J.Lo Sizzles & Fizzles In First ‘Papi’ Performance

Published: Sunday 25th Sep 2011 by Sam

Jennifer Lopez‘s dead and buried ‘LOVE?’ project is being raised from the ashes with new single ‘Papi’.

The high-octane cut and its accompanying video has amassed millions of views online – just days after being made available; success the singer will be hoping translates on iTunes and radio. So as to give it the push it needs, Lopez and her troop of dancers performed the song during her iHeartRadio set last night – with mixed results.

Check out her ‘Papi’ and ‘On The Floor’ showings after the jump…

Though boasting her trademark sass, as well as all the trills and frills, the performance left me neither shaken nor stirred. The choreography was, for the most part, lacking – and where present, unpolished. Like really, who choreographed this? Because…no.

Thankfully, her ‘On The Floor’ showing was better – yet only marginally. Is age finally catching up with Ms. Lopez? You be the judge…

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  1. ASAP (As Sincere As Possible) September 25, 2011

    I LOVED it.Her energy was amazing and she actually sang 80% of it live!!It was a great performance.I’m glad she is finally promoting!!

  2. ASAP (As Sincere As Possible) September 25, 2011

    Wait a second…Where does that shade come from???What choreography????The 8 seconds in the bridge??She did no choreo because she was singing live.You are bashing her for doing bad choreography, while she didn’t even do any choreography whatsoever???This is a first!!!And btw, you are so damn fickle.3 months ago you were praising her and saying she always delivers and now you’re finding any way possible to shade her.Hmm…

  3. Single mother And Proud September 25, 2011

    wait? She has 42? She lucks so young, she killed it!

  4. BEYONCEFAN September 25, 2011

    DID Y’ALL SEE THE GET RIGHT AND ALL I HAVE PERFORMANCE?
    THAT WAS AMAZING!!

    SAM U SHOULD POST THE REST.
    SHE KILLED RIHANNA’S PERFORMANCE

  5. EGIALBANIA September 25, 2011

    the best perfomc from j.lo and she singin live omg 42 tears and so young

  6. bey’knight September 25, 2011

    she’s a good performer, she’s 42 and these birds half her age dont have have half the stamina she has on stage. i do agree the choreography wasnt all that but she’s an intricate dancer; it doesnt matter how basic the moves are, its how u make it look. Her body is fluid and she does a fantastic footwork

  7. N**** Please September 25, 2011

    dang this one hot mama, all the way #TEAM J.LO !!
    age catching up? no. shes rocking it at her age !!

    QUEEN LATINAA !!!

  8. FaithwthNoRelgn September 25, 2011

    She did a good job but her choreography was lacking in certain areas. She entertained which is the main part tho so kudos to her.

  9. KING September 25, 2011

    She absolutely killed it! The vocals, the energy are amazing! She brought the house down. And Grapejuice you need to stop talking s***!

  10. BEYONCEFAN September 25, 2011

    She shoot the movie Parker during 2 weeks.She’s a superwoman.How she can do to get the time to repeat for this ?

  11. YOOSONDALOOSE September 25, 2011

    Ohhh really good! She needed a good performance!

  12. Meow meow meow September 25, 2011

    For 42 she’s still got it, amazing performance but that giant coat was annoying me!

  13. ASAP (As Sincere As Possible) September 25, 2011

    ^^She did 4 more performances without the coat 😉

  14. crazyfan jlo September 25, 2011

    she killit omg the best perfomance from
    she is mama lopez

  15. dionita September 25, 2011

    You were sooooo crazy good. Definitely one of the top performances of the show. Thanks for being a part of the best concert of all times.

  16. SteH90 September 25, 2011

    I suspect your petty criticism is done to get a reaction of of us….and in my case you’ve succeeded! In addition to performing better than those half her age J Lo has produced her best album in a decade, reached No. 1 with On The Floor and reinvigorated her singing career. You constantly berate artists solely based on sales when quality of music is surely what counts most. While J Lo is never going to be an important artist in R&B she has at times produced some credible work so deserves more credit and not to be written off on the abritary basis of sales. Music matters to me NOT sales!

  17. THEMAN September 25, 2011

    She did a great job. She’s very sensual with her dancing. This is her first time performing it so perhaps she just wanted to put it out there to see where to take it from here. She was amazing. Great job. She sung good to. The passion and energy was all there. Nice job. The choreo will come.

  18. ヅ•·.·´¯`·.·•-ΛALEXISR-BAHAMAS♩ ♪ ♫ ♬ ★ ☆ ✰ T.I.P.•·.·´¯`·.·•ヅ September 25, 2011

    KILLIN IT!

  19. Jennifer September 25, 2011

    She was as good as anyone else in the industry! She killed it and I love how she is always in every performance. She does a lot more choreography than most of the other stars so I am happy with this performance.

  20. KAT DELUNA FAN September 25, 2011

    The thiefa latina is still performing her old s*** ? the songs are older than her fake ass

    Dont L’oreal got product for vocal chords cause looking good is not a talent.what a waste

  21. dionita September 25, 2011

    KAT DELUNA FAN
    September 25, 2011 at 8:35 am
    The thiefa latina is still performing her old s*** ? the songs are older than her fake ass

    Dont L’oreal got product for vocal chords cause looking good is not a talent.what a waste
    hhahhahahahahaha go kill yourself b**** world withaout you is better

  22. KAT DELUNA FAN September 25, 2011

    @dionita
    you want me died like jno career??

    lmfaoo

  23. aisha aguilera keys September 25, 2011

    I don’t know, Sam. Ever since J Lo fell on stage during that Louboutin performance, she seems to be playing it safe now when it comes to dancing. Otherwise she used to be good. Awful vocals by the way. Last thing we need is another Rihanna.

