Jennifer Lopez has no time for the backlash surrounding Unhealthy Bunny’s upcoming Tremendous Bowl halftime present efficiency.
Lopez, 56, was requested in regards to the controversy throughout a Monday, October 6, interview on the Right now present and mentioned she was so excited for the Grammy winner’s set. “I believe he’s about to blow all people’s thoughts,” Lopez gushed. “It’s an introduction to some folks.”
She went on to say she hadn’t even heard there was any backlash till host Craig Melvin advised her about it.
“I swear I don’t know,” she mentioned. “Why? However why? I don’t perceive that. He’s one of many high artists on the earth proper now, most likely the highest.”
When Melvin, 46, defined that some critics consider a special artist ought to headline the present, Lopez mentioned she thinks Unhealthy Bunny, 31, is ideal for the gig.
“It might be a whole lot of completely different folks. That’s the factor,” she advised Melvin. “I’m tremendous excited for folks to see him. I believe they’ll be pleasantly stunned, as a result of his music transcends language. It’s superb what he’s finished. He’s finished one thing that lots of people have by no means finished of their life.”
Lopez additionally had nothing however optimistic phrases to say about her personal Tremendous Bowl halftime present efficiency with Unhealthy Bunny, which occurred in 2020.
“Me, Shakira, Unhealthy Bunny, J Balvin — and we had a tremendous time,” she recalled. “It was a extremely cultural second.”
Jennifer Lopez performs onstage throughout the Pepsi Tremendous Bowl LIV Halftime Present at Onerous Rock Stadium on February 2, 2020, in Miami, Florida. Kevin Winter/Getty Photographs
After rumors circulated that Adele or Taylor Swift would possibly headline the 2026 halftime present, Unhealthy Bunny (actual title Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio) was confirmed because the occasion’s performer in September. The announcement was met with backlash from conservative commentators sad about every little thing from the truth that Unhealthy Bunny sings in Spanish to his resolution to not tour in the USA due to his worry that ICE will raid his live performance venues.
President Donald Trump weighed in on Monday as effectively, claiming he has “by no means heard of” Unhealthy Bunny throughout an interview with Newsmax.
“I don’t know who he’s, I don’t know why they’re doing it — it’s, like, loopy,” mentioned Trump, 79. “They blame it on some promoter they employed to choose up leisure. I believe it’s completely ridiculous.”
Over time, viewers have witnessed Tremendous Bowl moments throughout the halftime present which were memorable for varied causes. In 2004, Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake delivered a controversial efficiency that has continued to be a subject of dialog. On the time, Jackson joined Timberlake as a shock visitor, and a wardrobe malfunction ended […]
Unhealthy Bunny himself clapped again at his critics whereas internet hosting Saturday Evening Reside on Saturday, October 4.
“I’m very comfortable, and I believe everyone seems to be comfortable about it — even Fox Information,” he joked throughout his monologue.
The variability present then performed a montage that includes information protection that was edited to say, “Unhealthy Bunny is my favourite musician and he needs to be the subsequent president.”
The “Nuevayol” artist went on to say that “folks all world wide who love my music” are excited in regards to the efficiency earlier than including in Spanish, “Particularly all the Latinos and Latinas on the earth right here in the USA who’ve labored to open doorways. It’s greater than a win for myself, it’s a win for all of us. Our footprints and our contribution on this nation, nobody will ever have the ability to take that away or erase it.”
Tremendous Bowl LX is about for February 8, 2026.
