Jennifer Lopez Shuts Down Shirley Manson

Garbage rocker Shirley Manson reveals how Jennifer Lopez broke her down after she trash talked her.

Shirley Manson, lead singer of the pride of Madison, Wisc., Garbage, recently had atête-à-tête with actress/comedian Aisha Tyler on Tyler's podcast Girl on Guy, offering some insight into her first band, what famous people are supposed to smell like, how cruel the press can be, and Jennifer Lopez's effulgence.

Sometime evidently before Manson learned this important lesson about taking potshots at celebrities, she said some not-so-nice things about Jennifer Lopez not deserving her pop-goddess status and wanting to "punch" Lopez in the face, which was easy enough to do until one fateful day when Manson ran into Lopez at a Vanity Fair shoot and of course felt "excruciatingly embarrassed":

I was standing with my back to the main set, and she hadn't arrived on set yet. And then all of a sudden I felt this kind of… all I can say is that the energy changed and I turned around here was J.lo strutting towards me in all her glory and I was thinking ‘Oh fuck, here we go. The fly girl is literally going to fight me.' That's what she looked like… like she was going to take me down. And she just thrust out her hand and said ‘Shirley' and I said ‘Yep' and she went, "Jennifer." And I said ‘Hi, Jennifer' and I shook her hand and then, I kid you not, she walked backwards and kept eye contact until I dropped my eyes and looked away. It was so alpha dog and I had to play submissive dog. And I had so much respect for her after that. I was like, ‘Okay. You took me down. I gotta give it to you.

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