Bad Bunny sends fans into meltdown as he storms the Super Bowl halftime show stage with Lady Gaga and Pedro Pascal

Bad Bunny blew the minds of fans and viewers as he headlined the halftime show at Sunday's Super Bowl LX with surprise support from Lady Gaga and Pedro Pascal.

Gaga made an unexpected appearance with 31-year-old Puerto Rican performer (real name: Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio) after the opening medley.

They performed at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, California, where the Seattle Seahawks and the New England Patriots are facing off.

Gaga was dressed in a lovely blue ruched sleeveless dress with a plunging neckline as she appeared at a microphone.

She performed Die With A Smile, but in a rearranged Salsa-style version.

Ricky Martin also joined the show later to perform Lo que le pasó a Hawaii.

'As a lady gaga fan and a bad bunny fan this halftime show was straight up crack in my veins,' one fan gushed on X.

'bad bunny and Gaga’s relationship is the cutest thing ever,' another viewer enthused. 

'Bad Bunny was fantastic! I loved the vibes and the whole look/feel. Plus Gaga and Ricky? A+ Benito!!' read one person's review.

But a less-impressed fan theorized that 'bad bunny had to bring out lady gaga bc he ran out of hits.' 

Another viewer opined: 'It was fine. GaGa was good. Dancers were good. I don’t understand how Bad Bunny is considered talented. Maybe I’m just old.'

Some fans thought Cardi B would have been a better choice to join Bad Bunny.

'Getting lady gaga to perform for 2 minutes with a song that makes zero sense to bad bunny, why didn’t they get cardi b to perform their song? Makes no sense,' wrote one unimpressed poster.

Bad Bunny's mostly Spanish set began with Tití Me Preguntó, which he sang while walking through a sugar cane field that had been constructed on the field.

The Puerto Rican star strolled through the sugar cane as people mimed harvesting it.

He was dressed in a short white shirt and white trousers with drawstrings, and he carried a football in his white-gloved hands. 

He followed the song up with Yo Perreo Sola, Safaera, Party, Voy a Llevarte Pa’ PR, EoO and Monaco. 

As he exited the maze of sugar cane, he stopped to sing next to fruit vendors, a table of old men playing games, a beautician styling another woman's nails and a shave ice stand.

He past a grill serving tacos, ducked under two men who were boxing and stopped to accept a ring in a red box from a man behind a jewelry display case.

Then the performer handed the ring case to another man, who instantly got down on one knee and proposed to the woman standing opposite him. 

Bad Bunny had a salsa dance break with Lady Gaga after bring her out to sing Die With A Smile, her 2024 collaborative single with Bruno Mars.

Afterward, Bad Bunny regained sole control of the show and performed BAILE INoLVIDABLE, NUEVAYoL, before he brought out Ricky Martin to sing on LO QUE LE PASÓ A HAWAii.

The song debuted on Bad Bunny's most recent LP, the 2025 hit Debí Tirar Más Fotos.

Bad Bunny closed out his set with El Apagón, CAFé CON RON and his latest LP's title track, DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS.

Leading up to the Super Bowl, fans had wondered if Bad Bunny would use his biggest platform yet to speak out against the second Trump administration and immigration crackdowns across the US led by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). 

Even before the hitmaker took to the field, some football fans — particularly MAGA followers and fans of Donald Trump — grumbled on social media about his selection.

'Picking between Kid Rock and Bad Bunny for a halftime show is like choosing between the recent Republican and Democrat[ic] presidential nominees for president. They both sucked,' seethed one account on X (formerly Twitter).

Others said they would be tuning in to watch Kid Rock's competing, unofficial halftime show instead. 

'Bad Bunny or country music. Guess I'll do the halftime dishes,' joked one user who wasn't a fan of either option.

One post featured a photo of Bad Bunny standing on a car roof in front of the sugar cane field while dancers surrounded him.

It contrasted that with a screenshot of Kid Rock along on stage in front of American flags.

 'The NFL halftime show vs the TPUSA halftime show. Neutrality isn't an option,' they wrote obliquely.

In response to a tweet about Gaga's surprise appearance, one conservative viewer replied, 'Coykdnt care lessm we Watched TPUSA [sic].'

Another conservative viewer branded Bad Bunny's halftime show as 'cringe.' 

'The heck, I have NO IDEA wtf the angry rabbit was singing about,' they wrote. 'I watched the first 5 minutes of its show, and I surrendered, I can't stand the cringe — tuned in TPUSA instead. And was it something like the UN parade or the US Superbowl, because I'm confused.' 

It wasn't Bad Bunny's first time performing at the Super Bowl, as he previously spiced up 2020's Super Bowl LIV halftime show with a guest appearance with co-headliners Jennifer Lopez and Shakira. 

However, he became the first solo Latin headliner to lead a Super Bowl halftime show with his performance. 

His performance comes just a week after he made history at the 68th Grammy Awards ceremony by winning the album of the year award for Debí Tirar Más Fotos.

The win marked the first time a Spanish-language LP has won the coveted Grammys honor.

