It’s official: Bad Bunny will headline the Super Bowl LX halftime show. Not Taylor Swift.
Bad Bunny is certainly no one’s second choice or backup, but it did look for a while as though the NFL and Apple Music/Roc Nation, the companies that produce the event, were going after Swift, and not just because of the easter eggs; NFL CEO Roger Goodell himself called Swift a “maybe,” saying that securing the performer was in Jay-Z’s hands.
So…what happened? Here’s what we know:
What Swift herself says
Basically, she’s not gonna do the Super Bowl while her man is playing in the NFL, it’s just too stressful. “Here’s the thing,” Swift told Jimmy Fallon during a visit to The Tonight Show on October 6, where she spent a segment debunking stories about herself. “Jay-Z has always been very good to me. Our teams are very close. They sometimes will call and say ‘how does she feel about…’ and that’s not an official offer or a conference room conversation. We’re always able to tell him the truth, which is that I am in love with a guy who does that sport on that actual field.”
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