There is no denying that the most popular sporting event in the United States is the Super Bowl. The National Football League (NFL) is the most valuable sports league in the world, and the game consistently draws in the hundreds of millions of viewers. However, while the spectacle hosts some of the planet’s greatest athletes, a break in the middle of the game is still necessary for maintaining elite play. This has always posed a problem for the league when it comes to their championship: how do they maintain the interest of their uniquely massive audience during this time period where no football is played?
For decades, the solution has been having famous artists perform elegant concerts in the stadium while the teams rest in the locker rooms. Kendrick Lamar, The Weeknd, Justin Timberlake and Lady Gaga are just a few of the renowned names that have starred at “The Big Game” over the last few years. This tradition of combining football with music stars has proven to be a hit, as some now watch the game primarily for the halftime performance.
However, as always, public interest comes with public opinion, and the reveal of this year’s performer drew criticism from the jump. Puerto Rican singer and rapper Bad Bunny was selected as the Super Bowl LX halftime entertainer, starring the show on Feb. 8, 2026, despite his music typically being performed in Spanish. Millions argued about whether this was appropriate when the majority of Americans speak English, ultimately forging a controversy that persisted well past the game.
Given this debate, how do students at Brighton High School feel? Did they even watch the halftime show? And if they did, were they fans of Bad Bunny’s performance? The truth is that, much like the country as a whole, the student base is divided.
“[It was] terrible. Absolutely terrible,” senior Drew Seremet. “I couldn’t understand a single thing he was saying.”
He felt passionately that it was a poor showing on national television. Similarly, senior Kyle Hartman agreed, saying that the performance was lacking.
“My dad… watched the halftime show for about two minutes, and he said ‘this is bogus,’” Hartman said.
Hartman is not a football fan and did not watch any of Super Bowl LX, but he still said, “all I’ve heard about [the halftime show] is that it was terrible.”
To say nobody left with positive reviews would be untrue, though.
“I really liked how Bad Bunny brought out all the flags, all the countries. That was really cool,” senior Payton Watts said.
For sophomore Samantha Daksiewicz, she enjoyed the performance as a whole, saying it “had a lot of great symbolism of what’s going on in America right now.”
Thus, regardless of how one personally feels, this cross section of student opinions suggests that there is far from a consensus on the quality of this year’s Super Bowl halftime show, serving as a reminder of just how subjective the entertainment industry can be.
