Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime performance drew notice, with many conservatives criticizing elements of it—including his recent win at the Grammy Awards last week, where he took home the Album of the Year prize.
But while many fans shared their perspectives, despite claims of the show being “an affront to the Greatness of America,” one Republican critic is taking his disapproval further.
Rep. Andy Ogles (R, Tenn.) sent a letter to the House Energy and Commerce Committee on Monday evening, calling for an immediate inquiry into the National Football League and broadcaster NBCUniversal over their “prior knowledge, review, and approval” of what he alleged was “a performance dominated by sexually explicit lyrical themes and suggestive choreography.”
In his post, Ogles labeled the halftime show “pure smut” and claimed it featured “explicit displays of gay sexual acts, women gyrating provocatively, and Bad Bunny shamelessly grabbing his crotch while dry-humping the air,” adding that the singer’s mostly Spanish-language lyrics “openly glorified sodomy and countless other unspeakable depravities.”
The Tennessee lawmaker—whom Trump has called a “Conservative Warrior”—argued in his committee letter that songs in Bad Bunny’s set, including “Safaera” and “Yo Perreo Sola,” contained sexual references that would be “readily apparent across any language barrier.”
While Bad Bunny did perform parts of his song “,” which includes Spanish lines like “My d-ck is being chased and I want you to hide it” and “If your boyfriend doesn’t eat your ass / He better f-ck off,” he avoided singing the more explicit sections of those lyrics during the halftime show.
Ogles contended it was “highly implausible” that the NFL and NBC lacked advance knowledge of the set’s content. He asked the House committee to examine: the extent of executives’ and producers’ awareness of the songs’ nature and accompanying choreography; internal review and translation processes; and whether safeguards (like broadcast delay protocols and standards review procedures) were “properly applied” or “intentionally disregarded.”
“These flagrant, indecent acts are illegal to air on public airwaves,” Ogles declared. “American culture will not be mocked or corrupted without consequence.”
TIME reached out to the NFL and NBC for comment.
In another statement, Ogles said Bad Bunny’s halftime performance was “conclusive proof that Puerto Rico should never become a state.”
Another GOP congressman, Rep. Randy Fine (R, Fla.), claimed earlier Monday that the halftime show was “illegal,” attaching screenshots of translated “Safaera” lyrics (many of which Bad Bunny did not actually perform). Fine noted he would send a letter to Federal Communications Commission chairperson and Trump ally Brendan Carr—who last year pressured ABC to take action—to demand “dramatic action,” including potential fines and broadcast license reviews, against the NFL, NBC, and Bad Bunny.
Anticipating backlash over Bad Bunny’s performance, conservative activist group Turning Point USA launched counterprogramming marketed as a celebration of “faith, family, and freedom” for the MAGA audience. The group’s “All-American Halftime Show” was headlined by Trump-supporting musician Kid Rock—known for songs like “,” which includes lines “Young ladies, young ladies / I like ’em underage, see / Some say that’s statutory / But I say it’s mandatory” (which he did not perform at the Turning Point event), and “,” which he did perform, including a verse name-dropping “topless dancers” and “hookers” in Hollywood.
