JOURNEY’s JONATHAN CAIN Slams BAD BUNNY’s Super Bowl Halftime Show, Says It Was Driven by “Greed.”
Last month, Bad Bunny took the stage at the Super Bowl LX halftime show, drawing roughly 128 million viewers – making it one of the most-watched halftime performances in the game’s history.
In a new interview on “Bolling!”, Journey keyboardist Jonathan Cain weighed in on Bad Bunny’s show and the NFL’s decision to select the rapper-singer to headline the event.
“I think it’s the NFL just grabbing for Latin America viewers,” Cain said. “I think it was kind of – they’re looking to expand their brand. So it was brand driven. I gotta tell you, it had nothing to do with the Latino in America or dissing America or dissing Trump or anything else. I think it was strictly greed, the NFL wanting to expand their audience to Latin America. That was my take on it. That’s what it looked like to me.”
Bad Bunny performed primarily in Spanish throughout his halftime set, using the massive platform to honor his Puerto Rican roots and celebrate the Latino community as a whole.
Cain, however, took issue with the language of the performance.
“What was interesting is if they would’ve done the translations of what he was singing, we’d be appalled…” he said. “The stuff he was saying in Spanish the NFL wouldn’t be proud to translate, so that’s why there was no translation because it was very blue. I actually didn’t watch it. It was the worst Super Bowl in a long time.”
Following Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime show, several Republican congressmen called for the FCC to investigate his performance over concerns about explicit lyrics. According to NBC Sports, after review the FCC determined that no decency standards were violated, as Bad Bunny had omitted or altered lyrics that could potentially violate the rules.
