A quote that always made sense to me about Jlo was "jack of all trades, master of none." Now, you've made me realize another one is "everyone knows her but nobody is fan." Youre totally right about her being a celebrity but not really having fans..
She’s a master at branding / business. No one says their favorite restaurant is McDonald’s - but they are universally known and their business is in every town.
@@00st307-mNailed it! Remember that the jack of all trades quote finishes with “Though oftentimes better than a master of one.” All of our top tier entertainers are this way! Who do you know who ONLY sings… like be fr, all our entertainers are jack of all trades!
Lets be so real, if Beyonce or Taylor Swift had pitched a visual album movie thing to streaming services, they'd be fighting each other to get the rights. Its not the type of media thats the issue, its JLo herself, she's not marketable and the streaming generation doesn't care or like her enough. Studios just don't want to tell her that.
Right. She was popular enough to make a ton of money, but she really doesn't have a following. I don't know how she didn't realize this. Heck even Janet Jackson didn't have enough clout to sell out stadiums when she turned 40. She was legit popular in the late 80s, 90s, but she didn't have enough of a following either
So two entertainers can have a visual album. For thousands of other artists, it won’t work. We don’t need a Drake or JLo visual album. So many artists we would rather vibe to than look into their artistic process.
I think this is further proof that Jennifer Lopez has always been a celebrity more than an artist. She wants to be an artist but there's not much to work with in terms of personal creativity.
I mean, she's starred in over 30 feature films spanning over 4 decades and was even in an NBC Detective series for 3 seasons, so... I consider her an actress and not just a celebrity? Selena, Anaconda, Enough, the Cell, Wedding Planner, and Monster in Law are all cult classics in their genres. Is she the most talented? No. But I can't say she hasn't worked her ass off.
@@chiablum1453Her role in Selena deserved an oscar. Why are you minimizing JLo's imprint in American cinema. Are we going to ignore that she was one of the best actress during the 2000s Rom-Com Era??
I will never forget Michael Jackson shaded her and Tommy Mottola when he said there is an artist who doesn't even sing any of her records on her albums.
@@Alieortwo - I didn't say anything about her piano. If she really is writing her own songs too - then she is good in that but she is lazy too in writing b/c most of her songs are all about being a perpetual victim about how her boyfd's always hurt her and dump her...etc....such whiney crap. But no, she cannot sing. Mediocre at best. She IS auto-tuned.. If you don't know that, that is nobody's prob but yours. If you can't research properly or you have this little of self-awareness, then again, that is on you but my all means, keep on serving as a fooled fan at the Swiftie cult if that makes you happy.
are you stupid? There is a ton of in the studio and behind the scenes evidences where Taylor sings her songs, plays instruments and so on. Stop discrediting Taylor@@kaitlynkarol4600
I saw MC in concert in December. Absolutely horrible and a complete ripoff. Concert lasted just over an hour. She sang a total of five songs and talked the rest of the time. She doesn’t dance, she barely moves, she looks ABSURD riding around stage in a sled. ABD she lip syncs a lot. She cleverly sings some but uses playback in other parts. Complete RIPOFF.
@@lostwoods5687 Yeah I love MC's music but I would not pay to see her perform in this day and age. Voices change as people age, especially for singers who put so much strain on them. It's been known for a while now that she can't sing like she used to.
You would think that a woman who blamed the media for her breakup with Ben would keep her love life to herself. This seems like a failed attempt to relive 2003.
@@TheDreamingJune Jenifer Lopez back in late 90's to 2002/03 was mad popular. But I think her popularity started declining when Beyonce solo career took off.
This I agree with. I don't think it's okay that she took all the notes been gave her and then she gave them to her team and he didn't even know about it I thought that was really mean😢
I have a weird fascination with J. Lo because she's the only celebrity I can think of in my entire lifetime who has amassed as much fame and longevity as she has while seemingly *never* being liked. She never got re-evaluated for her talents and contributions to popular culture later on like Britney Spears or Amy Winehouse, but she never really faded into irrelevance either like most of her contemporaries from the 90's/early 2000's. She didn't even have a career-ending scandal that you can point to as the ending point. But even at her absolute peak, it was not cool to say you liked J. Lo and she's been an easy punching bag for as long as I can remember. Over 20 years later and her reputation has not recovered and she's just as widely despised as ever, but she's still a household name who gets booked for projects and is uplifted by Hollywood. Give her this, she is nothing if not determined to keep going
I held a similar opinion about J. Lo as what you described but I got a new understanding of her pop culture staying power when I married into a Latino family and saw that she has many passionate fans in those communities even to this day.
She literally slept her way to the top. Yes, it takes work. But there are so much more talented people who work just as hard but don't sell themselves nor are they at her level of fakery. P. Diddy made her famous. And it went on from there.
@@joanofarcxxi I mean I guess but that was, what, 25 years ago? Cassie basically did the same thing but she sure didn’t get the same results as J. Lo. She continued having success long after she separated from Diddy
The only thing I can defend her on is, in the 90s, most bodegas or fast food places only had “orange drink”, not orange soda. Typically that was Hi-C. That might be what she’s talking about.
@@00st307-mwhy not? She wasn’t born wealthy. She was just a regular girl in the Bronx growing up. Now how long she lived like that before getting into the entertainment industry idk but starting out she was just a dancer. She didn’t even become “JLo” the pop superstar until she was almost 30
But is that IYKYK worthy? Clearly not enough people "know" to make this a thing! I mean, she's talking about it as if it's as common and culturally-specific as red Kool Aid, and it clearly isn't.
I feel like Jason Derulo is in some ways her male counterpart. Hes very successful, virtually universally famous, no scandals , still booked and has remained relevant for as long as hes been on the scene and yet the fanbase isn't really there.
How passionately he threw himself into CATS endeared me to him. 😅 I'm old enough to have kept up to with JLo since 1999, and I can't think of a single thing she's done to endear me to her. She's a good dancer, her songs are catchy, and she's a decent actress in her music videos (most musical acts can't act for shit). But yeah, after 25 years, that's the best I can say of her.
@@coolzworldd ive seen him live twice and to be fair he was great! One of the better performers going around atm and have def sing. I suspect he may have been just phoning it in at a highschool performance.
I've side eyes jlo since her comment about Cameron Diaz "She's just a model that got lucky with a few roles" Erm..... Jennifer aren't you "just a dancer" that got lucky with a few roles????
Agreed. I hate how she attacks other actresses. She’s isn’t Meryl Streep! I don’t like her as a person, and actress not a dancer or singer. So, those comments make her even less likable!
Most of them are just good looking people who got a chance to do few roles.. Being an actor is not that hard Kids can do it , prople who never done it can do it…
So exciting for you to cover her, she is an insane woman in a way that I find very compelling. I mean, making a movie about your own love story in which you and your husband play yourselves is so unhinged it’s sorta admirable.
This is how I feel! People always say “be yourself” - and she’s certainly doing that! Most people would have too much shame + self awareness to do this.
People keep saying that celebrities should stop trying to be relatable since they’re so obviously not. J. Lo seems to be at a crossroads because while she did have a modest upbringing and fought tooth and nail for years to make her dreams of fame and fortune come true, she lost touch with reality and no longer has any idea of how to relate to the common man. Seems like she can’t decide whether to just fully embrace being a super wealthy and out-of-touch Hollywood elite a la Gwyneth Paltrow, or try maintaining her roots and remaining a somewhat down-to-earth figurehead like Adele or even Shakira. She tries doing both, but fails, so she comes off as a self-absorbed megalomaniac who has, ironically, forgot where she came from without the camp of a Gwyneth or a Mariah, which widdles down her appeal to basically no one
I mean, Taylor Swift releases album after album about her relationships, so I see nothing wrong with a woman profiting from her own experiences when the media has been profiting off of her for decades.
@@akikom1331this. Taylor swift has made multiple movies about her concerts and her life and so have people like Selena Gomez. It’s annoying regardless but how come they don’t call it out when it’s someone they like? 🤔
As a Haitian, knowing and loving the *idea* of Jennifer Lopez is just a part of the Latin/Caribbean culture. But do we actively go out of our way to fund her ventures? No, we have bills to pay and if we're being honest, she's not one of us anymore
@@devonmunn5728that part…the original commenter has attached themselves to their Caribbean culture while forgetting that their at Black and JLo said N*gger. Thank you for making that valid point 🔥
If she cared about the Bronx’s she would have donated that 20 million to her old neighborhood! That money could help a lot of people! Maybe it is time for JLO to retire and just spend time with her family .
I agree with this statement as well, I don't hate her I do like a lot of her stuff even though I know she hasn't seen on most of her music it's Ashanti and a girl named Natasha but I think that she is just really out of touch and she needs to get humble I don't know if that's possible for her at all but here's hope please excuse my grammar I'm doing talk-to-text
"Waiting For Tonight" was a bop when I was younger, but she didn't really stand out to me. Let's face it; Britney Spears was everything when it came to fame. Like her or hate her, her rise was meteoric.
This reminds of that Joanne documentary Gaga did and she was sobbing while showing her grandma a song about her aunt she never met and the grandma was like “…okay, i guess, why are you so affected by this” and Gaga was like 🫥
Look. I was in the process of writing a book about pop culture and the death of Hollywood. But after Weinstein, Epstein, Dan Schneider, and Diddy, the work has been done. It's unfolding so fast I can barely keep up. Katt Williams and Corey Feldman and Holly Madison and Amanda Bynes and Brittney Spears, all told everyone. Something snapped, because people are actually, finally, taking it seriously.
Pre-Internet fame was wild looking back. Fewer people were famous, so you were really famous, plus the only people who gave their opinions to you were people you paid or your most ardent fans. No wonder so many celebs from that era are monsters.
Yeah it's crazy to think what a hyper exclusive thing fame used to be. Now even major celebs don't have the same feel anymore. There's exceptions like Taylor Swift and Leonardo Dicaprio. But for the most part, they don't feel like a big deal anymore.
Ben threw so much shade in that documentary. Now that I truly appreciated. I would never kept his cuts in that doc. But his comments being left in proves once again she doesn’t actually listen to anything that comes out of his mouth
Yes. I did read somewhere that Ben Affleck was against her making that documentary. He probably didn’t want her to do it because it makes her look beyond thirsty for more fame & fortune. As a couple, they are very successful. How much more does she need? 🙄
I remember in the good year of our Lord 2002, "Jenny From The Block" came out, and even as a starry-eyed twelve year old, I wondered "why is she so concerned with proving she's humble, and why is she trying to do it by showcasing her life as a super-rich, super-famous celebrity in an extremely glossy video?"
