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Super Bowlhalftime performances can be, and often are, quite bad.
Carol Channing played twice.
The NFL slowly leaned into modernity after that, though not without incident.
The shows always either overextending or thinking too narrowly.
Some saw the gesture as the crossing of a picket line.
Others withheld judgment until they saw a bit of what Jay-Zs music-industry acumen could do for the game.
At Super Bowl LIV last night, the precariousness of the NFLs journey to wokeness took shape strangely.
In 54 years, the Super Bowl halftime show has never featuredLatinx artists performing music in Spanish.
(J Balvin dropped by later on.
We deservedthe twoat once.)
She pushed further with dance than Shakira did, at the cost of a good grip of singing.
J-Los daughter, Emme Muniz, delivered the nights most direct political punch.
It was a weird night, but it was a good halftime show.
