The story Bad Bunny was telling through song with his all-Spanish Super Bowl halftime show wasn’t terribly complicated, if one is to believe Guillermo Rodriguez‘s translation.
On Monday night’s episode of ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live!, host Jimmy Kimmel spent the first stretch of his monologue talking about reactions (namely, Fox Newspersons and their ilk) to Bad Bunny’s halftime show performance.
Kimmel also took some shots at Kid Rock’s pre-taped, abysmally lip-synched, and sparsely attended “rival” performance on behalf of Turning Point USA’s “All-American” halftime show alternative.
“It’s magical how he does that,” not moving his mouth and yet words are sung, Kimmel quipped over a replay. “They complain about how bad everything is, and then they do it worse. And not only do they do it worse, they do it in jorts.”
“Did I know any of the songs Bad Bunny was singing? Absolutely not. Never heard even one second of one of them,” Kimmel conceded. “Did I understand any of what he was saying? Yes. The word nunca. That was it.
“But since when do we need to know what the singers were saying?” he asked. “Michael Jackson, maybe the best performance of all time, was like ‘jam on, jam on, you know it.’ I didn’t know it. Nobody knew it. We didn’t know it then, and 33 years later, we still don’t know what the hell that means. But that’s the point. It doesn’t matter. It’s the halftime show at a football game.”
Regarding the backlash to Bad Bunny’s all-Spanish performance, Kimmel pointed out that “English has a lot of at-bats over the last 60 years at Super Bowls—it’s been a long run since ‘Shake your body, do that conga’—and the biggest artist in the world is Bad Bunny. So, maybe let Spanish have a chance for once.”
Still, some like me got Ds in took French in high school, so Kimmel did viewers a solid by asking sidekick Guillermo to translate Bad Bunny’s lyrics in real time, as a replay played. Press play below to see what the football and the coconuts and the ring and the boxers were really all about.
— LateNighter (@latenightercom) February 10, 2026
