Don’t Understand Bad Bunny’s Music? These Tools Will Help As You Listen
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Bad Bunny’s historic Super Bowl halftime show is a few days away. It’s being billed as the first all-Spanish performance at the Super Bowl. To help non-Spanish speakers understand Bad Bunny’s lyrics, music streaming services have implemented translation tools that you can start using now.
This Sunday (Feb. 8), Bad Bunny is set to make history as the first male solo Latine act to headline the Super Bowl halftime show. With all of his biggest hits being in Spanish, it’s expected that his performance will be entirely in his native language as well. The Puerto Rican superstar’s fame has transcended borders, with his massive fan base also including people around the world who don’t speak Spanish. Bad Bunny’s halftime show performance will even introduce him to football fans who aren’t familiar with his music. With his Super Bowl takeover on the horizon, non-Spanish speakers—or those who don’t dominate the language fully—have a chance to learn about what he’s singing ahead of the big game.
Last year, Apple Music announced the implementation of a lyric translation feature with the iOS 26 update. With that update now in effect, all Apple Music users can use the app to run line-by-line translations of songs in languages other than English. With Apple Music as a sponsor of the Bad Bunny halftime show, you can expect that all his songs will be loaded with this feature. If listeners want to sing along to songs in the artist’s native language, the app also provides phonetic pronunciation guides. The features are currently available only to iPhone and iPad users.
There are also additional tools. Earlier this week, Spotify also announced a new lyric translation feature, though it’s currently only available to Spotify Premium users. It will soon be rolled out globally to free users as well. Another way non-Spanish speakers can understand Bad Bunny’s lyrics is by looking up translations on the Genius lyrics website.
Super Bowl LX will take place on Feb. 8 at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, CA.