Bad Bunny clarifies comments about learning Spanish ahead of Super Bowl

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Bad Bunny is backtracking on a comment he made in October, saying critics of his upcoming Super Bowl hiatus should learn Spanish.

“I’m really excited to be at the Super Bowl. I know people all over the world who love my music are happy too,” he said on “Saturday Night Live,” before teasing his critics in Spanish.

Bad Bunny speaks onstage at the Super Bowl LX Pregame & Apple Music Super Bowl LX Halftime Show Press Conference at Moscone Center West on February 5, 2026 in San Francisco, California. (Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic)

“If you didn’t catch what I just said, you have four months to learn.”

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But this week, during a performance at San Francisco’s Moscone Center, Bad Bunny said there was no need to learn Spanish.

“I know I told them they had four months to learn Spanish — they don’t even have to learn Spanish. They (can) learn to dance,” Bad Bunny, whose real name is Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, told a packed crowd.

Bad Bunny accepts the award for Album of the Year for Debí Tirar Más Fotos at the 68th Annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles, California on February 1, 2026. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

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Bad Bunny, who has been Spotify’s most-streamed artist four times over the past six years, was saluted in September. His 2022 album, “Un Verano Sin Ti,” is the app’s most streamed album of all time, and he has more than 51 million followers on Instagram.

The artist received both praise and backlash for his “ICE out” comments at the Grammys earlier this week. Bad Bunny said last fall that he decided to do his residency show in his native Puerto Rico and didn’t book any U.S. dates on his tour because he feared his fans would be detained by ICE agents.

Late. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., said he will avoid Bad Bunny’s appearance in the “Woke Bowl.”