The best part about Super Bowl Sunday is you don’t have to be a football fanatic to be excited about it. Between the viral commercials and star-studded performers, game day has something for everyone.
Get ready to dance the night away because Jennifer Lopez and Shakira are headlining the Pepsi Super Bowl LIV Halftime Show in Miami! Here is what we want to see during their performance.
Special Guests
Both J-Lo and Shakira have collaborated with many people during their careers, but there are only a few that will make the cut for the Super Bowl Halftime Show. One of those people: Ja Rule.
Jennifer Lopez and Ja-Rule took the music industry by storm with their No. 1 hits “I’m Real” and “Ain’t It Funny.” How nostalgic would it be if they performed a medley of both songs?
I’m sorry, but you can’t have a performance in Miami without inviting its hometown hero, Pitbull. The self-proclaimed “Mr. Worldwide” and J.Lo have a few songs together but their Top 5 smash “On The Floor” will have the entire world running to the dance floor.
Let’s face it, Beyoncé will unlikely join Shakira to perform their sexy duet “Beautiful Liar,” but one can dream.
How iconic would it be if Fugees alum Wyclef Jean joined Shakira to perform their fiery No. 1 song, “Hips Don’t Lie”?
This year’s halftime show is all about diversity and unity so why not have Shakira and J. Lo both perform with their mutual collaborator, Lil Wayne. He’s from the south and has hit songs with both artists. He and Shakira could start with “Give It Up to Me” and transition it to him and J.Lo’s song “I’m Into You.”
Latin Representation & Women Empowerment
This year’s Super Bowl halftime show is enormous for the Latin community, because not only are both headliners of Latin descent, but the game’s host city is Miami, a.k.a. the “Capital of Latin America.”
For Variety’s Actors on Actors issue, Lopez spoke about what she hopes to achieve at the Super Bowl in a conversation with Robert Pattinson.
“I am excited,” Lopez says. “I’m putting it together now. Me and Shakira together. We’re both excited to have been given the opportunity to do that as two Latin women, in Miami.”
Like J.Lo, Shakira also expressed her excitement for diversity and visibility with 60 Minutes.
“I think the message is gonna be ‘Listen, I’m a woman, I’m a Latina, it wasn’t easy for me to get to where I am,” she explained.
“Being at the Super Bowl is proof that everything is possible. That the dreams of a little girl from Barranquilla, Colombia, they were made of something of what dreams are made of and I’m gonna be there, giving it all.”
Overall, we want the 2020 Super Bowl performance to showcase unity. In her conversation with Robert Pattinson For Variety, J. Lo stated she wants the halftime show to represent a unifying moment, particularly for Latinos in America.
"I think it's important in this day and age for two Latin women to be standing on that stage - when Latinos are being treated a certain way in this country, or looked at a certain way - to show that we have a really specific and beautiful culture and worth and value, and we bring something to this country that's necessary," Lopez says. "I think that's going to be an amazing moment. That night, I want it to be a celebration of who we are. All of us, because we're in this together."
Super Bowl LIV between the Kansas City Chiefs and San Francisco 49ers kicks off Sunday at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida (6:30 p.m. ET, Fox).