«Puerto Rico está bien cabrón!». Bad Bunny he promised that the world would dance and so it happened. The Super Bowl 2026 he turned into one a joyful, political and deeply identifying show: a celebration of Latin culture capable of speaking to the heart of beyond 125 million viewers. In 14 minutesthe Puerto Rican artist signed a choral performance together with Lady Gaga and Ricky Martin and iconic faces like Pedro Pascal, Cardi B, Karol G and Jessica Alba. His performance wasn’t just music, but a real one declaration of love for Puerto Rico, identity, diversity and peace. That’s why we could call it “Bunny Bowl“.
An immersed scenography: Puerto Rico comes to life on stage
The Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara has transformed into a landscape: a sugar cane plantation, a vecindad Puerto Rican – the popular neighborhood – with barber shop, liquor store and the iconic casita. A lively, pulsating neighbourhood, crossed by dancers, elderly people playing dominoes and boxers in the ring. A staging that took center stage at the Super Bowl Latin everyday lifewithout filters or compromises.
The stars featured in the living picture of Bad Bunny
Under the roof of casita well-known faces from the entertainment industry were glimpsed – from Pedro Pascal to Jessica Albafrom Karol G to Cardi B – all intent on dancing, confused among the performers. Not studied cameos, but natural presencespart of a community in celebration. The message was quite clear: Latin culture it doesn’t ask for space, it occupies it. And he does it with pride.
Lady Gaga salsa version
The emotional heart of the show comes with the performance of Lady Gaga. The artist brings to the stage a salsa, Latin and unreleased version of Die With a Smile. During his performance a young couple gets married. Love, tradition, entertainment and politics intertwine in one of the most powerful images of the evening. The meeting between Bad BunnyLatin global superstar, and Gagaa universal pop icon, becomes a symbol of dialogue, inclusion and unity.
Ricky Martin and the memory that never fades
The entrance of Ricky Martin takes the story to a more intimate and painful level. Sitting next to one empty chairas the dancers reenact the blackout following Hurricane Maria in 2017, Martin embodies the collective memory of Puerto Rico. In one of the most powerful moments, the artist climbs a electric pylona symbol of the infrastructure destroyed by the hurricane, continuing to rap. Absence becomes presence, silence speaks of thousands of lives lost. With El ApagonBad Bunny’s scream – «Puerto Rico está bien cabrón!» – And cathartic, proud, necessary.
Symbols, politics and an ending that embraces the Americas
The show is littered with political references: a shirt with the number 64images that recall immigration policies, the speech at the Grammys that resurfaces on an old television. Everything is subtle but precise. Bad Bunny doesn’t preach: tells. And he does it while dancing. In the grand finale, Bad Bunny utters one line in English, “God bless America,” then begins listing the nations of Central, South and North America as the dancers carried their flags. At that point he holds a football with a simple and very powerful writing: «Together, we are America». More than a halftime show, Bad Bunny’s was a political and cultural manifesto: a party that does not forget the pain, a dance that becomes resistance, a stage that – for one night – spoke Spanish in front of the whole world.
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