Music News: Jennifer Lopez & Shakira Join Forces for the NFL Super Bowl LIV Halftime Show (Roc Nation First)
- Thread starter playahaitian
- Start date
Shakira feeling that divorce sting lol
Basically Luke wasn’t good enough to even consult with. Got it Luke. Take the L
'I couldn’t be a sellout': Rihanna says she turned down Super Bowl over Kaepernick
Wed 9 Oct 2019 12.30 EDTLast modified on Wed 9 Oct 2019 12.48 EDT
Shares
1,132
Rihanna: ‘I couldn’t dare do that. For what? Who gains from that? Not my people’. Photograph: Steve Cho/Penta Press/REX/Shutterstock
Rihanna has confirmed she turned down the chance to headline February’s Super Bowl halftime show in solidarity with Colin Kaepernick.
In 2016, quarterback Kaepernick started to kneel for the pre-game national anthem in protest at racial injustice in the United States. He has been out of the NFL since leaving the San Francisco 49ers in 2017, and he later settled a case with the league in which he alleged he had been blackballed by team owners for his protests.
In an interview with Vogue published online on Wednesday, Rihanna was asked whether she had turned down the Super Bowl in solidarity with Kaepernick. “Absolutely,” she said. “I couldn’t dare do that. For what? Who gains from that? Not my people. I just couldn’t be a sellout. I couldn’t be an enabler. There’s things within that organization that I do not agree with at all, and I was not about to go and be of service to them in any way.”
February’s show was instead headlined by Maroon 5, who garnered underwhelming reviews for their performance. Cardi B was also approached to headline the show but turned down the chance as a show of support for Kaepernick.
In the interview with Vogue, Rihanna also addressed the treatment of mass shootings in the US. “It is devastating,” she told the magazine. “People are being murdered by war weapons that they legally purchase. This is just not normal. That should never, ever be normal. And the fact that it’s classified as something different because of the color of their skin? It’s a slap in the face. It’s completely racist.” She added: “Put an Arab man with that same weapon in that same Walmart and there is no way that Trump would sit there and address it publicly as a mental health problem. The most mentally ill human being in America right now seems to be the president.”
- Star was approached about February’s halftime show
- Rihanna also attacks Donald Trump in Vogue interview
Wed 9 Oct 2019 12.30 EDTLast modified on Wed 9 Oct 2019 12.48 EDT
Shares
1,132
Rihanna: ‘I couldn’t dare do that. For what? Who gains from that? Not my people’. Photograph: Steve Cho/Penta Press/REX/Shutterstock
Rihanna has confirmed she turned down the chance to headline February’s Super Bowl halftime show in solidarity with Colin Kaepernick.
In 2016, quarterback Kaepernick started to kneel for the pre-game national anthem in protest at racial injustice in the United States. He has been out of the NFL since leaving the San Francisco 49ers in 2017, and he later settled a case with the league in which he alleged he had been blackballed by team owners for his protests.
In an interview with Vogue published online on Wednesday, Rihanna was asked whether she had turned down the Super Bowl in solidarity with Kaepernick. “Absolutely,” she said. “I couldn’t dare do that. For what? Who gains from that? Not my people. I just couldn’t be a sellout. I couldn’t be an enabler. There’s things within that organization that I do not agree with at all, and I was not about to go and be of service to them in any way.”
February’s show was instead headlined by Maroon 5, who garnered underwhelming reviews for their performance. Cardi B was also approached to headline the show but turned down the chance as a show of support for Kaepernick.
In the interview with Vogue, Rihanna also addressed the treatment of mass shootings in the US. “It is devastating,” she told the magazine. “People are being murdered by war weapons that they legally purchase. This is just not normal. That should never, ever be normal. And the fact that it’s classified as something different because of the color of their skin? It’s a slap in the face. It’s completely racist.” She added: “Put an Arab man with that same weapon in that same Walmart and there is no way that Trump would sit there and address it publicly as a mental health problem. The most mentally ill human being in America right now seems to be the president.”
Jennifer Lopez and Shakira deliver a stunning Super Bowl halftime show in Miami
The two artists were joined by Bad Bunny, J Balvin and Jennifer Lopez's daughter. Many viewers are counting it among the best halftime shows in Super Bowl history.
twitter.com
Super Bowl LIV Live
smarturl.it
Enraged Viewers Filed 1,300 FCC Complaints Over Sexy Halftime Show
By Claire Lampen@claire_lampen
Photo: TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP via Getty Images
Surely you remember the Super Bowl Halftime Show. It happened only a few weeks ago and arguably clinched the win for butts that evening. Many viewers heartily enjoyed the spectacle, a sexy sprint through Jennifer Lopez’s and Shakira’s greatest hits. There was athletic dancing, there was a pointed message of support for Puerto Rico, and there was Latinx music performed in Spanish, which has never happened before in the Super Bowl’s history. There was also an abundance of freaky moves and slinky costumes, the combination of which set some viewers’ teeth on edge. According to a collection of over 1,300 FCC complaints, many football fans became enraged by the sexiness on display, the descriptions on the tickets calling the performance “patently obscene,” “offensive and inappropriate for kids,” “not in good taste,” “too revealing,” “highly indecent,” “raunchy,” “WAY too close showing cleavage and butts,” “pornographic,” and — as one viewer wrote without any elaboration — “Jennifer Lopez.”
