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Super Bowl LX will be played between the Seattle Seahawks and the New England Patriots, but all eyes will be on the artists who have spoken out against the Trump administration.
Bad Bunny, Green Day and Brandi Carlile are set to perform in Santa Clara, California, either before the game begins or during the halftime show. Halftime star Bad Bunny has been very frank about how the Trump administration has used U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents to root out illegal immigrants.
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Bad Bunny speaks on stage at Apple Music’s Super Bowl LX Pregame Press Conference and Super Bowl LX Halftime Show at Moscone Center West on February 5, 2026 in San Francisco, California. (Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic)
The Puerto Rican musical artist had spoken openly last year while federal agents were operating in Los Angeles. He revealed in September that he would be postponing his US tour dates because of this.
In an interview with iD, the artist, whose real name is Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, confirmed that one of the main reasons behind the absence of dates in the United States on his “Debi Tirar Más Fotos World Tour” was so that there was no risk that his fans could be detained by ICE agents.
“But there was the problem that damn ICE might be outside.” [my concert]. And it’s something that we were talking about and that we were very concerned about,” he told the outlet, expressing concern about the deportation agenda for President Donald Trump’s second term.
The artist has spoken openly about ICE in the past. While visiting Puerto Rico in June, Ocasio recorded and posted on social media videos of what he described as local ICE raids.
“Look, those sons of bitches are in these cars, RAV-4. They’re here in Pontezuela,” he said in Spanish, mentioning ICE working on Avenida Pontezuela in Carolina, a city east of Puerto Rico’s capital, San Juan.
“Motherfuckers, instead of leaving people alone and working there,” he added.
Bad Bunny accepts the award for best urban music album for “Un Verano Sin Ti.” (Robert Hanashiro/RED USA TODAY)
More backlash occurred in October when he was named the Super Bowl LX halftime show performer. He said Americans would have four months to learn English if they wanted to move and dance to his songs.
Bad Bunny received the Grammy Award for Album of the Year and continued to speak out against ICE.
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“ICE out,” he said. “We are not savages, we are not animals, we are not aliens: we are humans and we are Americans.”
He didn’t mention any of the controversies that have clouded him ahead of Super Bowl LX during his interview with Apple.
green day
Green Day band member Billie Joe Armstrong, left, performs alongside bassist Mike Dirnt in front of thousands of fans at Comerica Park in Detroit on Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2024. (David Rodríguez Muñoz/USA TODAY NETWORK)
Green Day will be part of an on-field performance just before the coin toss as the NFL pays tribute to past Super Bowl MVPs ahead of the 60th game in its history. The NFL said Green Day “will bring the Super Bowl MVPs to the field with a dynamic performance that will celebrate the legacy and evolution of the championship game.”
Green Day has been notoriously outspoken against President Donald Trump since the start of his first term. The band had only upped the ante for his administration since returning to office in January 2025.
The punk rock band attacked Vice President JD Vance last March. While playing “Jesus of Suburbia” in Melbourne, Australia, at the time, the band changed the lyrics to suggest that Vance was “retarded.”
“Am I retarded or am I just JD Vance?” Singer and guitarist Billie Joe Armstrong sang instead of the original lyrics, “Am I retarded or am I just very happy?”
Following the overturning of Roe V. Wade in 2022, Armstrong told a crowd during a concert in London that he would renounce his American citizenship and move there.
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“Fuck America, I’m giving up my citizenship,” Armstrong said. “I’m coming here.”
“There are too many stupid things in the world to go back to that miserable, damned excuse for a country,” Armstrong added. “Oh, I’m not kidding. You’ll be getting a lot from me in the next few days.”
He also called Supreme Court justices “morons” and said, “Fuck the Supreme Court of the United States.”
During a performance at “Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve” last year, the band changed the lyrics of their 2004 hit “American Idiot,” with Armstrong singing, “I’m not a part of a MAGA agenda,” instead of the original, “I’m not a part of the redneck agenda.”
The band has also been outspoken against ICE. The band harshly criticized the agency at a concert last month.
“We stand up for our brothers and sisters in Minnesota,” Armstrong said, then attacked White House adviser Stephen Miller.
Brandi Carlile
“America the Beautiful” singer Brandi Carlile during the Super Bowl LX halftime show press conference at the Moscone Center on February 5, 2026. (Kirby Lee/Image Images)
Brandi Carlile will be among the artists singing before the Super Bowl. She is chosen to perform “America the Beautiful,” while Coco Jones will sing “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” also known as the black national anthem, and Charlie Puth will perform “The Star-Spangled Banner.”
Carlile began speaking out against Trump after he won the 2016 election. She told KUOW Radio in December 2016 that she was “upset” with Trump voters and “concerned” about why they were voting for Trump.
Carlile has since made his disdain for Trump clear. He wrote a song called “Church & State” that took aim at the administration. Carlile joined Elton John to help offset cuts to HIV/AIDS funding made by the White House in the early days of Trump’s second term.
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Carlile joined Don Lemon on the Grammys red carpet after he was arrested for his alleged involvement in a protest in Minnesota in which activists stormed a church in January.
While he has yet to speak out against Trump ahead of the Super Bowl, he said in an interview with Apple Music that he hoped those listening to his performance on Sunday would interpret “America the Beautiful” as a prayer rather than a song.
