A Republican member of Congress from Florida says someone must pay for Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl performance.
Randy Fine posted on social media that he was alerting the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission about what he called the Grammy-winning Puerto Rican musical artist’s “disgusting halftime show” for Super Bowl 60.
Bad Bunny made history as the first Latino solo artist to headline the show. USA TODAY described the performance as a celebration of Puerto Rico and Latino culture, which, as expected, was performed entirely in Spanish, was filled with cultural references, numerous moving parts, a real wedding and even one of his new Grammys handed to a little boy.
Fine zeroed in on a different aspect of the show.
“You can’t say the f-word on live TV,” Fine posted on X, calling the performance “illegal.”
“Had he said these lyrics – and all of the other disgusting and pornographic filth in English on live TV, the broadcast would have been pulled down and the fines would have been enormous,” wrote Fine, a former state lawmaker elected to Congress in April 2025 to replace Mike Waltz, now the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.
“Puerto Ricans are Americans and we all live by the same rules. We are sending @BrendanCarrFCC a letter calling for dramatic action, including fines and broadcast license reviews, against the @NFL, @nbc, and ‘Bad Bunny.’ Lock them up.”
Carr, an appointee of President Donald Trump, is known for his staunchly conservative stances and for pushing a Trump-aligned agenda.
USA TODAY Network reporters who are fluent in Spanish listened to a replay of the performance. They said many of the explicit lyrics shared by Fine were genuine translations of songs, but weren’t part of the performance.
A transcript of the Super Bowl performance that the Genius lyrics database translated online included some sexually explicit lyrics and expletives. But one of the reporters said Bad Bunny often mumbled through the expletives or cut off the word entirely in his Feb. 8 show.
In his post, Fine – who was not immediately available for comment – shared other explicit lyrics from other songs that were translated through Genius.
Still another Network reporter pointed out the songs were not performed in their entirety; Bad Bunny’s performance clocked in at about 13 minutes.
Donald Trump Jr. also weighed in, posting on X, “Here’s the lyrics. Please explain the wholesomeness in here. Maybe the 30% layoffs at WAPO weren’t nearly enough.” Those lyrics also were incorrect or incomplete.
He was responding to a Washington Post story that said, “In general, Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime show had the kind of wholesome, traditional family values that would have fit right in with some of the more sentimental commercials that appeared during the game.”
This article originally appeared on Tallahassee Democrat: Randy Fine calls for FCC action over Bad Bunny Super Bowl performance
Reporting by Jim Rosica, USA TODAY NETWORK – Florida / Tallahassee Democrat
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