Jennifer Lopez and Shakira at the Super Bowl in February 2020. Photos / AFP
Jennifer Lopez spoke very harsh words for the NFL after announcing that she and Shakira would only have 12 minutes for the 2020 Super Bowl Halftime Show.
During a tense scene in his Netflix documentary, half the timeand, which will be released on June 14, Super Bowl show singer and music director Kim Burse discuss how to plan their performance and share the stage with Shakira.
“We have to have our singing and dancing moments,” insists López. “It won’t be a fucking dance magazine, we have to sing and get our message across.”
Shakira and Jennifer Lopez at the Super Bowl
Jennifer Lopez’s harsh criticism of her performance for the NFL
Then, in the document, JLo lashes out at the NFL: “It’s the worst idea in the world for two people to do the Super Bowl. It’s the worst idea in the world.”
In another scene, Shakira expresses concern to Jennifer about the program, noting that NFL organizers want their respective songs to be “intertwined” during the performance..
To this, Jennifer says they’ll split 12 minutes evenly, but adds: “If it was going to be a double act, they should have given us 20 minutes. This is what they should have done. “
JLo rep Benny Medina shares the same frustrations over the decision, explaining that he was limiting both singers’ acting skills.
. “Normally there is a Super Bowl headliner,” Medina said. “That headliner builds a show, and if he decides to have other guests, that’s his choice. It was an insult to say that it took two Latinas to do the work that has historically been done by only one artist.“.
Later in the documentary, Jennifer and Medina discover that the NFL is upset by their decision to have their daughter Emme sing. “Let’s go strong“Inside a cage.
As Jennifer explained, this staging of the song should have been a criticism US border policy based on reports that migrant children were separated from their parents and detainees in detention centers.
Jennifer notes in the document that she noticed that everyone was “going crazy” at the dress rehearsal and later found out why. “That night,” he explains, “the NFL leaders saw him for the first time and said, ‘Hey, you can’t do this‘”.
In the documentary Halftime, Jennifer López and Shakira criticized immigration policies in the United States. Photo / AFP
According to Benny Medina, “the NFL was very concerned with making a political statement on immigration. They looked at the plans and the message was absolute. They didn’t want those cages on the show. This came from the highest authority. “
However, Jennifer Lopez went on with the show as it was, saying it was not a political statement but “human rights”. She said I couldn’t “sacrifice what I believe”, even if it were for the Super Bowl Halftime Show. “
Despite the setbacks, the show was a success, although some fans of both artists have complained about it none of his idols have had enough minutes to perform their own songs, all within a frenzied and overly changing mix of songs.
It was just one of the fears expressed by Jennifer in the documentary which was already presented at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York and will be available on Netflix from 14.
Source: Clarin
