The NFL’s decision to feature Latin artist Bad Bunny at halftime has already sparked controversy in some conservative circles, with critics arguing that his predominantly Spanish-language music and stances on issues such as immigration make him an unconventional pick for the game’s massive audience.
His 2025 song “Nuevayol” features an imitated Trump voice saying, “I want to apologize to the immigrants in America. . . . This country is nothing without the immigrants. This country is nothing without Mexicans, Dominicans, Puerto Ricans, Colombians, Venezuelans, Cubans.”
Green Day, which formed in the East Bay Area in the 1980s, is set to perform during the game’s opening ceremony. Frontman Billie Joe Armstrong has long denounced the administration and has altered the lyrics of the band’s 2004 Grammy-nominated song “American Idiot” during live performances, changing the line “I’m not a part of a redneck agenda” to “I’m not a part of a MAGA agenda.”
In July, Armstrong led a Download Festival crowd in a chant calling Trump a “fat bastard.”
Surprisingly based halftime show from the league.
There’s nothing based about it they’re big artists with big money
if you take into account the NFL itself, how much money they’re making/spending, the cost for a commerical during the show, the cost to watch it on tv, the price of tickets and how capitalisticly crazy the whole thing is…
I think green day is probably the most based part of the whole equation :)
I’d still rather see another Kendrick halktime show though. Or maybe a RATM show…they could get together for one more show right?
There’s lots of big artists with big money out there.
These two are surprisingly outspoken against the US government.
Idk how political Bad Bunny gets on stage, but he cancelled a bunch of shows because of ICE, and said as much. Green Day has whole albums dedicated to calling out politicians.
They’re gonna make buckets of money either way, this way puts them in the line of fire politically in a way they didn’t need to do. That’s at least a little based.