super-bowl-2026","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-unitedstates","14":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115290703324272259","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265285\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/265286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}