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Small-Scale Question Sunday for February 8, 2026

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Which music did you hate the most in the duelling half-time shows, Latin pop or country? I have to begrudgingly admit that I hate country more than Latin pop.

I don't mind Latin music but I genuinely find Bad Bunny's stuff to be weirdly totally inoffensive elevator music. I wouldn't say I dislike it it just has this ability to essentially pass by my musical taste in the same way I don't have culinary opinions on common building materials. Kid Rock might be all over the place but atleast I can identify what he's going for.

I can think of a bunch of genres I find grating and I wouldn't put Bad Bunny there it's just a nothingness to me.

I genuinely find Bad Bunny's stuff to be weirdly totally inoffensive elevator music.

Enjoy these "inoffensive" lyrics from Safaera, the third song Mr. Rabbit performed last night

I see no reason for quote marks. Inoffensive to mainstream media consumer tastes, and has been for several decades.

I'd be extremely surprised if the NFL let an english language performer recite those lyrics.

Pointing back to the 2022 half time show, Snoop and Dr. Dre sang censored versions of their songs from the 1990s.

Okay, agreed. But I don't think it's enforced because of any consensus about rules of propriety or moral standards. It looks like more like such rules are what a biologist may call a vestigial remnant, rules from the land that time forgot. The powers-that-be already know that sex sells, it's only matter of time they realize there is no moral majority to hinder the sales potential of more explicit sex appeal. First it will be a surprise, then it will be commonplace.

Well, you're not wrong

(Link above to OpenAI planning to release "Adult Mode" in early 2026)

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