AMAS: Jennifer Lopez leads a prizes of American music that pays attention to young people and praises the elderly | Entertainment in the United States

On the posters and tickets of the American Music Awards, it was read clearly: May 26, 2025. Instead, within the theater of the Fontainebleau Hotel in Las Vegas (Nevada), it was before 2025. There, it seemed that time had not passed since the eighties or ninety years. Only her presenter, the unstoppable Jennifer Lopez, full of strength thanks to her dances, speeches, half a dozen looks and many other hairstyles, managed to locate the moment. The Amas (as they are known, this year) have had a retro air where the actions and awards of honor to great glories have prevailed more than those of the nominees and winners of the moment.

Lopez presented the 51st edition gala of the awards in which, as she said, the public prevails, because he votes: the fans decided who had to win in categories as the best song and artist of R&B (both for SZA), best Latin artist (Becky G), a favorite artist of hip hop (Eminem), Country group (for Dan+Shay) or the most important artist of the year (Gracie Abrams, with gratitude in a video) and best artist, the main one (that unstoppable 23 -year -old feeling called Billie Eilish, who also won the best song, album and tour, as well as album and pop song, and who dedicated a recorded greeting). It is true that at the gala, broadcast on television, only some of the awards were given, but also that the large nominees and winners barely appeared on the red carpet, the gala or in the performances.

It is true that Benson Boone sang (Voleta included) and Rapp, viral sensations, but the great bet was for the classics. From Gwen Stefani, icon of the nineties – with a very agile performance but, yes, recorded – even Gloria Estefan, who celebrated on the stage her 50 years in music. The icon prize went to Janet Jackson, who did not act on television since 2018 and interpreted a couple of his best known songs, Subeone To Call My Lover and All for you, and that thanked his family and God.

“I feel so, so honest, so grateful. I don’t consider myself an icon,” he said in a soft voice, between applause. “In our family, the goal was never to be famous. We had a special love for music, sing, dance, and we did it with hard work and dedication. The history of my family and mine is an American story. This only happens in the United States,” he said, on a particularly homeland day, Memorial Day, where the soldiers fallen in combat are celebrated. Multitude of members of the US armed forces were among the public.

If Janet Jackson, who will turn 60 next year, was the main course, the closing was carried out by Sir Rod Stewart, which in January reached 80. The energy of both is unstoppable, it is true, but also that his great moments were left behind; Both make small tours and have two residences in Las Vegas. Stewart, a prize for honor for his entire career, his children, already adults presented him. “Fuckingly exceeded,” as he declared with a laugh, he closed the gala with his Forever Young and put the public standing.

But the undisputed queen was Jennifer Lopez. The 55 -year -old singer started the evening with an performance where she sang – his subject Dance Again, 2012 – but above all he danced some of the most popular successes of the last year (since Birds of A Feather to Hot to go, Newyol, Beautiful Lies either Not like us), up to 23 themes in just six minutes, next to a dozen dancers, among which he kissed two of them, a boy and a girl. “Guard me to a dancer, J. Lo, fuck!” “You’re not the only single!” Starting with a game of mirrors and dancing non -stop, Lopez wasted for energy and strength in what seems like a previous tour that will take it through Europe. But not only: also in what will be his next residence in Las Vegas, who took the opportunity to announce anything else to finish the gala in his social networks. He will be in The Colosseum, at Caesars Palace, from December 30 to January 3, 2026, to return from March 6 to 28.

Lopez was presenting some of the winners and categories, with ease and constant costume changes. He walked among the public, kissed David Guetta, sat down to see Estefan’s performance and got up to dance. The actress and singer managed to place himself as a very correct presenter, when giving the gala without subtracting prominence from the two hours of awards and performances.

However, his strength failed to ignore what the gala lacked: true known faces of American music. Was Influencersto Montones, who presented awards and posed with the public who was there up to four hours before the gala to cheer the cotarro. But the names that truly sounded: the nominees, the winners, were missing. No trace of Beyoncé (best artist and album Country), Post Malone (Best Male Country Artist), Megan Thee Stallion (Best Hip Hop Female Artist), Kendrick Lamar (Best Hip Hop Song), Bad Bunny (Best Latin Male Artist and Latin Album), Shakira (Best Latin Song), Gaga and Bruno Mars (Best Collaboration of the Year and best video; Anxiety) … nor of star nominees such as Sabrina Carpenter, Chappell Roan or Taylor Swift.

In fact, Swift’s was one of the great disappointments of the night. His fans had been watching a series of tracks on social networks that seemed to indicate obvious that the Pennsylvania singer would make a great announcement: new album, new video clip, new re -record of her lost albums, but announced at the end of the day. However, nothing happened. In fact, the artist – who usually goes to this party and is the most awarded in the history of the Amas, with 40 awards throughout her career – did not even appear. Like so many others. We will have to wait a year to see if the American Music Awards continue to bet on legends or manage to find a necessary balance in an important gala for American musical culture.