Bad Bunny Faces Criticism For Distasteful Super Bowl Comment During SNL Monologue

“If you didn’t understand what I just said. You have four months to learn.” Is what Benito Antonio Martinez Ocasio, better known as Bad Bunny, said after opening up SNL’s 51st season with a Spanish dialogue. 

It was announced last week that the American rapper will headline this year’s Super Bowl halftime show. The 31-year-old Puerto Rican born rapper rose to stardom in 2016 with his song “Soy Peor”, which would mark the beginning to what is so far a very successful music career.

Since being announced for the halftime show, there has been a very fine line between support and backlash. The backlash mainly surrounds the factor of his music not being in English, with his SNL skit drawing even more comments.

Viewers are calling the line as 'distasteful' and that the halftime show should be boycotted.

The United States is a predominantly English speaking country, although there is no official language at the federal level. 32 states and four U.S. territories have designated English as the official language, with Puerto Rico having both English and Spanish as its official language.

According to Statista and Minnesota Spokesman, using Nielsen statistics, African Americans make up for roughly 42% of the NFL’s audience with White / Non-Hispanic pulling in the highest TV audience with around 75%, and Hispanic / Latino making up for less than 10% of the total in-person / TV audience.

So is the non-hate bashlash understandable? Yes, in its own way as obviously you want to understand what is being said and frankly the NFL could go a year without having a rap halftime show. The last non-rap halftime show occured in 2018 with Justin Timberlake. Bad Bunny’s SNL “to learn” comment was very poor tasting and overall lacked any respect towards the majority of the fanbase and flat-out should not have been said.

Now hate has no room anywhere, especially in sports. No matter what side you are on you will always find one or two haters, which is sad. Anyone hating on a singer just because he speaks a different language needs to do a self-check of themselves and their lives. 

Without a doubt though, this is a performance that should not be happening based off of the league demographics and solely that, as more than 50% of the audience will likely not understand a single lyric – although it is very good music to bop to.

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