Bad Bunny was clearly emotional after his Grammy win, as he sat down in disbelief and cried for several seconds with his head in his hand after his name was read.

In his speech — which he delivered mostly in Spanish — Bad Bunny joined other stars in supporting immigrants and alluding to ICE raids across the US: 'I want to dedicate this award to all the people that had to leave their homeland, their country, to follow their dreams.'

But he made his criticism of the agency explicit elsewhere in his acceptance speech. 

'Before I say thanks to God, I'm going to say, ICE Out,' Bad Bunny stated before the Grammys audience erupted in cheers and applause. 

'We are not savage. We are not animals. We are not aliens. We are humans, and we are Americans,' the rapper continued. 

'The hate gets more powerful with more hate. The only thing that is more powerful than hate is love. So, please, we need to be different,' he continued. 'If we fight, we have to do it with love.'

Bad Bunny added, 'We don't hate them, we love our people, we love our family, and that's the way to do it, with love.'

Following his ICE criticism, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell was forced to address Bad Bunny's upcoming halftime show on Monday.

Speaking at his annual press conference at Super Bowl week, Goodell raved that Bad Bunny is 'one of the greatest artists in the world', and he added that the Puerto Rican singer 'understood the platform he was on.'

'This platform is used to unite people and to be able to bring people together with their creativity, with their talent, and to be able to use this moment to do that. I think artists in the past have done that,' Goodell said. 'I think Bad Bunny understands that and I think he'll have a great performance.'

The NFL and Super Bowl were engulfed in controversy beginning in September, when Bad Bunny was announced as the Super Bowl halftime show performer.

The choice was attacked by not only conservatives and right-wing pundits, but also highly placed government officials, who rebuked Bad Bunny over his past criticisms of the current administration's controversial immigration policies.

The hitmaker notably didn't perform any concerts on the mainland US for his latest concert tour, which he said was due to the potential presence of ICE agents.

'There were many reasons why I didn't show up in the US, and none of them were out of hate — I've performed there many times,' Bad Bunny told I-D Magazine after announcing his tour. 'All of [the shows] have been successful. All of them have been magnificent. I've enjoyed connecting with Latinos who have been living in the US. But specifically, for a residency here in Puerto Rico, when we are an unincorporated territory of the United States. 

People from the US could come here to see the show. Latinos and Puerto Ricans of the United States could also travel here, or to any part of the world,' he continued. 'But there was the issue of — like, f***ing ICE could be outside [my concert]. 

'And it's something that we were talking about and very concerned about,' he added.

Donald Trump was one of the most vociferous critics of the NFL's selection of Bad Bunny to perform at the Super Bowl.

In an interview from October, Trump said it was 'absolutely ridiculous' that Bad Bunny had been booked, and he claimed that he wouldn't attend the Super Bowl because of his selection.

His administration has also said that ICE agents will be out in force to patrol the Bay Area during the game.

'We'll be all over that place,' said Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, who has been forced to defend her performance in recent weeks after multiple protesters were shot and killed in Minneapolis by ICE agents, including Renée Good and Alex Pretti. 

Good, 37, was fatally shot in the face in her car by an agent who was filming the encounter with his cell phone in one hand.

Pretti, a VA nurse who worked in the intensive care unit, was shot from behind a combined 10 times by two ICE agents after he tried to intervene on behalf of a woman agents had shoved to the ground.

Video of his killing appears to show that Pretti, who was armed with handgun, had been disarmed by one agent moments before two others shot him repeatedly while he was on the ground.

Their deaths have set off renewed protests across the US against the Trump administration and ICE. 

A DHS official previously claimed about the Super Bowl that 'Those who are here legally and are not breaking other laws have nothing to fear.' 

Noem had previously said fans should steer clear of the Super Bowl 'unless they are law-abiding Americans who love this country.'

'We’ll be all over that place... we’re gonna enforce the law,' she said.

Late last week, ESPN reported that an NFL team owner shared their concerns about Bad Bunny's halftime show with Goodell.

They allegedly shared their fears that giving the Puerto Rican hitmaker such a big platform could lead the government to lash out by refusing to approve a deal to sell several of the league's assets, including the NFL Network, to ESPN.

In exchange, the NFL would receive a 10-percent stake in ESPN. 

According to a source, the team owner berated Goodell and said he 'should've thought through that better.'

But despite the alleged internal warnings, the NFL didn't give any indication that it was having second thoughts about booking Bad Bunny. 

Bad Bunny, who hails from Bayamón, Puerto Rico, began writing and performing his own music when he was just 14, and by 2016 he had already scored a record deal on the strength of a song he posted to SoundCloud. 

His early successes on the Latin charts led to high-profile collaborations with stars including Cardi B, J Balvin and Drake. 

In 2020, his album YHLQMDLG debuted at number two on the Billboard 200 albums chart, making it the highest-charting album on the charts that was completely in Spanish. 

His most recent album debuted at the top of the chart and was widely praised by critics, many of whom placed it on their lists of the best albums of 2025.