FCC drops trove of viewer complaints over Bad Bunny's 'disgusting' Super Bowl halftime show

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Bad Bunny’s halftime show at this year’s Super Bowl was largely embraced as a milestone for Latin music and Puerto Rican culture on America’s most prominent pop-cultural stage.Not everyone thought so, though.Music Before the game, activists clandestinely distributed 15,000 of them to fans entering Levi’s Stadium for the Super Bowl, seeding grassroots support toward a performer who spoke up for Latinos and immigrants at the Grammy Awards last week.The Federal Communications Commission has released a massive trove of viewer complaints against the musician, the show’s broadcast partner NBC, and the NFL.

Many of them expressed outrage at the supposed bawdiness of Bad Bunny’s Spanish-language lyrics and dancing on a broadcast watched by children.“That was the most disgusting inappropriate show.

I had to make all of my children go into the next room!” wrote one traumatized Las Vegas viewer.“The none use [sic] of inappropriate language should stand no matter what language it’s in.

This is the most disturbing thing I’ve witnessed on live TV in a long time.”Puerto Rican journalist Tatiana Tenreyro unpacks the most Puerto Rican moments of Bad Bunny’s monumental Super Bowl halftime show — and his urgent calls for Pan-American unity in the face of oppression“NFL halftime show showed 2 men in act of intercourse while behind a pickup truck door,” wrote one aghast Ohioan.“The ratings for NFL [sic] made it safe for my children to watch but they witnessed this and became disturbed.”Another viewer from Charlotte, N.C., who, to their credit, seemed familiar with Bad Bunny’s catalog, wrote that they “take issue with the vocal performances of ‘Safaera,’ which is a track widely known for explicit sexual references and graphic lyrical content, and ‘Yo Perreo Sola,’ which had choreography featuring overtly sexualized movements, including widespread twer...