JLo Won’t Perform in World Cup Opener in Brazil - NYTimes.com
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Jennifer Lopez won’t perform the World Cup’s official song alongside fellow artists Pitbull and Claudia Leitte during the tournament’s opening ceremony in Brazil, FIFA officials said Sunday.
Soccer’s governing body said Lopez cannot perform at Thursday’s event as earlier planned because of unspecified “production issues.”
Décidément, les catastrophes n’arrêtent pas de s’abattre sur la malheureuse Coupe du monde du Brésil…
The [the official tune “We Are One”] has let down many Brazilians who complain that it sounds too generic for the nation’s Bossa Nova-crazed audiences and that it features foreign musicians singing mostly in English and Spanish. Leitte sings only a few seconds at the end of the song in her native Portuguese.