In recent years, Americans have known what to expect from our Neronian Super Bowl halftime shows.
In recent years, Americans have known what to expect from our Neronian Super Bowl halftime shows.The usual array of supporting dancers twerk and simulate intercourse, in sync with the main singer periodically grabbing his/her genitals — apparently to highlight the explicit sexual allusions of the mostly nonsensical lyrics.
All this Roman orgiastic ritual is designed by the NFL each year somehow to appeal to American families of all ages as they gather together around the living room TV on their festive cultural holiday.The decision to have Bad Bunny as the main attraction to sing solely in Spanish — 14% of the US population is fluent in Spanish, while 90% is proficient in English — was apparently designed to grow the NFL’s global audience, particularly in the Western Hemisphere, or perhaps to shock America to get accustomed to its new official multilingual identity.Bad Bunny and his Super Bowl halftime show just had a brush with the FCC: sourcesYet of the anticipated 60 million Americans who likely watched this flat show, over 50 million neither could read nor comprehend Spanish. How odd that America provides translations of every conceivable language in its courts, hospitals and schools for minorities of non-English speaking residents. And yet at its annual signature sporting event, the marquee and main-event non-English speaker cannot provide translations for the vast majority of the population. Part of the hype of Bad Bunny’s appearance was his supposedly edgy decision to perform entirely in Spanish. But was that really so avant-garde? What would have been far more against-the-grain and bold for Bad Bunny would have been to find some way to reconnect with the millions of disenchanted families who simply wish a hiatus from the now scripted and monotonous Super Bowl raunchy bacchanalias. Most in the stadium had no idea what Bad Bunny was singing about, if we can call his rapid-fire talking and mumbling true music.In his obscene “Safaera,” Bunny describes the various joys of exploitative sodomy, fellatio and anilingus, with the typical rap misogynistic trashing of his compliant female sexual partners as “hoes.”Were Bunny’s purposes to shock America, then he should have sung his “Safaera” in English, ensuring that his listeners were forced to hear and react to his sick adolescent riffs on breasts, bottoms, phalluses and vaginas.Translated, that meant the NFL had greenlit his sick obscenities as long as they were relegated to a Spanish-speaking audience only. But he was not to alienate over half of the NFL’s viewership who not long ago had voted to stop illegal immigration and millions crashing the border. He mostly complied, albeit with empty platitudes about hate and love, and reducing the American flag to the similar status of the other South and Central American states. Ricky Martin chimed in with his own incoherent Spanish-language harangue about the American rape of paradise in Hawaii . A writer for the now defunct sports section of The Washington Post had earlier and ludicrously boasted that the mostly forgotten Colin Kaepernick would be the most relevant figure at the 2026 Super Bowl. Perhaps he was, if the writer meant “relevant” by the narcissistic Kaepernick’s popularizing the racialist taking-the-knee during the National Anthem that likely reduced NFL viewership by 25% in 2016-7.The Post retraced Nancy Guthrie's route home on the night she vanished — here's what happened Lewandowski fired pilot for leaving Kristi Noem's blanket on plane as pair allegedly 'spending nights regularly' together
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