The actress and singer’s career seemed to peak with her appearance at the 2020 Super Bowl, but her latest album and documentary have fallen flat.
This year, the Jenifer Lopez is celebrating her 25th anniversary as a global star. And it turns out that she is the most difficult… The commercial results of her last album were disappointing, she canceled seven dates of her US tour and now many international media question her image, career and personal history.
This controversy was sparked by the comments of another singer who claims that Lopez sings very little in her most popular songs.
The first time the Jenifer Lopez made headlines, her name appeared next to her honor: 1 million dollars. That’s how much she earned for her role in the movie “Selena” in 1997, which made her the first Latina actress to earn so much. Reporters were shocked by the naturalness with which Lopez talked about money, a taboo subject for Hollywood stars.
“Universal thought they were going to get me cheap from the start, but I kept telling my agent, “No, no, no! Keep asking!” he told Movieline. People, in fact, didn’t believe it: a virtually unknown woman asking to be paid like a Hollywood star. The news sparked a phrase that has haunted Lopez for years: “Who does she think she is?”
In 1999, on the verge of becoming a movie star, Lopez made her singing debut with the album “On The Six”. The title of the record referred to the subway line he used to travel from the Bronx to the castings in Manhattan. She always made sure to include her humble origins in her narrative, selling it as a story of triumph over adversity, whether in the film Maid in Manhattan (2002) either in song “Jenny from the Block.”
In 2003, Jennifer Lopez took the next step and her fame skyrocketed… She became brand name (Jlo) and released a fragrance with the name “Glow”, moves that no other celebrity did at the time. He was the first person to have both a film and a No1 album.
However, when she started dating him Ben Affleckthe media responded to the news with headlines such as “Ben Affleck sleeps with the maids”, implying that the artist was a servant. On the TV show “South Park” she was mocked. They also called her “a mean bitch”.
The crazy demands of…
And here we are in the year 2000. There were three things that everyone knew about Jennifer Lopez: her million-dollar butt, her prenuptial agreement with Affleck (which called for sex four times a week), and her diva-like antics.
She is said to have demanded that no one address or look at her, that her coffee had to be turned counter-clockwise, that she did not communicate directly with workers but through an assistant, that she was stingy with tips, that she refused to work with people who had the sign of Virgo and that required her dressing rooms to be completely white.
These last two rumors are the only ones that have been confirmed: the first from Heather Morris (Glee) and the second from Spanish screenwriter Alberto Caballero. The public thought that Jennifer Lopez, in addition to being a superstar, was also… a parody of superstars.
But in the middle of the last decade, fourth-wave feminism embraced Jennifer Lopez. In 2020, her role as a stripper in Hustlers earned her the best reviews of her career and her appearance alongside her Shakira at the Super Bowl brought her to the top of the world. In 2021, she sang at Joe Biden’s inauguration. It was a tribute to the Latin American population of the United States, so swept away by Donald Trump, but also a tribute to herself. So how did he end up caught in this image crisis?
It all started during the pandemic. Lopez shared videos of herself in lockdown, where her children were playing in a garden the size of a football field. To commemorate the anniversary of her hit song “Love Don’t Cost A Thing” (since 2000), encouraged her fans to record themselves throwing luxury items on the beach to the beat of the song. But the majority of people, who were still confined and oppressed, had neither luxury items nor a beach to throw them away! For a woman determined to make authenticity part of her brand (she has two songs titled “I’m Real”), the artist seemed out of touch with reality.
This year, the “mammoth project”, “This Is Me… Now” (an album, a music film and a documentary), was heavily criticized, with Lopez accused of being a narcissistic personality, egomaniac and lacking in self-awareness.
Lopez invested 20 million dollars in this project. Even Jane Fonda appears in the documentary to tell her that – maybe – it’s not a good idea to go overboard in her relationship with Ben Affleckwhom she eventually married in 2021.
The album spent only a week in the US top 200 (entered at number 38 and then disappeared), and the artist was forced to change her tour: given the weak initial ticket sales, she decided to turn it into a tour greatest hitswhich always resonates more.
The first to point out that Lopez wasn’t actually singing in her songs was another big star: Mariah Carey. The two women were rivals in the early 2000s due to Tommy Mottola, Carey’s ex-husband and boss, sabotaging her career by stealing her ideas and giving them to Lopez. This controversy led to one of the internet’s favorite memes (a clip of Carey saying “I don’t know her”).
The truth is that after the screening of the documentary about her life, there were many people who questioned information and facts about her origin. In the age of instant control of facts, it is more difficult to invent yourself…
Source: skai.gr
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