Jennifer Lopezopened the2025 American Music Awardsin an energetic fashion, "turning it up" to the biggest hits of the year. This year's host danced "her heart out" with an opening sequence mash-up of 23 songs, but despite being completely breathless by the end of the bold 6-minute performance, not everyone loved what the 55-year-old performer was putting down. "JENNIFER LOPEZ PLEASE STOP DANCING,"one viewer wroteon X (formerly Twitter), as another figured it was JLo'sDancing With the Starsreveal,noting, "is this Jennifer Lopez hinting she's gonna be on dwts with this intro#amas." "why is jennifer lopez kissing everybody at the#AMAs"someone questioned, referring to a moment where the "Let's Get Loud" crooner locked lips with male and female dancers, which got plenty of shocked reactions on social media.Tiffany Haddisheven made a comment about JLo's single status following the moment, emphasizing thesinger's divorce fromBen Affleck. The responses continued, withsomeone writing, "I'm not hating it but Jennifer Lopez dancing to all the hits doesn't make sense to me," with asecond adding, "never in my life did i think i would see jenniferlopez dance to chappell roan." Me watching Jennifer Lopez's performance at the 2025 AMAs!!#amaspic.twitter.com/4iBKENmMc3 — Francisco🤍 (@theneondemonn_)May 27, 2025 Me watching Jennifer Lopez's performance at the beginning of the#AMASpic.twitter.com/HbdDSJUqOq — 𝙶𝚒𝚜𝚎𝚕𝚕𝚎//💥⏳ 💍💫 (@giselleb1234)May 27, 2025 The reactions were divided, as a fair share praised the effort put into the performance,stating, "You can NEVER say Jennifer Lopez isn't one of the best and hardest working performers in the biz." Another tweeted, "Yall could never make me hate Jennifer Lynn Lopez!!!!!#AMAs.:: Mama still be moving and grooving better than girls half her age." Jennifer Lopez is undeniably a gifted performer.She literally performed to 23 hit songs in 6 minutes!Say all you want, she's THAT GIRL!@jlo#jlo#jlovers#AMAs2025#amas@AMAs — Dayo Dane Ephraim 🎤 (@Dayodane)May 27, 2025 In addition to Lopez flaunting her hosting, singing and dancing chops, the 51st American Music Awards, live from Fontainebleau Las Vegas, will honorJanet Jackson, who will receive the prestigiousIcon Awardand deliver her first live TV performance in seven years andRod Stewart, who will behonored with the Lifetime Achievement Awardand perform on the AMAs stage for the first time in over two decades. Jennifer Lopez, 55, Sparks Mixed Reactions After Bold Opening Performance at AMAsfirst appeared on Parade on May 27, 2025
