Shakira and Jennifer Lopez played to their strengths in a solid Super Bowl Halftime Show

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Last year’s Super Bowl Halftime Show was oddly (though unsurprisingly) anticlimactic, wrapping up a year of high-profile musical acts openly refusing to take the gig out of respect to Colin Kaepernick—who had accused the NFL of conspiring to blacklist him over his famous on-field protests against police brutality and general racism. Maroon 5 ended up headlining the show alongside Travis Scott and Big Boi, and there was also this whole thing where people on the internet wanted someone to do a SpongeBob Squarepants reference (that did end up sort of happening even though it was obviously shoehorned in). It was basically just Pepsi saying “here’s what we were able to put together, enjoy.”