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“He respects the whole lot. And I’m glad that he represented America the way in which he did. “
Purple Sox supervisor Alex Cora might need been disheartened by the Patriots’ loss in Tremendous Bowl LX on Sunday.
However the Puerto Rican native was additionally proud to see Dangerous Bunny take the stage in the first-ever Super Bowl Halftime Show performed entirely in Spanish.
Throughout Cora’s first deal with with the media on Monday, the Purple Sox skipper provided up an in depth and emotional response when requested what seeing Bad Bunny up on stage in front of millions meant to him.
Right here is Cora’s full response, as captured by MassLive’s Lauren Campbell:
“I do know the language barrier is the language barrier, nevertheless it was an impressive present. And there’s a whole lot of stuff — like this morning I watched it once more simply to see the small print. The cool factor about him, and I’ll give him credit score as a result of he’s developed into this icon, and he’s true to his roots. I’m a proud Puerto Rican.
“I defend my island each time I’ve an opportunity and I speak about my island each time I’ve an opportunity. However to do it on that stage, and what he did with each element with the whole lot. Even in the wedding, the marriage there was a child that was sleeping in the course of the occasion, and that’s what we do at events, proper? Children sleeping, he woke him up. I used to be like, ‘Oh that’s cool.’
“And in direction of the top the entire electrical grid, all that stuff that’s actual for us, and he wasn’t afraid of displaying individuals how we’re dwelling proper now. However the man’s a stud and, if you acquired individuals tweeting about you, good or dangerous, individuals watch, which was the primary level. So kudos to him.
“Once they had the coconut stand, again dwelling they promote it on the corners and I noticed it I used to be like, ‘Oh shoot, that is gonna be nice.’ Then the piraguas, that’s the (shaved) ice, the sweetness parlor within the nook, yeah, [Cora’s fiancée] Angelica makes reservations each week when she does her nails. All people does.
“However, we acquired the boxing, we now have, this child, he simply received one other title, (Xander) Zayas. He was the man there. After which we begin trying on the suggestions from individuals and all that. When you will have these individuals on stage, I imply like this man, man, he’s, he’s nice, he’s nice.
“And the whole lot in Spanish. You gotta have large cojones to do this, I gotta be trustworthy. The one factor, the opposite one — and hopefully individuals don’t take it improper — and that is one thing that I all the time inform individuals: It’s america of America, America is North America, Central America, South America, and when he stated, ‘God bless America,’ individuals went nuts. And he went nation by nation, growth growth growth growth. After which he talked about United States. This man, he is aware of that this nation had performed quite a bit for him.
“To be this man, and he might need his views, political opinions, however on the similar time you noticed it, man. He respects the whole lot. And I’m glad that he represented America the way in which he did.
“After which he stated, ‘My homeland: Puerto Rico,’ that was nice. And I can speak about it, and I put it on Instagram that that distinctive feeling I noticed on the finish when he completed and he was singing after which he took the mic and was is like, ‘Holy shoot we simply pulled this off.’ And it’s form of like in ’18, form of, like we [won the World Series], you recognize? Let’s go dwelling and rejoice.
Shoot, it’s cool. We let the youngsters watch it too. “He’s all over the place. He’s promoting, he’s doing an impressive job and he represented us effectively.”
Dangerous Bunny — who took dwelling Album of the 12 months on the Grammys with “Debí Tirar Más Fotos” final week — has drawn some controversy given his outspoken feedback relating to ICE and immigration.
Donald Trump repeatedly criticized the choice of Dangerous Bunny as Halftime Present performer on quite a few events, whereas Dangerous Bunny declared “ICE out” whereas up on stage accepting his Grammy final week.
Regardless of backlash from Trump, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell provided up his help for Dangerous Bunny final week — praising him as a unifying performer.
“Pay attention, Dangerous Bunny is — and I feel that was demonstrated final night time — one of many nice artists on the earth, and that’s one of many causes we selected him,” Goodell stated. “However the different motive is he understood the platform he was on, and that this platform is used to unite individuals, and to have the ability to deliver individuals along with their creativity, with their abilities, and to have the ability to use this second to do this.
“And I feel artists prior to now have performed that. I feel Dangerous Bunny understands that, and I feel he’ll have an important efficiency.”
Dangerous Bunny closed out his efficiency on Sunday holding a soccer that learn, “Collectively, we’re America” — because the video board behind him at Levi’s Stadium learn: “The one factor extra highly effective than hate is love.”
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