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Jennifer Lopez’s Canceled Tour, and Society’s Twisted Pleasure in Seeing Strong Women Fail
Jennifer Lopez canceled her troubled 'This Is Me... Now' tour, which seems to be giving online haters enormous pleasure. What does that say about us?
Just a few days earlier, another major act canceled their own overly ambitious North American tour that was scheduled to hit many of the same arenas that J-Lo’s was — the male rock duo the Black Keys. But fame and power put people at a remove from reality, and it’s ultimately irrelevant whether everyone in her orbit also thought all this project and tour were a great idea, or whether no one dared to say, “Hey, after the disastrous failure of ‘Gigli’” — the dreadful 2003 Affleck-Lopez film that not only destroyed the pair as a commercial property, but also helped tank the first era of their relationship — “maybe reviving Bennifer as a commercial enterprise isn’t a great idea?” The end result was the same: a canceled tour and a stiff album. It’s hard not to imagine that some troll-like people wake up every day, reach for their phones and just pray for video footage of Taylor Swift — the world’s most successful and ubiquitous entertainer of any gender — faceplanting in mid-strut on the stage of a sold-out stadium on her ongoing, multimillion-dollar-reaping “Eras” tour, just for the twisted satisfaction of seeing her leggy, leviathan-like, six-foot-six-with-heels frame taking a spill, just like a normal person.
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