It might be the first time that Bad Bunny has been suspected of cribbing from Irving Berlin. 

Near the end of his Super Bowl halftime show, the Puerto Rican rapper said, “God bless America.”

For many Americans, they were the only words that they could understand, and ones that they presumably appreciated. 

We’ve come a long way, though, from Berlin’s World War I-era song that asks for God’s blessings on America and invokes the geographic majesty of our vast nation, “from the mountains to the prairies to the oceans white with foam.”

Bad Bunny didn’t mean America the country, but America the continents.

He name-checked the United States only in a list of other countries in the Western Hemisphere, and only toward the end, lest anyone get the idea that there’s something special about this place.

With apologies to Lee Greenwood, Bad Bunny is proud to be an American — just not an “American” like most people in the United States think of it. 

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