Unabridged: Bad Bunny Bowl with Vanessa Díaz & Petra Rivera-Rideau

We're back for the second annual Super Bowl breakdown bonus episode. That's right, we're digging into Bad Bunny's incredible performance at this year's Super Bowl. I’m joined by Vanessa Díaz and Petra Rivera-Rideau, authors of P FKN R: How Bad Bunny Became the Global Voice of Puerto Rican Resistance, creators of the Bad Bunny Syllabus Project, and Associate Professors of two different university-level Bad Bunny courses. We share our thoughts on the performance overall, and then break it all down, beat by beat, from the flags to the telephone poles to Lady Gaga and so much more.

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Everything we talk about on today’s episode can be found below in the show notes. You can also find what we talked about on Bookshop.org and Amazon.

• P FKN R by Vanessa Díaz and Petra R. Rivera-Rideau

• Bad Bunny

• Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl Halftime Show (NFL)

• Kendrick Lamar

• “Unabridged: Kendricks ‘Great American Game’ with David Dennis Jr.” (The Stacks)

• "LO QUE LE PASÓ A HAWAii" (Bad Bunny, 2025)

• COINTELPRO

• “I Like It” (Cardi B, Bad Bunny & J Balvin, 2018)

• J Balvin

• Young Miko

• Ricky Martin

• "Safaera" (Bad Bunny, 2020)

• Un Verano Sin Ti by Bad Bunny

• “Ojitos Lindos” (Bad Bunny, 2022)

• “Neverita” (Bad Bunny, 2022)

• “Después de la Playa” (Bad Bunny, 2022)

• Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl Halftime Show (NFL)

• Villa’s Tacos (Los Angeles, CA)

• Lady Gaga

• The Stacks Pack

• “Which Bad Bunny Halftime Show Did You See?” (Vanessa Díaz and Petra R. Rivera-Rideau, The New York Times)

• Samuel L. Jackson

• "El Apagón" (Bad Bunny, 2022)

• “Bad Bunny opens Grammy speech calling for ‘ICE out'“ (NBCLA)

• Usher’s Apple Music Super Bowl Halftime Show (NFL)

• "NUEVAYoL" (Bad Bunny, 2025)

• “Bad Bunny Reveals Real Meaning Behind His 64 Jersey for Super Bowl Halftime Show “ (Tionah Lee, E News)

• "Tití Me Preguntó" (Bad Bunny, 2022)

• “Bad Bunny - Tití Me Preguntó (Official Video)” (Bad Bunny)

• Lin-Manuel Miranda

• Forty Million Dollar Slaves by William C. Rhoden

• "Yo Perreo Sola" (Bad Bunny, 2020)

• "EoO" (Bad Bunny, 2025)

• “Quiero Bailar” (Ivy Queen, 2004)

• “BAD BUNNY - YO PERREO SOLA | YHLQMDLG (Official Video)” (Bad Bunny)

• “Party” (Bad Bunny, 2022)

• “The Story Behind Bad Bunny’s Zara Outfit at the 2026 Super Bowl—Including That “64” Jersey” (Christian Allaire, Vogue)

• Pedro Pascal

• “Gasolina” (Daddy Yankee, 2004)

• “Meet Charm La’Donna, the Black choreographer behind Bad Bunny, Kendrick Lamar & Beyoncé’s halftime shows” (Haniyah Philogene, The Grio)

• Beyoncé Super Bowl Halftime Show

• The Weeknd Super Bowl Halftime Show

• Tainy

• Héctor “El Father”

• "Voy a Llevarte Pa’ PR" (Bad Bunny, 2025)

• Sapo Concho

• Common coquí

• Axolotl

• "Monaco" (Bad Bunny, 2023)

• “Bad Bunny Is Queer to Me” (Julio Capó, Jr., The Abusable Past)

• "Die with a Smile" (Lady Gaga & Bruno Mars, 2024)

• Bruno Mars

• “Meet LoS SOBRiNOS, Bad Bunny’s Tiny Desk & ‘DTmF’ Band” (Juan J. Arroyo, Remezcla)

• "BAILE INoLVIDABLE" (Bad Bunny, 2025)

• “Livin’ la Vida Loca” (Ricky Martin, 1999)

• “Shake Your Bon-Bon” (Ricky Martin, 1999)

• “Ricky Martin Praises Bad Bunny for LGBTQ+ Allyship” (The Kelly Clarkson Show, 2025)

• “Alright” (Kendrick Lamar, 2015)

• MAG

• “Bad Bunny - El Apagón - Aquí Vive Gente (Official Video) | Un Verano Sin Ti” (Bad Bunny)

• “P FKN R” (Bad Bunny, 2020)

• "CAFé CON RON" (Bad Bunny, 2025)

• Los Pleneros de la Cresta

• P FKN R Book Official Playlist

• Shine Bright by Danyel Smith

• Shine Bright Playlist

• “BAD BUNNY - DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS (Short Film)” (Bad Bunny)

• Jacobo Morales

• David Dennis Jr.

• “Serena Williams’ crip walk is more than a Drake dis. What it means to LA and Black culture”(Dana Littlefield, LAist)

• Segun Oduolowu

• Carlos Santana

• Janet Jackson

• Justin Timberlake

• The Rolling Stones

• Tom Petty

• Taylor Swift

• Jay-Z

• “Watch Bad Bunny Open the 2023 Grammys With ‘El Apagón’ and ‘Después de la Playa’” (Rob Arcand, Pitchfork)

• P FKN R by Vanessa Díaz & Petra Rivera-Rideau (Audiobook)

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