I was 14 and had a similar opinion. I thought it was flat out an annoying song. Plus, when most artists make a song about their home town, it’s about how great their home town is, or how much they love it despite its problems, or something that pays tribute to their home town. This was a song about her home town that talked about how great SHE is. It paid tribute to her. As an Australian (by that I mean myself), it’s very distasteful to talk about your own greatness like that. So yes, I too was struck by how the song was essentially Jlo name-dropping her hometown to brag about her greatness, and ironically, her humility. Could I word it like that back then? No. But we could clearly smell the bullshit.
@@00st307-m Passive aggressive in the sense they both employ false "nice people personas' and because those are indeed false personas, there are times the straight up aggression and harshness shows itself, as you mentioned. It is both covert and overt depending on what they deploy at the time.
I think if jlo made this movie 20/25 years ago, it may have worked a little better. She’s just not connecting with gen z’ers and she’s just looking phony.
You think its the gold earrings? LOL I am young looking Latin almost 75 yrs on the West Coast and the gold earrings with her hair up looks like a dated Real Estate agent.
she DID make a movie like this 20 years ago. It was called "Gigly". It was equally crap and equally nobody saw it or cared for it--and ben afleck was also in it. Funny, that was also the time her career fell down a notch.
I think she "slept" with Tommy Mottola too as well as many others as Mottola wasn't giving her or anyone else a SONY recording contract without his demands being met! We never hear anywhere close to the half of what price people REALLY pay for fame and fortune!
My opinion on Jlo is colored by bias because I still remember working as an extra on Angel Eyes & we all had to stand around in the heat of a Toronto summer waiting for her & Jim Caveziel to drag their asses out of their trailers to work. Haven’t liked either of them since that experience.
Can we talk about the fact that so many celebrities don’t wanna be looked in the eyes and how fucking weird that is???? like I don’t even think it’s a matter of just being arrogant and full of yourself I think it’s really really bizarre. I would love to know the meaning of it because most of these celebrities are narcissists so I don’t think it’s about social anxiety or something like that.
They've internalized that they are somehow superior to "normal" people. Succession actually does a great job at showing how the "super-elite" see the average person (kind of the same way average people see pigeons).
@@LilyGazou true. They literally can’t look you in the eye when they talk to you sometimes. My ex told me “I love you for” for the first time WITH HIS FUCKING BACK TO ME
Ham and cheese on a role and an orange drink is a totally believable bodega order from the 80s. Orange drink could mean an orange quarter water, a Hi C, or a sunny D. Back then a lot of places only had one of those. If you said orange drink they knew what you meant and depending where you were you'd get one of those three. And it was fine because you just wanted an orange flavored drink. Idk why people think the ham and cheese is weird. I've ordered that myself usually with dijon mustard.
I dunno … I think Neil Breen (and this is something that I doubt has ever been said about him before) has too much self-awareness for something like this shit. Jenny Fromdabloc is off her fucking rocker.
I'll skip saying anything about JLo and her extreme lameness and go straight to Fat Joe's painted on five 'o clock shadow. Just why? He looks ridiculous.
...so I am a Peruvian-Italian native NYer with family from the Bronx, and I have say I understood what she meant by orange drank--it's not an inauthentic answer, just an old people one ;-; Also, maybe this is unpopular, but I love JLo, she's like a drag queen who doesn't know she's a drag queen. Growing up there weren't many popular Latinas to look up to and I will always have a soft spot for her delusional self-confidence, which this album proves is still alive and well for her
I saw nothing wrong with what she said, but… I’m here for the smoke she’s getting, I would respect it if she wasn’t grasping at straws”keeping it real” plus all the artists who were swindled out of the their song and vocal rights in her hay day.
OMG this is so true and I never realized it. Would I love it if she were a bit more self aware and tongue in cheek, yes. But everything she does is HUGE. Get outta here with your monochrome colors. Big hair, big makeup, big a$$. She's my hero in that respect. She's a testament to being a woman who is comfortable with being the center of attention. American society makes women thread the needle. Be beautiful but natural. Whatever! I'm here for her ridiculousness.
I’m Peruvian American. I’m glad she’s getting all the criticism. I want her to do more since it’s like watching a car accident I can’t stop staring at.
No the orange drink is LEGIT. Im prican & half the drinks at home are like generically labelled tropical flavours in a variety of orange to pink tinges (and theyre DELICIOUS btw, if not a bit unhealthy)
Everytime I think about JLo, I think about what George Clooney said about her in an interview: she's pretty on the outside. She's always come across as super self-important and not particularly nice, to me. Which is a shame, because she does have some talent, and obviously has been successful. I just can't be happy for or care about someone who is probably a jerk IRL.
@@lostwoods5687 I'm saying 'probably', because from what I've read from other people who DO know her, including my quote from George Clooney, is that she is a jerk. And since I DON'T know her, I added 'probably' and not 'definitely.' And since you are 'probably' a fan, what IS her fandom's name?
@@chasingautumns Well said and it has been stated on air and on social media repeatedly that she is in fact not a nice person. It's been said she has walked up to servers and asked for tips back that Marc Anthony and Ben Affleck gave (at different times) and that Marc Anthony screamed at her and told her to never do it again! It was also stated she was asked to donate monies to the Kips Bay Boys and Girls club she attended as a youth and that she refused! So you are PROBABLY right! If I was betting, my money is on you!
The woman is 56…. So she was placing her order (let’s say when she was 10. People are dragging her for something that existed almost 45 years ago because they stopped selling it and you don’t know about it?It seems a little crazy to me. We could be doing the same with the Mc Rib. I remember when they first discontinued it (except they bring it back now). Drinks were different back in the day and I’m not even from NYC. There’s drinks and food I used to drink they don’t have now and I’m in my 30’s
It's because that girl never ate at a bodega even back then you know she was acting all stuck up LOL she made it up on the spot trying to sound like she knows what she's talking about by saying it's on a roll and calling it an orange drink. She's a narcissist and a liar you can tell because she's not even a good liar the way she has to squint and pretend like she's thinking about it but she's just making it up
She should have been kinda half canceled when the 'which celebrity was rude to you' trended. But I guess since she was mistreating service workers no one cared.
The biggest problem with JLo is that she can't accept that she's no longer Jenny. From the block, she's in her fifties, and now she needs to learn to accept it, that light dims for us all😮
if you;ve ever seen Sunset Boulevard, there is a great line at the end of the film where Joe says to Norma Desmond, "You're a woman of fifty, now grow up! There's nothing wrong with being fifty, not unless you try to be 25!" And boy if that doesn't hit hard watching this trainwreck.
@Merrileeward I agree, wholeheartedly. I'm 68 going on 69 in September, There's nothing wrong with shining but shine with your age group. Not the 20-year-olds cause you could never compete.
in poor non-white communities the kids typically drank flavored drinks like kool-aid or fruit sodas I assume bc it's cheaper than typical sodas. I dunno how it is now, but it was like that def in the 90s. the iykyk thing is her trying to appear like she grew up working class. likely not--she was likely middle class but I dunno. the iykyk is her trying to appear relatable. srsly. I know this is cultural, but I'm 43 and white and I knew this. Your white boyf not know this doesn't mean it isn't a thing. It's just that it's very well known and not worth the "IYKYK" I mean, except your boyf didn't know lol
Vanity projects rarely works because their made to please one person only, it's creator. The viewers are aware of it and no longer care for them. As for as JLo is concerned, she tries so hard to be relatable (look at me and my made up poor girl stories), but it just doesn't sell anymore. She's a multimillionnaire with a huge ego. I remember seeing a video of her going to one of Ben's kids school play all glammed up, waaaaaaay overdressed and trying to steal the show from a bunch of elementary school students. Just because she's a Jack of all trades, doesn't mean she's a master of any.
i remember seeing a picture of her at a ballgame with Ben; she was wearing a white fur coat and was filing her nails while Ben sat there in a ballcap drinking a beer. Soooo relatable lol.
You can tell how serious Jlo is from the nfl super bowl performance at the end, Shakira is soaking it all up and smiling and Jlo is super tense and robotic /programed...
You know who I feel bad for, Jlo's twins. I sure the hell hope they are growing up decently. This may be weird to compare the 2, but I don't think Jlo would have been popular if she didn't get the starring role in the 90s Selena movie. Selena is still very much beloved here in Texas. She is from Corpus Christi and stayed there until her tragic death. So she definitely stay true to her roots and did things for the community, like opening a store there to sell her designs.
I'm 36. When I was 16, jlo was huge. It seems as if she really believes she's just as famous now as she was then. But - tbh I don't think GenZ cares. I, as a millennial, don't care. The world has moved on. Someone needs to tell her she's no longer famous. She's 54, past her prime, and needs to grow up. To think that anyone cares about her convoluted, pretentious story is so sad. She takes her entire existence way too seriously and assumes that we care - even a little.
I think that’s why she was mad at Shakira because she continues to reinvent herself which is admirable. I haven’t liked anything Shakira has put out since probably 2001 but she continuously finds ways to connect with audiences. JLO keeps making the same music, wearing the same clothes, playing the same characters and telling us the same origin story over and over. How can someone remain relevant without ever evolving?
I don't sign off on the "past her prime" thing because it's incredibly ageist, but her career definitely peaked 20 years ago. Can it peak again? Maybe, but this isn't how, especially since her fans consist mostly of genx and millennials jamming to Jenny from the Block during their commute for a nostalgia boost. Music-wise, she currently has nothing to give younger audiences that would make her relevant again.
"Past her prime" is a little wild, we're women, not food. Many other guys are still at their 'peak' past their 'prime', so I don't think age is the problem, she's just boring and people don't like her for multiple reasons because she's just not...palatable to people in a sense. She doesn't have that it factor tbh
@@annaleena1975Its not ageist to think a female who still wants to jiggle her ass as her main gig when she is 54-55 years old its just not GOOD ENOUGH. SHE IS IN TOTAL SHAPE, that is not it. But she would gain a lot more respect by using her platform and create something with her mind for a shift or change. It is just a part of growth. "Past her prime" is an outdated phrase because people can evolve and do NEW THINGS. i am almost a young 75.
idk if I'm insane for saying this- but everything that's happened with J Lo these past weeks are all honestly great material for a Snatch Game impersonation of her on a future Drag Race season - especially making fun of how she doesn't truly represent the Bronx AT ALL.