“Why are we showing pornstyle dancing during prime time?” reads one complaint, out of South Carolina. “This is family time. Our children are being bombarded with porn, as if it is normal.” Other halftime shows, of course, have sent sections of the audience into a sexual panic, and certainly, this raft of outrage does not even approach the maelstrom generated by Janet Jackson’s Justin Timberlake–induced nip slip in 2004. (540,000 complaints!) This year, many of the viewers who wrote in took issue with the lack of fair warning, which accidentally obligated a lot of kids to watch with their parents (embarrassing). Many called for boundaries.
“There needs to be limits imposed on the amount of buttocks revealed and shaken in front of the camera, and an end to the simulated sex acts of male/female grinding,” reads one complaint, from Kansas. “NOT FAMILY ORIENTED! ASS SHAKEN AND VULGAR COSTUMES NOT GOOD FOR YOUTH TO VIEW! How could you have stooped so low! No class!” reads another, from Texas, promising: “Last time I will watch!” The complaints go on basically that way, and we think you get the picture. We suppose everyone has different tastes and no one halftime show could ever appeal to all of them. Bruce Springsteen reportedly loved it, though.
By Claire Lampen@claire_lampen
Photo: TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP via Getty Images
Surely you remember the Super Bowl Halftime Show. It happened only a few weeks ago and arguably clinched the win for butts that evening. Many viewers heartily enjoyed the spectacle, a sexy sprint through Jennifer Lopez’s and Shakira’s greatest hits. There was athletic dancing, there was a pointed message of support for Puerto Rico, and there was Latinx music performed in Spanish, which has never happened before in the Super Bowl’s history. There was also an abundance of freaky moves and slinky costumes, the combination of which set some viewers’ teeth on edge. According to a collection of over 1,300 FCC complaints, many football fans became enraged by the sexiness on display, the descriptions on the tickets calling the performance “patently obscene,” “offensive and inappropriate for kids,” “not in good taste,” “too revealing,” “highly indecent,” “raunchy,” “WAY too close showing cleavage and butts,” “pornographic,” and — as one viewer wrote without any elaboration — “Jennifer Lopez.”
“Why are we showing pornstyle dancing during prime time?” reads one complaint, out of South Carolina. “This is family time. Our children are being bombarded with porn, as if it is normal.” Other halftime shows, of course, have sent sections of the audience into a sexual panic, and certainly, this raft of outrage does not even approach the maelstrom generated by Janet Jackson’s Justin Timberlake–induced nip slip in 2004. (540,000 complaints!) This year, many of the viewers who wrote in took issue with the lack of fair warning, which accidentally obligated a lot of kids to watch with their parents (embarrassing). Many called for boundaries.
“There needs to be limits imposed on the amount of buttocks revealed and shaken in front of the camera, and an end to the simulated sex acts of male/female grinding,” reads one complaint, from Kansas. “NOT FAMILY ORIENTED! ASS SHAKEN AND VULGAR COSTUMES NOT GOOD FOR YOUTH TO VIEW! How could you have stooped so low! No class!” reads another, from Texas, promising: “Last time I will watch!” The complaints go on basically that way, and we think you get the picture. We suppose everyone has different tastes and no one halftime show could ever appeal to all of them. Bruce Springsteen reportedly loved it, though.
Last edited:
***BGOL 3rd Ballot Hall of Fame Voting***...[ J-Lo]..[Denied]
BGOL Hall Of Fame Inductee Thread https://www.bgol.us/forum/threads/the-official-bgol-hall-of-fame-inductee-thread.1104466/ BGOL Hall Of Fame Denied Induction Thread https://www.bgol.us/forum/threads/bgol-hall-of-fame-denied-induction-thread.1104989/ Jenny From The Block 100...
www.bgol.us
Shakira Says She and Her Sons Found ‘Barbie’ “Emasculating”
The Colombian superstar wasn't a fan of Greta Gerwig's brand of feminism in the Oscar-winning film, as she explains in a new interview.
www.hollywoodreporter.com
Shakira on Why It’s the ‘Perfect Moment’ for Bad Bunny to Headline Super Bowl, Wanting to Sing With Chappell Roan and Revisiting Classics for Spotify (EXCLUSIVE)
Shakira revisits 'Pies Descalzos' and 'Fijación Oral' in a sprawling email interview with Variety.
variety.com
Similar threads
