{"id":139153,"date":"2025-05-28T16:37:11","date_gmt":"2025-05-28T16:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/139153\/"},"modified":"2025-05-28T16:37:11","modified_gmt":"2025-05-28T16:37:11","slug":"jennifer-lopez-kisses-dancers-onstage-during-amas-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/139153\/","title":{"rendered":"Jennifer Lopez kisses dancers onstage during AMAs performance"},"content":{"rendered":"

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AMA winners include SZA, Gracie Abrams, Eminem and Billie Eilish<\/p>\n

This year’s American Music Awards in Las Vegas honored both music legends and service members, who were recognized for Memorial Day.<\/p>\n

The internet can\u2019t quite figure out what to make of her American Music Awards<\/a> dance number extravaganza from Jennifer Lopez,<\/a> but it sure has people talking.\u00a0<\/p>\n

JLo, 55, opened the AMAs surrounded by mirrors and dancers in a sci-fi, robo-tech “multiverse.” The singer got “On the Floor” with a 23-song mashup of the year’s biggest hits, including “Squabble Up,” “Good Luck Babe!” and “Denial is a River.” And yes, she made out with three of her dancers.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Ahead of the AMAs, Lopez spoke with USA TODAY about how the awards show ceremony “has been such a big part of my music journey and history.” Lopez pulled double duty\u00a0as host and performer<\/a>\u00a0of this year\u2019s AMAs, a music industry institution since the late Dick Clark began producing it in 1974.<\/p>\n

Of her show opening performance, she teased, “We’re going to celebrate the year in music.”<\/p>\n

American Music Awards winners list: <\/strong>SZA, Gracie Abrams, more take home trophies<\/a><\/p>\n

Here’s how viewers on social media reacted to JLo’s performance.<\/p>\n

Social media roasts (and praises) JLo’s opening number dance medley<\/p>\n

Social media is already abuzz with takes on Lopez’s kiss-off.<\/p>\n

“J Lo kissing girls wasn\u2019t on my bingo card,” one user wrote<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Others compared it to the iconic Madonna-Britney Spears<\/a> kiss at the 2023 MTV VMAs. Others blasted it as queerbaiting<\/a>.<\/p>\n

‘A big part of my musical history’: <\/strong>Jennifer Lopez talks American Music Awards<\/a><\/p>\n

Some viewers roasted the number, particularly that Lopez was doing a medley of other people’s songs rather than her own.<\/p>\n

The AMAs sizzled <\/strong>with a kiss from JLo, a flip from Benson Boone and a tribute to Rod Stewart<\/a><\/p>\n

Others took to X to applaud Lopez’s performance \u2013 “I hope I can move like J. Lo<\/a> is at 55,” one wrote<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“Idc what people have to say. J.Lo gave me what I needed with that opening. Always a STAN!” another posted<\/a>.<\/p>\n

We’ve got every viral moment covered: Sign up<\/a> for USA TODAY’s This is Everyone’s Talking newsletter.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AMA winners include SZA, Gracie Abrams, Eminem and Billie Eilish This year’s American Music Awards in Las Vegas…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":139154,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5311],"tags":[5784,12634,25151,4021,14010,4080,5787,77,806,60492,21779,1429,7797,3462,5791,60493,269,5488,12,5772,5179,5496,6581,3020,711,25149,25158,5598,6093,6589,5181,49,978,659],"class_list":{"0":"post-139153","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-affiliate","9":"tag-american","10":"tag-american-music-awards","11":"tag-arts","12":"tag-awards","13":"tag-celebrities","14":"tag-celebrities-u0026-entertainment-news","15":"tag-entertainment","16":"tag-industry","17":"tag-jennifer","18":"tag-jennifer-lopez","19":"tag-life","20":"tag-life-now","21":"tag-local","22":"tag-local-affiliate-arts-u0026-entertainment","23":"tag-lopez","24":"tag-music","25":"tag-neutral","26":"tag-news","27":"tag-now","28":"tag-overall","29":"tag-overall-neutral","30":"tag-point","31":"tag-pop","32":"tag-pop-music","33":"tag-recording","34":"tag-recording-industry","35":"tag-the","36":"tag-to","37":"tag-to-the-point","38":"tag-u0026","39":"tag-united-states","40":"tag-us","41":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114586441788098167","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139153\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}