Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Broadcasting intimate details and useless information from an undisclosed location in New York City. The Last Show with David Cooper We are here with Caitlin Green to discuss the topic on some people's minds, the halftime show in the Super Bowl. I was going to make some like superb owl, super bowel. I don't know. Caitlin, welcome in. Did you watch the halftime show?
Did I watch the halftime show? I waited not so patiently for it to begin. And I adored it. I watched the pre-show. I made it through the coin toss. And then I just said to myself, this sport's boring. And I watched some other stuff and waited for the halftime show. Then I tuned back in and then I said, see you later.
Why sandwich an amazing performance with a little bit of boring, what is it, football before and after? Why bother with that is the great question.
And I can watch sports.
Chapter 2: What did Bad Bunny's Super Bowl halftime show entail?
I'm not one of those people who's like, I can't watch any sport, but this one is really slow. It takes forever and nothing. I feel like nothing is happening in the, I know people would tell me otherwise, but anyways.
So it was the Seahawks. Did I get one team right?
Yeah, it was the Seahawks versus the New England Patriots. The Seahawks won. Oh, wow. I knew that. By, I'm told, quite a large margin. Yes.
Okay, who cares about the, yeah, bad bunny, or as I should say, the best bunny. My only issue with him is it's the wrong name. It was quite a show, all in, well, except for Lady Gaga stepping in there for a second, all in Spanish, which is new. Walk me through what you made of it. I imagine I didn't watch it.
I thought it was fantastic. So essentially he only said three words in English. He said, God bless America. And it was really like a smorgasbord of Latin Puerto Rican culture. And it was, you know, dancers and it was, it was touching moments. They had a couple, a real life couple got married. at the Superbowl.
So there was a couple there that like you see kissing, you just figure they're a prop, but it was actually a real life couple that had reached out to him and done one of those, like shoot your shot, ask him to perform at their wedding. And then his people came back to them and instead said, no, why don't you get on stage and get married at the Superbowl? And so they did.
So there was the Lady Gaga portion. Now that also is like a functional need of most of these halftime show performers to have somebody else tap in so they can outfit change. And I thought she did a really good job. Him and her have good chemistry. Like, I mean, she's just she's so professional.
I thought maybe she was going to perform Alejandro, just saying if we were going to keep it more on theme. But she did a really good job. And then he had a ton like Ricky Martin was there.
Yeah. Ricky Martin did like a like a Puerto Rican, I guess, like kind of like oldie. Yeah. Which was so nice to see. I had seen him in that TV show. What is it? The one set in Florida with Kristen Wiig. Oh, I'm losing my mind here. Yeah.
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Chapter 3: What were the standout moments from Bad Bunny's performance?
In some sense, I was hoping for something a little more subversive that the next day I could turn on the news and enjoy the U.S. left and right news fighting about it. But on the other hand, I'm like, okay.
is it the time for controversy uh during the the grammy speeches bad bunny was controversial enough like if you want to see controversy you can turn on something else i'm okay with it i guess what's your take on all that i think that he did he did enough i think in in terms of the artistry right like the way that he represented puerto rican culture um i think that the way he was trying to kind of go about it from a place of like positivity and strength but
there, you know, the, the, it looked like there was a Caucasian man marrying the Latina on stage. Like that was the couple that got married. So I think that there was enough of that there that at least from what I saw on social, like people commenting on it who are like, do you have Latin background? They were all pretty pleased. Um, and, but I agree.
I also saw a lot of people saying that they were like sneakily hoping that he would go even more of the putting the bad and bad bunny. And the same thing for Green Day, right? Like Green Day opened the Super Bowl up. And I think more people were expecting like a bigger kind of statement from them. But I will say like it is, it's kind of hard. Like the Super Bowl is one of those forums where...
I guess following Nipplegate, when you think about it, the whole like Justin Timberlake, Janet Jackson of it all, they could just like yank someone. They could just change camera angles. They could just do, who knows what they're threatening behind the scenes. I think having him perform as a halftime performer entirely in Spanish is like kind of its own, it stands on its own merit.
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Chapter 4: How did Bad Bunny incorporate Latin culture into his show?
So I was pretty happy with it. I thought he did a fantastic job. I think he is such a great, like world-renowned energetic singer. And I have still seen a lot of people like on the left and right arguing about it today because he didn't speak any English. So there was the usual suspects who were not happy with that.
But if they didn't like it, I mean, they could always have gone and watched Kid Rock.
Fair enough, yeah. The whole, like, other halftime show, that was... I don't even want to... That was something special. I've seen him interviewed. I've seen him on SNL. His English is, like, not amazingly strong. There's no shade on him. Yeah. I was wondering what would happen with that, but I guess if you do the whole thing in Spanish...
Yeah, you've circumvented the whole thing. And I think he has said before, too, his desire would be that people who loved his music would sort of look into the lyrics, which I've done a bit. Because I love his album. I've loved him for a long time. And so when I have a song of his that I really like, I will go in and listen to it and learn the lyrics.
I was wondering why they didn't sub it in English. So was I. But maybe it was the right call. Maybe that somehow... changing it into something it shouldn't be. Another thing with the football, like the Together We Are America, sure, it's like every nation in America, but also like Puerto Rico, like that is an American territory. Like that is America. This is American culture, you know?
And it's been a complaint I've seen again, and I've heard from other friends of mine, like that, you know, kind of America, like... It's Central America, it's South America, like we all get America-ized because of the way that the actual like words are for each like piece of the continent.
And so they kind of, I think a lot of countries feel like they get absorbed into this culture that not only isn't really theirs, but sort of stands against them very often. And so I thought that that sort of was an interesting bringing together of that momentum. It was like, hey, we're all the same. We're all supposed to be the same hemisphere, but we each have our own thing going on.
They wanted to really represent their individuality and their culture. And I thought it was, I just, I loved it. To say nothing also of the fact that it was just solid entertainment. Yeah. I mean, I've definitely seen way worse halftime shows.
He is a great energetic performer and I can't wait for him to hopefully go on tour beyond Puerto Rico because I couldn't swing a trip to Puerto Rico to see him. But man, would I like to see him live.
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