Colin Sheridan: Bad Bunny's show spoke the language of the colonised 

Bad Bunny's Super Bowl half-time show was full of cultural codes that many viewers would’ve missed because it was performed in one of the most conservative spaces in American life — the NFL, writes Colin Sheridan 

Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl half-time show, performed almost entirely in Spanish, was widely described as a triumph: a pop-cultural coronation for a global star.

For just a few minutes on Sunday night, on the biggest stage in American entertainment, the United States was forced to watch itself through someone else’s eyes. 

Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl half-time show, performed almost entirely in Spanish, was widely described as a triumph: a pop-cultural coronation for a global star. But that framing, while not wrong, is also a kind of evasion. It suggests the show was a victory of progress. Something safe. It wasn't safe. It was deeply political. And in Trump’s America, that’s no small thing.