How Bad Bunny Is Preparing for His Historic Super Bowl Halftime Show

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Bad Bunny isn't sharing any specifics about what to expect from his Apple Music Super Bowl LX Halftime Show performance.

Just be ready to dance.

“It’s going to be a huge party,” vowed the Puerto Rican artist, who held court at a Feb. 5 press conference in a gray pinstripe Bottega Veneta suit, faux-fur coat and a beanie sporting a subtle bunny ears silhouette. “I want to bring to the stage, of course, a lot of my culture. But...I don’t want to give any spoilers. It’s going to be fun.”

That included no hints about any potential special guests during his regulation 13-minute set —"I don't know why you asked that," he quipped—but Bad Bunny will be taking the stage Feb. 8 at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, Calif., with millions of people behind him.

“I’m excited," the rapper, born Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, said. "But at the same time, I feel more excited about the people than even me—my family, my friends, the people who have always believed in me. This moment, the culture—that’s what makes these shows special."

That's also Bad Bunny being modest.

Not with a paycheck, mind you, as it's technically an unpaid gig, though the NFL picks up all of the artist's expenses and production costs. The spectacle reportedly costs up to $1 million a minute and involves several thousand people ensuring that everything goes right during that very narrow timeframe, after which, the stage is whisked away and the game resumes as if it was never there.

But this seminal moment will be impossible to forget. And it comes just a week after Bad Bunny broke the mold at the 2026 Grammys when DeBí TiRAR MáS FOToS became the first Spanish-language LP to win Album of the Year.

After hearing his name called, he spent 24 seconds—a long time for a live TV broadcast—letting it all sink in before he made his way to the stage, where he dedicated his award to "all the people that had to leave their homeland, their country, to follow their dream."

Not wanting to strain his voice ahead of the Super Bowl would have been a pretty reasonable excuse. But, according to host Trevor Noah, Bad Bunny was contractually obligated to not perform at the Grammys because of his impending date with the NFL.

Bad Bunny did, however, join Noah for a few bars of "DtMF"—a heavy favorite to be on his Super Bowl set list—when the emcee started singing a capella.

"If they sue you," Noah cracked, "that's not [on] me."

But even though he didn't have to prepare for a Grammys performance, Bad Bunny's lead-up to the Super Bowl hasn't exactly been relaxing.

And just as he has navigated his meteoric rise into the pop culture stratosphere staying true to himself and his roots, he's taking the same approach to performing on "the world's biggest stage."

“You always have to be proud of who you are and where you’re from,” Bad Bunny advised. “But don’t let that limit where you can go.”

Not that some people haven't wanted to limit where he could go, his critics knocking the choice as soon as Bad Bunny was announced as the Super Bowl Halftime Show headliner in September.

"I would say I’m not sure we’ve ever selected an artist where we didn’t have some blowback or criticism," Goodell continued. "We have hundreds of millions of people watching, but I have full confidence it’ll be a good show."

And for those more interested in the entertainment than the sport of football (the New England Patriots are playing the Seattle Seahawks, in case you didn't know), Green Day is jamming pre-game, Charlie Puth is on national anthem duty, Brandi Carlisle will sing "America the Beautiful" and Coco Jones is performing "Lift Every Voice and Sing."

For the main event, prognosticators have thrown out set list possibilities that include "DtMF," "Soy Peor - Remix" (alas, without J Balvin, who told TMZ he would not be there but hoped his fellow artist "kills it and destroys it"), "I Like It" (see above, but a good fit for Patriots superfan Cardi B), "Al Apagon" and "Callaita."

But whatever Bad Bunny has picked out for this special occasion, everyone is invited to the party. 

"I know that the world is gonna be happy this Sunday, and they're gonna have fun," he said at his press conference, "and they're gonna dance, and they're gonna have a good time."

And then he'll be in the pantheon along with these epic Super Bowl Halftime Show performances: