I’m sure Lopez had a blast at whatever after-party she chose to hit up. Here’s hoping she had a kiki with the other MVPs of awards season (in my eyes): Laura Dern, Florence Pugh, and Bong Joon-ho. You know they all wanted Lopez to get nominated for Hustlers.
Let’s take a moment to reflect on one of Lopez’s captions from last night: “Dance the night away, live your life and stay young on the floor.” She quoted her own lyrics, people. I truly cannot stress that enough. The power that she has.
J.Lo also graced our feeds with a full-body moment on her Instagram Stories:
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Of course, Jennifer Lopez’s snub is not the Oscars’s only notable misstep. The Academy conveniently forgot that female directors are a thing and that the actors in Parasite probably contributed to its raging success. At this point, the Oscars’s only saving grace is all of Bong Joon-ho’s wins, Janelle Monae, and Brad Pitt’s tongue. Otherwise, they were a Jennifer-Lopez-less disappointment.
Here’s hoping next year we see a more diverse batch of nominees and maybe even a retroactive Oscar nom for J.Lo. What? It could happen! I’m putting it in the universe.
Meghan Markle and Prince Harry may be enjoying their “quiet life” in Canada, since stepping down as working members of the royal family—but that doesn’t mean they’re not making moves behind the scenes.
It was recently reported that the Sussexes popped over to Miami for an appearance at a private JP Morgan event, where Harry gave a speech that touched on mental health, as well as their decision to leave the UK for North America, at least part-time. Not to diminish the importance of his speech, but I’m just as interested in a dinner that reportedly took place following the speech between the couple and Jennifer Lopez and Alex Rodriguez.
Page Six reports the two couples dined at Habitat, a restaurant inside the 1Hotel South Beach, on Thursday night (February 6). “Harry and Meghan got on really well with Jennifer and Alex, and spent some time chatting with them over dinner,” their source said. “J. Lo was overheard inviting the couple and their baby Archie to her and Alex’s house in Miami to spend time with them and their kids.”
While we’ll likely never know exactly what the foursome talked about, here are some topics that I hope came up: J. Lo and Shakira’s Super Bowl halftime performance and the ridiculous sexist backlash; the royals’ trip to a Major League Baseball game in the U.K. last summer and whether or not they’ll raise Archie as Yankees fan; Lopez’s Oscar snub and that “Criminal” dance routine from Hustlers; a personal invite to the Lopez/Rodriguez nuptials; and possible charitable projects they can all work on together.
Seriously, what a power couple dinner. It was also rumored that Markle and Harry stayed with the duchess’s good friend, Serena Williams, at her home in Palm Beach while they were in Florida. So while they Sussexes may have put some distance between themselves and the British royal family, they’re happily spending time with American royalty.
Jennifer Lopez during her Super Bowl 2020 performance.
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“That was my little nod to Hustlers,” Lopez confirmed to Fallon. “I was like, ‘I learned some pole things, lemme see what I could do, we can put it in there.'”
In addition to putting her hours learning to pole dance for the movie to use, she also wanted her performance to be a demonstration of power. “I just felt, again, like it was a very powerful move,” Lopez said. “It was like, ‘Look Ma, no hands!'”
Jennifer Lopez during her Super Bowl 2020 performance.
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Power moves weren’t limited to Lopez’s quick Hustlers call-out. She started her performance on top of a replica of the Empire State building to represent female power. “I wanted it to be like women were on top of the world, we’re on top of the world right now!” Lopez said. She added that she chose “Jenny From the Block” as her song for that moment because, “I’m a New York girl,” she added.
Jennifer Lopez kicks off her Super Bowl performance on top of a skyscraper.
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Lopez had a lot of choreography to pull off, but she told Fallon it didn’t faze her. “I’m good!” she said. “That’s what happens, right before you go on you start getting in the zone. That’s why I’m doing all of those crazy things and my face is like dead face, because you have to stay so calm.”
Even with her experience on the stage, pole dancing was a challenge for Lopez ahead of Hustlers. “That steel pole is unforgiving, and you just have to figure it out,” she said perviously. And on her YouTube channel last year, Lopez revealed that she trained for her Hustlers role with the help of an aerialist and practice poles installed in each of her homes.
After all that work, we’re glad Lopez could give Hustlers its due on the Super Bowl stage. Watch Jennifer Lopez’s full interview with Jimmy Fallon, below.
Jennifer Lopez and Shakira totally owned the stage during Sunday night’s Super Bowl halftime show in Miami with one of the best performances we’ve seen in years. But there was another rising star who everyone is still buzzing about: Lopez’s 11-year-old daughter, Emme.
Now we’re getting to see the lead-up to the headline-making performance via a behind-the-scenes video shared by J. Lo on YouTube and Instagram. It opens with the singer giving her daughter a sweet kiss on the forehead before they hug each other tight and then head down the tunnel toward the field.
“These moments were captured just minutes before we hit the stage last night,” she wrote in a caption on Instagram. “All I want my girls, the little girls on stage with me and all over the world to know is how to use their voices and be proud of everything they are. We are proud to recognize that all of us together are what makes this beautiful country truly great. ✨❤️??”
Emme had amazing poise on stage at the Super Bowl, and you can see how both calm and psyched she is in the video. It really should come as no surprise given the fact that her parents are Marc Anthony and freaking J. Lo, but still…it’s the Super Bowl, in front of an enormous crowd and one of the biggest television audiences in the world. If you follow Jennifer Lopez on social media, you may have heard snippets of Emme’s fantastic voice before, but for most people, her cameo on “Let’s Get Loud” and “Born in the USA” was the first time.
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Emme totally crushed it, naturally. “Baby Emme absolutely killing it. look at this little star,” one person tweeted after the performance. Ryan Seacrest loved it too, writing, “The choreo…. the throwback songs…. the production… Emme’s surprise appearance. Incredible
@jlo @shakira! #SuperBowl”
Jennifer Lopez and Shakira delivered an unsurprisingly epic halftime show at this year’s Super Bowl. There was dancing. There was pyro. There were bops. It’s truly everything I hoped it would be (and this is something I’ve been wanting for a while now).
But there’s a certain subset of people out there who think Lopez and Shakira’s halftime performance was “inappropriate” and “too provocative”—an R-rated attack on family values. One columnist from a well-respected newspaper even wrote, “If the Super Bowl is going to be touted as family entertainment, or at least not marketed as adult entertainment, perhaps the NFL has an obligation to warn people with children that what they’re about to see may be upsetting to some viewers.”
Mind you, this is all over Shakira and Lopez’s “skimpy outfits” and “booty shaking,” which is just heterosexual speak for “costumes” and “choreography.” There was nothing inappropriate about what they did onstage—at least, nothing more or less inappropriate than what male halftime performers have done for years. The only difference is that we still exist in a culture that thrives on policing women’s bodies. A culture that says a woman baring her midriff is a threat to the American family but an aging rocker grabbing his crotch is just a Tuesday. That is the issue here—not Jennifer Lopez or Shakira, who delivered one of the best Super Bowl halftime performances in recent memory. (I mean, come on: It started with “She Wolf!” A forgotten gem of a song! That’s gay rights!)
If people are actually outraged by Lopez and Shakira’s set, then it’s only fair they call the moral police on these six (male) halftime heathens too:
Mick Jagger, whose midriff pressured me into trying a cigarette
His stomach was just so racy. It made me want to be racy too, ya know?
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Nelly, whose crotch-grabbing antics are the sole reason I sneaked out of my house in middle school
It’s no one else’s fault but his.
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These shirtless dudes from the Red Hot Chili Peppers, who inspired me to bully all my friends
What? I wanted to be tough like them.
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Pete Townshend from The Who and his pearl-clutching buttons
An undone shirt? Not in my perfect household. Get this harlot off my screen.
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Put your shirt back on and apologize, mister. Grandparents are watching.
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He might as well have told the nation’s high schoolers, “Drop out! Drop out! Drop out!”
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Just atrocious. How am I expected to be a teacher, an uncle, and a role model when their torsos are exposed like this? Maybe get some actual talent and stop relying on your bodies, guys.
We’re definitely still not over Jennifer Lopez and Shakira‘s incredible Super Bowl halftime show last night in Miami—are you? The energy they created is enough to power us through another week. Along with admiring the incredible moves of these two ageless wonders, we were obsessed with J. Lo‘s glam—the makeup, the hair, the nails. As usual, she showed up and showed out.
While she may have had multiple (miraculously quick) costumes changes, that makeup needed to stay put through a rigorous performance, plus look great on television and in the stadium. We got the full breakdown on the singer’s look from her longtime makeup artist Scott Barnes.
And then there was that hair, styled by Chris Appleton, who was touching up the look mere minutes before Lopez took the stage. You’ve probably seen the meme of it going around on Instagram.
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Here’s how the Color Wow Creative Director created that massive and gorgeous head of hair. First, Appleton applied Color Wow Dream Coat Anti-Humidity Hair Treatment to create a base and add shine. Then he blow dried the hair smooth with the Dyson Supersonic Hair Dryer on medium heat and speed. Once that was done, he curled Lopez’s hair with a 2-inch curling iron, clipping each section to the root to cool before releasing them and brushing out with a Tangle Teezer brush, creating all that movement we saw on stage. Appleton then grabbed the curling iron again and added in detailed pieces around her head.
