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Petition argues Strait is a better choice, despite the artist having less than 10 percent of Bad Bunny\u2019s Spotify monthly listeners<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
\n\tSince news broke that Bad Bunny<\/a> will headline the Super Bowl<\/a> halftime show next year, a Change.org petition<\/a> has been circulating with people urging the NFL to replace the Puerto Rican singer with George Strait<\/a>. <\/p>\n \n\tThe racially tinged petition<\/a> \u2014 put together by someone using a pseudonym \u2014 asks the NFL to let Strait perform during the show, writing that it\u2019s \u201cpivotal to remember the roots that have made American music what it is today,\u201d and claiming that Bad Bunny wouldn\u2019t fulfill those seeming prerequisites, despite the fact that he\u2019s an American citizen. As of publication, the petition had 55,000 signatures. (A rep for Strait did not immediately respond to Rolling Stone<\/em>\u2018s request for comment.)<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cThe Super Bowl halftime show should unite our country, honor American culture, and remain family-friendly, not be turned into a political stunt,\u201d the petition claims. \u201cBad Bunny represents none of these values; his drag performances and style are the opposite of what families expect on football\u2019s biggest stage.\u201d (To be clear: Bad Bunny did drag once for the \u201cNo Perreo Sola<\/a>\u201d music video. And even then, drag has long been a part of American culture.)<\/p>\n \n\tThe petition is a reflection of the political divide and xenophobia Bad Bunny\u2019s Latino heritage and lyrics in Spanish have ignited, along with his political views on immigrant rights amid the government\u2019s deportation policies. In an\u00a0interview with\u00a0i-D\u00a0magazine<\/em>, he previously shared that he wasn\u2019t touring in the U.S. because he didn\u2019t want ICE to target his Latino fanbase outside his concerts. (Even Trump called the decision to have Bad Bunny headline \u201cabsolutely ridiculous.\u201d)<\/p>\n