{"id":2279922,"date":"2026-02-13T04:13:45","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T04:13:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2279922"},"modified":"2026-02-13T04:13:45","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T04:13:45","slug":"reading-the-musical-moment-via-bad-bunny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/reading-the-musical-moment-via-bad-bunny\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading the musical moment via Bad Bunny"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The \u2018Benito Bowl,\u2019 Puerto Rican superstar\u00a0<\/span>Bad Bunny\u2019s<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>Super Bowl halftime show<\/a>, sparked a global reaction across popular culture. Seen by an estimated 128 million viewers, the performance was a love letter to all things Puerto Rican. Few people in the mainland United States were as well-prepared to take it all in as students in\u00a0<\/span>Marysol Quevedo\u2019s<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>Music of Latin America class at the\u00a0<\/span>Frost School of Music<\/a>.<\/div>\n

\u201cI completely reorganized the course to get into some Cuban and Puerto Rican genres at the beginning of the semester,\u201d said Quevedo. \u201cI wanted to give students what they needed to understand musically what would happen.\u201d<\/p>\n

Marysol Quevedo giving a talk on Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl performance at the Frost School. Photo by Gonzalo Mejia\/Frost School of Music.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\u201cRicky Martin had to sing in English in 1999 to break through to the mainstream pop market, and 25-plus years later, Bad Bunny had him on the world\u2019s biggest stage singing in Spanish,\u201d said Quevedo, who gave a talk on the event for Frost School faculty and staff and was interviewed about the Super Bowl by NBC 6<\/a>, the South Florida network affiliate. \u201cThat\u2019s such a full-circle moment. I can teach a bunch of different genres through this halftime show because it engaged so many different musical styles. There are so many different angles through which to examine it \u2013 racial representation, music, lyrics, visual symbolism, fashion. It will be generating discussion for a long, long time.\u201d<\/div>\n
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Marysol Quevedo was interviewed about the Super Bowl by NBC 6.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cThere were so many tiny little things in it, all well-chosen and so meaningful,\u201d said Quevedo. \u201cThe whole thing was a brilliant master class in live video production, and the fact that nothing went wrong was amazing. Changing my class to fit it just felt like the obvious thing to do, like it would have been weird not to. Our responsibility as faculty is to work to make the classroom relevant to what is happening in the world right here and right now.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source news.miami.edu \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The \u2018Benito Bowl,\u2019 Puerto Rican superstar\u00a0Bad Bunny\u2019s\u00a0Super Bowl halftime show, sparked a global reaction across popular culture. Seen by an estimated 128 million viewers, the performance was a love letter to all things Puerto Rican. Few people in the mainland United States were as well-prepared to take it all in as students in\u00a0Marysol Quevedo\u2019s\u00a0Music of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2279923,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[441528,260129,187166,441531,441530,441529],"class_list":["post-2279922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-bad-bunny-puerto-rican-culture","tag-frost-school","tag-frost-school-of-music","tag-marysol-quevedo-latin-music","tag-marysol-quevedo-musicology","tag-superbowl-puerto-rican-culture"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Reading-the-musical-moment-via-Bad-Bunny.webp.webp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2279922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2279922"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2279922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2279924,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2279922\/revisions\/2279924"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2279923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2279922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2279922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2279922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}