MAGA ‘investigating’ Bad Bunny Super Bowl show and claims it’s ‘much worse’ than Janet Jackson’s
Many MAGA supporters have criticized Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime show with one Missouri congressman going as far as to request an investigation into the performance
Rep. Mark Alford is calling for an investigation into Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime performance(Image: CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
Some MAGA supporters are now calling for an investigation into Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime show amid claims that it was inappropriate for national television.
During the Super Bowl LX, Bad Bunny headlined the championship game where he performed a 13-minute-long show featuring all his greatest Spanish hits. The 13-minute-long show was filled with symbolism, including messages of Puerto Rican pride and independence as well as pointed jabs at the Trump administration.
The show went down in history as it became the most-watched halftime show ever, but not all viewers at home were pleased with the performance. Many MAGA supporters have since criticized the show, with one congressman going as far as to describing the concert as “disturbing” and requesting a probe by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).
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During a Tuesday, February 10, interview on the show American Sunrise, Rep. Mark Allen Alford said, “On the Bad Bunny bad performance at the Super Bowl – we’re still investigating this. There’s a lot of information that has come out about the lyrics. I saw the halftime show – we were switching back and forth with the TPUSA halftime show.”
The 62-year-old continued, “The lyrics from what we’ve seen from Bad Bunny are very disturbing. And if it holds true – I don’t speak fluent Spanish, okay, I know how to ask where the bathroom is – but if it’s true what was said on national television, we have a lot of questions for the entities that broadcast this and we’ll be talking with Brendan Carr from the FCC.”
The Missouri politician went on to add, “This could be much worse than the Janet Jackson wardrobe malfunction.”
In this, Alford was referencing the Super Bowl XXXVIII halftime show featuring Justin Timberlake and Janet from 2004. During the live show, Justin accidentally ripped the top of Janet Jackson’s black bodice and, for a split second, revealed her nipple.
Many NFL viewers at the time were outraged over the moment, and the FCC was met with a staggering $550,000 fine for CBS, which was later overturned. Although not her fault, Janet faced intense backlash over the mishap and in the aftermath was blacklisted by MTV and disinvited from the Grammy Awards.
Alford compared the halftime show to Janet Jackson’s wardrobe mishap in 2004
And now that Alford has raised issue with Bad Bunny’s performance, many fans of the Puerto Rican singer have been quick to condemn the ridiculous request. On X one person wrote, “We’ve reached the point where a sitting member of Congress is ‘investigating’ a halftime show… in a language he admits he doesn’t understand. This is what the Republican Party wants to spend its time on?”
They continued, “Not inflation. Not health care. Not jobs. Not war powers. Not rising national debt. But threatening the FCC over a performance because the lyrics might be disturbing, based on translations they haven’t verified? That’s culture-policing. The Janet Jackson comparison says everything. When you can’t win policy arguments, you manufacture moral panic.”
Bad Bunny headlined the Super Bowl LX halftime show(Image: Getty Images)
Referencing Turning Point USA’s alternative halftime show featuring Kid Rock, another user added, “Y’all are gonna wanna listen to Kid Rock’s lyrics and some of the questionable things he has said on video about young women before you start talking about Bad Bunny. You are just going to embarrass yourself.”
While someone else wrote, “People who said they weren’t going to watch the halftime show are doing a lot of investigating and watching of the show it seems.”