How Up with People paved a Super Bowl path for Bad Bunny

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THE LAST SUPER BOWL halftime show for Up with People featured a dizzying array of pastel clothes, tinsel tambourines and perpetual smiles. The group cut loose with a daring Bruce Springsteen/Huey Lewis/Stevie Wonder/Kenny Loggins cover medley.

Jill Johnson has no regrets. She was young and far away from her home in Mallard, Iowa, and its sign that reads "We're Friendly Ducks." It was the 1980s.

Collar stretched high and blazer sleeves rolled up, Johnson tickled the synthesizer keys with one hand and danced to the high-octane techno song "Talkin' With My Feet." Her impossibly large (and potentially hazardous) earrings bounced…