Bad Bunny shares how he is preparing for his Super Bowl halftime show
Bad Bunny talks Super Bowl prep from workouts to mindset and staying true to himself.
Bad Bunny brought his signature fashion flair to the Super Bowl on Sunday, treating viewers to sporty chic during a rousing halftime performance.
While taking the stage at Levi’s Stadium for the Apple Music Super Bowl LX Halftime Show, the Grammy-winning singer, wore an off-white football jersey with the number 64, which he elegantly draped over a matching shirt, tie and chinos combo.
The look, designed not by the high fashion houses that dominate the runway, but instead by the everyday retailer Zara.
The ensemble was accompanied by a pair of chunky sneakers with a gray and white colorway. Which model are they? Those are the exclusive BadBo 1.0s, a sneaker from Adidas designed by Bad Bunny himself. A limited run of the style in brown and white sold like hotcakes last weekend, quickly hitting the 1,994 pairs cap, a nod to the singer’s birth year, Vogue reports.
Bad Bunny 64: What does the number mean?
Given Bad Bunny’s overall easter-egg heavy approach to the performance, theories have already begun to abound on the significance of the number 64.
While some speculated that it was a nod to his mother’s birth year, others ventured that it was a tribute to his 2020 album “El Último Tour del Mundo,” which became the first Spanish-language project in 64 years to top the all-genre Billboard 200 chart. Given the set’s reference to Puerto Rico’s rich history and electrical grid issues often worsened by natural disaster, one theory posits that the 64 is actually a reference to the initial government death toll for Hurricane Maria, a controversial claim that was eventually corrected to 1,427. Complex Magazine also reported that it was a tribute to the singer’s late uncle, who wore 64 as a football player.
The singer set the record straight Monday, however, saying in a statement to The Cut that the jersey was a tribute to his uncle.
His late relative, Cutito, was born in 1964 and left Puerto Rico to work on the U.S. mainland at 17. In the statment, Bad Bunny credited his uncle for teaching him “much of what he knows about the NFL.”
“I always dreamed of taking my uncle to a Super Bowl, and I couldn’t. He left unexpectedly, without warning. So during my Super Bowl halftime show, I decided to have him on my shirt,” the artist told the outelt. “I dedicated my performance to him before it began. I’m sure he saw it, he was present, and he felt proud of his nephew.”
Bad Bunny’s fashion pushes boundaries
Known for his daring approach to clothing, Bad Bunny has become a style icon over the years. Whether donning a pava-inspired hat for the Met Gala or a white-on-white tribute to the finely tailored menswear of yesteryear, the singer doesn’t shy away from statement dressing.
Ahead of the halftime show, rumors swirled that Bad Bunny would don a dress, paying tribute to the LGBTQ icons of his native Puerto Rico. The idea sparked outrage amid conservative commentators, who already were not thrilled by his choice as a Super Bowl headliner.
The reggaeton superstar, who’s become known for his androgynous red-carpet style, has previously opened up about his gender-bending aesthetic.
“Everybody has to feel comfortable with what they are and how they feel,” Bad Bunny told GQ in 2022. “To me, a dress is a dress. If I wear a dress, would it stop being a woman’s dress? Or vice versa? Like, no. It’s a dress, and that’s it. It’s not a man’s, it’s not a woman’s. It’s a dress.”
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