I think she was a track star in school. Maybe that's why she says she ran "up & down the block". I do admire her for breaking into an industry tho that is mostly filled of nepo babies & child stars.
lol this is funny cause I ran track in HS when I was 16 and I originally thought that she was being literal talking about actually running (cause I did that when I was that age) .... I haven't seen the documentary. In any case, she is a weirdo.
@@chrisblessing45 You have to see it because her hair is so crazy, it looks like a rat's nest and she claims she ran up and down "the block!" Social media is having a field day with it! I don't believe her mother Lupe, let her out of the house looking like that and I don't believe she would let her just run the streets either! FICTION!!!
“She takes herself so seriously. You can tell this is going be a version of her…Lemonade.” EXAAACTLY. 😑😐 She’s been giving me Great Value Beyonce for the last decade, and she could NEVER.
Beyonće is literally nothing but a packaged, sanitized consumer product. She is propped up by writing camps and plagiarism (stealing other creatives ideas and work).
Im a little younger thsn jlo and her Bodega order exists. The fact that people are making a huge deal out of this proves many things and its a wee bit pathetic. Collectively the internet has literally birthed a generation of bullies. She grew up in the bronx, she lived there and she left. Like many many celebrities from New York. She has always came off as a proud Puerto Rican or Nuyorican(depending who you ask). Being bothered because she went to catholic school and somehow negates her Bronx connection (if given the choice trust, most Puerto Rican parents in NY would rather send their kids there). She never said she was from the hood, that she ran the streets. I think she unfortunately feels very slighted by the media and critics and she carries it on her shoulder. And not having a mean fanbase with a name doesnt mean she doesnt have fans. This is all so dumb.
What I noticed that I don’t see a lot of people talking about is JLo has an acting voice. It’s slightly different from her speaking voice. I only realized it in the last couple years but realized she’s had this fake acting voice all throughout her career. This is probably one of the unconscious reasons people think she’s a bad actress because she does this voice. She also does this whisper thing when her characters are upset and she’s trying to convey emotions. And emotion to her means to speak and whisper. And she’s done it in a lot of her films. Shes essentially playing the same character a lot the time because she sticks to the same traits and speaking inflections . So to watch that movie that’s all about her and her story that wasn’t profound or displayed any new information that you didn’t already pick up from the blogs or tabloids and everyone in the movie is on the same acting level as her made it horrible to watch.
I think her acting voice is a (failed? lol) attempt at muffling her NY accent. I bet some casting agent told her to be more standard American and the best she could come up with was some flattened vowels and whispering.
@@chiablum1453 She's career driven to an extreme degree though. I think she would have changed anything that casting agents wanted at the beginning of her career just to get through the door and have a chance at fame.
@@squidthing She needed to change her accent to be able to play different characters. That's the job of an actor. I always thought she was mediocre in everything. Even now with all the money, power & connections, she produces bad projects. She is just not well read or talented. No evolution, same act for 30 years.
Regarding whether she has stans and whether we’ve heard of their wrath on Twitter, I think it depends on the person’s age. I graduated high school in 2004 and I went to school with J. Lo stans - and it was obviously pre-Twitter. But I don’t know what became of their fandom 🤷🏽♀️ but it’s really just always the same thing from her. Also, the authenticity was never there for me when it came to her. And then the sudden incorporate of Taíno lore/customs is weird to me. I’m a Taíno descendant, and it was… just weird for me and others that share that with me.
I remember when JLo came to Ukraine somewhere around 2010. I was still in school, but my mom and her friends (30-something year old women) made it sound like a big deal. Several paid alot of money to go to Kyiv for the concert. Apparently, JLo is a decent dancer but as a singer... Well, she can't sing. Like, at all. Back in the day autotune was much more acceptable in UA than in 2020s, and it was STILL considered a rip off of a concert.
Ben left her due to the media circus around her when they first dated. Now she’s constantly putting their relationship in the media…. Seems like she’s trying to hard to convince people they are happy.
The problem is she believes she’s an icon, but icons live forever. Their music lives on forever. Do you really think we’ll play “Jenny from the block” in 50-100 years? Nope.
She’s always selling something, perfume, makeup, skincare, clothing. She may think she’s an artist but what she really does is sell products. That’s why people aren't there for her.
There’s something about J.Lo that’s like… theoretically famous? I think the thing about “she’s not famous for being famous but she feels like it” is kinda how I feel. I wouldn’t ever say she’s famous for nothing but I also can barely remember anything she’s in or has done that isn’t mostly just used to make fun of her. I will give her credit, though, she’s got drive. How many other celebs have had a career like hers without really like… producing anything so notable, at least for a *long* time? She’s been active for nearly 40 years and nobody particularly seems to like her and yet she’s somehow got the money and clout to pull these famous people and this whole production.
My theory is that they agreed on marrying but it’s all fake. I don’t believe them the slightest. It’s basically impossible to marry someone who left you 20 years ago, and I think she’s giving the wrong message to everyone, like, you can still have that person who broke up with you no matter how much time has passed. And this seems like a marketing tactic, not real love
I think younger people don't recognize how popular Jennifer Lopez is and was. She has limitations and I always found her a better actress than singer and a better dancer than anything else she does. She knows how to be famous and enjoys it, that much is very very clear to the audience. When she was coming up, when I was little, she was a big deal and, because there was almost no representation of latin-american people in media in the Global North and she wore her heritage very proudly. She has many, many fans, don't be mistaken - she has many hits - but her fanbase is def older now and less engaged. I think the major thing is saturation of her image and the contradictions between her insistence on being relatable vs. her actual life and personality. Personally, what I think she lacks is VISION. I don't think she's a creative mastermind and she wants to be one very badly. I think aging for popstars is very very tricky. But Beyoncé is very adaptable, because a) she's on a different level when it comes to skill and creativity b) she doesn't follow trends, she creates them c) she actually leaned into the mystery and the distance rather than trying to overexpose herself. For Beyoncé, the mystique works, because she's not that relatable to us anymore, but that's NOT her appeal. JLo needs to find her appeal.
Imagine if Jennifer Garner made a movie with Ben documenting her “journey” into being love with him. That’s why JLOs movie is being ignored. One giant answer to a question nobody asked.
The issue with this is 1. she needed a documentary to explain this movie. 2. It feels like a cash grab inspired by both Taylor and Beyonce, as well as the "emotion pictures" of Janelle Monae. Now what Janelle does with emotion pictures and albums is that they all follow a storyline that mirrors her reality, so it all makes so much sense. Jennifer has not had enough...anything to justify this move. She is an okay actress, and a damn fine dancer, but this was... a situation.
There's also several people who have worked with her in the past (actors/actress) who said she acted like she didn't know them when they reunited in person.
honestly after this doc and film I’m endeared to her in a camp way. She knew that no one would care about the project and she still did it! the true definition of a vanity project. It’s just fun to always see her shoot for the stars and miss the mark. She’s the girl to sing a Barbara Streisand song even though she is nowhere near that in vocal ability. I admire it in some ways. I know everybody has a big hate on for her now but I already worked my way through that when the singing controversy happened. I’m evolved. It’s fun! I do find it funny when gen z want to “cancel” her bc she’s probably been canceled for like her whole career since she’s tabloid fodder, the fact that everybody is talking about her right now just gives her more notoriety, that how she’s always done it. Also, I’m a bodega order truther.
She didn't know that 😅 Are you kidding? She was full of herself and thought it would blow up and she was humbled real quick. When you charge that much for your concert tickets you still think you're the isht. She's deluded to think people are gona pay a 3rd of that. Her 15 minutes are up and that's that!
@@peacebeyondpassion2 In the documentary she made about creating the visual for her album. She literally said in the documentary “I know no one was wondering when the next jlo album is” and people told her multiple times in many ways not do it. Like yeah, maybe she hoped people would look at it and think she was a mastermind but she knew when making it that no one was begging for this like she was beyoncé. But she wanted to do it, bc she’s vain! And those concert prices are not based on the success of the recent album bc it was a flop. It was based on her being a legacy act, a lot of older artist charge a lot of money even though they ain’t topping the charts anymore bc they know people will spend money on them. So yes, she set those prices bc she thinks ppl were willing to cash out that much money to see “the” Jennifer Lopez but I don’t think it has anything to do with her thinking her movie or album was great bc it flopped. you guys just have more fun laughing at her bc you think she doesn’t know that people are doing that 😭 they’ve been doing it for decades. She hasn’t had a proper hit since like 2011 like she hasn’t been shit for a very long time and yet, she persists bc she’s vain. I think the thing about jlo is that she wants people to take her seriously, she wants the prestige bc she already had the hits. She’s never won a grammy, an oscar, or a golden globe. It’s why she campaigned so hard to get nominated for her hustlers role, why she tried to make this vanity project seem like it was some elevated piece about her love life. And why she attempts to sing Barbara Streisand. Her past two husbands are grammy and oscar winners, the last long term relationship was a baseball legend. Like all she wants is prestige which is something she’ll never get bc she’s not that great 🤷🏽♀️ (Sorry this is so long)
You did great work. But after you broke her movie down, my brain rotted. I'm sorry for the days you lost and can't get back. Thanks for taking one for the team.
Saw her twice over the years and she is super rude. Even the workers at the place I was at when I saw her kept talking about how annoying she was everytime she came. Out of touch isn’t even the word for it.
As a '90s kid who grew up in a Latino-majority community, JLo (then still known as just Jennifer Lopez) was well-liked for her music at the time. Her songs in the early 2000s did well, too (esp "Jenny on the Block"), but that was around the time she started getting more controversy with her high-profile relationships, venturing into acting with subpar success, and rebranding from a Latin pop artist to an R&B artist (and becoming "JLo"). I don't expect younger generations to be that into her, though.
I am really not a fan of JLo's but I have to admit, she was really good in Selena and in Out of Sight. She's had a few other good movies too. I honestly think that if she had focused her energy on acting, she would have been very good. But she was determined to be a "triple threat" and imo ended up being a zero threat.
J Lo used to be a celeb w BP only. In loving color was a huge show. Then she dated Diddy. Only after she hooked up w BA did she go mainstream Hollywood. And she started to look more and more like a WW.
I'm honestly surprised Jane Fonda agreed to be in the film... didn't she throw shade at her last year over her allegedly making her face bleed in the slap scene for Monster In Law (I've heard the arguments that she was kidding but the look on her face she seemed legitimately pissed)
She needs to stop with the puerto rican folklore, she does nothing to help puerto rico and only tries speaking her broken spanish when she wants to pander to us.
She doesn't have the fans like Kylie Minogue, Madonna, Cher, Taylor and Beyonce all of who are massive stars in Europe/U.K/Australia and New Zealand and this is reflected in her popularity and ticket sales.
