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The NFL’s decision to feature Latin artist Bad Bunny at halftime has already sparked controversy in some conservative circles, with critics arguing that his predominantly Spanish-language music and stances on issues such as immigration make him an unconventional pick for the game’s massive audience.

His 2025 song “Nuevayol” features an imitated Trump voice saying, “I want to apologize to the immigrants in America. . . . This country is nothing without the immigrants. This country is nothing without Mexicans, Dominicans, Puerto Ricans, Colombians, Venezuelans, Cubans.”

Green Day, which formed in the East Bay Area in the 1980s, is set to perform during the game’s opening ceremony. Frontman Billie Joe Armstrong has long denounced the administration and has altered the lyrics of the band’s 2004 Grammy-nominated song “American Idiot” during live performances, changing the line “I’m not a part of a redneck agenda” to “I’m not a part of a MAGA agenda.”

In July, Armstrong led a Download Festival crowd in a chant calling Trump a “fat bastard.”

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[–] MyDogLovesMe@lemmy.world 173 points 5 days ago (4 children)

And you’ll get booed in live TV?

Maybe worse?

[–] humanamerican@lemmy.zip 87 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 28 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Yup. He's likely not to get lots of adulation from conservatives that clap like seals whenever he mumbles out stupid shit like happens at his stupid road shows.

[–] SnarkoPolo@lemmy.world 9 points 4 days ago (3 children)

There's a reason he doesn't do them anymore. Either he's too sick, or there's just not enough interest, even from his most bigly followers.

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[–] crystalmerchant@lemmy.world 8 points 4 days ago (1 children)

He would get booed but I'm pretttttty sure the network would find a way not to air it

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

No, sir...they're saying boo-urns.

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[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 8 points 3 days ago

What a shame, I'll really miss him getting booed.

[–] Tempus_Fugit@lemmy.world 81 points 5 days ago (2 children)

We already know he's anti-America. I can't wait to take a shit on his grave. That will be a great day.

[–] meejle@lemmy.world 39 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Hope his ghoulish family shoves him under a golf course and forgets about him, like he did with Ivana.

[–] Golden@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 5 days ago (2 children)

They'll make his a tourist attraction 

[–] alpha1beta@piefed.social 17 points 5 days ago (1 children)

$2 per piss. $10 for a dookie

[–] ClassStruggle@lemmy.ml 8 points 5 days ago (1 children)
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[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 3 points 4 days ago

When I go to pay my respects, it'll be the day after I eat 12 food-truck tamales and a massive quantity of frijoles.

The monument's going to look like a housepainter's radio on the day he's been using brown paint.

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 21 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Too scared to come to California, you sad little bitch?

[–] GladiusB@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago
[–] jve@lemmy.world 9 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Surprisingly based halftime show from the league.

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[–] BigBenis@lemmy.world 16 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

He knows he'd get unrelentingly booed for the world to see. He couldn't even handle a single autoworker jeering at him the other day.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 41 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Green Day has been protesting presidents since their band formed

[–] FenrirIII@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

American Idiot is a classic

[–] JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

Trump has no shame whatsoever. There's no way he'd let some musical acts that hate him chase him away from a big event. His health must be way worse than they're letting on, if he isn't already dead.

This sounds like a win.

[–] EmpireInDecay@lemmy.ml 24 points 5 days ago (1 children)

He doesn't want to be present when Green Day has the crowd chanting Fuck Donald Trump, Fuck ICE, and Fuck Government?

[–] GladiusB@lemmy.world 11 points 4 days ago

It's also in Green Day's home town (a few small cities away) the Bay Area. He will get no love here.

[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 12 points 4 days ago

He doesn't even listen to music. He just doesn't like to be booed.

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 18 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I'm not part of your maga agenda!

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 8 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Now everybody, do the propaganda!

[–] TommySoda@lemmy.world 17 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (3 children)

Even with how mad MAGA supposedly is, I betcha $10 this will be the most popular Super Bowl of the decade. I think the internet and news media vastly overestimate MAGA's influence on the daily lives of every American. I live in a big red county in a rural area and lemme tell ya, basically nobody gives a shit about 70% of what the internet and the news says they do. I'm not saying they are saints, I'm just saying that when you see "MAGA angry at [blank]" most of the time it's literally just, like, a Reddit post, a few tweets, or some right wing podcaster.

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[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 11 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] choco_crispies@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 days ago

Wish they were playing too

[–] m3t00@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

bunker dweller

[–] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Some people can improve an event by not attending.

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 8 points 4 days ago

He can improve the world that way, too.

[–] reddig33@lemmy.world 13 points 5 days ago

Trump throwing a tantrum about the Super Bowl is the least of my concerns right now.

[–] Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 11 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Damn; every missed public event is a missed opportunity to shoot that POS right in the face.

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[–] FreddiesLantern@leminal.space 7 points 4 days ago

Good news out of the USA. Keep it up guys!

[–] DylanMc6@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Billie joe Armstrong should run for President during this year's Halftime Show

[–] DylanMc6@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 4 days ago
[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 9 points 5 days ago (1 children)
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[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (5 children)

From all the way back when we thought Dubya was as bad as it could get:

Don't wanna be an American idiot

Don't want a nation under the new media

And can you hear the sound of hysteria?

The subliminal mind fuck America

Welcome to a new kind of tension

All across the alienation

Where everything isn't meant to be okay

Television dreams of tomorrow

We're not the ones who're meant to follow

For that's enough to argue

Well maybe I'm the faggot America

I'm not a part of a redneck agenda

Now everybody do the propaganda

And sing along to the age of paranoia

Welcome to a new kind of tension

All across the alienation

Where everything isn't meant to be okay

Television dreams of tomorrow

We're not the ones who're meant to follow

For that's enough to argue

Yeah, he's totally saying alienation.

Totally.

Not Aryan nation.

... Yep. Its an ... angsty song, not a protest song.

Mhm.

[–] vantablack@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 3 days ago

technically in the lyric booklet for the album it's written as

"alienation"

with the "nation" part bolded as if also saying "alien nation" in addition to "alienation"

[–] GreyEyedGhost@piefed.ca 6 points 4 days ago

This isn't the early 2000s, pretty much any video player can slow down without audio distortion. Play that back at 50% speed and find me that R you're talking about. I'm not hearing it.

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[–] Puddinghelmet@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

I love that part of the song

[–] Flying_Lynx@lemmy.ml 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)
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