Hypocrite Bad Bunny is a controversial choice for the Super Bowl, but the NFL only see the dollar signs

Bad Bunny is a bad choice for the Super Bowl halftime performance.Not simply because the Puerto Rican rapper’s politically driven touring choices are incompatible with someone being awarded one of the most prestigious perches of American culture.Nor because his songs aren’t in English.But have you heard his autotune racket masquerading as music? Why can’t anyone sing or rap without the assistance of computers these days?I can already see the mute button in my future.Beyond the offensive tunes, the performer, whose real name is Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio is taking flack for his hypocrisy.

He’s proudly accepting the splashy high-profile gig at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, Calif., after explicitly declining to play on the United States mainland for this current tour in protest of Trump’s immigration policies and ICE enforcement.“Latinos and Puerto Ricans of the United States could also travel [to Puerto Rico], or to any part of the world,” he told i-D magazine.“There was the issue of, like, f–king ICE could be outside.

And it’s something that we were talking about and very concerned about.”But the choice certainly feels like a watershed moment for the National Football League — and perhaps a middle finger from Jay-Z to traditional fans.The Roc Nation mogul was given the keys to produce the iconic Super Bowl halftime show in 2019, to appease those in the growing social justice movement that was consuming sports whole during the great awokening.Most of his choices — which have been a mix of hiphop and R&B — achieved the goal of appealing to a broad swathe of Americans, especially non football fans, who see the music, not the pigskin, as the main event.Last year’s Super Bowl in New Orleans, however, he tapped rapper Kendrick Lamar, who was most definitely a subversive and niche selection.And this year, would it have killed them to pick a Zach Bryan or Taylor Swift this go around?Maybe Jay-Z has his agenda, but for the league,...