I was sure I would dislike this cause I disliked the song, but damn this is PER-FECT. This is the FIRST videoclip that took me back to the early 2000's. J.Lo did this.
THIIIIIIIS is the J.LO I love and I love the whole fact the video themed around a woman sexualizing the men rather than it always being the other way around.
she's gonna get so much flack for this. one because even though it is letting females have the "fun" it's not accomplishing anything and she's still presenting herself as a sex object.
a man commented on the video saying how uncomfortable he was watching it and that now he knows how women feel (even though he doesn't).
the thing about men is that we see sex objects for our own visual enjoyment, women see sex objects as offensive. What makes women so uncomfortable about half naked female dancers prancing around a video is that they put themselves in their shoes, or they see a sister or a friend. It makes them feel angry because all they're being treated as is sexual objects.
Men see half naked guys booty popping and basically doing the same thing and still see sexual objects but now they feel uncomfortable because men shouldn't be attractive to them. they still see a person as a THING who is supposed to be sexually/physically attractive.
I'm willing to bet that every man saying they know how women feel after watching this, actually just doesn't want to see half naked men because of their sexual insecurity or guard (however you want to describe it). they're going to continue putting naked girls in their videos or watching those videos.
THIIIIIIIS is the J.LO I love and I love the whole fact the video themed around a woman sexualizing the men rather than it always being the other way around.
While I commend the role reversal and really think that it's a great and fun angle, there's such a high cheese factor here that it made me cringe more than a few times. I think it could have been executed much better. Mostly it was the intro/outro acting bits that accounted for this. The whole "dream sequence" music video is a cliché that J.Lo and her friends should have dismissed when whomever pitched this idea in the first place. I wish the video had removed this entirely and not assumed the audience wouldn't get what was happening, instead of having to so explicitly say what was going on beforehand. Or at least if they thought the audience wouldn't get it, there could have been any number of creative ways to illustrate it other than a fake scene with a label executive which is yet another cliché (a popstar being told to act a certain way and then the rebellion).
Other than that I really wasn't a fan of the styling at all. Maybe that was the point though for it to look over the top and Miami-tacky. I did like J.Lo's swag in it and as I said, it had a great core concept but unfortunately there was too many other elements that really brought it down for me.
That was so good. She looks insanely hot as usual, the dancing is great. So many hot people in one video It even made me like the song a little bit more.
It even made me like the song a little bit more.