Bad Bunny’s All-American Super Bowl Halftime Show

Bad Bunny arrived on the Super Bowl stage wearing a silver trenchcoat and a matching do-rag. He delivered a perfectly incendiary verse in which he declared, “Viva la raza!”, and then he disappeared—and no one really seemed to mind. The year was 2020, and Bad Bunny was appearing as a special guest of Shakira, who was one of the halftime show’s two headliners. (The other was Jennifer Lopez.) Back then, he was neither a national obsession nor the subject of fierce political debate; when he declared, “Viva la raza!”, he was saluting the Texas-born professional wrestler Eddie Guerrero, who had adopted that phrase as his rallying cry.