On Sunday, Bad Bunny performed a 13-minute halftime show at Super Bowl LX. He sang in Spanish. He danced. A couple got married on the field. Lady Gaga and Ricky Martin showed up. 128.2 million people watched.
By Monday, Tennessee Rep. Andy Ogles was demanding Congress investigate it.
Rep. Mark Alford: “On the Bad Bunny bad performance at the Super Bowl — we’re still investigating this. There’s a lot of information that has come out about the lyrics. I saw the halftime show — we were switching back and forth with the TPUSA halftime show. The lyrics from what… pic.twitter.com/YZP2XKdDPD
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) February 10, 2026
A Letter, a Label, and a Leap
Ogles sent a formal letter to the House Energy and Commerce Committee calling for an inquiry into the NFL and NBCUniversal. He accused Bad Bunny’s set of containing “explicit displays of gay sexual acts” and lyrics that “openly glorified sodomy and countless other unspeakable depravities.” He described the entire performance as “pure smut.”
He named two songs specifically — “Safaera” and “Yo Perreo Sola” — arguing their content crossed the line for broadcast television.
Here’s the part he left out: Bad Bunny didn’t sing the explicit lyrics from either song. The set was cleaned up for broadcast. There were no unbleeped vulgarities. There was no nudity. There was dancing — lots of it — and guest appearances from Ricky Martin and Lady Gaga. What appears to have troubled Ogles most was the presence of queer visibility on a stage watched by 128 million people.
Ogles called that gay pornography.
In a separate post on X, he added that Bad Bunny’s performance was “conclusive proof that Puerto Rico should never be a state” — a comment about a U.S. territory whose residents have been American citizens since 1917.
Last night’s halftime show was a disgrace and it mocked American families. Depicting gay pornography on prime time has no place in our culture.
The Bad Bunny performance is conclusive proof that Puerto Rico should never be a state.
— Rep. Andy Ogles (@RepOgles) February 9, 2026
What Ogles Didn’t Investigate Before Writing That Letter
If Ogles is concerned about performers with explicit content appearing at nationally promoted events, he had a closer option to scrutinize.
Hours before Bad Bunny took the stage, Turning Point USA aired its “All-American Halftime Show” — an alternative broadcast marketed around “faith, family, and freedom.” The headliner was Kid Rock.
You may have already seen the viral clip — Kid Rock closed the Turning Point show by telling Americans to dust off their Bibles and give their lives to Jesus. He opened it with “Bawitdaba,” a 1999 track whose recorded version references “topless dancers,” “crackheads,” “all my heroes in the methadone clinic,” and “hookers all trickin’ out in Hollywood.”
And then there’s the song he didn’t perform — “Cool, Daddy Cool,” a 2001 track written for the animated children’s film Osmosis Jones. It contains the lines: “Young ladies, young ladies, I like ’em underage, see / Some say that’s statutory / But I say it’s mandatory.”
The song had already resurfaced online and sparked a fresh wave of backlash before anyone took the field on Sunday. Kid Rock’s response was a social media post quoting Kobe Bryant about “learning to love the hate.” He said nothing about the lyrics themselves.
Ogles wrote no letter about any of this. Neither did Rep. Randy Fine of Florida, who called Bad Bunny’s show “illegal” and ended his post with “lock them up” — based partly on translated lyrics that Bad Bunny never actually sang on Sunday. Neither did Rep. Mark Alford of Missouri, who told Real America’s Voice on Tuesday that House Republicans are already “investigating” the halftime show, despite not watching the whole thing and not speaking Spanish.
None of them investigated the show they endorsed.
🚨 LFG!!! Kid Rock just rolled in with the most BAD*SS entrance ever at the All-American Halftime Show, and we’re OVER 5 MILLION confirmed watching LIVE!
pic.twitter.com/R1REh75cfi— Gunther Eagleman™ (@GuntherEagleman) February 9, 2026
About the Man Writing the Letters
There’s a reason Ogles’ name might ring a bell beyond this week. He has been the subject of investigations himself — ones with rather more substance than a halftime show complaint.
Nashville’s NewsChannel 5 spent years documenting discrepancies in Ogles’ background. He described himself as an economist on national television. His actual degree, obtained at age 36 from Middle Tennessee State University, was a Bachelor of Science in liberal studies with a 2.4 GPA. A 2009 resume listed his major as international relations. His congressional biography said “policy and economics.” He blocked the university from confirming his credentials through a federal privacy provision.
He claimed experience investigating international sex crimes. The Williamson County Sheriff’s Office said there was “nothing in Mr. Ogles’ training or personnel file” to support that. He had been a volunteer reserve deputy who left after two years for “not meeting minimum standards.”
His congressional website once said he oversaw “operations and investments in 12 countries” for Abolition International, a nonprofit combating human trafficking. Tax records showed the organization paid him $4,000 total for a part-time position. The Washington Post reviewed the totality of his professional claims and concluded his resume was “too good to be true.”
Then came the money. Ogles reported lending his campaign $320,000. His financial disclosures suggested he didn’t have $320,000. He later revised the figure to $20,000. The House Ethics Committee recommended a full investigation. The FBI executed a search warrant on his property in 2024. He was compared to former Rep. George Santos, who was expelled from Congress for fabricating large portions of his biography.
Ogles was re-elected anyway. And now he’s the man asking Congress to investigate a halftime show.
Two Shows, One Standard
Here’s what the numbers say about Sunday night.
Bad Bunny’s halftime set drew 128.2 million viewers on NBC — the second most-watched halftime performance ever, behind Kendrick Lamar’s 133.5 million last year. Social media consumption hit four billion views within 24 hours. His Apple Music streams increased sevenfold. It was the most-watched Super Bowl halftime show in Spanish-language television history, peaking at 4.8 million viewers on Telemundo alone.
The Turning Point USA alternative peaked at 6.1 million concurrent YouTube viewers and has since accumulated over 21 million total views.
President Trump, who had said he wouldn’t watch Bad Bunny’s set, posted his review shortly after it ended. He called it “absolutely terrible” and “an affront to the Greatness of America,” adding that “nobody understands a word this guy is saying.” He has not commented on the Turning Point show.
As of this writing, no congressional committee has formally opened any investigation into either halftime performance. The NFL and NBC have not publicly responded to Ogles’ letter.
Bad Bunny performed the first Super Bowl halftime show sung almost entirely in Spanish. A couple got married during it. 128 million people watched.
Andy Ogles would like Congress to look into that.
