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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 spoke out against the Trump administration.
Bad Bunny, Green Day and Brandi Carlile are all scheduled to perform in Santa Clara, California, either before the game starts or during the halftime show. Halftime headliner Bad Bunny was very open about how the Trump administration used U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents to weed out illegal immigrants.
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Bad Bunny speaks onstage during the press conference for the Super Bowl LX Pregame and Apple Music 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 spoke out last year while federal agents were operating in Los Angeles. He revealed in September that he was postponing his US tour dates because of it.
In an interview with iD, the artist, whose real name is Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, confirmed that one of the main reasons for the lack of dates in the United States during his “Debi Tirar Mas Fotos World Tour” was that there was no risk of his fans being intercepted by ICE agents.
“But there was the problem of… like fucking ICE could be on the outside. [my concert]. And that’s something that we’ve been talking about and that we’re very concerned about,” he told the outlet, expressing concerns about President Donald Trump’s second-term deportation agenda.
The artist has spoken openly about ICE in the past. During a visit to Puerto Rico in June, Ocasio recorded and posted video on social media of what he described as local ICE raids.
“Look, these motherfuckers are in these cars, RAV-4s. They’re here in Pontezuela,” he said in Spanish, mentioning that ICE was working on Avenida Pontezuela in Carolina, a city east of Puerto Rico’s capital, San Juan.
“Sons of bitches, instead of leaving people alone and working there,” he added.
Bad Bunny receives the award for best urban music album for “Un Verano Sin Ti”. (Robert Hanashiro/USA TODAY NETWORK)
More backlash followed in October when he was named halftime entertainer at Super Bowl LX. He said Americans would have four months to learn English if they wanted to move and groove to his songs.
Bad Bunny received the Grammy Award for Album of the Year and he 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 shadowed 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, September 4, 2024. (David Rodriguez Munoz/USA TODAY NETWORK)
Green Day will be part of an on-field performance just before the coin toss as the NFL honors past Super Bowl MVPs ahead of the 60th game in its history. The NFL said Green Day would “bring the Super Bowl MVPs onto the field with a dynamic performance celebrating the legacy and evolution of the championship game.”
Green Day has been notoriously vocal against President Donald Trump since the start of his first term. The group had only upped the ante in its administration since returning to power in January 2025.
The punk rock group attacked Vice President JD Vance last March. While performing “Jesus of Suburbia” in Melbourne, Australia, at the time, the band changed the words to suggest that Vance was “retarded”.
“Am I retarded or am I just JD Vance?” singer and guitarist Billie Joe Armstrong sang the original lyrics instead: “Am I retarded or just thrilled?”
After the overturning of Roe V. Wade in 2022, Armstrong told the crowd at a concert in London that he would renounce his American citizenship and settle there.
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“Fuck America, I’m renouncing my citizenship,” Armstrong said. “I’ll come here.”
“There is just too much stupidity in the world to go back to this miserable excuse for a country,” Armstrong added. “Oh, I’m not kidding. You’re going to get a lot of me in the next few days.”
He also called Supreme Court justices “assholes” and said, “f… the Supreme Court of America.”
During a performance on “Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve” last year, the group changed the lyrics of their 2004 hit “American Idiot,” with Armstrong singing, “I’m not part of a MAGA agenda,” instead of the original, “I’m not part of the redneck agenda.”
The group has also been outspoken against ICE. The band criticized the agency during a concert last month.
“We stand up for our brothers and sisters in Minnesota,” Armstrong said, before later lashing out at White House adviser Stephen Miller.
Brandi Carlile
“America the Beautiful” singer Brandi Carlile during the Super Bowl LX halftime press conference at the Moscone Center on February 5, 2026. (Kirby Lee/Imagn Images)
Brandi Carlile will be among the artists performing before the Super Bowl. She is selected 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 his victory in the 2016 election. She told KUOW Radio in December 2016 that she was “upset” about Trump voters and “concerned” about why they were voting for Trump.
Since then, Carlile has made his disdain for Trump clear. She wrote a song called “Church & State” that took aim at the administration. Carlile joined Elton John in helping to offset HIV/AIDS funding cuts made by the White House at the start of Trump’s second term.
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Carlile joined Don Lemon on the Grammys red carpet following his arrest for his alleged involvement in a protest in Minnesota that saw activists storm a church in January.
Although she has yet to speak out against Trump ahead of the Super Bowl, she said in an interview with Apple Music that she hopes those listening to her performance on Sunday will interpret “America the Beautiful” as a prayer rather than a song.
