{"id":747072,"date":"2026-02-12T13:30:42","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T13:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/747072\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T13:30:42","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T13:30:42","slug":"republicans-investigating-bad-bunny-super-bowl-halftime-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/747072\/","title":{"rendered":"Republicans investigating Bad Bunny Super Bowl halftime show"},"content":{"rendered":"

The reactions to Bad Bunny\u2019s halftime show have been predictably strong, with some expressing frustration that the megastar performed exclusively in Spanish<\/a> and others flocking to TPUSA\u2019s \u201cfamily-friendly\u201d alternative, which did not exactly live up to that billing<\/a>. Now, it seems that some Republican lawmakers are looking to take action against the performance for reasons that do not align with reality.<\/p>\n

Rep. Mark Alford, a Republican from Missouri, claimed during a recent interview with Fox News that Bad Bunny\u2019s halftime show is now under investigation based on totally baseless claims that the Latin superstar used explicit language that was not censored during his performance.<\/p>\n

Alford admitted that he does not speak Spanish, but claimed that \u201ca lot of information\u201d has \u201ccome out\u201d about the Spanish lyrics.<\/p>\n

\u201cOn Bad Bunny \u2014 bad performance at the Super Bowl at halftime \u2014 we\u2019re still investigating this. There\u2019s a lot of information that has come out about the lyrics,\u201d Alford said during his interview<\/a>. \u201cI saw the halftime show. I was switching back and forth with the TPUSA halftime show. The lyrics, from what we\u2019ve seen from Bad Bunny, are very disturbing.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t speak fluent Spanish, I know how to ask where the bathroom is. But these lyrics \u2014 if it\u2019s true, what was said on national television \u2014 we have a lot of questions for the entities that broadcast this, and we\u2019ll be talking to Brendan Carr from the FCC about this,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not clear what \u201cinformation\u201d Alford is referring to, but it echoes a claim made by fellow Congressman Randy Fine, who claimed in a viral post on X<\/a> that Bad Bunny\u2019s \u201cdisgusting\u201d performance was \u201cillegal\u201d while quoting lyrics that he did not even perform at the Super Bowl.<\/p>\n

There have been no credible claims that Bad Bunny used any explicit language during his performance. In fact, multiple reports<\/a> indicate that he self-censored his lyrics<\/a>, removing profane words and the most explicit language from his songs, or skipping entire portions of songs entirely.<\/p>\n

Still, Alford went on to baselessly suggest that the blowback could be worse than the Janet Jackson wardrobe malfunction at Super Bowl XXXVI, where her breast was briefly exposed to the camera during a moment with Justin Timberlake.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis could be much worse than the Janet Jackson wardrobe malfunction, let\u2019s put it that way,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Needless to say, you probably don\u2019t need to hold your breath about what this \u201cinvestigation\u201d will conclude.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The reactions to Bad Bunny\u2019s halftime show have been predictably strong, with some expressing frustration that the megastar…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":747073,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[70481,7,6,16165],"class_list":{"0":"post-747072","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-bad-bunny","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-nfl","11":"tag-super-bowl-lx"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116057907128770221","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=747072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747072\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/747073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=747072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=747072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=747072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}