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For his Super Bowl halftime show, Bad Bunny<\/a> transported the field in Northern California around 3,500 miles, transforming it into the fields of Puerto Rico. Even before he launched into \u201cTit\u00ed Me Pregunt\u00f3,\u201d the Puerto Rican superstar had suffused the set with symbols of the island \u2014 and a sense of wider Pan-Americanism. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n Here’s a breakdown of the Easter eggs hidden in plain view during the 13-minute set.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n The show opened in a sugarcane field, an homage to Puerto Rico’s main cash crop when it became a U.S. territory<\/a> at the end of the 19th century. While the island transitioned from an agricultural society in the 1950s as tax incentives were introduced to encourage manufacturing, pava-sporting j\u00edbaros (farmers) are still active \u2014 and iconic.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n The j\u00edbaros<\/a> commonly wear all white, as Bad Bunny did throughout his appearance. White, after all, helps beat the Caribbean heat. But there’s also a common saying in Latin America: \u201cEsta vestido de punta en blanco\u201d \u2014 meaning \u201cdressed in all white\u201d but in a more figurative sense, \u201cwell dressed.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Touting its \u201ccoco frio\u201d wares, the stall evokes the Caribbean roadside stands selling cold, refreshing coconut water in the fruit itself \u2014 none of that boxed stuff you’d find at the grocery store. Just add a straw. (But don’t get it on your all-white clothes. It’ll stain.) The coconut iconography proliferated the show, including the drawings of coconut footballs in the introduction. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n Other roadside stops in the show: dominoes, a common pastime;<\/a> a makeshift nail salon; a cash-only gold and silver stall; and a taco stand. Everyone, after all, loves tacos. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n \n Bad Bunny made a quick stop for piraguas,<\/a> a type of shaved ice. Each syrup bottle featured a different Latin American flag \u2014 a recurring theme in a show that took pains to acknowledge the interplay and commonalities among countries in the Americas. Take the boxers that followed soon after, Xander Zayas<\/a> and Emiliano Vargas,<\/a> who respectively wore the flags of Puerto Rico and Mexico on their shorts. Puerto Rico and Mexico have a heated rivalry in boxing that goes back decades, and both have boasted multiple world champions.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Dancing outside the casita were a range of celebrities with ties to different countries in the Americas: singers Cardi B (Dominican Republic), Karol G (Colombia) and Young Miko (Puerto Rico), actors Jessica Alba (Mexico) and Pedro Pascal (Chile) and baseball player Ronald Acu\u00f1a Jr. (Venezuela). Influencer Alix Earle and Bad Bunny’s business partner Dave Grutman were also there. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n And we can’t forget the music itself: The sequence included a projection of the sapo concho<\/a> cartoon that’s become synonymous with Bad Bunny and Puerto Rico, as well as an appearance from Nicaraguan conductor Giancarlo Guerrero.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n One of the most talked-about segments of the show was the very real wedding officiated onstage,<\/a> where the vows were immediately followed by a surprise performance from Lady Gaga. Clad in a light blue dress, Gaga sported a large pinkish-red flower: the flor de maga, the national flower of Puerto Rico. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n A less official symbol of Puerto Rico? The small child asleep on the chairs on the outskirts of the wedding. It’s a common sight at Latin American gatherings, as kids fall asleep on the makeshift beds while their parents dance the night away.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n After the wedding, it was time to party. Serving up a shot was To\u00f1ita, the owner of Brooklyn\u2019s Caribbean Social Club \u2014 one of the last Puerto Rican social clubs in New York. She received a shoutout<\/a> in his song \u201cNuevaYol.\u201d On the siding, made up to look like a liquor or beer brand was the word \u201cConejo\u201d \u2014 fitting for El Conejo Malo (quite literally, \u201cBad Bunny.\u201d)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \n No stranger to anthemizing a major sporting event<\/a> (\u201cLa Copa de la Vida,\u201d anyone?), Ricky Martin \u2014 another Puerto Rican legend and crossover star<\/a> \u2014 sang Bad Bunny’s \u201cLo Que Le Pas\u00f3 a Hawaii\u201d sitting on a white, plastic chair in front of a plantain tree. Not only are the chairs a common sight at gatherings, but the setting also evokes the cover of Bad Bunny’s \u201cDeb\u00ed Tirar M\u00e1s Fotos.\u201d That album just took home several Grammys,<\/a> one of which cameoed right before Martin’s performance.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \n The Puerto Rican flag waved during the performance featured a lighter shade of blue than the official flag \u2014 and it’s no printing accident. It’s the original Puerto Rican flag, a symbol closely associated with the independence movement.<\/a> When the U.S. took over the island, the blue was darkened to mirror the U.S. flag.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n The entire performance was a gold mine for any experts in vexillology \u2014 the study of flags. Toward the end of his performance, Bad Bunny proclaimed, \u201cGod bless America,\u201d before reciting the countries that comprise North and South America as the representative flags streamed behind him. It was a final nod to Pan-Americanism and the idea that \u201cAmerica\u201d encompasses far more than the United States. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\n Piraguas and Pan-Americanism
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\n Ricky Martin’s plastic chairs
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\n The light blue Puerto Rican flag
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