(NEXSTAR) – Bad Bunny gave viewers plenty to talk about after Sunday’s performance during Super Bowl LX, from the many celebrity cameos to a real-life wedding. But for non-Spanish-speakers watching at home, one particular portion of Bad Bunny’s halftime show — his performance of "El Apagón" atop a structure designed to look like a utility pole — may have seemed somewhat out of place amid the setpieces up to that point. For longtime fans, the moment made perfect sense. Bad Bunny’s “El Apagón,” which translates to “The Blackout” or “The Power Outage,” is essentially an ode to Puerto Rico’s music, culture and women, but it also references (albeit briefly) the gentrification and blackouts that the territory has faced in recent years. When the music video was released in 2022, it was shared on YouTube in a 23-minute video that featured a documentary that explored how some of these issues were affecting Puerto Ricans. Before performing “El Apagón” at some of his concerts, Bad Bunny has also spoken out against LUMA Energy, a private company that Puerto Rico’s government had hired to oversee the energy grid after 2017’s Hurricane Maria, Billboard reported. The company has since faced criticism due to blackouts in recent years, some of which left over 1 million residents and major hospitals in the dark. “¿Cuándo vamos a hacer algo?” (“When are we going to do something?”), Bad Bunny also wrote in a post on X amid widespread outages in April 2025. Even if the symbolism of the utility poles was lost on some Super Bowl viewers, the theatrics may have clued them in to a deeper meaning: The power poles are first shown shooting off sparks, sending the utility “workers” dropping from the top. The lights in Levi’s Stadium also continue to flicker throughout the rest of “El Apagón,” as do the lights on the setpieces that were previously used in the performance. Puerto Rico’s government, meanwhile, has flipped its stance on LUMA Energy in recent years, despite hiring the company in 2021 for a 15-year contract to help modernize infrastructure. Current PR Gov. Jenniffer González-Colón, during her campaign, had promised to get LUMA out of Puerto Rico if elected. In December 2025, the territory’s government sued LUMA in an ongoing bid to cancel its contract. “Despite the operator’s expectations and representations, the electrical system has not improved with the speed, consistency or effectiveness that Puerto Rico deserves and that LUMA promised and lied to us about,” González said. A month later, however, the Trump administration canceled funding (initially approved by former President Joe Biden) for solar projects aimed to help improve electrical access and stability for thousands of Puerto Rico's residents, including low-income families. “It’s a tragedy, honestly,” said Javier Rúa Jovet, public policy director for Puerto Rico’s Solar and Energy Storage Association, in a statement to the Associated Press. “These are funds for the most needy.”