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The NFL’s decision to feature Latin artist Bad Bunny at halftime has already sparked controversy in some conservative circles, with critics arguing that his predominantly Spanish-language music and stances on issues such as immigration make him an unconventional pick for the game’s massive audience.
His 2025 song “Nuevayol” features an imitated Trump voice saying, “I want to apologize to the immigrants in America. . . . This country is nothing without the immigrants. This country is nothing without Mexicans, Dominicans, Puerto Ricans, Colombians, Venezuelans, Cubans.”
Green Day, which formed in the East Bay Area in the 1980s, is set to perform during the game’s opening ceremony. Frontman Billie Joe Armstrong has long denounced the administration and has altered the lyrics of the band’s 2004 Grammy-nominated song “American Idiot” during live performances, changing the line “I’m not a part of a redneck agenda” to “I’m not a part of a MAGA agenda.”
In July, Armstrong led a Download Festival crowd in a chant calling Trump a “fat bastard.”
From all the way back when we thought Dubya was as bad as it could get:
Yeah, he’s totally saying alienation.
Totally.
Not Aryan nation.
… Yep. Its an … angsty song, not a protest song.
Mhm.
This isn’t the early 2000s, pretty much any video player can slow down without audio distortion. Play that back at 50% speed and find me that R you’re talking about. I’m not hearing it.
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So when he says ‘maybe I’m the faggot’… he is literally just saying he’s gay or bi, yes, and, what about it?
He’s taking the word back.
And also, they replaced ‘redneck’ with MAGA.
Not sure if you actually know too many queer people who were 90s kids, but it was and still is pretty common for them to jokingly, ironically mock themselves or their friends using that term you seem to think is only ever a slur.
Maybe I’m old and out of touch at this point, but as a bi 90s kid, I’m qualified to at least explain how the terminology worked back in 04 when this song came out.
EDIT:
There was no need to delete your comment.
People can sometimes say things that are slightly innacurate, and then… learn, grow.
That, doing that is … much better than trying to be 100% correct 100% of the time.
That is impossible.
… you can just say “Oh, I didn’t know that / think of it that way.”
No harm done!
Okay, I deleted my comment not just because I didn’t want people to upvote the misinformation, but also because I knew if I started typing out an edit or a reply that I would get upset and say more than I should. But since you’re now twisting the knife, I’ll oblige, since it’s entirely unavoidable at this point.
First, you are absolutely correct about the lyrics. I made a mistake. Happy?
Second, do not presume to know anything about me:
Well, I know me, for one. Now I know you too.
Did I say that? I self-censored not because I believe that the word should be unspeakable, but because I don’t want to be banned from Lemmy for typing it out. It’s explicitly against the rules of /c/politics.
To be clear, I don’t really care if people use it, as an insult or otherwise - that’s their business and not mine. But platforms most certainly do. To add on to that, my preferences are not shared by all. I know it makes some people uncomfortable to read it, which is why I try to avoid it when I can. We’ve all definitely matured past the people that we were in the 90’s. I’m not going to regress just for contextual purposes.
technically in the lyric booklet for the album it’s written as
“alienation”
with the “nation” part bolded as if also saying “alien nation” in addition to “alienation”