Had she been more gracious, more magnanimous, more generous and less haughty and delusional, none of this would have happened. She’s built an A-list career with practically zero singing talent, middling acting talent and above average dancing skills. In the process, she earned hundreds of millions of dollars. How big of a dent to her finances would it have been to give $1 million to each of the singers who gave her the music career that she did not deserve? Would it have really impoverished her to pay her PAs and other staff properly? How difficult was it to be nice to servers or to tip generously? For years she has established a reputation of stepping on other people in her climb to the top - aided by powerful guys who had the hots for her. And she has pretty much gotten away with everything but her delusions of grandeur couldn’t let sleeping dogs lie. She kept on harping on a largely and transparently imaginary backstory. She embarks on a tour that only her outsized estimation of her own draw would have been able to support. And then compound all of that with an out of touch movie that became a monument to her narcissism. Of course, the people who harbored resentment saw an opening to pounce. And pounce they did and rightfully so. What we’re seeing now is an ongoing snuff film - through hubris and utter lack of taste, she killed any chance of maintaining any of her relevance or leaving even a largely undeserved legacy. She now ends her career as a big joke.
okay i've never actually met jlo but when my mom was a dealer in the high limit pit of a casino she met a lot of celebrities & one of them was jennifer lopez & ben affleck when they were together the first time and, according to my mom, she was super duper rude to all the female dealers cuz she was crazy jealous and worried ben would be too friendly to them, and then when my mom was walking back from the bathroom apparently jlo almost knocked her over because she refused not to walk straight down the middle of a very narrow hallway so i've always known she was bad news tbh
Reality check: 1.Affleck had to appear to be against her using his letters and the whole project generally, as supporting such fluff would damage his career. 2. The love letters are probably fake. Wealthy actors don't grovel. 3. At this stage, any successes are just cherries on top. Probably, her investments will be producing much more wealth than anything she can do in her career. 4. Her talent might be questionable, but she's not in this alone. How many unknowns are far more talented than A- and B- listers? 5. The ultra wealthy rarely find love. They don't need to. Wealth and independence render spouses at worst, needless, at best, a companion. They are needed far less so once children are produced. Think about this, please.
so now we’re criticizing her for not having a toxic fanbase?? lol come on be so for real. if beyonce had done the same thing, ppl would be praising her up the ass
J.Lo is exposing her age and how long it's been since she's been on "The Block," because I actually think I know what orange drink she's talking about. I THINK she's talking about Quarter Waters, which we all drank back in the 90s. Technically they had flavors, we referenced them by color, i.e: blue drink, red drink, orange drink, purple drink. If they're still around I haven't seen them in decades. By the time the 00s were over we were buying SoBe and Arizonas. Bottom line: she hasn't been on the block in ages. I have so many thoughts, but she's describing her "wild and free" 16 year old self like she's 6. I'd be deeply concerned about a 16 year old who didn't know how to comb their hair. I'll be gracious, maybe she was implying that she had teased 80s hair or she was a tomboy, but...I dunno, doesn't seem like it.
I don’t know why you don’t get it. I don’t like JLo but after watching this review I was so curious! And I was soooo surprised that I actually liked the video. She’s always been in love with being in love. She sought a soulmate based on their zodiac signs and other dumb things. But she never loved herself. She never could be without someone in her life. And her choice in men wasn’t healthy. She still believes in forever love though, so …. 💝
I've been largely indifferent to JLo. Yeah, she had a few catchy tunes decades ago, and I enjoyed her portrayal of Selena. She's beautiful, works hard to maintain her figure, has a prolific body of work, and mastered marketing herself. I'll even admit that I've purchased some of her Glow perfumes which legit smell great. But is she overhyped and inauthentic? Absolutely! She needs to accept the painful reality that her time has passed, quit embarrassing herself with "passion projects", and ride off into the sunset and spend the rest of her days enjoying the fruits of her labor.
JLo is determined and delightfully delusional. She will reinvent herself every chance she gets. If you're not being talked about (positively or vice-versa), then you are not relevant. She's definitely relevant, that's for sure. I think she should do a workout series. She is in excellent shape for a 50- something yo woman. She is gorgeous. I think her visual album is unnecessary, but I'm glad she got it out of her system. ❤
Positives - she financed her own project, good for her. She can do whatever she wants with her money. She is in really good shape! This girl is physically fit (she is only couple of years older than me). Negatives - that music /movie clip is confusing. It feels like a messy mix between West Side Story Broadway show and Singing in the Rain movie.
As an ex new Yorker who grew up in harlem with bodegas in the mid-80s, i would order my sandwiches plain with no cheese or condiments because as a child i didn't like it. As far as the orange drink, maybe she didn't want to drop name brands due to copy rights?
This project gives me flashbacks from one of her birthdays where she got up on the table in her side open, white dress and danced. The vibe that came across to me was, look at me, bow down to me "!! Haha😂
I've enjoyed these J-Lo deep dives. To be fair, the Bodega may actually be genuine based on the era that J-Lo grew up "on the Block". There was a commentor who mentioned that when J-Lo says "orange drink", she likely means a Quarter Water that came in an orange flavour. He also said that ham and cheese on a roll would come with additional ingredients, like lettuce, tomato etc. He grew up in NYC during the 70's-80's, so maybe it's a generational difference that makes J-Lo's order seem untrue.
She didn’t have three marriages and other relationships after Ben. She was married once and had a long term relationship with Casper. If you’re gonna crap on the woman, at least be honest with facts.
The documentary, from what I’ve seen, seems like one long perfume ad. Random shit shows up with no explanation… I wouldn’t be surprised if they showed her riding a horse on the beach as she spewed some motivational bs
I remember when I was in class, and my professor asked us what we thought of the Super Bowl (i’m referring to the 2020 Super Bowl, where Shakira performed and brought J Lo out). With the quickness, I raised my hand and I started to discuss my distain for J Lo, and how she is only Puerto Rican, when is convenient to her and her brand. This was right after two of my other classmates were praising her performance, and how amazing they thought she was yada yada yada. I could just not resist myself from putting in my two cents as well. And I love that after I put in my two cents about J Lo, my other classmate, who is actually Puerto Rican agreed with me 💯.
A quote that always made sense to me about Jlo was "jack of all trades, master of none." Now, you've made me realize another one is "everyone knows her but nobody is fan." Youre totally right about her being a celebrity but not really having fans..
She’s a master at branding / business. No one says their favorite restaurant is McDonald’s - but they are universally known and their business is in every town.
My mom’s a fan…
The only person who thinks JLo is a star is JLo
@@00st307-mNailed it! Remember that the jack of all trades quote finishes with “Though oftentimes better than a master of one.” All of our top tier entertainers are this way! Who do you know who ONLY sings… like be fr, all our entertainers are jack of all trades!
@atlantictiger
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Lets be so real, if Beyonce or Taylor Swift had pitched a visual album movie thing to streaming services, they'd be fighting each other to get the rights. Its not the type of media thats the issue, its JLo herself, she's not marketable and the streaming generation doesn't care or like her enough. Studios just don't want to tell her that.
That's because she let people run with the "mean diva" narrative without checking it. Now everyone hates her for no valid reason.
Right. She was popular enough to make a ton of money, but she really doesn't have a following. I don't know how she didn't realize this. Heck even Janet Jackson didn't have enough clout to sell out stadiums when she turned 40. She was legit popular in the late 80s, 90s, but she didn't have enough of a following either
Yes ! Exactly! Well said. She is too vain to notice.
J No is irrelevant 🤡
So two entertainers can have a visual album. For thousands of other artists, it won’t work.
We don’t need a Drake or JLo visual album. So many artists we would rather vibe to than look into their artistic process.
My fav clip is the Puerto Rican lady going "we don't LIKE you stop using us (Puerto Ricans) to seem human." and its so spot on
I think this is further proof that Jennifer Lopez has always been a celebrity more than an artist. She wants to be an artist but there's not much to work with in terms of personal creativity.
She thinks she deserves an Oscar for her mediocre movie Hustler. Jlo has no idea of good cinema, writing, great Art
@@chiablum1453 I still can't believe there were people who were actually mad she didn't get an Oscar nomination for that film. It's ridiculous.
@@TheDreamingJune It's probably just her entourage. They know she now going to be extra rude 😆 Seriously some people are just not objective at all.
I mean, she's starred in over 30 feature films spanning over 4 decades and was even in an NBC Detective series for 3 seasons, so... I consider her an actress and not just a celebrity? Selena, Anaconda, Enough, the Cell, Wedding Planner, and Monster in Law are all cult classics in their genres. Is she the most talented? No. But I can't say she hasn't worked her ass off.
@@chiablum1453Her role in Selena deserved an oscar. Why are you minimizing JLo's imprint in American cinema. Are we going to ignore that she was one of the best actress during the 2000s Rom-Com Era??
I will never forget Michael Jackson shaded her and Tommy Mottola when he said there is an artist who doesn't even sing any of her records on her albums.
When are ppl going to wake up about this being true about Taylor Swift too? She sings in the auto-tune box and ppl think she can sing!
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Her piano also played by it self.
The rain did it...
Yeah sure.
Got the pre program errored.😂😂
@@Alieortwo - I didn't say anything about her piano. If she really is writing her own songs too - then she is good in that but she is lazy too in writing b/c most of her songs are all about being a perpetual victim about how her boyfd's always hurt her and dump her...etc....such whiney crap. But no, she cannot sing. Mediocre at best. She IS auto-tuned.. If you don't know that, that is nobody's prob but yours. If you can't research properly or you have this little of self-awareness, then again, that is on you but my all means, keep on serving as a fooled fan at the Swiftie cult if that makes you happy.
are you stupid? There is a ton of in the studio and behind the scenes evidences where Taylor sings her songs, plays instruments and so on. Stop discrediting Taylor@@kaitlynkarol4600
Yup! She had the look, that's all they need. 😅
I just know Mariah Carey is laughing with popcorn in her hands like “hahah, that’s funny. Still don’t know her tho.”
I saw MC in concert in December. Absolutely horrible and a complete ripoff. Concert lasted just over an hour. She sang a total of five songs and talked the rest of the time. She doesn’t dance, she barely moves, she looks ABSURD riding around stage in a sled. ABD she lip syncs a lot. She cleverly sings some but uses playback in other parts. Complete RIPOFF.
@@lostwoods5687She's old. You wanna hear MC? Play a CD it's cheaper
Mariah is really ICONIC😂❤
@@lostwoods5687 Yeah I love MC's music but I would not pay to see her perform in this day and age. Voices change as people age, especially for singers who put so much strain on them. It's been known for a while now that she can't sing like she used to.
