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Latinx and Spanish-speaking fans are celebrating Shakira and Jennifer Lopez's Super Bowl halftime show as a triumph of representation

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  • Shakira and Jennifer Lopez nailed their joint halftime performance at Super Bowl LIV on Sunday.
  • The two superstars also shared the stage with Puerto Rican artist Bad Bunny and Colombian singer J Balvin.
  • Latinx and Spanish-speaking fans were thrilled with the representation on display for such a massive audience.
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Shakira and Jennifer Lopez nailed their joint halftime performance at Super Bowl LIV on Sunday.

The two women lit up the stage in Miami with a medley of their bilingual hits, from "She Wolf" and "Chantaje" to "Jenny from the Block" and "Let's Get Loud."

The Colombian superstar and the Bronx-born, Puerto Rican multi-hyphenate also shared the stage with two more Latinx artists: Puerto Rican rapper Bad Bunny, who performed Cardi B's "I Like It" with Shakira, and Colombian singer J Balvin, who performed his hit "Mi Gente" with JLo.

Fans were thrilled with the triumphant Latinx representation on display for such a massive audience.

Basketball analyst Rosalyn Gold-Onwude celebrated Shakira and Lopez on Twitter, writing, "they put ON, hella represented!"

Activist and writer Brittany Packnett expressed a similar sentiment: "I am absolutely here for folks seeing this just part of LatinX broad and beautiful culture on display."

"Really happy for my latinx fam who feel seen/affirmed/energized by the half-time show," Huff Post's Zeba Blay wrote.

"When Jlo, Shakira, Bad Bunny AND J Balvin storm into the #SuperBowl with an 'Hola Miami'... and a huge Puero Rican flag in the backdrop, there should be no doubt that Latinos are ready to make their voices heard," wrote journalist Mariana Atencio.

Many used a popular "cries in Spanish" meme to express their feelings about the performance.

However, some were less enthused and less convinced that it was a true triumph for representation.

Writer and music critic Gary Suarez criticized the performance's lack of Afro-Latinx artists, while other skeptics used his words to criticize Shakira and JLo for taking the opportunity in the first place.

"A halftime show with a bunch of Latinx artists is not Latinx excellence," he tweeted earlier on Sunday. "True Latinx excellence at the Super Bowl would have been showing solidarity with the POCs protesting the NFL and declining the offer to perform."

Many prominent artists, like Rihanna and Cardi B, have declined to perform at the Super Bowl in recent years in order to stand in solidarity with Colin Kaepernick. The former NFL quarterback famously knelt during the national anthem before games to protest racism and police brutality and later accused the NFL of blacklisting him over it.

Watch Shakira and Lopez's halftime show below.

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