GOP lawmakers demand probe into Bad Bunny halftime performance: ‘Disgusting content’
A slate of Republican lawmakers is calling for an investigation into Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl LX halftime performance.
Rep. Randy Fine (R-Fla.) and Rep. Andy Ogles (R-Tenn.) have separately demanded action over the 13-minute show on Sunday, which included the Grammy-winner’s hit songs “Tití Me Preguntó,” “Nuevayol” and “DtMF.”
“You can’t say the f-word on live TV,” Fine wrote in a post on X on Monday, calling the concert “disgusting” and “illegal.”
Fine said that “had he said these lyrics” and the “other disgusting and pornographic filth” in English, then the broadcast would have been “pulled down and the fines would have been enormous.”
The Florida congressman added that he would be asking for “dramatic action” from Federal Communications Commission Chair Brendan Carr, such as “fines and broadcast license reviews” against the NFL, broadcaster NBCUniversal and Bad Bunny.
Late Tuesday, Fine went on to post a letter that he said was sent to Carr, writing that the “woke garbage we witnessed on Super Bowl Sunday needs to be INVESTIGATED and put to an END.”
“There is NO reason that over 130 million people — including CHILDREN — should have been exposed to the vulgar and disgusting content of the 2026 Super Bowl halftime show,” Fine wrote. “It’s time to get answers about what happened and why this was allowed to take place NOW.”
Ogles had sent a different plea to the House Energy and Commerce Committee on Monday, characterizing the performance as “pure smut, brazenly aired on national television for every American family to witness.” In a letter, Ogles demanded an inquiry into the NFL and NBC over their “prior knowledge, review, and approval.”
“Children were forced to endure explicit displays of gay sexual acts, women gyrating provocatively, and Bad Bunny shamelessly grabbing his crotch while dry-humping the air,” Ogles posted on X. “And if that weren’t outrageous enough, the performance’s lyrics openly glorified sodomy and countless other unspeakable depravities. These flagrant, indecent acts are illegal to be displayed on public airways.”
Ogles cited portions of Bad Bunny’s songs “Safaera” and “Yo Perreo Sola,” saying they featured references to sexual content that would be “readily apparent across any language barrier.”
It is unclear what the lawmakers were referring to in their complaints that Bad Bunny had used profanity or sung explicitly sexual lyrics during his show. Some of the specific lyrics cited were not included in the performance.
Rep. Mark Alford (R-MO) had joined the chorus during an appearance on Real America’s Voice on Tuesday, saying that “we’re still investigating this” and noted that the concert could turn out to “be much worse than the Janet Jackson wardrobe malfunction.”
“The lyrics from what we’ve seen from Bad Bunny are very disturbing,” Alford said. “And if it holds true that — you know, I don’t speak fluent Spanish, OK, I know how to ask where the bathroom is — but these lyrics, if it was true what was said on national television, we have a lot of questions for entities that broadcast this, and we’ll be talking with Brendan Carr from the FCC about this.”
The Puerto Rican superstar made history during the championship game as the first artist to sing mostly in Spanish in the NFL’s 60-year history.
The Apple Music Super Bowl LX Halftime Show averaged 128.2 million viewers, according to data from Nielsen cited by Variety. While it was the second most-watched halftime show in history, behind rap icon Kendrick Lamar’s performance last season, three of the NFL’s most-viewed social media posts of all time came from the show, the outlet reported.