@@lostwoods5687agreed Mc is just something I put my ear pods on for..if I wanna see a performance..I’ll watch JLo
You would think that a woman who blamed the media for her breakup with Ben would keep her love life to herself. This seems like a failed attempt to relive 2003.
It's very obvious she wants to return to that time of her life when she was at the peak of her fame.
@@TheDreamingJune Jenifer Lopez back in late 90's to 2002/03 was mad popular. But I think her popularity started declining when Beyonce solo career took off.
@@TheDreamingJune 2003 was also a simpler time
This I agree with. I don't think it's okay that she took all the notes been gave her and then she gave them to her team and he didn't even know about it I thought that was really mean😢
So it was sent media pressure that caused them to call it off.
I have a weird fascination with J. Lo because she's the only celebrity I can think of in my entire lifetime who has amassed as much fame and longevity as she has while seemingly *never* being liked. She never got re-evaluated for her talents and contributions to popular culture later on like Britney Spears or Amy Winehouse, but she never really faded into irrelevance either like most of her contemporaries from the 90's/early 2000's. She didn't even have a career-ending scandal that you can point to as the ending point. But even at her absolute peak, it was not cool to say you liked J. Lo and she's been an easy punching bag for as long as I can remember. Over 20 years later and her reputation has not recovered and she's just as widely despised as ever, but she's still a household name who gets booked for projects and is uplifted by Hollywood. Give her this, she is nothing if not determined to keep going
I held a similar opinion about J. Lo as what you described but I got a new understanding of her pop culture staying power when I married into a Latino family and saw that she has many passionate fans in those communities even to this day.
Shes a household name because of the men shes been with.
She literally slept her way to the top. Yes, it takes work. But there are so much more talented people who work just as hard but don't sell themselves nor are they at her level of fakery. P. Diddy made her famous. And it went on from there.
But is someone buying her music?
@@joanofarcxxi I mean I guess but that was, what, 25 years ago? Cassie basically did the same thing but she sure didn’t get the same results as J. Lo. She continued having success long after she separated from Diddy
The only thing I can defend her on is, in the 90s, most bodegas or fast food places only had “orange drink”, not orange soda. Typically that was Hi-C. That might be what she’s talking about.
Oh that definitely exists. I saw them in the early 2000s. I just don’t believe Jlo ever drank that.
@@00st307-mwhy not? She wasn’t born wealthy. She was just a regular girl in the Bronx growing up. Now how long she lived like that before getting into the entertainment industry idk but starting out she was just a dancer. She didn’t even become “JLo” the pop superstar until she was almost 30
But is that IYKYK worthy? Clearly not enough people "know" to make this a thing! I mean, she's talking about it as if it's as common and culturally-specific as red Kool Aid, and it clearly isn't.
Agreed. Dave Chappelle even has a bit about flavored drinks in one of his standups. But he prefers purple drink. lol
@@coqui9879 I believe she was 21 when she was a fly girl
I feel like Jason Derulo is in some ways her male counterpart. Hes very successful, virtually universally famous, no scandals , still booked and has remained relevant for as long as hes been on the scene and yet the fanbase isn't really there.
Jason Derulo can actually sing😂😂she can't.
@@ptompkins8937 true lol
@@ptompkins8937 He's a songwriter too.
How passionately he threw himself into CATS endeared me to him. 😅 I'm old enough to have kept up to with JLo since 1999, and I can't think of a single thing she's done to endear me to her.
She's a good dancer, her songs are catchy, and she's a decent actress in her music videos (most musical acts can't act for shit). But yeah, after 25 years, that's the best I can say of her.
@@coolzworldd ive seen him live twice and to be fair he was great! One of the better performers going around atm and have def sing. I suspect he may have been just phoning it in at a highschool performance.
I've side eyes jlo since her comment about Cameron Diaz
"She's just a model that got lucky with a few roles"
Erm..... Jennifer aren't you "just a dancer" that got lucky with a few roles????
Cameron Diaz is a better actor than J-lo. Any day.
@@Exalted_in_Venus my thoughts exactly, Cameron is genuinely likable in roles and I adored her in The Holiday
Omfg😮 she is awful for saying that.
Agreed. I hate how she attacks other actresses. She’s isn’t Meryl Streep! I don’t like her as a person, and actress not a dancer or singer. So, those comments make her even less likable!
Most of them are just good looking people who got a chance to do few roles..
Being an actor is not that hard
Kids can do it , prople who never done it can do it…
So exciting for you to cover her, she is an insane woman in a way that I find very compelling. I mean, making a movie about your own love story in which you and your husband play yourselves is so unhinged it’s sorta admirable.
This is how I feel! People always say “be yourself” - and she’s certainly doing that! Most people would have too much shame + self awareness to do this.
She's like a car crash you can't look away from
People keep saying that celebrities should stop trying to be relatable since they’re so obviously not. J. Lo seems to be at a crossroads because while she did have a modest upbringing and fought tooth and nail for years to make her dreams of fame and fortune come true, she lost touch with reality and no longer has any idea of how to relate to the common man.
Seems like she can’t decide whether to just fully embrace being a super wealthy and out-of-touch Hollywood elite a la Gwyneth Paltrow, or try maintaining her roots and remaining a somewhat down-to-earth figurehead like Adele or even Shakira. She tries doing both, but fails, so she comes off as a self-absorbed megalomaniac who has, ironically, forgot where she came from without the camp of a Gwyneth or a Mariah, which widdles down her appeal to basically no one
I mean, Taylor Swift releases album after album about her relationships, so I see nothing wrong with a woman profiting from her own experiences when the media has been profiting off of her for decades.
@@akikom1331this. Taylor swift has made multiple movies about her concerts and her life and so have people like Selena Gomez. It’s annoying regardless but how come they don’t call it out when it’s someone they like? 🤔
As a Haitian, knowing and loving the *idea* of Jennifer Lopez is just a part of the Latin/Caribbean culture. But do we actively go out of our way to fund her ventures? No, we have bills to pay and if we're being honest, she's not one of us anymore
Plus wasn't there that song where she said the N word?
I'll take Shakira in her earlier days,anyday. Ojos Asi is still my favorite foreign song,ever.love me some Shakira
@@devonmunn5728that part…the original commenter has attached themselves to their Caribbean culture while forgetting that their at Black and JLo said N*gger. Thank you for making that valid point 🔥
@@scoopskipotatoes1631 Ojos Asi still slaps to this day!
There is nothing about her that represents the Latin Carribean. She doesn't even speak Spanish. I heard her try it was pathetic.
"Regular therapy with Fat Joe."
Lmao, that's an amazing sentence with or without context.
If she cared about the Bronx’s she would have donated that 20 million to her old neighborhood! That money could help a lot of people! Maybe it is time for JLO to retire and just spend time with her family .
I agree with this statement as well, I don't hate her I do like a lot of her stuff even though I know she hasn't seen on most of her music it's Ashanti and a girl named Natasha but I think that she is just really out of touch and she needs to get humble I don't know if that's possible for her at all but here's hope please excuse my grammar I'm doing talk-to-text
“She takes herself seriously” AKA she is just arrogant, absolutely delusional and just so self-absorbed
That makes no sense...
When you pay for your own biopic…
Narcissistic personality disorder...
The majority of her fans are grow ups now, married with kids or not all they care about is their lives.They just don't care about celebrities anymore.
Very true
Exactly… we tired working, raising kids and taking care of our aging parents. Don’t nobody care.
"Waiting For Tonight" was a bop when I was younger, but she didn't really stand out to me.
Let's face it; Britney Spears was everything when it came to fame.
Like her or hate her, her rise was meteoric.
Exactly, nothing personal but we just don't care.
@LenieseRose666 i agree. Jlo is just a celebrity with no real fan base.
This reminds of that Joanne documentary Gaga did and she was sobbing while showing her grandma a song about her aunt she never met and the grandma was like “…okay, i guess, why are you so affected by this” and Gaga was like 🫥
Lol
😂😂
Lol
Oh my god I think I blocked that out! As I was reading your comment, it came barreling on back to me and the renewed cringe felt like gdwhiplash 😂😂😂
Look. I was in the process of writing a book about pop culture and the death of Hollywood. But after Weinstein, Epstein, Dan Schneider, and Diddy, the work has been done. It's unfolding so fast I can barely keep up. Katt Williams and Corey Feldman and Holly Madison and Amanda Bynes and Brittney Spears, all told everyone. Something snapped, because people are actually, finally, taking it seriously.
no, write the book so it's all in one place
@@f.d.5173 I appreciate your vote of confidence, maybe I should !
We'll buy it!
yeah write the book
Involve the Chinese influence and it will be compelling. The examples are endless.
Pre-Internet fame was wild looking back. Fewer people were famous, so you were really famous, plus the only people who gave their opinions to you were people you paid or your most ardent fans. No wonder so many celebs from that era are monsters.
Plus now a vast variety of opinions on anything can be spread much faster via social media
Yeah it's crazy to think what a hyper exclusive thing fame used to be. Now even major celebs don't have the same feel anymore. There's exceptions like Taylor Swift and Leonardo Dicaprio. But for the most part, they don't feel like a big deal anymore.
yep. So well said
Yeah, like, I did *not* expect J-Lo to be the next late-90s-early-‘00s has-been.
@@puffball4484 I agree! Michael Jackson was a prime example of this, that level of fame is never going to be reached in this day and age imo
Ben threw so much shade in that documentary. Now that I truly appreciated. I would never kept his cuts in that doc. But his comments being left in proves once again she doesn’t actually listen to anything that comes out of his mouth
Yes. I did read somewhere that Ben Affleck was against her making that documentary. He probably didn’t want her to do it because it makes her look beyond thirsty for more fame & fortune. As a couple, they are very successful. How much more does she need? 🙄
So you were the one that watched it, lol.
@@patrickdavenport6254 Yes, I watched it. I’d be lying if I said that I wasn’t entertained by it. It was different.
He kinda called her a bottomless pit of need.
@@marielollini9763 omg yes! You are exactly right
I remember in the good year of our Lord 2002, "Jenny From The Block" came out, and even as a starry-eyed twelve year old, I wondered "why is she so concerned with proving she's humble, and why is she trying to do it by showcasing her life as a super-rich, super-famous celebrity in an extremely glossy video?"
Really? You thought that as a 12 yr old? Uh huh. 👌
I was 14 and had a similar opinion. I thought it was flat out an annoying song.
