'Most Super Bowls, you have to rise to the level of 'Slightly less good than Prince,' but for Super Bowl LIV, it was probably enough to be 'Slightly better than Maroon 5.'' TheFienPrint reviews JLo and Shakira's halftime performance:
I've written repeatedly in the past about what a thankless gig the Super Bowl halftime show is. Most people are only paying attention to make fun of it and to complain about how Prince did it better.
And on that count, J.Lo and Shakira delivered beyond any reasonable expectations. That halftime show was just pure fun, unless you want to acknowledge that it's righteously and wonderfully political for two Latinx singers to have shared and dominated the stage on TV's biggest night, especially when one of them sang — or "sang" — the chorus of Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the U.S.A." while draped in a magnificent Puerto Rican flag boa/robe.
Let's get real: Nobody really sings at the Super Bowl halftime show, and I don't know if Shakira sang appreciably less than previous acts, but you can't fake her dancing and stage command. She ran through a litany of her hits — from "She Wolf" to "Hips Don't Lie" — negotiating complicated choreography with a mad gusto that hasn't been approached since.
Shakira was followed cleanly by Lopez looking for all the world like she wanted to make every single member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences feel guilty, or at least out-of-touch, for not giving her an Oscar nomination forand fronting her own platoon of militaristic backing dancers — these dressed like black-and-white cookies each boasting a cane that I'm going to assume they pried from the cold, dead hands of the late Mr.
Consider the demons of Maroon 5 to be exorcised. And whoever does next year's Super Bowl halftime show, if you can't shake like Shakira or plank like J.Lo, you'd better find some way to compensate, because the bar that was down on the turn has been comfortably raised and J.Lo is probably swinging from it.
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