Shakira will completely be rooting for Dangerous Bunny when Tremendous Bowl LX arrives.
Lower than a month after information broke that the “Moscow Mule” hitmaker could be headlining the Apple Music halftime present, Shakira, 48, voiced her assist of the NFL's choice.
“It's about time!” she informed Variety in an interview revealed Tuesday, October 21. “I bear in mind after we did ours that even having a part of our set in Spanish was a daring transfer. … Acceptance of Spanish-language music as a part of the mainstream has come so removed from after I began. I hope and prefer to suppose that every one the instances my music was met with resistance or puzzlement from the English-speaking world earlier than it was embraced, helped forge the trail to the place we at the moment are.”
When Shakira shared the Tremendous Bowl stage with Jennifer Lopez in 2020, the Grammy winner was capable of carry out a few of her largest hits, together with “She Wolf” and “At any time when, At any time when.”
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However when Dangerous Bunny, 31, joined her on stage, the pair carried out Spanish-speaking songs, together with “Chantaje.”
“I'm so proud that Dangerous Bunny, who represents not solely Latin tradition but additionally how vital Spanish language music has change into on a world scale and the way common it has change into, is attending to carry out on the most important stage on the earth,” Shakira continued. “It's the proper second for a efficiency like this. I can't wait to observe it.”
Not everybody, nonetheless, is thrilled with the NFL's choice to e-book Dangerous Bunny for the headlining gig set for February 2026 at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, California.
A petition has begun on Change.org to swap the Puerto Rican celebrity for nation singer George Strait. Greater than 58,000 individuals had signed as of press time.
Shakira and Dangerous Bunny Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic
Danica Patrick and President Donald Trump have additionally spoken out and criticized Dangerous Bunny because the halftime performer.
Dangerous Bunny himself beforehand responded to the naysayers whereas internet hosting Saturday Night time Reside.
“I'm very excited to be doing the Tremendous Bowl and I do know individuals all all over the world who love my music are additionally blissful,” he informed viewers on October 4.
After briefly talking in Spanish, Dangerous Bunny quipped: “When you didn't perceive now what I simply stated, you have got 4 months to be taught!”
In the end, the musician has the assist of many artists, together with Lopez, 56.
“I feel he's about to blow all people's thoughts,” the “On the Flooring” singer gushed throughout an October 6 interview on Right now. “It's an introduction to some individuals. … I'm tremendous excited for individuals to see him. I feel they'll be pleasantly shocked, as a result of his music transcends language. It's wonderful what he's carried out. He's carried out one thing that lots of people have by no means carried out of their life.”
When requested concerning the backlash surrounding Dangerous Bunny's reserving, Lopez claimed she didn't know something about it till NBC Information' Craig Melvin introduced it up.
“I swear I don't know,” she stated. “Why? However why? I don't perceive that. He's one of many prime artists on the earth proper now, most likely the highest.”
