Andrew Athias, one of the bush performers at Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl LX halftime show, told Business Insider he was among 500 bunches of dancing grass. He was paid $18.70 per hour for the gig. The job description required performers to be between 5’7” and 6’ tall and to have an athletic build. They had to carry over 40 pounds of costumes each and be comfortable dancing close to other performers for long periods. Protective goggles were provided to keep plastic grass out of their eyes. They practiced eight times, each session lasting 12 hours. Performers had to sign an NDA not to discuss the show or post on social media for two weeks. Athias told Business Insider: “They made us sign an NDA to not talk about it or post anything on social media for two weeks.” He told his loved ones, “You’re going to see me. You just didn’t know that you saw me.”
Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl bushes were actual people hired from a pool of 40000 applicants
TV program producer Stuart Brazell recently explained on her YouTube channel the story behind the bushes in Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl LX halftime show. She revealed that the biggest breakout stars from the Puerto Rican rapper’s show were the bush people, technically called ‘sugarcane performers.’This was a highly coveted job, with 40,000 people applying. Levi’s Stadium has real grass, and only 25 large carts are allowed on the field to build the halftime show. The six-time Grammy-winning rapper wanted to bring a Puerto Rican aesthetic to his show, so he used 380 performers dressed as sugarcane grass to create the backdrop for his performance [In 1952, Puerto Rico grew 12.5 million tons of sugarcane on more than 400,000 acres and processed over 1 million tons of raw sugar at 34 mills and seven refineries].Brazell further shared that to be a sugarcane performer, one had to be between 5-foot-10 and 6-foot-1. The costume weighed 40 pounds, and performers were told not to move because “You don’t get wind in Puerto Rico.” One of the performers, Andrew Athias, who goes by the X username The Reese’s Guy⁷ posted a tweet stating, “We were told to not move because ‘there’s no wind in Puerto Rico.’”
GRWM to the halftime show with Bad Bunny as a bush
An Instagram user named Nikolai, with the handle name “vicivoli” shared a reel titled, ‘GRWM to the halftime show w Bad Bunny AS A BUSH.’ He woke up at 7 am for morning chores and, 30 minutes later, grabbed a snack at a local restaurant. At 8 am, an Uber took him to an unspecified location. They all wore green sweatshirts and sweatpants. He spotted 16-time Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Lady Gaga at the check-in counter. At 11 am, a bus took Nikolai and others to Levi’s Stadium. He shared a snippet of pop superstar Bad Bunny’s entrance with the bush people in the background. The next clip showed bush people taking selfies, including one featuring Nikolai. He left for home at 8 pm. His video has over 2.5 million hearts. How did cybercitizens react to this heartwarming reel?
This is the content we go on the internet for
One IG user inquired, “How would one possibly apply for a job like this?” Another wrote, “I was so waiting for a bush to make a video !!” Instagram’s official account commented, “How does it feel to live our dream.” A user went back to childhood, commenting, “And my kindergarten teacher told me I couldn’t be a tree when I grow up and to choose something more realistic.” Another expressed, “THIS IS THE CONTENT WE GO ON THE INTERNET TO SEE!!!!! Thank you for making this!!!!” A third shared, “Yall had a very important job and killed it [tree emoji].” A fourth commented, “There are no small roles! The bushes killed it [clapping emojis].”
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