During the initial live broadcast, the captions only said, “[SPEAKING NON-ENGLISH]” and “[SINGING IN NON-ENGLISH]” during Bad Bunny’s mashup performance of “El Apagon” and “Despues De La Playa.”
Grammy viewers who were using the closed captioning while watching the awards telecast on Sunday night didn’t have much to go on when opening acthit the Cypto.com stage. That’s because, during the initial live broadcast, the captions only said, “[SPEAKING NON-ENGLISH]” and “[SINGING IN NON-ENGLISH]” during Bad Bunny’s mashup performance of “El Apagón” and “Después de la Playa.”
Later, when Bad Bunny accepted the Grammy for Música Urbana album, his acceptance speech was partially in Spanish — and once again, the captions only said “[SPEAKING NON-ENGLISH]”. Turns out, that is generally standard practice for live closed captioning, where the captioners don’t have the capability to quickly add translations. Insiders note that although the lyrics for “El Apagón” and “Después de la Playa” are readily available online, they don’t account for ad libs or expletives that may or may not be bleeped.
But with reaction swift online — many commenters noted that regardless of the live nature, the network should have realized that especially because the
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