Bad Bunny rocked the house during the Super Bowl Halftime Show on Sunday as he performed some of his biggest hits and brought out some of the biggest stars from all over the Americas. There were plenty of hidden symbolisms that the Puerto Rican superstar featured during his performance, and here is a breakdown of five of them:
Hidden Symbolisms During Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl Halftime Show Performance
Appeal For Unity
This one is the most obvious, as he held out a football with a message that read “TOGETHER WE ARE AMERICA”, while the Jumbotron featured a message that stated “The only thing more powerful than hate is love.” As he did, he also featured the flags of several countries while saying the words of the countries in the Americas as he called for unity in the country. The message was in solidarity with the cultural melting pot that is the US.
The History of the Puerto Rican People
Bad Bunny opened his performance with sugar canes as he told the story of how his people went from farmers and laborers to what they are today. Puerto Rico was once a sugar plantation, and its people, together with enslaved workers from Africa, worked the fields and were exploited by its Spanish and later American colonizers.
The Continuing Electricity Problems in Puerto Rico
The stage Bad Bunny had performed on included some images of exploding power grids. This symbolizes the ongoing power problems in Puerto Rico that have not yet been resolved since Hurricane Maria hit the US territory in 2017. Bad Bunny often mentions this plainly in his performances when he is in Puerto Rico.
Liam Conejo Ramos and ICE
In one scene during his Super Bowl performance, Bad Bunny gave one of his Grammy awards to a boy that many people mistook for Liam Conejo Ramos, the five-year-old who was taken by ICE and used as bait to try and get his mother. He was taken with his father but was later freed, and his story strengthened opinions against Donald Trump’s cruel immigration crackdowns.
The boy was not Liam, but many caught on to that symbolism.
Bad Bunny’s Pava Hat
Bad Bunny and several dancers wore a pava, which he also wore at the Met Gala. It is a woven straw hat that is part of the jibaro fashion. Nowadays, that hat is seen as a symbol of political resistance in Puerto Rico.
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