On Tuesday, Johnson was asked by reporter Pablo Manriquez for his thoughts on the upcoming Super Bowl halftime show.
“I didn’t even know who Bad Bunny was, OK,” Johnson said, “but it sounds like a terrible decision in my view.”
Asked to elaborate further, Johnson suggested that Bad Bunny didn’t appeal to a “broader audience” and that he wasn’t a role model to “impressionable children.”
“Well, it sounds like he’s not someone who appeals to a broader audience,” Johnson continued. “And I think — you know, there’s so many eyes on the Super Bowl, a lot of young impressionable children, and I think, in my view, you would have Lee Greenwood — or role models — doing that, not somebody like this.”
He actually thinks that Lee Greenwood, a one hit wonder, appeals to a broad audience especially the young people. I mean, Willie Nelson, yes. Dolly Parton, for sure. Lee Greenwood????
They’re so upset about this that they’re talking about putting together a Turning Point alternative to the halftime show featuring …. Creed. I’m not kidding.
Bad Bunny has been the most-streamed artist in the world for multiple years. I can guarantee that anyone younger than 35 knows exactly who he is and most of them couldn’t pick Lee Greenwood out of a line-up. Probably not Creed either.
Someone please explain to me why everyone insists on saying that these throwbacks are the Real Americans and the rest of us are out of step with the culture and need to be reined in. It’s laughable.