Plus, when most artists make a song about their home town, it’s about how great their home town is, or how much they love it despite its problems, or something that pays tribute to their home town. This was a song about her home town that talked about how great SHE is. It paid tribute to her. As an Australian (by that I mean myself), it’s very distasteful to talk about your own greatness like that.
So yes, I too was struck by how the song was essentially Jlo name-dropping her hometown to brag about her greatness, and ironically, her humility.
Could I word it like that back then? No. But we could clearly smell the bullshit.
“the mud that they used was not muddy enough” … riveting
Jlo and JT are the king and queen of passive aggressive narcissism 😍
Or just - aggressive aggressive narcissism. 😅 It’s pretty overt.
Which JT?
@@Zay-e5pJustin Timberlake
@@00st307-m Passive aggressive in the sense they both employ false "nice people personas' and because those are indeed false personas, there are times the straight up aggression and harshness shows itself, as you mentioned. It is both covert and overt depending on what they deploy at the time.
Ohh yeah spot on!!
I think if jlo made this movie 20/25 years ago, it may have worked a little better. She’s just not connecting with gen z’ers and she’s just looking phony.
You think its the gold earrings? LOL I am young looking Latin almost 75 yrs on the West Coast and the gold earrings with her hair up looks like a dated Real Estate agent.
She definitely got older gen Z latinos. As for the younger ones and Gen Alpha, I can't say.
@@RomeroRomeralI’m a Gen X Latina and I can’t stand her😂
she DID make a movie like this 20 years ago. It was called "Gigly". It was equally crap and equally nobody saw it or cared for it--and ben afleck was also in it. Funny, that was also the time her career fell down a notch.
Don't insult Gen X'ers.
i don’t know her but👀she was only a “singer” bc mariah’s ex wanted revenge on her career but i digress
Whoever this girl is, she was named in Mariah’s ex’s new lawsuit so I think the truth of it all is going to come out soon 👀
🎯🎯🎯
JLo was the OG industry plant
@@the-berries-and-cream-dude😂😂😂🤣
I think she "slept" with Tommy Mottola too as well as many others as Mottola wasn't giving her or anyone else a SONY recording contract without his demands being met! We never hear anywhere close to the half of what price people REALLY pay for fame and fortune!
My opinion on Jlo is colored by bias because I still remember working as an extra on Angel Eyes & we all had to stand around in the heat of a Toronto summer waiting for her & Jim Caveziel to drag their asses out of their trailers to work. Haven’t liked either of them since that experience.
Can we talk about the fact that so many celebrities don’t wanna be looked in the eyes and how fucking weird that is???? like I don’t even think it’s a matter of just being arrogant and full of yourself I think it’s really really bizarre. I would love to know the meaning of it because most of these celebrities are narcissists so I don’t think it’s about social anxiety or something like that.
They've internalized that they are somehow superior to "normal" people. Succession actually does a great job at showing how the "super-elite" see the average person (kind of the same way average people see pigeons).
Window to the soul. Narcs lack a soul and don’t want others to see that.
@@LilyGazou true. They literally can’t look you in the eye when they talk to you sometimes. My ex told me “I love you for” for the first time WITH HIS FUCKING BACK TO ME
@@tavern2468Wow, that's weird. Glad he's your Ex😅
It’s because they would have to fake smile and acknowledge you as a human being on their level having an interaction. It would be an energy exchange
Just listening to your description of this movie-I started cracking up once we got to Fat Joe. What a plot 😭
Ham and cheese on a role and an orange drink is a totally believable bodega order from the 80s. Orange drink could mean an orange quarter water, a Hi C, or a sunny D. Back then a lot of places only had one of those. If you said orange drink they knew what you meant and depending where you were you'd get one of those three. And it was fine because you just wanted an orange flavored drink. Idk why people think the ham and cheese is weird. I've ordered that myself usually with dijon mustard.
Enough said. Move on . She's 0ver 50. Just get over yourself
@@terryleekaly2680responding to a 10 day old comment to tell someone to move on is funny
Are you Jlo?
Jlo stans are all over 35+ years old so they don’t have time to be online all the time
And we don't give a fuck about her no more!
"This Is Me..... Now" is such a Neil Breen-ass title lmao
I dunno … I think Neil Breen (and this is something that I doubt has ever been said about him before) has too much self-awareness for something like this shit. Jenny Fromdabloc is off her fucking rocker.
Its giving Colleen Hoover tbh
In J.Lo's next movie, she'll play a pop singer sent from the future to stop government corruption.
Lol. It is.
I'll skip saying anything about JLo and her extreme lameness and go straight to Fat Joe's painted on five 'o clock shadow. Just why? He looks ridiculous.
Yeah how did they get his beard to be like that?
...so I am a Peruvian-Italian native NYer with family from the Bronx, and I have say I understood what she meant by orange drank--it's not an inauthentic answer, just an old people one ;-; Also, maybe this is unpopular, but I love JLo, she's like a drag queen who doesn't know she's a drag queen. Growing up there weren't many popular Latinas to look up to and I will always have a soft spot for her delusional self-confidence, which this album proves is still alive and well for her
I saw nothing wrong with what she said, but… I’m here for the smoke she’s getting, I would respect it if she wasn’t grasping at straws”keeping it real” plus all the artists who were swindled out of the their song and vocal rights in her hay day.
A drag queen who doesn’t know she’s a drag queen is hilarious lmfao
OMG this is so true and I never realized it. Would I love it if she were a bit more self aware and tongue in cheek, yes. But everything she does is HUGE. Get outta here with your monochrome colors. Big hair, big makeup, big a$$. She's my hero in that respect. She's a testament to being a woman who is comfortable with being the center of attention. American society makes women thread the needle. Be beautiful but natural. Whatever! I'm here for her ridiculousness.
I’m Peruvian American. I’m glad she’s getting all the criticism. I want her to do more since it’s like watching a car accident I can’t stop staring at.
Omg lol 😂 this comment section needs to go down in history.
No the orange drink is LEGIT. Im prican & half the drinks at home are like generically labelled tropical flavours in a variety of orange to pink tinges (and theyre DELICIOUS btw, if not a bit unhealthy)
0:58 now I understand why people never trust “J” names
They really are the worst.
Jesus?
Seems like unjustified discrimination
@@lunamiku4166 if it was Justified that would be spelt with a J ;)
Everytime I think about JLo, I think about what George Clooney said about her in an interview: she's pretty on the outside.
She's always come across as super self-important and not particularly nice, to me. Which is a shame, because she does have some talent, and obviously has been successful. I just can't be happy for or care about someone who is probably a jerk IRL.
Gurl there's been MULTIPLE reports that she treats people poorly at this point you're defending a mean girl @@lostwoods5687
@@lostwoods5687 I'm saying 'probably', because from what I've read from other people who DO know her, including my quote from George Clooney, is that she is a jerk. And since I DON'T know her, I added 'probably' and not 'definitely.'
And since you are 'probably' a fan, what IS her fandom's name?
Also what interview is this? Yall just say shit
@@chasingautumns Well said and it has been stated on air and on social media repeatedly that she is in fact not a nice person. It's been said she has walked up to servers and asked for tips back that Marc Anthony and Ben Affleck gave (at different times) and that Marc Anthony screamed at her and told her to never do it again! It was also stated she was asked to donate monies to the Kips Bay Boys and Girls club she attended as a youth and that she refused! So you are PROBABLY right! If I was betting, my money is on you!
George Clooney has substance. He is class when he said that about her. She is vapid, ugly on the inside but focused on the positive.
Not “let’s start with some positives…she can dance” hahaa
The woman is 56…. So she was placing her order (let’s say when she was 10. People are dragging her for something that existed almost 45 years ago because they stopped selling it and you don’t know about it?It seems a little crazy to me. We could be doing the same with the Mc Rib. I remember when they first discontinued it (except they bring it back now). Drinks were different back in the day and I’m not even from NYC. There’s drinks and food I used to drink they don’t have now and I’m in my 30’s
Exactly. People not believing her
about the orange drink is so dumb. Should just stick to criticizing her for other reasons
It's because that girl never ate at a bodega even back then you know she was acting all stuck up LOL she made it up on the spot trying to sound like she knows what she's talking about by saying it's on a roll and calling it an orange drink. She's a narcissist and a liar you can tell because she's not even a good liar the way she has to squint and pretend like she's thinking about it but she's just making it up
She should have been kinda half canceled when the 'which celebrity was rude to you' trended. But I guess since she was mistreating service workers no one cared.
The biggest problem with JLo is that she can't accept that she's no longer Jenny. From the block, she's in her fifties, and now she needs to learn to accept it, that light dims for us all😮
if you;ve ever seen Sunset Boulevard, there is a great line at the end of the film where Joe says to Norma Desmond, "You're a woman of fifty, now grow up! There's nothing wrong with being fifty, not unless you try to be 25!" And boy if that doesn't hit hard watching this trainwreck.
@Merrileeward I agree, wholeheartedly. I'm 68 going on 69 in September, There's nothing wrong with shining but shine with your age group. Not the 20-year-olds cause you could never compete.
in poor non-white communities the kids typically drank flavored drinks like kool-aid or fruit sodas I assume bc it's cheaper than typical sodas. I dunno how it is now, but it was like that def in the 90s.
the iykyk thing is her trying to appear like she grew up working class. likely not--she was likely middle class but I dunno. the iykyk is her trying to appear relatable. srsly.
I know this is cultural, but I'm 43 and white and I knew this. Your white boyf not know this doesn't mean it isn't a thing. It's just that it's very well known and not worth the "IYKYK" I mean, except your boyf didn't know lol
Vanity projects rarely works because their made to please one person only, it's creator. The viewers are aware of it and no longer care for them. As for as JLo is concerned, she tries so hard to be relatable (look at me and my made up poor girl stories), but it just doesn't sell anymore. She's a multimillionnaire with a huge ego. I remember seeing a video of her going to one of Ben's kids school play all glammed up, waaaaaaay overdressed and trying to steal the show from a bunch of elementary school students. Just because she's a Jack of all trades, doesn't mean she's a master of any.
i remember seeing a picture of her at a ballgame with Ben; she was wearing a white fur coat and was filing her nails while Ben sat there in a ballcap drinking a beer. Soooo relatable lol.
You can tell how serious Jlo is from the nfl super bowl performance at the end, Shakira is soaking it all up and smiling and Jlo is super tense and robotic /programed...
You know who I feel bad for, Jlo's twins. I sure the hell hope they are growing up decently.
