I am sick of living in countries where they don’t allow refunds
\nfor mediocre music. Dear Music Industry: your albums are CRAP. YOU
\nare crap. There is probably no other industry that doesn’t allow
\nyou to get refunds of unsatisfactory products, and probably no
\nother industry that overprices its products as themusic industry
\ndoes; it’s common knowledge that it’s cheaper to produce a CD than
\na cassette tape. A recent
\nAsian Wall Street Journal<\/i> article reported that the EU is
\ninvestigating this matter as we speak. Industry insiders claim that
\n“the product is worth the price we put on it.”<\/p>\n
Bullshit. Here’s the artist to prove it.<\/p>\n
Jennifer Lopez is a stage-trained singer with an R&B
\nbackground, who’s done some Broadway work. Note Broadway; emphasis
\nhere would be projection, not soul or emotion. Her previous effort
\nOn The 6<\/i> was filled with her banal, vanilla and flat voice
\nthat was layered under more production effects than Britney Spears
\nand Cher combined.
\nJ. Lo<\/i> offers no improvement.<\/p>\n
The reliance on production is heavy. “Walking On Sunshine” might
\nhave worked if Lopez had a stronger voice. So is “Ain’t It Funny”,
\nwhich is otherwise tightly produced. Let me lump together the
\nSimply Boring songs here right away: “Come Over” is just slow and
\nboring, “Talk To Me” is more inanity, “I’m Gonna Be Alright” (of
\narguable spelling) and “That’s The Way” are such obvious fillers
\nyou just want to smack the upside of Tommy Mottola’s head for
\ninsulting your intelligence. “Dance With Me” STILL more boring…
\nall these songs are about going to clubs, what happens in clubs,
\nclubs clubs clubs, as if the rest of life, history, the Space
\nStation and hunger in Africa just fades away into irrelevance.<\/p>\n
But the banal ersatz Latin-groove songs have got to be the
\nworst. “Carino” (sorry, can’t get Spanish-language accent marks on
\nKorean Windows 98) and “Dame” are seriously banal, with or without
\nher voice; do they think just Spanish lyrics, trumpets and a beat
\nspells automatic “Latin”? Spiritless, pointless fillers, as is the
\nclosing track “Si Ya Se Acabo”. No wonder she’s not a hit in
\nMexico.<\/p>\n
“That’s Not Me” has some hope as it compensates for her voice by
\nlayering, and layering, and layering her vocals so it gives an
\nIMPRESSION of strength, like an R&B version of Enya, but
\nDestiny’s Child does it better and besides, it won’t save her in
\nthe end. “Secretly” sounds like a pre-
\nControl<\/i> Janet Jackson throwaway… a bizarre example
\n(bizaare because it’s unexpected) of “bubblegum pop” as defined in
\nthe early 80’s.<\/p>\n
If there is a single song of merit on the entire album it’s
\n“Love Don’t Cost A Thing”, which overcomes her voice problems by
\nlayering, layering, layering and even more layering. She won’t get
\naway with this for long, and one good track with something like
\nseventeen fillers does not a good album make.<\/p>\n
Because I apparently do not have the right to demand a refund or
\nan apology, I exercise my right to free speech here to compensate:
\n
\nDo Not Buy This Album<\/i>
\n<\/b> . It’s really, really bad. I give Jennifer Lopez the honor of
\nrecieving my first F review.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":28045,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"artist":[7602],"rating":[5620],"class_list":["post-39438","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-jennifer-lopez","rating-rating-f"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/39438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/39438\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=39438"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=39438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}