Jennifer Lopez didn't seem to hold back her views about performing in the 2020 Super Bowl halftime show alongside Shakira, another Latina music diva. According to Entertainment Weekly, Lopez remarked it was "the worst idea in the world" to have two individuals share the leading role of the halftime show in a scene from her new Netflix documentary, "Halftime," in which she was planning her half of the performance with her music director Kim Burse.
'Worst Idea In The World': Says Jennifer Lopez About Sharing Super Bowl Stage With Shakira
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Haider Ali in
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On 13th June 2022
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Jennifer Lopez has called Shakira's 2020 Super Bowl appearance the "worst idea in the world."
The 52-year-old singer is shown in rehearsals with her music director Kim Burse in her Netflix documentary Halftime. She appears anxious owing to the time restrictions she is facing.
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“We have six f***ing minutes,” Lopez said at the time, according to Entertainment Weekly. “We have 30 seconds of a song, and if we take a minute, that’s it, we’ve got five left. But there’s got to be certain songs that we sing, though. We have to have our singing moments. It’s not going to be a dance f***ing revue. We have to sing our message.”
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“This is the worst idea in the world to have two people do the Super Bowl,” she continued. “It was the worst idea in the world.”
Lopez is seen with Shakira earlier in the documentary discussing their upcoming performance and the logistics of it.
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"I know that the Super Bowl people want us to be weaved throughout the show. I haven't had confirmation about how many minutes I'm going to have," Shakira tells Lopez, who responds: "Let me address that quickly. They said 12 minutes. I got kind of a good confirmation that we could have an extra minute or two, so now we're at, like, 13, 14 minutes. I think, Shakira, what we should have is you should have half the time and I should [have half]."
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"If it was going to be a double-headliner, they should have given us 20 minutes," Lopez finishes. "That's what they should've f***ing done."
Lopez's longtime manager Benny Medina expresses his displeasure with the choice to have two Latina megastars perform during a shared slot in an interview for the documentary.
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"Typically, you have one headliner at a Super Bowl. That headliner constructs a show, and, should they choose to have other guests, that's their choice," Medina said. "It was an insult to say you needed two Latinas to do the job that one artist historically has done."