“Bad Bunny. He’s one of the biggest stars in the music industry! And he is wildly successful because people freely choose to spend their money streaming his music and going to his shows.
It makes as much sense to criticize Bad Bunny for being unsuccessful as it does to attack him for being un-American. Both are factually untrue and transparently ridiculous.
That doesn’t mean you have to like Bad Bunny’s music. I can barely name three of his songs. (Approaching 40 is rough.) You don’t have to applaud his halftime performance—although, c’mon, it was pretty cool and quite impressive on a production and technical level, and it told a story that a non-Spanish speaker could follow.
And you don’t have to like that he sings in Spanish, which seems to be the real root of most of the complaints about him headlining the Super Bowl. That’s a matter of personal taste.
But the right-wing outrage machine takes gripes based on personal taste and extrapolates them into questions of merit. And some, like Loomer, then try to add a racial element.
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A political movement that is determined to create unnecessary grievances targeting America’s most successful homegrown artists is not upholding meritocracy or other American values. It is demanding conformity and its own version of political correctness. Most of us have had enough of that, and we don’t much care whether it is coming from the right or the left.”