J. Lo and Shakira dazzled fans by putting on a history-making halftime show in the 2020 Super Bowl.
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Jennifer’s upcoming Netflix documentary Halftime premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival yesterday, and spectators were stunned to learn she wasn’t that thrilled about sharing her stage time.
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“We have six fucking minutes,” Jennifer said to Kim Burse, her music director, in the documentary. “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.”
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“It’s not going to be a dance fucking revue. We have to sing our message. This is the worst idea in the world to have two people do the Super Bowl. It was the worst idea in the world.”
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To give you an idea, solo performers often have about 12–16 minutes for their performances. In comparison, Prince’s performance lasted about 12 minutes, while Beyoncé’s lasted 13 minutes.
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The documentary also showed Jennifer having a preliminary conversation with the “Hips Don’t Lie” singer, discussing how they’d 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].”
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“If it was going to be a double-headliner, they should have given us 20 minutes,” Jennifer added. “That’s what they should’ve fucking done.”
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J. Lo wasn’t the only one who expressed displeasure with the NFL’s decision to schedule two headliners in the same time period. Benny Medina, Jennifer’s long-time manager, also spoke out in the documentary, labeling it as a “insult.”
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“Typically, you have one headliner at a Super Bowl,” Benny shared. “That headliner constructs a show, and, should they choose to have other guests, that’s their choice. It was an insult to say you needed two Latinas to do the job that one artist historically has done.”
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Jennifer’s annoyance seemed to be directed more at the NFL for not providing her enough time to put on the extravaganza she envisioned, rather than at Shakira for having to split the stage with her, just so there’s no unneeded controversy made.
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