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For two years running, the Latin Grammy Awards has offered high moments of political drama.
So expectations were high that this year’s awards, held Thursday night at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, would offer an impassioned outcry over Trump’s election to the presidency – which has already spurred talk of mass deportations and the construction of a border wall.
The 17th Latin Grammys are more likely to be remembered for the dramatic laser-light-filled duet between former couple Marc Anthony and Jennifer Lopez.
In honor of Marc Anthony’s selection as the Latin Recording Academy’s Person of the Year, the pair teamed up to sing the Abba-esque break-up song “Olvídame y pega la vuelta”, originally made famous by the Argentine duo Pimpinela in the early 1980s.
From across the Latin Grammy stage, Lopez and Marc Anthony lobbed lines such as “Forget my eyes, my hands, my lips / because they do not desire you” and “Forget everything, because in that area, you have a lot of experience.” The performance was full of intensity, humor and passion – and every second of it was absolutely irresistible.
Lopez, who was decked out in a spangly asymmetrical white number that showed off plenty of leg, then presented Marc Anthony with his Person of the Year award, describing him as a “Living legend.”
The rest of the show offered the standard-issue Latin Grammy combo of pop power ballads sprinkled with Caribbean-inflected jams – with a dash of folk and Mexican regional thrown in for flavor.
Overall, the awards show was a decent party – with some groove-worthy performances and the unforgettable theater of Lopez and Marc Anthony on stage.