This may be weird to compare the 2, but I don't think Jlo would have been popular if she didn't get the starring role in the 90s Selena movie. Selena is still very much beloved here in Texas. She is from Corpus Christi and stayed there until her tragic death. So she definitely stay true to her roots and did things for the community, like opening a store there to sell her designs.
Selena is still loved across the country ... She has a real legacy because she had real talent and real heart towards her craft and fans.
I'm 36. When I was 16, jlo was huge. It seems as if she really believes she's just as famous now as she was then. But - tbh I don't think GenZ cares. I, as a millennial, don't care. The world has moved on. Someone needs to tell her she's no longer famous. She's 54, past her prime, and needs to grow up. To think that anyone cares about her convoluted, pretentious story is so sad. She takes her entire existence way too seriously and assumes that we care - even a little.
I think that’s why she was mad at Shakira because she continues to reinvent herself which is admirable. I haven’t liked anything Shakira has put out since probably 2001 but she continuously finds ways to connect with audiences. JLO keeps making the same music, wearing the same clothes, playing the same characters and telling us the same origin story over and over. How can someone remain relevant without ever evolving?
I don't sign off on the "past her prime" thing because it's incredibly ageist, but her career definitely peaked 20 years ago. Can it peak again? Maybe, but this isn't how, especially since her fans consist mostly of genx and millennials jamming to Jenny from the Block during their commute for a nostalgia boost. Music-wise, she currently has nothing to give younger audiences that would make her relevant again.
@@annaleena1975yeah same. I agree with most other things that were said though
"Past her prime" is a little wild, we're women, not food. Many other guys are still at their 'peak' past their 'prime', so I don't think age is the problem, she's just boring and people don't like her for multiple reasons because she's just not...palatable to people in a sense. She doesn't have that it factor tbh
@@annaleena1975Its not ageist to think a female who still wants to jiggle her ass as her main gig when she is 54-55 years old its just not GOOD ENOUGH. SHE IS IN TOTAL SHAPE, that is not it. But she would gain a lot more respect by using her platform and create something with her mind for a shift or change. It is just a part of growth. "Past her prime" is an outdated phrase because people can evolve and do NEW THINGS. i am almost a young 75.
idk if I'm insane for saying this- but everything that's happened with J Lo these past weeks are all honestly great material for a Snatch Game impersonation of her on a future Drag Race season - especially making fun of how she doesn't truly represent the Bronx AT ALL.
compliment, compliment, question
Oh I hope someone does a good impersonation😂
ooooooh this would be GOODT😩
Sales are so underwhelming for her new tour that she’s rebranded it to a greatest hits tour
I think she was a track star in school. Maybe that's why she says she ran "up & down the block". I do admire her for breaking into an industry tho that is mostly filled of nepo babies & child stars.
You're right, she should have said running around the track!
lol this is funny cause I ran track in HS when I was 16 and I originally thought that she was being literal talking about actually running (cause I did that when I was that age) .... I haven't seen the documentary. In any case, she is a weirdo.
@@chrisblessing45 You have to see it because her hair is so crazy, it looks like a rat's nest and she claims she ran up and down "the block!" Social media is having a field day with it! I don't believe her mother Lupe, let her out of the house looking like that and I don't believe she would let her just run the streets either! FICTION!!!
“She takes herself so seriously. You can tell this is going be a version of her…Lemonade.”
EXAAACTLY. 😑😐 She’s been giving me Great Value Beyonce for the last decade, and she could NEVER.
Oh My Gosh...Beyonce worship is so terrifying!!!
Beyonće is literally nothing but a packaged, sanitized consumer product. She is propped up by writing camps and plagiarism (stealing other creatives ideas and work).
Beyonce sucks just as bad as J-Lo though :p
@@WetaCleaningServicesit’s not worship it’s the truth
@@DrawtheCurtainsur delusional
Im a little younger thsn jlo and her Bodega order exists. The fact that people are making a huge deal out of this proves many things and its a wee bit pathetic. Collectively the internet has literally birthed a generation of bullies. She grew up in the bronx, she lived there and she left. Like many many celebrities from New York. She has always came off as a proud Puerto Rican or Nuyorican(depending who you ask). Being bothered because she went to catholic school and somehow negates her Bronx connection (if given the choice trust, most Puerto Rican parents in NY would rather send their kids there). She never said she was from the hood, that she ran the streets. I think she unfortunately feels very slighted by the media and critics and she carries it on her shoulder. And not having a mean fanbase with a name doesnt mean she doesnt have fans. This is all so dumb.
This is in fact a deeply scary time we are living in.
What I noticed that I don’t see a lot of people talking about is JLo has an acting voice. It’s slightly different from her speaking voice. I only realized it in the last couple years but realized she’s had this fake acting voice all throughout her career. This is probably one of the unconscious reasons people think she’s a bad actress because she does this voice. She also does this whisper thing when her characters are upset and she’s trying to convey emotions. And emotion to her means to speak and whisper. And she’s done it in a lot of her films. Shes essentially playing the same character a lot the time because she sticks to the same traits and speaking inflections .
So to watch that movie that’s all about her and her story that wasn’t profound or displayed any new information that you didn’t already pick up from the blogs or tabloids and everyone in the movie is on the same acting level as her made it horrible to watch.
I think her acting voice is a (failed? lol) attempt at muffling her NY accent. I bet some casting agent told her to be more standard American and the best she could come up with was some flattened vowels and whispering.
@squidthing Let me doubt she works so hard at her craft. She works hard at the gym & glamour more like it.
@@chiablum1453 She's career driven to an extreme degree though. I think she would have changed anything that casting agents wanted at the beginning of her career just to get through the door and have a chance at fame.
@@squidthing She needed to change her accent to be able to play different characters. That's the job of an actor. I always thought she was mediocre in everything. Even now with all the money, power & connections, she produces bad projects. She is just not well read or talented. No evolution, same act for 30 years.
its turkey time..... gobble gobble
Regarding whether she has stans and whether we’ve heard of their wrath on Twitter, I think it depends on the person’s age. I graduated high school in 2004 and I went to school with J. Lo stans - and it was obviously pre-Twitter. But I don’t know what became of their fandom 🤷🏽♀️ but it’s really just always the same thing from her.
Also, the authenticity was never there for me when it came to her. And then the sudden incorporate of Taíno lore/customs is weird to me. I’m a Taíno descendant, and it was… just weird for me and others that share that with me.
I remember when JLo came to Ukraine somewhere around 2010. I was still in school, but my mom and her friends (30-something year old women) made it sound like a big deal. Several paid alot of money to go to Kyiv for the concert.
Apparently, JLo is a decent dancer but as a singer... Well, she can't sing. Like, at all. Back in the day autotune was much more acceptable in UA than in 2020s, and it was STILL considered a rip off of a concert.
Your summary of this is me now was absolutely top tier 💯
Ben left her due to the media circus around her when they first dated. Now she’s constantly putting their relationship in the media…. Seems like she’s trying to hard to convince people they are happy.
The problem is she believes she’s an icon, but icons live forever. Their music lives on forever. Do you really think we’ll play “Jenny from the block” in 50-100 years? Nope.
She’s always selling something, perfume, makeup, skincare, clothing. She may think she’s an artist but what she really does is sell products. That’s why people aren't there for her.
Someone needs to come out with an orange drink and name it "If You Know, You Know"
I had always found J Lo to be over hyped for years
There’s something about J.Lo that’s like… theoretically famous? I think the thing about “she’s not famous for being famous but she feels like it” is kinda how I feel. I wouldn’t ever say she’s famous for nothing but I also can barely remember anything she’s in or has done that isn’t mostly just used to make fun of her.
I will give her credit, though, she’s got drive. How many other celebs have had a career like hers without really like… producing anything so notable, at least for a *long* time? She’s been active for nearly 40 years and nobody particularly seems to like her and yet she’s somehow got the money and clout to pull these famous people and this whole production.
What famous people? Jane Fonda, yesterdays news.
"I hate u El*n" as the timestamp thingy lmao so real
My theory is that they agreed on marrying but it’s all fake. I don’t believe them the slightest. It’s basically impossible to marry someone who left you 20 years ago, and I think she’s giving the wrong message to everyone, like, you can still have that person who broke up with you no matter how much time has passed. And this seems like a marketing tactic, not real love
My uncle and his ex wife got back together after 16 years.
I think younger people don't recognize how popular Jennifer Lopez is and was. She has limitations and I always found her a better actress than singer and a better dancer than anything else she does. She knows how to be famous and enjoys it, that much is very very clear to the audience. When she was coming up, when I was little, she was a big deal and, because there was almost no representation of latin-american people in media in the Global North and she wore her heritage very proudly. She has many, many fans, don't be mistaken - she has many hits - but her fanbase is def older now and less engaged. I think the major thing is saturation of her image and the contradictions between her insistence on being relatable vs. her actual life and personality. Personally, what I think she lacks is VISION. I don't think she's a creative mastermind and she wants to be one very badly. I think aging for popstars is very very tricky. But Beyoncé is very adaptable, because a) she's on a different level when it comes to skill and creativity b) she doesn't follow trends, she creates them c) she actually leaned into the mystery and the distance rather than trying to overexpose herself. For Beyoncé, the mystique works, because she's not that relatable to us anymore, but that's NOT her appeal. JLo needs to find her appeal.
Imagine if Jennifer Garner made a movie with Ben documenting her “journey” into being love with him. That’s why JLOs movie is being ignored. One giant answer to a question nobody asked.
The issue with this is 1. she needed a documentary to explain this movie. 2. It feels like a cash grab inspired by both Taylor and Beyonce, as well as the "emotion pictures" of Janelle Monae. Now what Janelle does with emotion pictures and albums is that they all follow a storyline that mirrors her reality, so it all makes so much sense. Jennifer has not had enough...anything to justify this move. She is an okay actress, and a damn fine dancer, but this was... a situation.
"the price of mud finna go UP" this is what happens when you only have yes men
There's also several people who have worked with her in the past (actors/actress) who said she acted like she didn't know them when they reunited in person.
honestly after this doc and film I’m endeared to her in a camp way. She knew that no one would care about the project and she still did it! the true definition of a vanity project. It’s just fun to always see her shoot for the stars and miss the mark. She’s the girl to sing a Barbara Streisand song even though she is nowhere near that in vocal ability. I admire it in some ways.
I know everybody has a big hate on for her now but I already worked my way through that when the singing controversy happened. I’m evolved. It’s fun!
I do find it funny when gen z want to “cancel” her bc she’s probably been canceled for like her whole career since she’s tabloid fodder, the fact that everybody is talking about her right now just gives her more notoriety, that how she’s always done it. Also, I’m a bodega order truther.
