If you can't do it live, you shouldn't do it at all.
If you ask me, more pop musicians these days could take that motto to heart. I'm tired of people with supposed "music careers" humiliating themselves in front of audiences. Really, really tired of it.
But anyway, as I said in Vol. 1, two that can "do it live" (thanks, Bill O'Reilly) are J-Lo and Beyoncé. I have to admit, I was a little skeptical about this until I saw J-Lo perform on the AMAs last year and until I saw Beyoncé live in concert last winter (her Super Bowl performance is basically that show, in a nutshell). Check them out and once again decide:
Who's the fiercest of them all?
Is it J-Lo, with her tribute to Celia Cruz - which includes some pretty incredible singing and dancing - or Beyoncé's walk down memory lane, featuring Kelly and Michelle from Destiny's Child (or Jonette and Britanica from Gemini's Twin, if you're Ana Gasteyer and Maya Rudolph)?
You decide. Leave a comment to tell the world what you think!
To my mind, J-Lo takes this round by a decent margin. Yes, there's (a little) nostalgia (I guess) in seeing Destiny's Child together again, and Beyoncé has great moves and sounds great live - largely because of her amazing all-female band and backup singers, "The Mamas" - but J-Lo blows the roof off the venue with this performance.
She looks great (how about those costume changes?), sounds great, dances brilliantly, has great backup singers and dancers, and thrills her audience. Listen closely - you can hear them cheering throughout, and JT and T-Swift's reactions at the end say it all: JT is proud of his fellow 90's pop star, and T-Swift and Friends can't believe that there are performers like J-Lo out there; it's so unlike what they do!
But what do you think? Agree? Disagree? Tell the world who's the fiercest of them all.
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