
{"id":5145,"date":"2026-02-27T20:36:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T20:36:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/2026\/02\/27\/why-did-bad-bunnys-super-bowl-show-hit-a-nerve\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T20:36:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T20:36:06","slug":"why-did-bad-bunnys-super-bowl-show-hit-a-nerve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/2026\/02\/27\/why-did-bad-bunnys-super-bowl-show-hit-a-nerve\/","title":{"rendered":"Why did Bad Bunny\u2019s Super Bowl show hit a nerve?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bad Bunny as a case study in global relevance and diaspora power.<\/p>\n<div aria-live=\"polite\" aria-atomic=\"true\">\n<p>Bad Bunny was the most-streamed artist on Spotify for four years. He headlined the Super Bowl, singing in Spanish, challenging long-held ideas about what it means to be \u201cmainstream\u201d. His career highlights how streaming platforms, diaspora audiences, and shifting cultural power now determine global relevance. Bad Bunny has long used his music as an unapologetic political statement, including his stance against the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Our guests discuss the political and cultural tensions his rise has exposed.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Presenter:<\/strong> Stefanie Dekker<\/p>\n<p><strong>Guests:<\/strong><br \/> Jorell Melendez-Badillo \u2013 Associate professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison<\/p>\n<p>Elizabeth Booker Houston \u2013 Political commentator and lawyer<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bad Bunny as a case study in global relevance and diaspora power. Bad Bunny was the most-streamed artist on Spotify for four years. He headlined the Super Bowl, singing in Spanish, challenging long-held ideas about what it means to be \u201cmainstream\u201d. His career highlights how streaming platforms, diaspora audiences, and shifting cultural power now determine &#8230; <a title=\"Why did Bad Bunny\u2019s Super Bowl show hit a nerve?\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/2026\/02\/27\/why-did-bad-bunnys-super-bowl-show-hit-a-nerve\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Why did Bad Bunny\u2019s Super Bowl show hit a nerve?\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5146,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5145\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}