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singer Brandi Carlile is speaking out about why she — as an openly gay artist — decided to Super Bowl LX Although the country’s Turbulent and divisive political times.
“I have my own moral code, my own moral imperatives, and as a wife and mother, I have to respond to that at the end of the day, and I believe I have the ability and the responsibility to do that, and that’s why I’m here,” Carlisle, 44, Tell type In an interview published on Saturday, February 7.
“Being queer, representing marginalized groups, being on the biggest stage in America, acknowledging the fraught and tender hope that this country is based on, is something you can’t turn down,” she added. “You do it.”
The Grammy and Emmy Award-winning singer-songwriter will perform “America the Beautiful” ahead of Super Bowl 60 between the Seattle Seahawks and New England Patriots on Sunday, February 8 at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, California.
Carlisle will perform as part of a packed pregame lineup that includes Green Day and the Singers’ “The Star-Spangled Banner” charlie pruseforward bad bunny take 2026 super bowl halftime stage.
While there’s certainly a lot of drama happening on the court, Bad Bunny and Controversy The news surrounding his upcoming performance has been dominating headlines after conservative, Republican politicians, including the president Donald Trump — Pundits criticized the NFL for choosing a Puerto Rican artist who performs in Spanish to headline.
(Although many conservatives claim that Bad Bunny, real name Benito Antonio Martinez Ocasio, is American because Puerto Rico is a U.S. territory.)
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Getty Images“You might not know this, but I’m doing the Super Bowl halftime show,” Bad Bunny told viewers during his hosting gig saturday night live In October 2025, resolve the dispute head-on. “I’m happy and I think everyone is very happy about it! Even Fox News…”
He added: “Really, I’m excited to be playing in the Super Bowl and I know the people around the world who love my music are excited too.”
Bad Bunny then spoke in Spanish and then again in English to the audience and audience.
“If you don’t understand what I just said by now, you have four months to learn!”
while speaking typeCarlisle also addressed the divisiveness surrounding the upcoming Super Bowl.
“It shouldn’t be like this. It shouldn’t be like this,” Carlisle told the publication of the controversy surrounding the halftime show. “It looks exactly like America! It looks exactly like America. It looks like the layers on the field and it looks like the people watching the sport. It’s the way it should be, with a lot of demographics represented and a lot of passionate people excited to celebrate a big game on a unified day.”
Brandi Carlile and her wife, Catherine Shepherd, initially connected over the phone, but it wasn’t long before they hit it off. The Grammy winner and the Brit met in 2009 when Sheppard was working for Paul McCartney, coordinating his charity efforts. Carlyle and her future wife spoke (…)
She continued, “I think the production staff did a great job with the entertainment portion of this year’s Super Bowl. It’s really great. Bad Bunny is incredible — an incredible spirit and performer. It’s going to be a great halftime show.”
The award-winning singer also spoke about how important it was to her to perform a song she wrote Katherine Lee Batesbelieved to be gay.
“You know, I felt called to a long line of people who were contemplating and struggling. I was inspired by the fact that she was probably gay, and a woman who was relying on her intelligence at a time when it was hard for women to do that, and living with a partner who was doing the same thing,” she explains. “And still choose to — even under that complete oppression; not even be able to get married; not even be able to say she was gay, or be elevated to the heights that she might have deserved politically — and, during that time, still love America and still believe that it could get to a better place.”
She added, “I wouldn’t say great, because that feels a little patriarchal. But kindness. I believe in the same thing. I have a little piece of the struggle she faced back then in front of me and in the back. So, you know, it’s a fun song. It’s an interesting decision that I’m making. I definitely don’t want to be seen as a neoliberal or someone who’s glossing over the issues that we’re facing as a country. I want to be seen as one of the people helping.”
