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In case you missed it…

The Seattle Seahawks won the SuperBowl 29-13. Several members of my west coast family were watching and cheering for the home team.

For many of us, the only reason to watch the SuperBowl is the half-time show, and here it is stripped of the surrounding violent game and ads.

I don’t understand the lyrics, but I liked the music and dancing. I also appreciated the representation of Puerto Rican culture, and at the end when he says “God bless America”…and then lists all the countries that are part of the continent of America. Ironically, TPUSA’s alternative half-time show was called the All American Halftime Show — I don’t think they would have got the point — and Kid Rock screaming over a poorly adjusted cheap sound system was less intelligible than Bad Bunny’s Spanish.

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  2. Hemidactylus says

    I went in not knowing Bad Bunny’s music, but kinda got the vibe due to my previous love of Latin freestyle and exposure to reggaeton like 20 years ago. Many would have missed the electrifying callback to “Gasolina”. It floored me as brief as it was. Bad Bunny might have asked Daddy Yankee to appear. Instead we got Ricky Martin, which was ok. Lady Gaga too.

    Needed more Gasolina:

    But yeah that was a topnotch halftime show.

    It was also good that the Seahawks shredded the Patriots 11 years later. As Denzel said in “Man on Fire”:
    “Revenge is a meal best served cold.”

  4. Hemidactylus says

    There was an actual live wedding.

    And at 7:39 a serious trust fall. No thank you. I hate heights. Well done!

    At around 8:00 that Bud Light sign creeps into the frame. Not so subtle slam on Kid Rock?

  5. birgerjohansson says

    Ricky Martin made good music even before he went over to english-language text. And > 95% of the time, listeners no not bother to pay attention to the text.

    For instance it took me a long time to learn English to the level where I could understand song texts but people in Sweden listened to Beatles, Rolling Stones and Dylan long before English understanding had percolated through the population.
    .
    (These days I rather wish Swedes would tune down their english as teenagers swear so much in english it becomes uncool.
    Give me harangue of foul language in Finnish any time)

  6. birgerjohansson says

    Also, there is some kind of olympic game going on. I learned about it the day after it started as I don’t care.
    But the orange one (who has little interest in winter sports) found time to criticize the US team.

  7. birgerjohansson says

    Sports…

    Hanoi is building a soccer stadium able to hold 130 000 people. As monuments go, it will trump Trump’s tiny monuments by two- three orders of magnitude.

  8. cartomancer says

    Can anyone tell me what’s supposed to be so superb about this owl in the first place?

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