Beauty - Jennifer (I think Britney still is beautiful, but she just let herself go and doesn't take care of herself or her appearance as much as J-Lo does)
Vocals - Both (Be real, J-Lo has NEVER belted songs the way Britney use to. Over time her voice has gotten smaller due to the smoking and never hiring a vocal coach). Their voices are about the same and let's not delude ourselves into saying otherwise.
Loyal fans - Britney (This isn't even up for debate....PERIOD)
Fame - Britney (Um....let's get real. Britney is still one of the most photographed and search for people in the world. She has steadily sold MILLIONS of records throughout her entire career and even during her breakdown).
Relevancy - Britney (I mean she sold over 10 million records with this past album and had #1 singles and #1 album this past year in multiple countries).
Family - Both (J-Lo and Britney both have had bad relationship experiences. J-Lo has had three divorces and one failed engagement while Britney had one divorce and a annulment). Both have two children who they dote on and love endless. Each of them have had ups and downs with their families, but are currently doing well now, especially Britney with the new engagement to Jason after dating for close to three years now.
Performance skills - Jennifer (She proved to me at the AMA's that she still can dance and put on a show. I think she's at a higher performing level than Britney right now, even with Britney making leaps and bounds from Circus to Femme Fatale.
Good catchy songs - Britney....and it shows from looking at the sales and charting of her songs.
Britney has sold over 1 billion bottles of fragrances, she was Candie's girl for 2 years in a row, she's getting paid 16 million dollars to judge on X Factor (something JLo would never get paid) and she had her two biggest radio hits last era. Let's not forget she got a number 1 album unlike JLo, and she got the Lifetime Achievement + Best Pop Video awards at the VMAs. Oh, lets not forget her tour that grossed over 70 million from 79 dates.
When will JLow?
Jenny has 18 perfumes and they have grossed over 2 billion. She's had several successful clothing lines. Jenny gets paid 25 million for Idol, and idk how much for Q'Viva. She's one of the highest paid actresses of all time. Her music career has never been first in her life, unlike Britney.
Longtime lurker, but after reading this topic I thought Jennifer deserved some better receipts in this topic, so I decided to sign up. This will be my first and last long essay on here, I will keep my other posts shorter. haha
Beauty - JLo. Comparing Jennifer's worst untouched pic to Britney's best untouched pic.
And let's not forget Jennifer is actually ten years older, the fact alone that she can compete with 30 year olds...
Fame - Britney, but she's not as much more famous as Britney stans seem to believe. Receipts from Google trends:
Vocals - They are both by no means great vocalists and I guess Britney's voice might be more distinctive, but Jennifer's voice is a bit stronger imo, at least nowadays. Jennifer actually performs live once in a while. Ok, it doesn't always sound perfect, but atleast she keeps pushing herself. In the studio too. Jennifer actually tries to improve, whereas Britney barely goes out of her comfort zone vocally. Jennifer deserves some credit for that imo.
When is the last time Britney sang live like this?
Loyal fans - Britney obviously. It doesn't help Jennifer never toured and 2006-2010 were kinda messy.
Dancing - I have yet to see Britney perform as energetic this decade as Jennifer at the AMAs and Jennifer's 10 years older!
Family - I bet they are both great mothers.
Bussiness Woman - Definitely Jennifer. She takes risks and makes conscious decisions about what she wants to venture into next. She really leads her empire, whereas I picture Britney more as someone who just sells her name to a company, if her team says yes. receipts... Movies Music Frangrance - Jennifer basically reinvented the celebrity fragrance
Quote:
Lopez's fragrance empire - of which Glowing is the 18th - is a nearly $2 billion retail beauty brand on a cumulative basis.
Lopez has never been particularly afraid to kick open new doors, including the one that she definitively broke in 10 years ago: the celebrity fragrance genre, a category that had largely died in the late Eighties after entries from stars ranging from Cher to Joan Collins failed, leaving Elizabeth Taylor [as the only star left standing. When Lopez decided she wanted to do a signature scent, the market was lukewarm on the idea of anyone - even someone with Lopez's star power - doing a celebrity fragrance. Macy's Inc. took the juice and put it on a modest display.
Bernd Beetz, chief executive officer of Coty, The successful Lopez project for laying the groundwork for the company's other celebrity brands, which include Halle Berry and Beyoncé, and the upcoming Lady Gaga and Madonna fragrances.
-Source: WWD
American Idol judge - If Jennifer didn't prove that being a judge can actually revitalize your career, neither Xtina or Britney would have even considered becoming a judge. Like with the fragrance, Jennifer saw an opportunity, she took a risk and succeeded, as a real business woman!
Foundation - The Maribel Foundation, provides help to the children hospital of LA + they set up an innovative Telemedicine program.
Telemedicine = doctors in poor countries getting up-to-date treatments, and better medical training through regular videoconferencing and online teaching sessions.
-They are busy expanding it to more countries.
-Samsung recently donated 500.000 dollar to the foundation
-Ray Dalio, world’s No. 1 hedge fund guy, over the last three years, has given Jennifer's Maribel Foundation $775,000 http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/...01_468x372.jpg
Production company
-co-produced QViva, which is currently being watched by over 30million viewers worldwide http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/201...ericas/122936/
Her own foundation
-produced TruTv's most succesful new series last tv season, South Beach Tow. With over 1.6 million people watching.
-El Cantante, Bordertown and some other movies.
Clothing line
Jennifer Lopez Collection for Kohl's
Kohl's profit rose 20% in the quarter Jennifer launched her line.
Endorsements
In the past year alone she got millions from: L'oreal, Fiat, Venus, Tous, Harmon Kardon, Brahma, Blackberry Playbook, Samsung.
+ quite a few performances for some billionaires. Incl. $1M to perform at a billionaire's daughter's wedding in Ukraine.
And I'm sure I'm still forgot to mention some..
Catchy songs - Britney wins. I love Jennifer and her music incl. most of the flops, but yeah she doesn't always make the best choices. The Love? era was a step in the right direction.