{"id":44498,"date":"2020-02-04T22:51:32","date_gmt":"2020-02-05T03:51:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=44498"},"modified":"2020-02-04T22:51:32","modified_gmt":"2020-02-05T03:51:32","slug":"super-halftime-the-shakira-j-lo-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/super-halftime-the-shakira-j-lo-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Super Halftime: The Shakira & J. Lo Show"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Shakira and Jennifer Lopez Super Concert on Sunday was so much more meaningful than I expected<\/a>! I’m told there was some kind of big sports event before and after their performance, and — if that’s correct — I just hope both sides had fun<\/a>. More importantly, we had two<\/em> Latinx women headlining the show for the first time<\/a>, in Miami, a city with a majority Hispanic population. (They weren’t the first-ever Latinx act though. That breakthrough was claimed by Gloria Estefan<\/a> in 1992.)<\/p>\n

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Yo, Shakira wore one of my rings in a 2014 issue of Women’s Health magazine.<\/p><\/div><\/center><\/p>\n

I’d actually been a little dubious about putting two stars of that caliber in the same show without making it all about some VH1 Divas<\/em>-level drama<\/a>, whether real or imagined. But both Shakira and J. Lo made powerful statements about their different Latinx identities while putting on eye-popping, energetic shows.<\/p>\n

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