This is an interesting take! I appreciate seeing an alternative view haha
She didn't know that 😅 Are you kidding? She was full of herself and thought it would blow up and she was humbled real quick. When you charge that much for your concert tickets you still think you're the isht. She's deluded to think people are gona pay a 3rd of that. Her 15 minutes are up and that's that!
@@peacebeyondpassion2 In the documentary she made about creating the visual for her album. She literally said in the documentary “I know no one was wondering when the next jlo album is” and people told her multiple times in many ways not do it. Like yeah, maybe she hoped people would look at it and think she was a mastermind but she knew when making it that no one was begging for this like she was beyoncé. But she wanted to do it, bc she’s vain!
And those concert prices are not based on the success of the recent album bc it was a flop. It was based on her being a legacy act, a lot of older artist charge a lot of money even though they ain’t topping the charts anymore bc they know people will spend money on them. So yes, she set those prices bc she thinks ppl were willing to cash out that much money to see “the” Jennifer Lopez but I don’t think it has anything to do with her thinking her movie or album was great bc it flopped.
you guys just have more fun laughing at her bc you think she doesn’t know that people are doing that 😭 they’ve been doing it for decades. She hasn’t had a proper hit since like 2011 like she hasn’t been shit for a very long time and yet, she persists bc she’s vain.
I think the thing about jlo is that she wants people to take her seriously, she wants the prestige bc she already had the hits. She’s never won a grammy, an oscar, or a golden globe. It’s why she campaigned so hard to get nominated for her hustlers role, why she tried to make this vanity project seem like it was some elevated piece about her love life. And why she attempts to sing Barbara Streisand. Her past two husbands are grammy and oscar winners, the last long term relationship was a baseball legend.
Like all she wants is prestige which is something she’ll never get bc she’s not that great 🤷🏽♀️
(Sorry this is so long)
You did great work. But after you broke her movie down, my brain rotted. I'm sorry for the days you lost and can't get back. Thanks for taking one for the team.
I like your content and references, thanks Kayla!
I remember hearing a few years ago that she didn’t do concerts because she just lip synced everything.
JLo is out of touch and should've listened to Ben. Some things are meant to be private and remain private!!
Saw her twice over the years and she is super rude. Even the workers at the place I was at when I saw her kept talking about how annoying she was everytime she came. Out of touch isn’t even the word for it.
As a '90s kid who grew up in a Latino-majority community, JLo (then still known as just Jennifer Lopez) was well-liked for her music at the time. Her songs in the early 2000s did well, too (esp "Jenny on the Block"), but that was around the time she started getting more controversy with her high-profile relationships, venturing into acting with subpar success, and rebranding from a Latin pop artist to an R&B artist (and becoming "JLo"). I don't expect younger generations to be that into her, though.
I am really not a fan of JLo's but I have to admit, she was really good in Selena and in Out of Sight. She's had a few other good movies too. I honestly think that if she had focused her energy on acting, she would have been very good. But she was determined to be a "triple threat" and imo ended up being a zero threat.
J Lo used to be a celeb w BP only. In loving color was a huge show. Then she dated Diddy. Only after she hooked up w BA did she go mainstream Hollywood. And she started to look more and more like a WW.
I'm honestly surprised Jane Fonda agreed to be in the film... didn't she throw shade at her last year over her allegedly making her face bleed in the slap scene for Monster In Law (I've heard the arguments that she was kidding but the look on her face she seemed legitimately pissed)
ELEPHANT IN THE BODEGA SENT ME LMFAOOO
She needs to stop with the puerto rican folklore, she does nothing to help puerto rico and only tries speaking her broken spanish when she wants to pander to us.
She doesn't have the fans like Kylie Minogue, Madonna, Cher, Taylor and Beyonce all of who are massive stars in Europe/U.K/Australia and New Zealand and this is reflected in her popularity and ticket sales.
It’s her menopause project and she is veering into Madonna territory if she’s not careful. It’s time to realize that your Vegas era is here, Jenny
She already had a Vegas residency.
Had she been more gracious, more magnanimous, more generous and less haughty and delusional, none of this would have happened.
She’s built an A-list career with practically zero singing talent, middling acting talent and above average dancing skills. In the process, she earned hundreds of millions of dollars. How big of a dent to her finances would it have been to give $1 million to each of the singers who gave her the music career that she did not deserve? Would it have really impoverished her to pay her PAs and other staff properly? How difficult was it to be nice to servers or to tip generously?
For years she has established a reputation of stepping on other people in her climb to the top - aided by powerful guys who had the hots for her. And she has pretty much gotten away with everything but her delusions of grandeur couldn’t let sleeping dogs lie. She kept on harping on a largely and transparently imaginary backstory. She embarks on a tour that only her outsized estimation of her own draw would have been able to support. And then compound all of that with an out of touch movie that became a monument to her narcissism. Of course, the people who harbored resentment saw an opening to pounce. And pounce they did and rightfully so. What we’re seeing now is an ongoing snuff film - through hubris and utter lack of taste, she killed any chance of maintaining any of her relevance or leaving even a largely undeserved legacy. She now ends her career as a big joke.
okay i've never actually met jlo but when my mom was a dealer in the high limit pit of a casino she met a lot of celebrities & one of them was jennifer lopez & ben affleck when they were together the first time and, according to my mom, she was super duper rude to all the female dealers cuz she was crazy jealous and worried ben would be too friendly to them, and then when my mom was walking back from the bathroom apparently jlo almost knocked her over because she refused not to walk straight down the middle of a very narrow hallway so i've always known she was bad news tbh
No one has anything good to say about her
Reality check:
1.Affleck had to appear to be against her using his letters and the whole project generally, as supporting such fluff would damage his career.
2. The love letters are probably fake. Wealthy actors don't grovel.
3. At this stage, any successes are just cherries on top. Probably, her investments will be producing much more wealth than anything she can do in her career.
4. Her talent might be questionable, but she's not in this alone. How many unknowns are far more talented than A- and B- listers?
5. The ultra wealthy rarely find love. They don't need to. Wealth and independence render spouses at worst, needless, at best, a companion. They are needed far less so once children are produced.
Think about this, please.
so now we’re criticizing her for not having a toxic fanbase?? lol come on be so for real. if beyonce had done the same thing, ppl would be praising her up the ass
Pretty much. lol
J.Lo is exposing her age and how long it's been since she's been on "The Block," because I actually think I know what orange drink she's talking about. I THINK she's talking about Quarter Waters, which we all drank back in the 90s. Technically they had flavors, we referenced them by color, i.e: blue drink, red drink, orange drink, purple drink. If they're still around I haven't seen them in decades. By the time the 00s were over we were buying SoBe and Arizonas. Bottom line: she hasn't been on the block in ages.
I have so many thoughts, but she's describing her "wild and free" 16 year old self like she's 6. I'd be deeply concerned about a 16 year old who didn't know how to comb their hair. I'll be gracious, maybe she was implying that she had teased 80s hair or she was a tomboy, but...I dunno, doesn't seem like it.
I don’t know why you don’t get it. I don’t like JLo but after watching this review I was so curious! And I was soooo surprised that I actually liked the video. She’s always been in love with being in love. She sought a soulmate based on their zodiac signs and other dumb things. But she never loved herself. She never could be without someone in her life. And her choice in men wasn’t healthy. She still believes in forever love though, so …. 💝
Does J. Lo ever wake up and think, "The only reason I'm anyone is because Selena died." ???? She needs to come down off her high diva horse.
She must think that she is Selena cause girl what is this.
I've been largely indifferent to JLo. Yeah, she had a few catchy tunes decades ago, and I enjoyed her portrayal of Selena. She's beautiful, works hard to maintain her figure, has a prolific body of work, and mastered marketing herself. I'll even admit that I've purchased some of her Glow perfumes which legit smell great. But is she overhyped and inauthentic? Absolutely! She needs to accept the painful reality that her time has passed, quit embarrassing herself with "passion projects", and ride off into the sunset and spend the rest of her days enjoying the fruits of her labor.
JLo is determined and delightfully delusional. She will reinvent herself every chance she gets. If you're not being talked about (positively or vice-versa), then you are not relevant. She's definitely relevant, that's for sure. I think she should do a workout series. She is in excellent shape for a 50- something yo woman. She is gorgeous. I think her visual album is unnecessary, but I'm glad she got it out of her system. ❤
Positives - she financed her own project, good for her. She can do whatever she wants with her money. She is in really good shape! This girl is physically fit (she is only couple of years older than me). Negatives - that music /movie clip is confusing. It feels like a messy mix between West Side Story Broadway show and Singing in the Rain movie.
As an ex new Yorker who grew up in harlem with bodegas in the mid-80s, i would order my sandwiches plain with no cheese or condiments because as a child i didn't like it.
As far as the orange drink, maybe she didn't want to drop name brands due to copy rights?
This project gives me flashbacks from one of her birthdays where she got up on the table in her side open, white dress and danced. The vibe that came across to me was, look at me, bow down to me "!! Haha😂
I've enjoyed these J-Lo deep dives. To be fair, the Bodega may actually be genuine based on the era that J-Lo grew up "on the Block". There was a commentor who mentioned that when J-Lo says "orange drink", she likely means a Quarter Water that came in an orange flavour. He also said that ham and cheese on a roll would come with additional ingredients, like lettuce, tomato etc. He grew up in NYC during the 70's-80's, so maybe it's a generational difference that makes J-Lo's order seem untrue.
this is such an eloquent way to lay out peoples feelings about her. hit the nail on the head.
She didn’t have three marriages and other relationships after Ben. She was married once and had a long term relationship with Casper. If you’re gonna crap on the woman, at least be honest with facts.
she also dated AROD for a while
The documentary, from what I’ve seen, seems like one long perfume ad. Random shit shows up with no explanation… I wouldn’t be surprised if they showed her riding a horse on the beach as she spewed some motivational bs
I remember when I was in class, and my professor asked us what we thought of the Super Bowl (i’m referring to the 2020 Super Bowl, where Shakira performed and brought J Lo out).
With the quickness, I raised my hand and I started to discuss my distain for J Lo, and how she is only Puerto Rican, when is convenient to her and her brand.
This was right after two of my other classmates were praising her performance, and how amazing they thought she was yada yada yada. I could just not resist myself from putting in my two cents as well.
And I love that after I put in my two cents about J Lo, my other classmate, who is actually Puerto Rican agreed with me 💯.
She's very disingenuous, because she says she's Jenny from the block, but she acts like she's better than everyone else.