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Shakira and J-Lo's Super Bowl halftime show has received more coverage than the game itself. With some outrageous outrage regarding the impact of the performance on children.
Shakira and J-Lo's Super Bowl halftime show has gotten more coverage than the game itself. I haven't seen this much outrage about wardrobes since one famously malfunctioned.
Sometimes I have to double-check to make sure people are serious with their outrage. It's outrageous.
I've even seen some asking what they should tell their kids. I guess not to be cheerleaders for the NFL if the outfits the two megastars wore was so upsetting. What do they say about what we see on sidelines every Sunday?
For all those jeer leaders, here's what I told mine. "Guys, come over here. Shakira and J-Lo are killing it!" If the Super Bowl is a family show, it led to a family dance party in my household. And truth be told, I never really knew that we could dance like that.
Though despite our shared excitement, I was careful not to remove my shirt. I didn't want to pull an Adam Levine. (I'd also need to do some serious intermittent fasting before I did.)
In all seriousness, talking to my kids about how dangerous football is while simultaneously enjoying it is a far more difficult conversation for me. I'd much rather have them try what J-Lo and Shakira did than what Patrick Mahomes and Richard Sherman do.
But forget about that for now. The halftime show was fantastic. Hence the reaction. After all, hits don't lie. So consider this my love for both Shakira and J-Lo. And my love don't cost a thing.
This year’s tremendous Super Bowl halftime show featuring Jennifer Lopez and Shakira has barely cooled off and Twitter is already talking about who they want – and don’t want – for next year’s show.
Pepsi Super Bowl LIV Halftime Show | Kevin Winter/Getty Images
The results are pretty surprising.
The tweets have spoken, and here’s what they had to say.
This year’s Super Bowl halftime show was historic
Shakira spoke with The Guardian in November explaining why her halftime show with Jennifer Lopez was so meaningful for the country at this time.
“Well, you know, I think it’s the right thing to do for the Latino community because we’ve also been through so much . . . It’s an opportunity to celebrate our culture, you know?”
“Latinos are our people … They come seeking an opportunity to build a better life for themselves and for their children, which is what the U.S. has always prided itself on representing: opportunities.”
“I’m so honored to be taking on one of the world’s biggest stages in the company of a fellow female artist to represent Latinos and Latinas from the U.S. and all over the world . . .!”
The top-ranked halftime show of all time
Of course, this one is entirely dependent on who is being asked. For some, the best is Prince’s performance in 2007, complemented by a driving rain that would have been perfect if it had been purple.
U2 just months after 9/11/01 at 2002 Super Bowl XXXVI displaying names of victims | Al Bello/Getty Images
For Rolling Stone magazine, the best show was U2’s performance in 2002. They wrote at that time, “Just a few months after 9/11, U2 made this a tribute to the victims. After kicking off with Beautiful Day, they played the elegiac MLK while scrolling the names of the dead on a giant screen, an unforgettable sight, building up to Where the Streets Have No Name. . . . “
“Only U2 could have made this so grandiose, yet so emotionally direct. Grown men wept buckets.”
Tweeters say they kind of do – and don’t – want this headliner at the Super Bowl
Billboard asked Twitter, “Who would you like to see perform at next year’s #SuperBowl?” As we all know, if you’re going to ask Twitter that kind of a question, don’t be surprised at the answers.
The tweets came fast and furious.
“Billie [Eilish] should do the anthem. And ari [Ariana Grande] must perform,” “Rihanna,” “Britney Spears,” “GOT7,” “I would love to see Beyonce, Shakira, and Bruno Mars all together on one stage they would rock it!”
But . . . they also don’t! Endearingly, out of a sense of protection for their favorite band, BTS fans don’t want the band at the Super Bowl to spare them from negativity.
One person said, “I will do BTS a huge favor and NOT vote for them . . . A massive crowd of drunk, xenophobic bigots who aren’t afraid to vocalize their prejudices is not something I want to subject my faves to.”
Another echoed that sentiment saying, “I don’t know if I want my men in this kind of show… @BTS_twt deserves better actually.”
Finally, a fan said it all, “I would love to see all eyes on BTS but I doubt sports-minded people would see what #BTSARMY see in the amazing talents of 7 men who dance and sing while looking like they just stepped out of a GQ magazine.”
We’ll just have to wait about 360 days to find out who ends up on the next Super Bowl halftime show stage!
