When the NFL handed Bad Bunny the 2026 Super Bowl LX halftime show, they knew what they were getting. The Puerto Rican superstar doesn’t do subtle, and he definitely doesn’t apologize. Saturday Night Live’s season 51 premiere on October 5 proved exactly that.
Bad Bunny's All-Spanish SNL Monologue Celebrates Super Bowl LX Halftime Show
Bad Bunny’s All-Spanish SNL Monologue Celebrates Super Bowl LX Halftime Show (Screenshot Via X/@PopCrave)
Bad Bunny delivered his opening monologue entirely in Spanish, celebrated his historic halftime selection, and told anyone with a problem to hit the books before February 8. The political fallout came fast, but the artist wasn’t backing down from his biggest stage yet.
Bad Bunny’s All-Spanish SNL Monologue Celebrates Super Bowl LX Halftime Show
The 31-year-old artist opened SNL with a monologue thatmade history and drew battle lines simultaneously. Speaking entirely in Spanish, Bad Bunny framed his Super Bowl LX halftime show selection as a cultural milestone for the Latinx community in America.
Bad Bunny speaks about his Super Bowl performance in Spanish at end of SNL monologue:
“If you didn’t understand what I just said, you have 4 months to learn.” pic.twitter.com/bT5ujmmh3P
— Pop Crave (@PopCrave) October 5, 2025
He didn’t stop there. Bad Bunny directly addressed critics who’ve been complaining since the NFL announced him as the February 8 headliner at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, California.
His message was simple. Learn the language before you complain about it.
The performance included a tribute sketch to El Chavo del Ocho, the iconic Mexican sitcom that defined childhoods across Latin America.
For Bad Bunny, this wasn’t just entertainment. This was a statement about who gets to take center stage in America’s biggest sporting event.
The NFL’s selection of Bad Bunny marks the first primarily Spanish-language halftime performer in Super Bowl history.
With over 60 million monthly Spotify listeners, he’s one of the most-streamed artists on the planet. The league knew this pick would make waves. They probably didn’t expect a full-blown political war.
NFL Fans Go to War Over Bad Bunny’s Spanish-Language Super Bowl Statement
Social media turned into an absolute battlefield after the SNL episode dropped.
One fanwrote, “Who cares. No one watches the Super Bowl for the halftime show.”
Anotheradded, “Kendrick Lamar & Bad Bunny back to back years. We used to get artists like Michael Jackson and Prince.”
But supporters came out swinging just as hard. The third fanpointed out, “He has more monthly listeners than Trump has voters btw.”
The divide goes deeper than just music taste. Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl selection has become a cultural flashpoint about language, identity, and representation in American sports.
Some fans see it as long-overdue recognition, while others think the NFL is abandoning tradition.
The league hasn’t weighed in on the controversy, but Bad Bunny seems entirely composed. He has spent his career refusing to compromise his language or identity for mainstream approval, and Super Bowl LX won’t be any different.