NEW YORK − You may not have been the only one who held it in during Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl performance.
The Puerto Rican artist’s 13-minute halftime show on Feb. 8 captivated audiences for one of the most watched Super Bowls in history. Some data suggests people skipped going to the bathroom when Bad Bunny, whose real name is Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, started his set.
In New York City, memorialized in Bad Bunny’s hit “NUEVAYoL,” officials said residents in the nation’s largest city appeared to hold off going to the bathroom until after his performance.
“NYC saw a significant reduction in water usage throughout the five boroughs during the Super Bowl’s #BadBunny halftime show yesterday,” the city Department of Environmental Protection said in a viral Feb. 9 X post, “but in the 15 minutes right after the show ended, there was a spike in usage equivalent to 761,719 toilets flushing across town.”
New Yorkers also used the toilet in record numbers, including around when the actual football game resumed after halftime. That may point to how large the audience was in the five boroughs, which is the city with the largest population of Latinos, including Puerto Ricans, in the country.