Iowa Democratic Party says delayed caucus results expected 'later today'
After a long and wild day, the results of the Iowa Democratic caucuses were delayed Monday night, with the state party citing "inconsistencies" in the results being reported from precincts. It also blamed the delay on the party reporting three sets of data for the first time. Iowa Democratic Party (IDP) Chair Troy Price told reporters early Tuesday that the IDP was manually verifying all precinct results and that, "We expect to have numbers to report later today." Price repeated the party's early assertion that the technical glitch with the system "is a reporting issue not a hack or an intrusion." Nonetheless, the glitch led to a strange evening which included candidates giving late speeches before jetting off to New Hampshire, unsure where they finished in the state's race. President Donald Trump weighed in, calling it the "sloppiest train wreck in history." Price's comments followed criticism from some campaigns, notably former Vice President Joe Biden's who called the reporting problems "acute failures."
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President Trump's State of the Union: An agenda for 2020
Sure, the Senate is holding an impeachment trial, but White House officials say President Donald Trump will seek to strike an upbeat tone when he delivers his State of the Union before a joint session of Congress on Tuesday night (9 p.m. EST). Trump has dubbed the annual address speech, "the Great American Comeback." "We’re going to talk about the achievements that we’ve made," he told Fox News host Sean Hannity in a Super Bowl Sunday interview. Trump plans to renew a call for tax breaks designed to provide more scholarships for students to attend private schools, two sources familiar with the address told USA TODAY. The president's emphasis on school choice – a popular issue with his core supporters – will be part of a speech in which the president is also likely to discuss the economy and trade, working families, health care, immigration and national security.
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Winter weather returns: Storm wallops West, heads to Central, Eastern US
A potent winter storm that dumped heavy snow on the Rockies Monday will crawl toward the central and eastern U.S. the rest of the week, forecasters say. After moving away from the Rockies on Tuesday, the storm will produce a band of snow and ice from the southern Plains to the interior Northeast over the next few days, the National Weather Service said. In the South, heavy rainfall, localized flooding and severe thunderstorms are forecast Tuesday through Thursday. "Rainfall amounts of 1 to 3 inches are forecast in a swath through Arkansas, the boot heel of Missouri, and into Kentucky and the Tennessee Valley through Wednesday evening," the weather service said. "There is some potential for flash flooding where heavy rainfall occurs in these areas." Also, due to 2020's wet start, rainfall rates will not need to be exceptionally high to produce a flash flood risk, AccuWeather warned.
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Groundhog Day 2020 results: No shadow! Phil predicts early spring is coming
Heat goes on: New global temperature record is 'likely' within the next five years, report says
Weinstein accuser expected to return to stand after sobbing in court
Disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein's sex-crimes trial will continue Tuesday as defense lawyers will resume their cross-examination of accuser Jessica Mann after she left the courtroom sobbing inconsolably Monday afternoon. Mann, 34, is a key accuser in the case as Weinstein, 67, is charged with raping her in a New York City hotel room in 2013, along with sexually assaulting another woman, Miriam "Mimi" Haleyi, in 2006. On Monday, one of Weinstein's lawyers, Donna Rotunno, repeatedly asked Mann, a former actress, why she continued sending friendly, seemingly loving emails to the ex-producer, even after he allegedly raped her. Her testimony took an emotional turn, when Rotunno asked Mann to read a spring 2014 email to her boyfriend at the time. In the email, she described a "controlling" relationship with Weinstein, calling him a father figure to her. She also wrote that Weinstein "validated me in ways my parents never did."
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Jessica Simpson's life is an 'Open Book' in new memoir
Jessica Simpson reveals she was sexually abused as a child and later overcame alcohol and drug addictions in "Open Book," her new memoir out Tuesday. The pop-star-turned entrepreneur, 39, writes that the abuse began at a family friend's house when she was 6. She didn't tell her parents until she was 12. "I was the victim but somehow I felt in the wrong," she writes. The abuse coupled with stress over her career led her to become dependent on alcohol and drugs. She got sober in 2017 with the help of therapy. "Giving up the alcohol was easy," she wrote. "I was mad at that bottle. At how it allowed me to stay complacent and numb."
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On Instagram, the superstar, who co-headlined the halftime show with Shakira, shared a video from moments before she walked on stage. In the caption, she said she wants "the little girls on stage with me and all over the world" to know "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," she wrote.
An earlier version of Lopez's caption included a reference to "other people" who "try to build walls, keep us out or put us in cages." It was later edited out.
The children she referenced were seen both on stage with her and in cage-like structures that viewers understood to be a statement on the ongoing border crisis. Lopez's 11-year-old daughter, Emme Maribel Muñiz, also joined her mother on stage, singing a solo alongside a children's choir.
At one point, Lopez sported a feather coat that featured the Puerto Rican flag on one side and the American flag on the other, a message of unity.
The Super Bowl halftime show was viewed by 103 million people, according to Nielsen Media Research via Fox, which aired the game. That number represents a 4% growth over last year's show, which was headlined by Maroon 5.
