Jennifer Lopez knows how to grab our attention.
Her latest project, an album and accompanying musical film titled “This is Me… Now,” has been both praised and criticized, with many in between trying to understand what Lopez’s latest artistic endeavor even means.
Yet the myriad reactions dissecting the project all point to one key fact. Like it or not, we’re talking about J.Lo.
“She’s an anomaly,” culture critic Jack Rico told NBC News. “Today, I don’t think it’s possible to fully comprehend and grasp how special Jennifer Lopez is … She should be a case study, the same way we have college classes for Bad Bunny or Taylor Swift.”
In a way, the Lopez enigma is at the center of her enduring power as someone who marked a generation of millennials — especially Latino millennials like me.
Lopez has “cracked all of the walls and barriers” society placed on her and more broadly places on Latinos, on women and on people over 50, Rico said. “She’s a defiance.”
People my age don’t remember a time when Lopez wasn’t a big deal — setting trends with her music and dance moves, her acting performances and her fashion choices.
Lopez has worked consistently through the years — she has starred in over 35 movies, released nine studio albums, produced and appeared in countless TV shows, published a memoir, completed a residency in Las Vegas and a world tour.
She also became a fashion icon following her red carpet appearance in 2000 wearing a show-stopping green Versace dress that inspired the creation of Google images.
And those not familiar with her trajectory probably know of Lopez from her highly publicized string of romances and marriages.
So what has she done lately? She spent $20 million of her own money in a multimedia project that leans into her love life, her way.
In “This Is Me… Now,” Lopez takes her sometimes questionable and even eye-rolling relationships and shines on them a spotlight few artists at her level would dare to do,…
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