Jennifer Lopez, Vanity & The Death of Celebrity Ego 

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

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

@@__rm307Nailed 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 Adele

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!

​@@kaitlynkarol4600 Her piano also played by it self. The rain did it... Yeah sure. Got the pre program errored.😂😂

@@Ytdeletesallmycomments - 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. 😅

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.

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.

@@Missjunebugfreak 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??

It's very obvious she wants to return to that time of her life when she was at the peak of her fame.

​@@Missjunebugfreak 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.

@@Missjunebugfreak 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😢

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.

Oh that definitely exists. I saw them in the early 2000s. I just don’t believe Jlo ever drank that.

@@__rm307why 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

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…

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.

I remember her song 'On The Floor' was popular in the UK, but that was when I was at school - probably 2010? We did Zumba for PE class and danced to that song, I can still remember the dance because it was so fun. She hasn't been relevant since then in the UK

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?

That makes no sense...

When you pay for your own biopic…

Narcissistic personality disorder...

Or just - aggressive aggressive narcissism. 😅 It’s pretty overt.

Which JT?

​@@im3011fulJustin Timberlake

@@__rm307 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 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

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? 🤔

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.

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.

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.

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

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 😂😂😂

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.

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.

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.

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!

And we don't give a fuck about her no more!

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?

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

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.

Yeah how did they get his beard to be like that?

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.

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.

They really are the worst.

Jesus?

Seems like unjustified discrimination

@@lunamiku4166 if it was Justified that would be spelt with a J ;)

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

@@user-gy4qe7nv1bit’s not worship it’s the truth

​@@Anotherroomur delusional

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.

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

This is in fact a deeply scary time we are living in.

compliment, compliment, question

Oh I hope someone does a good impersonation😂

ooooooh this would be GOODT😩

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'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!!!

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 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

She already had a Vegas residency.

What famous people? Jane Fonda, yesterdays news.

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.

My uncle and his ex wife got back together after 16 years.

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)

Also my Mom's the world's largest J-Lo fan.. so there's that...

@@seroquelchamber🙄🥱 Her movie is called “This is me, now”. If a narcissist made a movie “This is me” would be the perfect title!

@@__rm307that’s the dumbest shit I’ve ever heard. The movies called “This is me Now” because it’s named after her latest album, which got *its* name because it’s a follow-up to an old album of hers called “This is me…Then.” Just say you’re a hater and move on instead of declaring someone you’ve never interacted with a narcissist. It’s weird.

@@__rm307 This is me me me

​@@seroquelchamberAgreed. Everybody is calling every asshole even a little bit selfish a "narcissist" let alone it being a term relating to an actual diagnosis that not everyone will take the time to not think all people with NPD as bad cause critical thinking is apparently a skill that not alot of people seem to utilize without demonizing a whole group of people who are like the rest of humanity flawed and all (which any asshole who happens to have NPD who does horrible things of course should be held accountable but not all people with NPD are bad nor is any selfish or conceited asshole a "narcissist"

​@@coqui9879Don't project Db A.Ss This is me ....then This is me ...Now This is moi cretin. Got it ? DB A..

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.

No one has anything good to say about her

Well... Her album before this one was This is me... Then

Except for Bella Hadid’s case. she was forced to lie to people that she’s eating healthy, aka like a normal person, in an attempt to cover up the sad fact that her mother Yolanda is watching her every move onto what Bella eats; Yolanda is dieting Bella. So yeah, hate me or Bella for lying to the public but it *_is_* possible that she did it to protect herself from her own mother. Ultimately though, nobody really knows, but I do sincerely hope that she gets professional help in the future, not just to help her regain her physical and mental health, but also help to talk, communicate, convince Yolanda that what she’s trying to do is not normal.

JLO is talking about something 40 years ago. It is possible that at that young age she didn’t care about healthy food.