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Artist News Gigs & Festivals
J-Lo opening World Cup. The end.
By Aly Barchi | Published on Thursday 12 June 2014
Following differing reports, Jennifer (J-Lo)pez seemingly IS flying over to Brazil to sing and act ‘fierce’ at the opening ceremony of that there World Cup later today. So there.
Spreading the news earlier this week after widespread panic that she mightn’t show on the big night, J-Lo told Associated Press: “I’m coming. I leave tonight. We always were going. I think people get anxious, especially with me and my schedule when I’m like, ‘Ah, OK, I can leave this day, that day, I don’t know if we can make it'”.
And: “People get nervous and I think it was a little bit premature to announce anything. But we are definitely going”.
By ‘we’ she means herself, Brazilian popstar Claudia Leitte and, inevitably, Pitbull, who all feature on the official World Cup song ‘We Are One (Ole Ola)’.
Addressing that matter, J-Lo has said: “I can’t take credit for this. This was one of Pitbull’s call-ins. He had this record and he’s like, ‘I think this record could be great for the World Cup’. He’s like, ‘Will you do it with me?’ And I go, ‘Yeah, of course'”.
And what a truly fascinating insight into two of pop’s greatest minds that was.
I guess I’d better embed the track in now. Orrrrr I could just, like, do this:
