Rock Musicians Who Openly Support Bad Bunny Performing During Super Bowl Halftime

The list of rock artists sup­port­ing Bad Bunny‘s Super Bowl half­time per­for­mance next year con­tin­ues to grow.

The announce­ment that the rapper/singer had been select­ed to per­form at the NFL’s biggest game of the sea­son was met with a divid­ed response for sev­er­al rea­sons. Bad Bun­ny has also become a polit­i­cal talk­ing point for those who want to push for oth­er artists to get the spot­light.

Accord­ing to Enter­tain­ment Week­ly, a peti­tion is being cir­cu­lat­ed in favor of hav­ing 73-year-old coun­try artist George Strait get the nod over Bad Bun­ny.

Don’t expect the NFL to go back on its deci­sion any­time soon, Com­mis­sion­er Roger Good­ell told reporters this week the league is “con­fi­dent” in its choice of Bad Bun­ny play­ing the Super Bowl half­time show.

Here is a look at which rock­ers have come out in sup­port of Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl selec­tion.

Rolling Stone recent­ly asked Drop­kick Mur­phys vocal­ist and found­ing mem­ber Ken Casey to pro­vide his thoughts on Bad Bun­ny being select­ed to per­form dur­ing the Super Bowl half­time show. Casey has nev­er been shy about voic­ing his sup­port or con­cerns regard­ing polit­i­cal and soci­etal issues.

“I had nev­er real­ly lis­tened to Bad Bunny’s music, but after his per­for­mance in Hap­py Gilmore 2, I will go to the mat for that guy,” Casey told Rolling Stone.

The 31-year-old Puer­to Rican per­former was fea­tured in the 2025 film play­ing the role of the title character’s cad­dy, Oscar Mejias.

“God bless his heart,” Casey said dur­ing the inter­view. “He is a true, true Amer­i­can.”

Casey also expressed to Rolling Stone that those in the polit­i­cal are­na should recon­sid­er how much con­cern they are pay­ing to this year’s per­former.

“There’s way big­ger prob­lems in the world than who is at the half­time show at the Super Bowl.”

David Draiman (Disturbed)

But that obvi­ous­ly is not hap­pen­ing.

Dis­turbed vocal­ist David Draiman ful­ly sup­ports Metal­li­ca play­ing the Super Bowl, but he is also will­ing to rec­og­nize oth­er artists that “deserve” it as well.

“I may pre­fer to have Metal­li­ca play the Super Bowl any day of the week and twice on Sun­day,” Draiman post­ed on X, for­mer­ly Twit­ter. “HOWEVER…. there is no doubt that Bad Bun­ny is one of the biggest artists in world [sic] and that he DESERVES his half­time spot.”

Jelly Roll

Besides being per­form­ers with large fan bases, Bad Bun­ny and Jel­ly Roll have quite a few things in com­mon. One of those com­mon­al­i­ties is that they’ve both dipped their toes in the world of pro­fes­sion­al wrestling for the WWE.

Bad Bun­ny first appeared in a tag team match dur­ing Wrestle­Ma­nia 37 in 2021 when he teamed with Dami­an Priest to defeat The Miz and John Mor­ri­son. Since then, he has appeared in the ring dur­ing at least two oth­er major WWE events

Jel­ly Roll made his in-ring debut for WWE dur­ing this year’s Sum­mer­Slam event in August. Unfor­tu­nate­ly, he and team­mate Randy Orton were defeat­ed by Logan Paul and Drew McIn­tyre.

Jel­ly Roll.was one of the first peo­ple to con­grat­u­late Bad Bun­ny when it was announced that he got the half­time gig. He was also sure to men­tion their WWE ties.

“From Wrestle­Ma­nia to the Super Bowl– you inspire us all! Much love,” he com­ment­ed on Bad Bunny’s Insta­gram fol­low­ing the announce­ment in Sep­tem­ber.

Carlos Santana

Car­los San­tana© Loud­wire

Less than a month after Bad Bun­ny was announced for the Super Bowl, Car­los San­tana found him­self need­ing to squash false sto­ries about the per­former with a state­ment on his offi­cial web­site.

Accord­ing to the site, it was false­ly implied by “inter­net trolls” that San­tana was crit­i­cal of the NFL for select­ing Bad Bun­ny for the spot.

“Fear is the fla­vor right now. Fear is what moti­vates igno­rant peo­ple to put words in my mouth – say­ing that I didn’t want Bad Bun­ny to be rep­re­sent­ed at the Super Bowl,” San­tana wrote. “I nev­er said that, nor would I ever.”

He blamed the accu­sa­tions on “hos­tile forces” that are try­ing to cre­ate divi­sion around the issue.

“They want peo­ple to be mis­er­able and to spend too much time in their minds. I spend a lot of time in my heart and in my heart I cel­e­brate Bad Bun­ny.”