Close your eyes and think about where you were during Jennifer Lopez and Shakira’s 2020 Super Bowl Halftime Show. I want to take you back to t hat simpler time. A time when masks were solely for Halloween and no one had ever heard of curbside pickup.
Jennifer Lopez and Shakira rocked the football halftime show and now, we all fondly look back at it as the “last party” before the world changed forever.
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The electricity that flowed through my body on February 2nd, 2020 when I first saw Jennifer Lopez and Shakira’s Super Bowl Halftime show has yet to be duplicated.
Shakira’s rendition of “She Wolf” was invigorating, and don’t even get me started on J.Lo’s “Let’s Get Loud” choreography.
However, as fans are now learning, the show wasn’t all rainbows and butterflies behind-the-scenes.
In the newly released Netflix documentary, “Halftime” Jennifer expresses her frustrations at the organizers for placing two headlining acts in the same time slot as a solo act.
The halftime show, which typically runs for 12-16 minutes, had to be split between these two superstars.
Speaking with her music director in the doc , J.Lo says: “We have six [explective] minutes. 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 [explective] revue. We have to sing our message,” she said, before going on to call the entire thing “the worst idea in the world.”
“This is the worst idea in the world to have two people do the Super Bowl,” she said. “It was the worst idea in the world.”
Later, Jennifer explains how she and the “Hips Don’t Lie” singer split their time: “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],” Jen said.
“If it was going to be a double-headliner, they should have given us 20 minutes,” the Hustlers star added. “That’s what they should’ve [explective] done.”
While I’m sad to know it was so stressful, there’s no denying their hard work paid off and gave us one of the best halftime shows of all time.
