I was 13/14 that time. Your PARENTS asked. Click Click Click.
It should not be YOUR responsibility to listen to a pop song and discern who is singing and when. As it was presented these songs were all by J.Lo, thus without having analyzed it, one would naturally assume that all the lead vocals you hear are her own. Perhaps it seems obvious once pointed out but for most people this is not something they picked up on.
It should not be YOUR responsibility to listen to a pop song and discern who is singing and when. As it was presented these songs were all by J.Lo, thus without having analyzed it, one would naturally assume that all the lead vocals you hear are her own. Perhaps it seems obvious once pointed out but for most people this is not something they picked up on.
They sound enough like her that most people do not know it wasn't her.
Don't try and pass this off as an artistic statement. There's nothing artistic about having someone else unnecessarily sing for you. If she sang it vs. if they did, there would be no artistic difference to the song.
Their voices sound nothing close to J.Lo's voice and only naive people can't realize it's not her without the info spoon fed to them. And who's calling it artistic? It's because her voice is so weak! I'm not a J.Lo stan, but you sound so pressed about her! This can't be the first thread where you've bitched about her.
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Well, notice the pattern?
I was 13/14 that time. Your PARENTS asked. Click Click Click.
Mariah also put her on blast in a high profile media battle in 2001 claiming she and her label stole the instrumental to her lead single. The instrumental was to a song from like 30 years earlier (sample) so of course, it was super ironic J Lo's lead single also featured the same sample from a hit from over 30 years ago.
In 2005, yet again -- Usher called her and her team out for taking an unreleased song of his he had possible plans for and using it for her single "Get Right" without his permission nor giving him ANY credit.
It's almost crazy how much her career was supposedly the work of others.
Their voices sound nothing close to J.Lo's voice and only naive people can't realize it's not her without the info spoon fed to them. And who's calling it artistic? It's because her voice is so weak! I'm not a J.Lo stan, but you sound so pressed about her! This can't be the first thread where you've bitched about her.
I was 10. I still knew.
Okay, we should run a poll and ask who knew the first time they heard these songs that it wasn't J.Lo and who is surprised to find out that it's not her now. I think the answers will clearly show people were not immediately aware. It doesn't matter if you're naive or not. The voices sound enough like J.Lo to pass off as her. It's not like she used a male voice, she used a small, female voice with similar styling.
I have complained about J.Lo before, for sure, just as I have with other artists when they either produce or do something I dislike. It's not a big deal for someone who loves pop culture to be concerned that pop stars are not even doing lead singing on their own full songs.
And ya'll just noticed this shyt now.
5 Platinum albums & 75M records sold after?
If it was a problem then nobody would had bought the records, but it wasn't and still isn't. It was pretty evident that some of the records were not her in the choruses, yet people still bought or requested the songs. It wasn't shady it's business. Jennifer Lopez isn't the only one who enlists backup singers for her albums. And all those unknown artists/backups agreed and still got paid at the end of the day.
Moreover, she's an entertainer more than anything, but her voice has improved and she sings backup alot more than before.
And ya'll just noticed this shyt now.
5 Platinum albums & 75M records sold after?
If it was a problem then nobody would had bought the records, but it wasn't and still isn't. It was pretty evident that some of the records were not her in the choruses, yet people still bought or requested the songs. It wasn't shady it's business. Jennifer Lopez isn't the only one who enlists backup singers for her albums. And all those unknown artists/backups agreed and still got paid at the end of the day.
Moreover, she's an entertainer more than anything, but her voice has improved and she sings backup alot more than before.
Why is this brand new?
We know you're a stan but let's be real 4 a second. Ashanti did NOT agree to it, she demoed the song for Jlo to hear, but her and her team took Ashanti's vocals from the demo and used them in the final song. Ashanti was surprised to hear her own vocals on Jlo's version since she that was not what was suppossed to happen.
Mariah also put her on blast in a high profile media battle in 2001 claiming she and her label stole the instrumental to her lead single. The instrumental was to a song from like 30 years earlier (sample) so of course, it was super ironic J Lo's lead single also featured the same sample from a hit from over 30 years ago.
Wrong info!
J.Lo's lead single didn't have a sample. It was the 2nd single, which was the original version of I'm Real [not the remix with Ja Rule]. Mariah's team contacted the publisher first to use the sample for her single Lover Boy and J.Lo's team contacted them months later, but Tommy Mottola got it for to J.Lo's team.
