Discussion about football after the Super Bowl? Not this year. This year a new subject captures the winning topic of gossip everywhere. The halftime show. Or some may say shows (plural).
September 28, 2025. An announcement that causes uproar in thrill and indignation is released. Bad Bunny is announced to be the artist for this year’s Super Bowl halftime show. While football is the cake of the Super Bowl…what is cake without its ideal frosting?
Picking an artist for the halftime show hasn’t seemed to be an issue over the past few years. This year, controversy broke out in response. Social media commentators argued about it being only in Spanish, about it failing to be a good representation of America and more.
Turning Point USA replies to those arguments by creating The All American Halftime Show as an alternative to the halftime show provided by the Super Bowl. Nonetheless, this did not put the chaos to rest.
Arden Eby, a teacher at Wilsonville High School says in response to TPUSA’s creation, “We are way over sensitive over these issues, and like it would be really good if everyone just chilled and rolled with the flow.”
Eby, alongside many others, feels that the extreme backlash that Bad Bunny is receiving is rather silly considering “Puerto Rico is a part of the U.S., and he is a U.S citizen by birth, so who cares. If you don’t speak the language, then guess what — we don’t have an official language. There have been many attempts, but we do not have an official language so who cares.” Eby explains.
Although the game is over, the mixed feelings have yet to retreat. Everyone has personal reactions and opinions to the halftime show every year, but this year a new extreme has been unlocked.
Donald Trump even decided to post his own grand opinion on social media saying, “This ‘Show’ is just a ‘slap in the face’ to our country.” He also shared that “there is nothing inspirational about this mess of a Halftime show.”
To others, though, this show was everything. This show allowed people to see themselves represented in front of millions of viewers. This show united different cultures. Caleb Hernandez, a junior at Wilsonville, speaks for this side of the crowd and shares how “the message that ‘The only thing more powerful than hate is love’ was so beautiful and his symbolism with the field workers and more felt very personal to Puerto Rico and the kid sleeping at the party felt very relatable.”
While Bad Bunny’s performance resonated with some audiences, the TPUSA’s performance connected with other’s because of the ability to understand and comprehend the language. Roman Keysalov, a student at Wilsonville High, explains how “I personally don’t speak Spanish, so I didn’t really understand the official one so I did watch both. I enjoyed both, but I am leaning more towards the Turning Point one because I understood it.”
Overall, one thing has been made very clear. After the astonishing football that was played in the Super Bowl, it was the halftime show that caught people’s attention.