MIAMI (AP) — Less than 24 hours before stage time, Jennifer Lopez was readying her big performance at the Super Bowl halftime show, summing it up with seven words: "Yeah, we're in the thick of it."

"You know, everything happens when it's supposed to happen. There were many years that I thought about doing the Super Bowl and that it was something that I wanted to do and even where I was talked to about it. This is when God choose me to do it," she said late Saturday in an interview with The Associated Press, taking a break from rehearsals.

"This is when it was meant to be. This is when it was d...