Super Bowl halftime shows have grown predictable, boring and nonsensical see Bad Bunny

In recent years, Americans have known what to expect from our Neronian Super Bowl halftime shows.Mediocre music is veneered over with gaudy, flashily lit but ultimately empty and meaningless sets.The usual array of supporting dancers twerk and simulate intercourse, in sync with the main singer periodically grabbing his/her genitals — apparently to highlight the explicit sexual allusions of the mostly nonsensical lyrics.All this Roman orgiastic ritual is designed by the NFL each year somehow to appeal to American families of all ages as they gather together around the living room TV on their festive cultural holiday.But the script has now grown predictable and boring.This year’s mess jumped the shark and had a force-multiplying effect on one of the most tedious Super Bowl games in history.The decision to have Bad Bunny as the main attraction to sing solely in Spanish — 14% of the US population is fluent in Spanish, while 90% is proficient in English — was apparently designed to grow the NFL’s global audience, particularly in the Western Hemisphere, or perhaps to shock America to get accustomed to its new official multilingual identity.Yet of the anticipated 60 million Americans who likely watched this flat show, over 50 million neither could read nor comprehend Spanish.And they had previously been insulted by Bunny to hurry up and learn Spanish before the game — or else?How odd that America provides translations of every conceivable language in its courts, hospitals and schools for minorities of non-English speaking residents.And yet at its annual signature sporting event, the marquee and main-event non-English speaker cannot provide translations for the vast majority of the population.Part of the hype of Bad Bunny’s appearance was his supposedly edgy decision to perform entirely in Spanish.

But was that really so avant-garde?What would have been far more against-the-grain and bold for Bad Bunny would have been to find some way to reconnect with the mi...