Editor’s notice: Football is America’s sport. Puerto Rico is an American territory. NCS explores the obsession with Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl efficiency in a brand new NCS FlashDoc “Bad Bunny and the Halftime Show: Rhythms of Resistance.” Stream the particular now on the NCS app. The hour will premiere Saturday, February 7 at 10pm ET on NCS.
History tells us that these who take the largest stage in US sports activities haven’t shied away from utilizing it as a possibility to make an announcement.
In some methods, Bad Bunny, this 12 months’s Super Bowl halftime present performer, has already made his, taking the Grammys stage final Sunday and echoing a rallying cry heard at anti-ICE protests throughout the nation. The query now: What else will Bad Bunny should say and can he say it in the course of the halftime present?
“I think that regardless of what he does or doesn’t do, his presence there is deeply political,” Puerto Rico historian Jorell Meléndez-Badillo instructed NCS, noting that Bad Bunny’s present will undoubtedly put the “complex and uncomfortable realities of United States history” in relation to his homeland of Puerto Rico before an enormous viewers.
Throughout historical past, artists showing on the Super Bowl stage – whether or not that be to sing the National Anthem or headline the Halftime Show – have repeatedly used their platform to make an announcement about what’s occurring off the sphere.
Here are a couple of examples: