Rep. Andy Ogles (R-TN) was not at all impressed by the Super Bowl LX Halftime Show, featuring a performance by international superstar — and anti-ICE agitator — Bad Bunny, referring to it as “indecent” and morally reprehensible. So bad and depraved was the performance in Ogles’ eyes that he believes it now deserves an inquiry.
Following the show, Ogles got on social media platform X to share his concerns about Bad Bunny’s performance, sharing a letter he penned to the House Energy and Commerce Committee calling for a formal congressional inquiry into the National Football League and broadcaster NBCUniversal over their “prior knowledge, review, and approval” of what he called a “performance dominated by sexually explicit lyrical themes and suggestive choreography.”
The congressman referred to the halftime show as “pure smut” and then noted the “explicit displays of gay sexual acts, women gyrating provocatively, and Bad Bunny shamelessly grabbing his crotch while dry-humping the air” before focusing his attack on the mostly Spanish-language lyrics that he claims “openly glorified sodomy and countless other unspeakable depravities.”
Ogles, who President Donald Trump called a “conservative warrior,” made the case in his post that the songs included in Bad Bunny’s show, which featured his hit songs “Safaera” and “Yo Perreo Sola,” included a plethora of references to sexual content that would be “readily apparent across any language barrier.” He then explained that it was “highly implausible” that the NFL and NBC were unaware of the content of the songs before the show aired, stating they, too, should be held accountable.
“I write to request that you open a formal congressional inquiry,” Ogles said in the letter, “consistent with the Committee’s jurisdiction over broadcast regulation and FCC oversight, into the National Football League (NFL) and NBCUniversal regarding their prior knowledge, review and approval of explicit and indecent content broadcast during the Apple Music Super Bowl LX Halftime Show on February 8, 2026.”
According to Breitbart, the Tennessee Republican wants an investigation to discover to what extent executives and producers were aware of the content contained in the songs and the choreography that accompanied them, along with information concerning the internal review and translation processes, and whether any safeguards were “properly applied” or if they were “intentionally disregarded.”
He then added, “The halftime performance, headlined by Bad Bunny, was aired live during primetime hours on over-the-air-television and viewed by tens of millions of Americans, including a substantial number of children and families. The Super Bowl is consistently the largest family viewing event in American media. As such, broadcasters bear a heightened responsibility to ensure that programming aired during this uniquely national event complies with longstanding broadcast decency expectations and serves the public interest.”
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The report goes on to point out that plenty of folks were displeased with Bad Bunny and the NFL’s choice to have him perform at halftime, choosing to watch alternatives, such as the “All America Halftime Show,” put together by Turning Point USA. The day following their event, performer Kid Rock skyrocketed to the top spot on iTunes with his version of “Til You Can’t,” smacking Bad Bunny out of the top spot.
Kid Rock wasn’t the only one who climbed the charts thanks to his TPUSA performance. Country singer Gabby Barrett’s “The Good Ones” hit number four, ousting another Bad Bunny tune, “Titi Me Pregunto” from the spot.
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