It was a flop anyway...
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Okay, we should run a poll and ask who knew the first time they heard these songs that it wasn't J.Lo and who is surprised to find out that it's not her now. I think the answers will clearly show people were not immediately aware. It doesn't matter if you're naive or not. The voices sound enough like J.Lo to pass off as her. It's not like she used a male voice, she used a small, female voice with similar styling.
I have complained about J.Lo before, for sure, just as I have with other artists when they either produce or do something I dislike. It's not a big deal for someone who loves pop culture to be concerned that pop stars are not even doing lead singing on their own full songs.
How is a poll on a website where most users were born after 1995 going to prove anything? You have an agenda here and I do not! The 2 or 3 different voices starting from her first single in 1999 is so obvious and sound nothing like J.Lo. Her voice is paper thin in the verses and then some deep woman's voice comes. You're acting Iike it's some big deceptive secret when it's common info and no one cared. Ashanti and Milian even mention it in interviews back then and now.
Mariah also put her on blast in a high profile media battle in 2001 claiming she and her label stole the instrumental to her lead single. The instrumental was to a song from like 30 years earlier (sample) so of course, it was super ironic J Lo's lead single also featured the same sample from a hit from over 30 years ago.
In 2005, yet again -- Usher called her and her team out for taking an unreleased song of his he had possible plans for and using it for her single "Get Right" without his permission nor giving him ANY credit.
It's almost crazy how much her career was supposedly the work of others.
You don't know what you're talking about.
How is Mariah Carey & Jennifer Lopez fighting for a sample considered Mariah's work when it wasn't hers in the first place? As a matter of fact, according to sources it was all Mottola's doing eitherway. He was the one who wanted Jen to use it.
And "Get Right" [originally titled "Ride"], was not Usher's record either. It was Rich Harrison's ["Crazy In Love", "1 Thing"] who produced the record. It was a leftover from Usher's "Confessions" album and Jen re-recorded it. Which is normal in this business. The only reason Usher was upset was because he wrote a part of the track with Harrison which I believe he was not credited for. Again, this is not Jennifer Lopez's fault and him and Jen are good friends.
All these accusations that people are making, such as "stealing songs", are all BTS stuff that one, most people don't really know and come into light to stir drama, or two the public could care less about. It's more business than anything.
J.Lo's lead single didn't have a sample. It was the 2nd single, which was the original version of I'm Real [not the remix with Ja Rule]. Mariah's team contacted the publisher first to use the sample for her single Lover Boy and J.Lo's team contacted them months later, but Tommy Mottola got it for to J.Lo's team.
It was a flop anyway...
This is literally exactly what I said except for it was her 2nd single.
As said, it was still "coincidental" and obviously staged she used a sample also from a song that was decades old. It was intended to steal "Loverboy"s sample whether it was her involvement or only Tommys.
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You don't know what you're talking about.
How is Mariah Carey & Jennifer Lopez fighting for a sample considered Mariah's work when it wasn't hers in the first place? As a matter of fact, according to sources it was all Mottola's doing eitherway. He was the one who wanted Jen to use it.
And "Get Right" [originally titled "Ride"], was not Usher's record either. It was Rich Harrison's ["Crazy In Love", "1 Thing"] who produced the record. It was a leftover from Usher's "Confessions" album and Jen re-recorded it. Which is normal in this business. The only reason Usher was upset was because he wrote a part of the track with Harrison which I believe he was not credited for. Again, this is not Jennifer Lopez's fault and him and Jen are good friends.
All these accusations that people are making, such as "stealing songs", are all BTS stuff that one, most people don't really know and come into light to stir drama, or two the public could care less about. It's more business than anything.
It was used on her work which was finished, Sony got ahold, and put the same exact sample on Jennifer's single to rival hers. What is hard to understand? It was basically Jennifer copying her work.
It was Usher's record and he had credits on it as you said. If you are involved it creating something then it is partly your record.
How is a poll on a website where most users were born after 1995 going to prove anything? You have an agenda here and I do not! The 2 or 3 different voices starting from her first single in 1999 is so obvious and sound nothing like J.Lo. Her voice is paper thin in the verses and then some deep woman's voice comes. You're acting Iike it's some big deceptive secret when it's common info and no one cared. Ashanti and Milian even mention it in interviews back then and now.
