Overview
- The 13-minute Apple Music halftime set at Levi’s Stadium showcased Latino life with staged vignettes, surprise cameos by Lady Gaga and Ricky Martin, and a moment where Bad Bunny handed a Grammy replica to a child saying, “Cree siempre en ti.”
- After viral claims misidentified the child, a Bad Bunny publicist and the Conejo Ramos family said it was not Liam Conejo Ramos, with Fox’s Instagram and a TODAY.com interview confirming Lincoln Fox’s role.
- Audience data show robust online viewing: Turning Point USA’s counterprogrammed ‘All-American Halftime Show’ surpassed 19–20 million YouTube views with about 6.1 million concurrent viewers, while Bad Bunny’s YouTube upload outpaced it and the TV audience is expected to exceed 100 million.
- The production team said Bad Bunny led a tightly timed, two‑month build featuring more than 300 dancers and narrative staging that culminated with the message “Together, we are America.”
- Giancarlo Guerrero appeared conducting young string players, marking the first visible classical musician in a halftime set since 2016, as political reactions ranged widely, including a sharply critical post from President Donald Trump.