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Watching her as a judge on American Idol, it’s easy to forget that Jennifer Lopez was once the biggest thing in pop music. Well, we know, she’s still kind of a big deal. But back in the late 90’s and early 2000’s, you couldn’t go 10 minutes without her about Ms. Lopez’s booty or about how tragic it what that “Bennifer” was no more. Last April Lopez, who we all know would go on to be simply known as JLo, officially made her her pop music comeback with the release of Love? and the smash single with Pitbull “On The Floor.” So, in honor of the pop star releasing another Pitbull-featuring new single, “Dance Again,” (which you can listen to here) we’re revisiting Jennifer Lopez’s incredible music career for this edition of Flashback Friday.
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“Waiting For Tonight”
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While “If You Had My Love” would officially be Lopez’s first single from her debut album, On The 6, it would be this 1999 chart-topping single that signaled the true start of Lopez’s pop music domination. (Ironically, the song was actually a rerecording of a 1997song by female pop trio 3rd Party.) But Lopez’s video for the track made it all her own. With Lopez donned in rhinestones, the video signaled the decadence and beauty that would come to characterize the pop queen’s career.The video itself would go on to rack up numerous awards, including “Best Pop Clip” at the Billboard Music Awards at which Lopez performed the song, a performance which you can view below.
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“Love Don’t Cost a Thing”
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On The 6 introduced Jennifer Lopez as a legitimate force to be reckoned with in pop music. But her sophomore album, J.Lo, made her a bonafide superstar. And the album’s lead single, “Love Don’t Cost A Thing” was the catalyst. Many feel the song, which shoots down guys who think they can buy a woman’s affection, is aimed Sean “Diddy” Combs, with whom Lopez had a previous relationship.
The music video for the song, directed by the hottest director at the time, Dave Meyers, also featured killer dance moves that recalled Lopez’s earliest day as a Fly Girl on In Living Color.
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“Jenny from the Block”
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By her third album, This is Me…Then, Lopez was not only a pop star but an object of full-fledged tabloid fodder. As such, she aimed to show her fans that despite her fame and success, she was still the same girl who grew up in the Bronx. To that end, we were delivered “Jenny From The Block,” a straightforward song in which Lopez calls out those who believed she had forgotten where she came from. Then-boyfriend Ben Affleck makes a cameo in the video, and while the song received mixed reviews from critics, its themes would quickly be scooped up and copied shorly thereafter by other pop acts from Gwen Stefani to Fergie.
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“On The Floor”
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It’d been nearly a decade and a trio of mildy-successful albums since Jennifer Lopez scored a major smash hit when 2011 arrived. But thanks to her new judging gig on Idol, and the decision to team up with hot producer RedOne and of-the-moment MC Pitbull, Lopez reemerged in a major way last year with “On The Floor,” a four-on-the-floor, beat-throbbing pop hit. And judging by the fact that Lopez has now decided to pair up again with Pitbull for her newest single, “Dance Again,” something tells us these two Hispanic megastars hit it off when they joined forces in this sweat-inducing video.
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