I'm gonna guess that even those born after 1995 have heard some of these songs.
Maybe for a fan it's obvious that she didn't sing these all herself, but to everyone else it didn't come off that way. There is no agenda here. If you want to go on thinking it's cool that a singer uses voices in her work that sound enough like her that most people didn't notice, have fun.
But just like most people don't know that this is not the singer of Blackbox, but the face, the GP aren't really aware of J.Lo using other voices either.
I will incriminate my own fave here too so as to not be one-sided.
In Check On It, the second verse is not Beyoncé but it is Kelly Rowland.
The difference there was that it was meant to be a DC song and then got changed to just Beyoncé for the Pink Panther soundtrack. I am confused as to why she couldn't have just re-recorded it and I don't agree at all with the decision, but given the dust Beyoncé has paid this #1, it seems clear she never took this song seriously.
This is literally exactly what I said except for it was her 2nd single.
As said, it was still "coincidental" and obviously staged she used a sample also from a song that was decades old. It was intended to steal "Loverboy"s sample whether it was her involvement or only Tommys.
It was used on her work which was finished, Sony got ahold, and put the same exact sample on Jennifer's single to rival hers. What is hard to understand? It was basically Jennifer copying her work.
It was Usher's record and he had credits on it as you said. If you are involved it creating something then it is partly your record.
We are talking about two completely different records that had the same sample. This "sample" was not Mariah's work, so technically Jen did not steal anything from her. Like I said, at the of the day Jen had no fault in that. Plus, Mariah's career was the pits by then. I have no clue why should would be upset about it anyway. If anything Jen saved ha from what would've been another flop record from her amazing discography [love Mimi].
And no, it wasn't Usher's record. Deal with it girl. He didn't have control over that besides the partial writing credits. Which he had every right to be upset about at the end of the day. Again, that's not Jen's fault it was Rich Harrison's. She just re-recorded the song which we know is normal in this business. She didn't steal anyones work. The rest should had been handled professionally bts.
It should not be YOUR responsibility to listen to a pop song and discern who is singing and when. As it was presented these songs were all by J.Lo, thus without having analyzed it, one would naturally assume that all the lead vocals you hear are her own. Perhaps it seems obvious once pointed out but for most people this is not something they picked up on.
Basically the point of why I wrote this thread. I feel very deceived and believe J Lo is sort of a fraud in my eyes now.
In regards to "Get Right", Usher and Rich were working on the song and he didn't like it or whatever so it didn't make the album. Rich was originally going to give JLo "1 Thing", but gave it to Amerie instead. He then decided to rework "Ride" and it became "Get Right". A part of the original lyrics were a part of the song, so that's why Usher was mad. He was later credited.
People acting like every artist in the industry comes up with their own songs from scratch. A lot of songs are passed around. At least it was redone specifically for JLo. We are all familiar with the fact that "Umbrella" was written for Britney, but Rihanna snatched it up.
I will incriminate my own fave here too so as to not be one-sided.
In Check On It, the second verse is not Beyoncé but it is Kelly Rowland.
The difference there was that it was meant to be a DC song and then got changed to just Beyoncé for the Pink Panther soundtrack. I am confused as to why she couldn't have just re-recorded it and I don't agree at all with the decision, but given the dust Beyoncé has paid this #1, it seems clear she never took this song seriously.
There is NO difference. I know you're a beyonce stan but let's be real for a second. COI may have been meant to be a DC3 song, but at the end of the day they only beyonce was credited despite Kelly vocals being there And doesn't matter if she paid the song dust or not What you said: " As it was presented these songs were all by J.Lo, thus without having analyzed it, one would naturally assume that all the lead vocals you hear are her own" applies here
I will incriminate my own fave here too so as to not be one-sided.
In Check On It, the second verse is not Beyoncé but it is Kelly Rowland.
The difference there was that it was meant to be a DC song and then got changed to just Beyoncé for the Pink Panther soundtrack. I am confused as to why she couldn't have just re-recorded it and I don't agree at all with the decision, but given the dust Beyoncé has paid this #1, it seems clear she never took this song seriously.
Wait... I never noticed this. Lemme give it a listen.
A lot of songs are passed around. At least it was redone specifically for JLo. We are all familiar with the fact that "Umbrella" was written for Britney, but Rihanna snatched it up.
And doesn't matter if she paid the song dust or not