Jennifer Lopez showed her support for Bad Bunny after it was announced on Sunday that he will headline the upcoming NFL Super Bowl Halftime Show early next year.
The 31-year-old Puerto-Rican rapper will hit the stage on February 8 at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, California where the match is scheduled to take place.
Not long after the big news was shared, ‘ecstatic’ fans flocked to X to share their excitement while fellow music artists also addressed the rapper being chosen to headline the annual event.
Lopez, 56, uploaded a photo of the pair to her Instagram stories and added text towards the bottom which read, ‘Bori ganggg @badbunnypar,’ followed by a clapping hands emoji.
The two stars are no strangers to working together and notably collaborated on the 2018 track titled Te Guste.
The On The Floor songstress also reposted a clip that announced the news and wrote, ‘Ahora te toca a ti!!!!’ which means, ‘Now it’s your turn.’
Jennifer Lopez, 56, showed her support for Bad Bunny after it was announced on Sunday that he will headline the upcoming NFL Super Bowl Halftime Show early next year
She uploaded a photo of the pair to her Instagram stories and added text towards the bottom which read, ‘Bori ganggg @badbunnypar,’ followed by a clapping hands emoji
The performer also added, ‘bori gang lets goooooo @badbunnypr.’
Bad Bunny – whose real name is Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio – has previously stepped onto the Super Bowl Halftime stage.
Back in 2020, he had been a guest performer when both Lopez and Shakira headlined the show in Miami Gardens, Florida.
The Hips Don’t Lie singer also voiced her support for the Monaco hitmaker by re-posting the announcement to Instagram and wrote, ‘Welcome back to the Super Bowl stage! Aqui va mi gente latina!! @badbunnypr.’
Bruno Mars jumped over to X to pen an encouraging message while also sharing a statement from the Puerto Rican rapper.
The singer wrote, ‘”What I’m feeling goes beyond myself,” Bad Bunny said in a statement. “It’s for those who came before me and ran countless yards so I could come in and score a touchdown… this is for my people, my culture, and our history.
‘Ve y dile a tu abuela, que seremos el HALFTIME SHOW DEL SUPER BOWL,”‘ Mars continued before adding, ‘Go get em Bad Bunny!’
Other fans also took to X to share their thoughts on Bad Bunny being named the headliner, with one typing, ‘The most streamed artist worldwide from 2020-22. Will be interesting to see the blowback on this one.’
The On The Floor songstress also reposted a clip that announced the news and wrote, ‘Ahora te toca a ti!!!!’ which means, ‘Now it’s your turn’
Back in 2020, he had been a guest performer when both Lopez and Shakira headlined the show in Miami Gardens, Florida (seen above)
The Hips Don’t Lie singer also voiced her support for the Monaco hitmaker by also re-posting the announcement to Instagram and wrote, ‘Welcome back to the Super Bowl stage! Aqui va mi gente latina!! @badbunnypr’
Bruno Mars jumped over to X to pen an encouraging message while also sharing a statement from the Puerto Rican rapper
Another expressed their eagerness for February to come and added, ‘Bad Bunny brings that global energy to the biggest stage in sports.’
‘It doesn’t matter if you like Bad Bunny as the Super Bowl halftime act,’ one X user commented.
‘What does matter, is Bad Bunny is the greatest celebrity wrestler of all-time and owns one of the greatest entrances of all-time,’ they added.
One fan gushed, ‘Puerto Rico to the Bay Area – that’s how you bridge cultures through football. Levi’s Stadium gonna be electric with that kind of crossover appeal.’
It was announced that Bad Bunny would headline the halftime show during Super Bowl LX on Sunday.
He will take to one of the biggest stages in music, despite recently citing ICE agents as a reason he didn’t schedule any mainland US dates for his upcoming tour.
His selection follows weeks of speculation over who would perform. The NFL typically announces the artist for the halftime show in Week 1.
Moments before he announced his performance, he tweeted in Spanish, ‘I’ve been thinking about it these days, and after discussing it with my team, I think I’ll do just one date in the United States.’
He will take to one of the biggest stages in music, despite recently citing ICE agents as a reason he didn’t schedule any mainland US dates for his upcoming tour
His 2025 tour does not include any stops in the mainland United States. He did, however, hold a 31 show residency at the Jose Miguel Agrelot Coliseum in San Juan, Puerto Rico; seen earlier this month in Puerto Rico
His 2025 release, Debí Tirar Más Fotos, reached No. 1 on the Billboard 200 – his fourth No. 1 album in the United States.
But the tour for that album does not include any stops in the mainland United States. He did, however, hold a 31 show residency at the Jose Miguel Agrelot Coliseum in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Speaking to Variety, he cited the lengthy residency in Puerto Rico – a US territory – and the Trump Administration’s increasing use of ICE agents as reasons why he wouldn’t perform in the Continental US.
‘Man, honestly, yes,’ he replied. ‘There were many reasons why I didn’t show up in the U.S., and none of them were out of hate – I’ve performed there many times.
‘All of (the shows) have been successful. All of them have been magnificent. I’ve enjoyed connecting with Latinos who have been living in the U.S.
‘But specifically, for a residency here in Puerto Rico, when we are an unincorporated territory of the US… People from the US could come here to see the show. Latinos and Puerto Ricans of the United States could also travel here, or to any part of the world.
‘But there was the issue of – like, f*****g ICE could be outside (my concert). And it’s something that we were talking about and very concerned about.’
NFL commissioner Roger Goodell had long teased pop superstar Taylor Swift to perform at the show, especially after she announced her engagement to Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce.
According to the Spotify Weekly Top Artists Global chart for the week of September 19, Bad Bunny is the second-most streamed artist behind Swift; seen in August in NYC
According to the Spotify Weekly Top Artists Global chart for the week of September 19, Bad Bunny is the second-most streamed artist behind Swift.
He has over 77million monthly listeners on the platform and over 101million followers on Spotify.
Bad Bunny has been credited with popularizing the sound of Spanish-language rap and trap music worldwide.
He has won three Grammy Awards, eleven Latin Grammy Awards, and has two albums which have gone Platinum in the United States (YHLQMDLG and El Último Tour Del Mundo, both of which were released in 2020).
