Jennifer Lopez’s second attempt of 2009 at making people remember that she still considers herself a recording artist from time to time will be a Tricky/The-Dream collaboration called “Louboutins,” which she’ll perform at the American Music Awards next month. Because hey, what better way to entice your potential audience in a time where unemployment in the U.S. is officially hovering around the 10% mark (the real numbers are even less pretty) than to sing an ode to expensive shoes? It’s like Sex And The City never got canceled! $25 cosmos for everyone, you guys!
Making this whole enterprise almost even more embarrassing for everyone involved than all that “Lola” nonsense—including me, as I write this—is the small fact that the song is actually a cast-off of Brandy’s from 2008. She recorded it for her album Human, but it wasn’t included on the final version of the record. So J. Lo is peacocking about high fashion… via a song that’ll be at least 12 months old by the time it finally debuts? That seems kind of weird! Maybe she’s suffering from the lousy economy, too.
Jennifer Lopez Walks in Brandy’s ‘Louboutins’ [Rap-Up]
it's the economy?
Dear Jennifer Lopez: Why Don’t You Just Take All Your Money And Go Away Somewhere Fancy, And Leave Us Alone?
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it's the economy?
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I said this on a different forum but I want Brandy to get behind the wheel of her Range Rover and take back what is hers.
You know, as much as I want to hate this I have a feeling I will end up liking it, like I do with most Jlo songs.
The title for this post is brilliant and needs to be utilized more often:
Dear __________ : Why Don’t You Just Take All Your Money And Go Away Somewhere Fancy, And Leave Us Alone?
@Nicolars: She has a weird way of getting in your head, and when I think back to the actual J.Lo album (which I loved as a teenager, confessions ya’ll), I think she once had quite a good ear for pop muzak. But I just don’t think she’s a pop entity anymore; she lacks any sort of charisma or mystery or any character traits that make her a member of the pop world, becoming just some lady who is only allowed to make records because of What Once Was. I do kind of wish she could pull out a comeback though, nostalgia and redemption and all being what they are.
I appreciate greatly Maura that you insist on using this kooky ass picture for every J.Lo post.
If writers weren’t unrully racists, would they find work in our new anti-woman Taliban culture?
But even under such rules, is obscene rudeness really necessary? How about a semblance of civilization? (As fascism dictates, this will not be posted).
@Ede: Honestly, I don’t usually approve comments that are as patently incoherent as yours, but I let it through just so I can figure out exactly what you’re trying to say here. If you think that my being disenchanted with consumerism-for-its-own-sake rhetoric by a past-her-prime celebrity who’s ineptly trying to re-establish herself as a pop star — and in the process, spending WAY TOO MUCH of someone else’s money in order to do so, resulting in actual people who aren’t in her income stratosphere eventually getting screwed — somehow makes me an “unrully [sic] racist” who is also misogynist (lololol) and somehow Taliban-esque, then I can’t help you. If you’re just a Jennifer Lopez stan who is sad that your heroine has landed in the “no one really cares anymore beyond desperate-for-material gossip columnists” pool,” then I guess all I can say is I’m sorry?