If the 2019 Super Bowl halftime show was a mediocre disaster with no agenda, this year's show was quite the opposite. JLo and Shakira gave a show of 15 consecutive minutes ...
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1 of 21 | Lopez starts his set, after Shakira. Ronald Martinez / Getty Images
2 of 21 | Shakira starts the show. Kevin Winter / Getty Images
3 of 21 | Lopez acts with supportive dancers. Elsa / Getty Images
4 of 21 | Lopez sang his greatest hits, including "Get On the Floor" and "Waiting for Tonight." Geoff Burke / USA Today Sports
5 of 21 | Shakira acted with rapper Bad Bunny. Al Bello / Getty Images
6 of 21 | Fireworks fire during the show. Charlie Riedel / AP
7 of 21 | Lopez turned on a tube in a nod to his role in "Hustlers." Elsa / Getty Images
8 of 21 | Shakira and her dancers on stage. Angela Weiss / AFP through Getty Images
9 of 21 | Lopez wasted charm. Andy Lyons / Getty Images
10 of 21 | Shakira, on the left, with dancers. Kevin C. Cox / Getty Images
11 of 21 | Lopez takes a turn supported by a dancer. Angela Weiss / AFP through Getty Images
12 of 21 | Shakira plays the guitar. His show included the songs "She Wolf", "Hips Don't Lie" and "Whenever, Wherever". Andy Lyons / Getty Images North
13 of 21 | Lopez's daughter, Emme, joined her during "Let's Get Loud." The singer's coat featured the Puerto Rican and American flags. Elsa / Getty Images
14 of 21 | Shakira launched from the stage during the show. Kevin C. Cox / Getty Images
15 of 21 | Shakira plays the drums. Maddie Meyer / Getty Images
16 of 21 | Lopez is held by dancers. Al Bello / Getty Images
17 of 21 | An overview of the stage during Shakira's performance. Elsa / Getty Images
18 of 21 | Lopez was the center of attention. Angela Weiss / AFP via Getty Images
19 of 21 | Shakira dances at the beginning of her participation. Al Bello / Getty Images
20 of 21 | Lopez holds up the microphone. Jeff Kravitz / FilmMagic / Getty Images
21 of 21 | Fireworks over the Hard Rock Stadium. Buddha Mendes / Getty Images Washington (CNN) - If the 2019 Super Bowl halftime show was a mediocre disaster with no agenda, this year's show was the opposite: it was 15 consecutive minutes of political subversions.
Headed by two Latin women in Miami, the program served as a replica to a government that spent the last three years denigrating the populations that these artists represent.
The comment by Shakira, the Colombian super artist, was simple and subtle: a call to the sounds and feelings that catapulted her to American fame in the early 2000s.
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1 of 21 | Lopez starts his set, after Shakira. Ronald Martinez / Getty Images
2 of 21 | Shakira starts the show. Kevin Winter / Getty Images
3 of 21 | Lopez acts with supportive dancers. Elsa / Getty Images
4 of 21 | Lopez sang his greatest hits, including "Get On the Floor" and "Waiting for Tonight." Geoff Burke / USA Today Sports
5 of 21 | Shakira acted with rapper Bad Bunny. Al Bello / Getty Images
6 of 21 | Fireworks fire during the show. Charlie Riedel / AP
7 of 21 | Lopez turned on a tube in a nod to his role in "Hustlers." Elsa / Getty Images
8 of 21 | Shakira and her dancers on stage. Angela Weiss / AFP through Getty Images
9 of 21 | Lopez wasted charm. Andy Lyons / Getty Images
10 of 21 | Shakira, on the left, with dancers. Kevin C. Cox / Getty Images
11 of 21 | Lopez takes a turn supported by a dancer. Angela Weiss / AFP through Getty Images
12 of 21 | Shakira plays the guitar. His show included the songs "She Wolf", "Hips Don't Lie" and "Whenever, Wherever". Andy Lyons / Getty Images North
13 of 21 | Lopez's daughter, Emme, joined her during "Let's Get Loud." The singer's coat featured the Puerto Rican and American flags. Elsa / Getty Images
14 of 21 | Shakira launched from the stage during the show. Kevin C. Cox / Getty Images
15 of 21 | Shakira plays the drums. Maddie Meyer / Getty Images
16 of 21 | Lopez is held by dancers. Al Bello / Getty Images
17 of 21 | An overview of the stage during Shakira's performance. Elsa / Getty Images
18 of 21 | Lopez was the center of attention. Angela Weiss / AFP via Getty Images
19 of 21 | Shakira dances at the beginning of her participation. Al Bello / Getty Images
20 of 21 | Lopez holds up the microphone. Jeff Kravitz / FilmMagic / Getty Images
21 of 21 | Fireworks over the Hard Rock Stadium. Buddha Mendes / Getty Images "Luck that in the south you were born / And that we mock the distances," Shakira sang to millions of spectators. "Lucky it is to have known you / And for you to love strange lands."
"Whenever, Wherever" is originally a song about a distant lover who acquired a new meaning during the Sunday night show, registering as a reprimand to xenophobia, as a love letter to distant countries, and people who They inhabit them in general.
Shakira embraced the distance in other ways, including in his champeta performance, a dance genre with African roots from his hometown, Barranquilla, with the tune of "Waka Waka (It's time for Africa)".
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And then came J. Lo.
After descending from the skies, Jennifer Lopez leaned toward the ostentatious: leather, canes, a pyramid of human bodies that resembles a music video by Kylie Minogue.
But Lopez, who is of Puerto Rican heritage, had a political message under the impressive pop show. At one point, he sang a mix of Bruce Springsteen's iconic “Born in the USA” and his own “Let's Get Loud” while wrapped in a reversible feather coat with the United States flag and the flag of Puerto Rico, the territory American to whom President Donald Trump has hardly paid attention in times of crisis.
In addition, López's daughter, Emme, 11, and other children sang from bright structures that looked a lot like cages, something interpreted as a cock to the Trump administration, which has been widely criticized for essentially enclosing migrant children in cages
A part-time Super Bowl show wrapped in Latin identity was even more moving given its predecessor: the boring and empty performance of Maroon 5 at a time when the NFL was in the middle of a boycott caused by Colin Kaepernick's protests against the police violence
In fact, Shakira and López sent a powerful message - not very different from Beyoncé during the 2016 show when he premiered his black power anthem “Formation” - on the eve of the start of the 2020 presidential race in Iowa: diversity and Unity are not at odds with each other. In fact, they can go hand in hand.
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