Somewhere along the line, many Americans got the idea that significant public performances have to be bland and pitched to the lowest common denominator. These people feel entitled to not be offended, and the list of things that offend them is long indeed.
So when Puerto Rico’s genre-defining artist Bad Bunny was announced Monday as the headliner of Super Bowl LX’s halftime show, those folks got big, big mad. Maybe even madder than they were last year, when rapper Kendrick Lamar grabbed the spot.
After all, to the uninitiated, Lamar’s main pop-culture calling card was his feud with Canadian rapper Drake — and most of those watching were awaiting the now-famous verses of “Not Like Us,” that started “Hey Drake, I hear you like ‘em young…” Lamar delivered, with a justifiably viral tease tha