Jennifer Lopez and Shakira’s joint Super Bowl performance has been described as one of the best halftime shows of all time.
The performance, which incorporated pole dancing, surprise guest appearances, giant dance sequences, random Led Zeppelin riffs, crowd surfing and multiple costume changes, has gone viral online.
In fact, the internet has pretty much lost it.
And to be honest, it’s not hard to see why.
Watch Jennifer Lopez and Shakira’s full performance below. Post continues after video.
Here are just some of the very best moments from Jennifer Lopez and Shakira’s incredible Super Bowl halftime performance.
A pole dancing routine worthy of Hustlers.
After appearing in Hustlers late last year, Jennifer Lopez didn’t let her pole dancing training go to waste.
It was essentially like watching the deleted scenes of Hustlers.
The pole dancing routine also led fans to once again point out that JLo was robbed of a nomination for the movie.
#JLo did not come to play. I know she better give us that hustlers routine! ❤️ #SuperBowl #PepsiHalftime pic.twitter.com/NtPNBWwDeU
— Raro Lae (@TheRaroLae) February 3, 2020
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I'm hearing the performance was seen as "empowering" for women on other platforms.
I'm curious if that's the consensus for the majority of MM readers here.
I've tried to respond seriously and my comments have been repeatedly removed.
This is something I recently read. It'll probably be deleted too.
"After J.Lo’s recent Super Bowl halftime show performance, many women expressed criticism in relation to her pole dancing. As is often the case when women push back against the normalization of the sex industry and of objectification, the response was less than fair. Could it be that women all over the world are just angry and prudish? Jealous of how exciting and empowering it must be to pole dance like J.Lo? Or could it be that some women are actually sick and tired of being peddled the lie that dancing like a stripper is empowering?
Consider the realities of how pole dancing “empowers” women:
– 100 per cent of dancers report assault on the job with 82 per cent saying they have been punched by customers.
– Over half of dancers report being digitally raped at work.
– In countries where women’s economic status increases (e.g. Canada), economically vulnerable women are trafficked from overseas to dance under poorer conditions.
– Earnings of US dancers are generally decreasing while demands for more nudity and physical touch are increasing.
– Dancers are increasingly expected to accept physical harassment, in part due to the proliferation of free pornography.
– Strip clubs are illegal in egalitarian jurisdictions like Finland where they are recognized as a driver (and consequence) of gender inequality.
The ugly realities of pole dancing are hand waved away, not just by men, but, increasingly, by women. This is understandable in some ways. Many of us want to defend our right to be sexual beings — to not feel ashamed or repressed about how we dance, have sex, or make money. The problem is that, instead of defending women’s right to understand and express our actual sexualities, women are defending the commoditization of our sexuality — a “sexuality” that has little to do with female pleasure, and everything to do with performing for the male gaze. Far from defending women’s sexuality, arguments in favour of pole dancing do the opposite."
And am I the only one who thought J-Lo's second costume (the silver thing) looked like a maxi pad hanging out the sides of her black costume?