Jenny from the block? Please!
Orson Lopez | Huntington Beach, CA USA | 01/03/2003
(1 out of 5 stars)
"Jennifer, or JLO, is just full of herself (...). How can she still be that girl who was in living color when she is ranked as the most demanding artist out there. She calls herself down-to-earth when she thinks she is a diva. Not only are the lyrics unworthy, but the collaborations are too. I am tired of her trying to be black and trying to be Mariah by having all these rappers in her songs. The only difference is that Mariah has the voice. She is not overshadowed by the rappers. On the other hand, JLO is unherd of in her own songs.
So dont waste your money to buy this single, JLO is trying to sell an image she doesn't have."
Jenny's pretensions
Dogville | Sunny Island | 12/22/2002
(2 out of 5 stars)
"This song rocks but why did i give it one star. For the very premise that J lo is just as pretentious as she ever is and she lacks confidence big time. Why is it that she has to reaffirm time and agian that she's real, she's alright and now she knows where she came from, that she's till the same Jenny from the Bronx. Nothing's more tired in the lyrics that the fact that she's from the Bronx. The rag to riches story is trite. Is she so under-confident she needs to reassure everyopne that she's pretty much the same as she always was? Cut the pretensions I would say! She's gonna be married three times in less than 3 years and she's as showy as she ever was. That's nothing to be proud of.
As for her voice, it's not something impressive but she's not even trying to want to sound impressive. Basically j lo's songs are in a way her vocals dun need much stretching and when it does need to be strecthed on scaling ballads, she fails horribly. On Jenny, it's fine simply bcos there's nothing much for her to scale.
Another sign that J lo is not sure of herself is that she can never hold a tune on herself, not enough to make a hit. Most of her last few hit releases feature a sad rapper intercepting her. Throw in some remixed grooves and beats and she's got a hit. Even her new song All I Have sees L L Cool J collaborating with her that's sad. At the end of the day, you'll never see a song from j lo not featuring any rapper and ultimately, no matter how good a tune is, j lo never carries it off fully!
Lo and Behold, jenny is low."
Track Listings (4) - Disc #1