House Speaker Mike Johnson Calls Bad Bunny Super Bowl Slot a ‘Terrible Decision,’ Offers 82-Year-Old 1980s Country Star As Better Option

While the U.S. House continues to beryllium adjourned successful the midst of an progressively tense authorities shutdown, Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson took clip retired this week to measurement successful connected adjacent year’s Super Bowl halftime performer Bad Bunny. Following successful the footsteps of Donald Trump, Johnson threw acold h2o connected the NFL’s determination to pat arguably the biggest antheral popular prima connected the satellite by calling the booking a “terrible decision,” telling a reporter connected Tuesday (Oct. 7) that helium “didn’t adjacent cognize who Bad Bunny was.”

“Well it sounds similar he’s not idiosyncratic who appeals to a broader audience,” said Johnson of Benito, who holds records for being the archetypal Latin creator to person 100 vocation Billboard Hot 100 songs, arsenic good arsenic having the archetypal all-Spanish medium to scope No. 1 connected the Billboard 200 medium illustration (2020’s El Ultimo Tour Del Mundo) and has tied Taylor Swift for having the astir No. 1s connected the Billboard Global 200 of immoderate solo artist. In addition, Bunny has the grounds for the most-streamed medium of each time connected Spotify with his 2022 LP Un Verano Sin Ti and is consistently 1 of the service’s most-streamed planetary artists, holding the apical spot for 3 consecutive years from 2020-2022 portion racking up 80 cardinal monthly Spotify listeners implicit the people of his career.

In addition, Bad Bunny’s historic, 31-date No Me Quiero Ir de Aquí residency at Puerto Rico’s Coliseo broke each erstwhile income records for the venue and the livestream of his last residency amusement became the azygous most-watched livestream successful the past of Amazon Music.

“There’s truthful galore eyes connected the Super Bowl, a batch of young, impressionable children,” Johnson continued, earlier proposing what helium said was a much unifying, due prime for the most-watched philharmonic show of the year, a “role model” similar 82-year-old 1980s state vocalist Lee Greenwood. “Not idiosyncratic similar this.”

Greenwood, beloved by Trump for his signature 1984 anthem “God Bless the U.S.A.,” hasn’t released a caller medium since 2003’s Stronger Than Time. The state prima performed “God Bless the U.S.A.” astatine the 2024 Republican ...