Bad Bunny is having a phenomenal year.

The Puerto Rican music superstar put out a new album earlier this year.

It's called Devi Trar Most Photos, and it spent weeks at the top of the charts.

Here's a bit of the first track.

And this is just his latest success.

Since his debut album in 2018, Bad Bunny, whose full name is Benito Antonio Martinez-Acasio,

has become a global sensation.

He consistently sells out tours.

He and Taylor Swift, they're often vying for top spots on the streaming charts.

Now he's set to headline one of the biggest stages for a musical artist,

the Super Bowl halftime show.

But that performance has ignited a political firestorm on the right.

From the newsroom of the Washington Post, this is Post Reports.

I'm Colby Echowitz. It's Thursday, October 9th.

Today, national politics reporter Sabrina Rodriguez explains how bad bunny ended up in the crosshairs of Maga's culture wars.

Hi, Sabrina. I'm so excited to have you on. I'm so excited to be here with you. Okay, so in late

September, the NFL announced that Bad Bunny would be the halftime show performer.

And to put it mildly, that announcement has generated a lot of feelings.

So what happened?

So we saw the NFL make their big announcement, you know, of who the Super Bowl halftime headliner would going to be.

You know, they usually do it a few months in advance.

They, you know, will announce it in the middle of a game.

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