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The more I think about it, I think Green Day's approach really played into the halftime messaging — "the only thing more powerful than hate is love." I really think going on a pissed-off tirade would have just played into what the right wants and taken away from Bad Bunny. It's sort of like a "don't stoop to their level" thing and the performances spoke for themselves.

its gonna be a loooong time until we will see them live on tour again :(

Doing the Lord's work for God's favorite band

You're so right! I've really been enjoying unpacking all the cultural references in Bad Bunny's performance, like the reference to Puerto Rico's multiple, extended power outages and as you mentioned the flag, which I wasn't aware of! It reminds me of unpacking Kendrick Lamr's performance last year, which was also fantastic.

I’m trying to make it a possibility

This is a really rare and cool old photo of Mike scanned from my collection of old magazines https://www.instagram.com/p/DUOEQmEgpAk/?img_index=2&igsh=MTF2dTR4bzA4dmE1ZA==

Here's a really rare photo of Tre from my collection of old magazine clippings and posters https://www.instagram.com/p/DUOEQmEgpAk/?igsh=MTF2dTR4bzA4dmE1ZA==

Here's a very rare picture of Billie scanned from my collection of old magazine clippings and posters https://www.instagram.com/p/DUOEQmEgpAk/?img_index=1&igsh=MTF2dTR4bzA4dmE1ZA== This one didn't used to be rare but don't see it around much anymore https://www.instagram.com/p/DUn4p9bAtJS/?igsh=MWpqZjczeTIwMmxyaA==

There's a female couple in the ballroom dancing part too. There's lots of cool things I'm hearing about in the performance, for example the old lady who serves him a drink is the founder of a club in New York that was a sanctuary to Puerto Rican immigrants back in the day. There's a Puerto Rican independence flag. And the whole thing just proudly celebrating the culture and contributions it makes, and naming all the countries as American. Not a big fan of his music but it's a masterpiece of a performance I think, I can't stop watching it Like I do think it's cool that GD picked American Idiot and Holiday to play obviously. But not being able to even play them in full just made it fall flat as a protest imo. It's a shame they couldn't think of something else to add to make more of a statement without going against their contract if they didn't want to just go all out and break it. I'll stop complaining how though because I'm glad it made me watch the Bad Bunny performance lol

I also don't think it sold well in some markets. Jewel, the main store that carries it here, doesn't carry it in all their locations and some locations that used to have it don't anymore. And I don't think it's in 7 11 anymore either. Or at least I haven't seen it.

It seems like they blew their budget in that launch and haven’t seen a return. Since then there’s been no new products, no merch, and they didn’t even bother with a Christmas bundle or anything special like the cocoa they did last year. Even their social media game is pretty dead.

Junk Gypsy made an anniversary post about the time they renovated Billie Joe’s airstream and include a bunch of photos including when they later met backstage after a show on the RevRad tour. Nice story https://www.instagram.com/p/DUhVpdsjbrZ/?igsh=d3JrOGlkZTgxeGhj

AI is now nr. 1 on Spotify and the most popular GD song off of their catalog. Safe to say it's been getting a lot of publicity and is being pretty relevant these days..

Official live releases are still happening! A good chunk of them are released digitally but plenty of bands still do physical releases. The cure just dropped a live Blu-ray last year and a live cd 2 years ago. And Depeche mode released a live album/DVD combo last year.

Are live albums still a thing since everything is for free on youtube? Anyways, if they do a live album, hopefully it would have the quality of Bullet in a Bible. Awesome as Fuck was a bit of a letdown in terms of sound quality..

Hey if they introduced some chai it would reawaken my interest in PBC. I love me some good chai.

Well said. I do think one small moment from Bad Bunny's performance I don't see talked about is the quick shot of two men grinding on each other. That also sends a message even if it was brief.

It's been far too long since we've had a live album/DVD from these guys. That would be amazing! There's so many great shows to choose from. It could be like Awesome as Fuck where it's performances from different cities across the tour or just from one amazing show in particular. First one that comes to mind is Chicago!....I'm not biased 👀

They probably rest all 2026 and start collecting ideas and demoing in 2027

Green Day also had different logos between 2020 and 2022. I don't expect new music until at least 2028. Billie himself recently said that there's no new music to record after their recent tour.

Don't get your expectations too high. My Chemical Romance had probably 10 different logos in the last years and they didn't release a new album 😅

But you could also claim Bad Bunny was a watered down version of himself. He has spoken out explicitly about ICE as recently as his Grammy acceptance speech the week before. He also dressed in drag in one of his music videos (Yo Perreo Sola, which is one of the songs he included in his Super Bowl performance), and if I'm not mistaken he's also worn dresses to some red carpet events or magazine shoots. I know there were rumors about him also wearing something like that for the Super Bowl. But he didn't. He could have also easily done a 15 minute medley with only songs that more political or more of a celebration of Puerto Rican culture, and skip all the dancing and sex songs and "I have a girlfriend in every country" songs. He also didn't call out ICE even though he has done it before. And I think it's okay that he didn't. He wanted to send out a message of unity and celebration of a culture, and directly calling out ICE would have been more divisive and would have been all people talked about afterwards. I think he presented the version of himself that he felt would be most palatable to most people without giving up his core essence (he couldn't give that up anyways, unless he had only sung covers with back up of All-American all white artists and dancers). My point is, I don't think Bad Bunny was particularly bold in anything he did. His act was still super powerful, without a doubt, especially because we're in a climate where looking like him, sounding like him, speaking his language, has almost become a crime in the US. But I think some people perceive it as exceptionally bold due to a lack of familiarity with his music and performances. Meanwhile there might be some people in his fan base, or queer folk, who are disappointed that he didn't use this platform to be the most bold he can be. Undoubtedly Bad Bunny's performance was more impactful and powerful, but he had more time, more budget, and just looking the way he does, and singing in Spanish, was going to be a statement, no matter which songs he chose or how the act had been choreographed. So as you say, not matter what, Bad Bunny's performance was always going to be more impactful. On the other hand I also feel we are grasping at straws here. He could have worn a t-shirt with a huge Virgen de Guadalupe on it if he really wanted to make a statement, not a tiny medallion that needs to be pointed out for people to notice it. I also doubt that they are so deluded as to think that them singing "I'm not a part of the MAGA agenda" would have upstaged Bad Bunny (or at least I hope they are not that deluded 😅). Short of Billie dropping his pants and taking a a literal shit on a bucket of ice, I don't think there's anything Green Day could have done to upstage Bad Bunny. They just didn't have the time or space to do that. I think they chose to include two of their most political songs, and leave it at that, and just put their focus on putting the best show they could in just 5 minutes. We all know how much Billie struggled to put together a 30 minute set for iHeartRadio some years ago, imagine they pain they must have gone through trying to figure out how to make the most powerful 5 minute performance they could do. We just have to accept they were not as bold or as political as we had expected them to be (I also think for non-American folks who are not familiar with the Super Bowl at all, such as myself, the expectation of how much stage time they'd get was way off. I certainly expected them to have a least 20 minutes not realizing that not even the half time was that long. So my expectations of what they could do were also hyperinflated just because of how much more time I thought they had.) But their act was still political, and could have been even more watered down if they really hadn't wanted to make a statement at all (they could have just done a Time of Your Life, Basket Case, BOBD, WMUWSE, WICA medley, people would have still recognized the songs, and be done with that).

You are right, my bad. 😞 same, same and same. I thought it they sounded and looked great.

And the floof..

Yes!!! And the sunglasses made it perfect!😍