Bad Bunny's performance at last night's Supper Bowl was weird. His singing, exclusively in Spanish, was not singing at all but a recitation, a telling of his supposed sexual exploits, with musical accompaniment. He did it in a beautiful white suit though he groped his crotch throughout, while humping the air with his hips. And there were dozens of what appeared to be all-female dancers, scantily dressed (cheerleader-like attire), also with quite indecent gesticulations throughout, emphasizing their butts and the crotches. That was the first half of the half-time performance.
In the second half of the performance the crowd of dancing performers was now in very nice traditional tropical attire. Lady Gaga came out singing and gesticulating, waving the tattooed arm in the air. Again, the dancing movements were, as throughout the entire performance, excessively abrupt, violent! The dancing consisted of continual jerking back and forth, giving the overall impression of great uneasiness and discomfort. Very little of harmonious and continuous flow which should be typical of graceful dancing.
All of this is a testament to the confusion of generation Z. It is largely of Latin American descent but is trying to find itself in America.
The fact that Bad Bunny's entire performance was is Spanish can be taken in two ways. The first is that this was obviously intended to be a great affront to the American viewing public, which is notoriously xenologophobic! Americans notoriously, though quite unreasonably, hate people to speak languages other than English in America. This was predictably very offensive and provocative to many. The second is the undeniable demographical fact that the majority of generation Z and generation Alpha have some Latin American descent. Furthermore, the Spanish language is historically more a part of America than any other language. Spanish has been continually spoken in this part of the world from 1492 to the present. And now it is the language of many millions of the young people today, and of their Spanish forebears. And, much more importantly, their heritage is Catholic! They mainly identify with the Catholic faith! It is because of this high concentration of hispanidad in the youth of America that they identify more as Catholic than as Protestant.
What I have to say, therefore, about that woeful performance of the Bad Bunny disgrace last night is that at least he's of Spanish descent. He is a bad representative of a very good and burgeoning population of young Latinos.
Here is what President Trump had to say about the performance.
“The Super Bowl Halftime Show is absolutely terrible, one of the worst, EVER! It makes no sense, is an affront to the Greatness of America, and doesn’t represent our standards of Success, Creativity, or Excellence,” Mr. Trump wrote on Truth Social, calling the event a “slap in the face.” “Nobody understands a word this guy is saying, and the dancing is disgusting, especially for young children that are watching from throughout the U.S.A., and all over the World.”
In a rare instance of Super Bowl counter-programming, Turning Point USA aired its own halftime show. Turning Point’s lineup featured Kid Rock and a handful of lesser-known country music stars: Lee Brice, Brantley Gilbert and Gabby Barrett.
The alternative performance was streamed on YouTube, garnering more than five million viewers online.
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