In her new Netflix documentary, “Halftime,” Jennifer Lopez reveals why she was in opposition to the NFL’s plan to have two headliners on the 2020 Tremendous Bowl. The Grammy-nominated artist shared the stage with Shakira in what was a historic second for Latina illustration. Nonetheless, behind the scenes, Lopez was stressed about her capacity to make an affect throughout the present because of the small period of time she and Shakira had been every allotted to carry out.
After the documentary premiered on the Tribeca Movie Competition in New York Metropolis, Leisure Weekly reported particulars a few scene the place Lopez voices her frustrations over being a coheadliner. “We have now six f*cking minutes. We have now 30 seconds of a track, and if we take a minute, that is it, we have 5 left. However there’s acquired to make certain songs that we sing, although. We have now to have our singing moments. It isn’t going to be a dance f*cking revue. We have now to sing our message,” Lopez says to her music director, Kim Burse. “That is the worst concept on this planet to have two folks do the Tremendous Bowl. It was the worst concept on this planet.”
It appears Lopez’s frustration was by no means with Shakira however fairly with the NFL and the small of period of time provided to every of the performers. In one other behind-the-scenes second, Shakira and Lopez are seen discussing how a lot time every of them must sing. Lopez laments that the NFL ought to have given them 20 minutes, which might have been consistent with previous halftime-show units.
“They mentioned 12 minutes. I acquired form of a very good affirmation that we might have an additional minute or two, so now we’re at, like, 13, 14 minutes,” Lopez tells Shakira. “I believe, Shakira, what we must always have is you need to have half the time and I ought to [have half]. If it was going to be a double-headliner, they need to have given us 20 minutes. That is what they need to’ve f*cking executed.”
At one other level within the documentary, the “Love Do not Price a Factor” singer’s supervisor, Benny Medina, took problem with the choice to have two headliners as effectively. “Sometimes, you may have one headliner at a Tremendous Bowl. That headliner constructs a present, and, ought to they select to produce other visitors, that is their selection,” Medina says. “It was an insult to say you wanted two Latinas to do the job that one artist traditionally has executed.”
Nonetheless, regardless of her points with the time constraints, Lopez remains to be extremely happy with the top results of the halftime present. In a Feb. 2020 interview with Jimmy Fallon on “The Tonight Present,” the singer shared simply how a lot the efficiency meant to her. “I acquired emotional as a result of we did, we labored so exhausting. We began rehearsing in November for my set. It was simply, each single day . . . it is a quick period of time,” she mentioned. “You already know what I imply, however a lot goes into that second. However it’s a whole lot of individuals, they put that stage collectively in seven minutes, and then you definately get on it, and also you rock. It is simply loopy. It’s such an enormous deal. And I am simply glad everyone favored it! That is why I acquired emotional.”
