Jennifer Lopez has been dropped by her record label, Sony Universal. Her camp would have you believe that her contract ran out and both sides opted not to renew. This means that her upcoming album, Love, with such gems as Louboutins and Fresh Out The Oven, does not yet have a distributor. It looks like that half-assed attempt to re-brand herself as “Lola” and cling to her past in skin tight catsuits couldn’t make up for her lousy music.
“Jennifer had a wonderful relationship with the Sony Music Group, and they have shared many successes together, but the time was right to make a change that best serves the direction of her career as an actress and recording artist, she is grateful and appreciative to everyone at Sony for all that they accomplished together,” Lopez’s manager, Benny Medina, said in a statement Monday.
But this also means that Lopez’s upcoming seventh studio album is now homeless, so we must ask, What about Love?
The album was due out in April but, according to Deadline Hollywood, which first reported the Epic-Lopez split, Love? isn’t finished yet and might never be completed.
Of course, one theory is that Sony dropped Lopez because the creative well had run dry, but the official word remains that her contract had simply expired and the parties amicably opted not to renew.
We expect she’ll be back on her Louboutins in no time, however. J.Lo’s camp is already said to be negotiating a deal with another label, and the songstress will pull double duty on Saturday Night Live this weekend as both host and musical guest.
[From E! Online]
Lopez always has her mediocre romcom career to fall back on. I’m not a fan at all, but I do have to grudgingly admit that she’s not the worst actress. She’s funny and I thought she was passable in that Angel Eyes movie and in the one with Matthew McConaughey where she plays The Wedding Planner who inevitably gets the guy. Lopez has The Backup Plan coming out on April 23. (Her fertility comedy trumps by Jennifer Aniston’s The Baster, a romcom with a similar plot, which isn’t out in August.) I can’t wait to see what Lopez wears on the red carpet. It’s bound to be low cut, tight, and way too young for her. Lopez is also working on two more films, according to IMDB. Will she finally get the Oscar she thinks she deserves?
a very beautiful woman…and there are lesser talents performing…her beauty and grace more than make up for any shortcomings in her talent
The only movie I could ever tolerate her in was “Enough” but I am not really in to romcoms.
Haha!
This really doesn’t make sense but does at the same time. It explains why the cd keeps getting pushed back. But why all of the promotion when there was issues with the label? This makes Jennifer look really bad to be doing all of these appearrances and to be dropped in the middle of it.
As an actress Jennifer was better earlier in her career(Selena, Out Of Sight). Then she got into the stupid romantic-comedy movies.
I agree with waldemar: haha! Schadenfreude!
Love La Lopez ,can’t wait for the back uo plan
Her best movie was out of sight but then again she had a great director that also made a porn star look like a decent actress.
Jlo needs to reinvent herself, there are a lot of young pop tarts out there that took her spot.
Look at Beyonce she claims she is taking a break but you see her filming music videos , working on a movie because she knows that if she takes a break there is going to be a younger girl ready to take her place.
Is it just me, or does she look like Rumer Willis in the first pic???
The last picture of her is pretty.
Well.. wonder what she will do next.
J.Lo’s camp is already said to be negotiating a deal with another label, and the songstress will pull double duty on Saturday Night Live this weekend as both host and musical guest.
Meanwhile give me ENOUGH and THE WEDDING PLANNER any day. She is gorgeous too.
Is it wrong for me to feel a little gleeful she got dropped?
It’s just frustrating to me that someone with very little musical talent has had SEVEN studio albums.
She’s been pushing her mediocre films and music at the public for so long, and trying to convince everyone she’s some huge talent, when she’s really not. I think she’s business savvy, and needs to find her new niche, but it isn’t being a pop star. It’s just not going to happen now.
Maybe she’ll fund her own album, a la Heidi?
Somewhere, Ben Affleck is giggling.
Why is she hosting and performing on SNL? Get Betty White up there stat!
I can’t stand JLo, but I do admire her knack for getting her name out there and making tons of money. She has that star quality that worked well for a number of years. She is another example of how a little talent in each area can go a long way. Look at Britney Spears, Beyonce, and the list goes on, it is all about showmanship and not about talent, but they are the ones bringing in the money. Seems like marrying Marc Anthony was when her career started tanking. Also, I think the public got tired of her during that whole Bennfifer phase. I do like some of her chick flicks though. And I don’t know if she is pretty or if she cleans up well, because look at her pictures from the past, she has gotten a lot of work done to that face. Also, this is off topic, but why do all sources describe hollywood moms as “amazing”. I read this about JLo Aren’t most mothers amazing? What exactly do they have to do to be described that way?
Well, here we go again… sing along, now
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Don’t be fooled by the kids that I got
I’m still, I’m still Jenny in a sock
used to have a little now I have a lot
desperation is where it’s coming from…
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Am actually surprised she was not on her own label. Did she forget to establish one during her empire – building days before saintly motherhood?
@ Terry.. Really?? Grace? I have to say No. Prancing around grabbing attention for inappropriate dresses, and messy relationships does not equal grace.
Well,
Shes half on everything she does:
-Half actress
-Half Singer
-Half Dancer
She doesn’t excel in any of those cuz she wants to do everything, this is why she’s not recognized.
I guess this is why all her songs and videos have been “leaked” online for the last couple of months.
Whatever happened to her spectacularly craptacular clothing line?
Of the few things she seems to want a career in, acting is probably her best bet since she won’t have creative control and the director probably wouldn’t want to see her in her yeast infected catsuits.
she is a horrible actress, cant sing, and yes she can dance. We are all getting tired of seeing her and by the time she’s 45 or so, her career will drop……all she knows how to do well is quiet people up by paying them off or taking them to court. What does she have to hide..she’s had injunctions, and legal papers drawn up on everyone except..Ben Affleck, and he’s a gentlman, he’ll never talk. But I can just imagine the stories he’s told his Jen, a real lady.
The record label realized they’d be better off using Cartman’s hand.
Just wantin’ those Taco Flavored Kisses… Hennifer Hlopez will make her debut soon.
Number 20, I can’t see your name, but you just gave me the best laugh of the day. You better watch out before she draws papers up on you. Oh how I wish Chris Judd and the others would and coud talk. LOL!
She could never be a good actress because she was always busy obsessing over being like Madonna and that’s never going to happen. The other side of the world doesn’t give a toss about J.Lo. as a singer.