  24. BEY H** September 25, 2011

    jlo can dance bettrer than beyonce.

  25. Pop Royalty (RUDE BOY) September 25, 2011

    @ASAP already said what I wanted to say !!

    J LO = a strong woman !

    And LOVE? is selling with=======> 0 promotion <====

    @SAM :

    If you Stan for a basic b**** like Kelly Rowland ! you better not shade any other female artist ! Kelly are always OFF !
    OUTTABREATH , dead choreography , no stage presence or whatsoever , her dancers always out-perform her ass ! Plus the lip-syncing !

    So HUSH C*** 😆 ! HIA died 3 months ago ! and with RIRI releasing the new album , your fav is officially E X P I R E D !!!! 😥

  26. ASAP (As Sincere As Possible) September 25, 2011

    @AISHA I get what you’re saying, but I don’t think that’s it.She did the SAME choreo of ‘Louboutins’ on a TV show AFTER the AMAs performance where she fell and she danced her damn ass off on American Idol for ‘On The Floor’.She slayed that choreo!!I don’t know why Sam is moaning tbh.I respect his judgement most of the times, but he’s so fickle.I think she refused to do an interview with them or something 😳 The reason why she doesn’t seem to do intricate choreos is because her songs don’t have an intense drum pattern or a really storng rhythm that can be made into a strong choreo.She had to add a breakdown to ‘On The Floor’ to do choreo because club songs are never good for the hardcore hip hop choreo that Sam is probably expecting from her.She did very well for the ‘Get Right’ choreo and that was before ‘Papi’ so she can still dance well 😎

  27. ヅ•·.·´¯`·.·•-ΛALEXISR-BAHAMAS♩ ♪ ♫ ♬ ★ ☆ ✰ T.I.P.•·.·´¯`·.·•ヅ September 25, 2011

    LOL @Aisha

    Awful where?

  28. bobby d September 25, 2011

    lame.

    NEXT

  29. Those That Cannot Do, Stan September 25, 2011

    …are you stupid Sam?

    We’ve already established you’re kinda petty and pathetic but are you going slow on top of it all?

    Jlo killed Papi fool. I’d rather have a show where someone sings strong and beautiful than just dance their ass off to a pre-recorded song (insert your Fav here). She sang beautifully and smacked haters in the face who say she don’t have the voice.

    Some female singers need to go to Jlo and ask for tips on how to look young because others younger than her are getting tweaked and pinched and STILL look older than her.

  30. Once Again September 25, 2011

    Britney Spears choreography is WAYY worse. She doesn’t even move.

  31. onyx September 25, 2011

    Her performance was good, her dance moves was good, her vocals was good, damn not even Gaga performance was that perfect. She looks better than Rihanna, Lady Gaga, Beyonce, Britney Spears and she’s 42 years old if i would be a girl in my 20’s, i would be ashamed to standing next to her. for those who say her b*** is fake, she’s Puerto Rican (means Latina) it’s all from Arroz y Frijoles de la cocina de la Abuela. She has the most beautiful and famous Derriere in the world, and is all natural, i know it hurts you want to see a fake a$$ go to see Nicki Minag or Kim Kardashian you would notice the different in what is real and what is not.

  32. TEE September 25, 2011

    the Papi performance wasn’t bad, that was a good performance!

  33. JohnVidal September 25, 2011

    She doesn´t have any type of voice. It´s painful to see her trying lol. No wonder she can´t sell an album
    But she looks great and dances good for being 41. On that front she is better than those other untalented girls half her age

  34. Terrence September 25, 2011

    Only JLO and Janet, lay it down this good. For all the girls, but especially the over 40 set!

    JLO was awesome, and I love papi!

  35. jan September 25, 2011

    Why does TGJ have me come on with comments under other peoples names and emails? What’s going on???

  36. Bey Fan… September 25, 2011

    Wait yall saying on Papi she didn’t lip sync????

    I mean i thought the performance was GREAT, good energy, but I dont think her vocals were live.

  37. ASAP (As Sincere As Possible) September 25, 2011

    @BEY FAN She had a backing track, but some parts were defintely live.She lost her breath once in the performance and said “pa” instead of “papi”, so some of it was live.I think she did 60-70% of it live.

  38. Ms Lovely September 25, 2011

    Her performance was weak.

  39. nice_gurl September 25, 2011

    I think she did great. She had live vocals and the energy was great. The performance was better on On The Floor, but Papi was still really good too.

  40. JER September 25, 2011

    LOVE YOU J.LO but it hear that pre-recorded “live” track

  41. DISCO DUDE September 26, 2011

    love the picture

  42. jesse lopez September 26, 2011

    sam why didn’t you post the get right clip? this is her last two songs. of course it wasn’t going to be upbeat and polished as the rest ,she performed like 4 more songs before these! anyway if you look at the get right clip her vocals were f****** amazing and her choreo was def on point!!

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