It’s early days for Cardi B, but she deserves at least as much consideration. I am no great admirer of Lopez as a singer, but through perseverance and an actual jam or two over the last two decades, she long ago earned the right to be taken seriously.
On the other hand, some might consider my comparison an insult, musically, to Cardi: Ever since Lopez stepped in front of the mic for real, she has been called a talent-free dilettante, given her acknowledged vocal limitations and overreliance on production. J. Lo fans might consider it insulting that I compare Lopez’s accomplished tour of the entertainment industry to the crass, lower-status rungs of millennial fame Cardi navigated. Rather, it’s their hungry (haters might say thirsty), by-any-means-necessary rise to fame. The fact that both Lopez and Cardi-born Belcalis Almanzar to a Dominican father and a Trinidadian mother-were raised by Latin parents in the Boogie-Down is a helpful coincidence, but it’s not why I make the above analogy.
1 hit) only after she’d tried, and succeeded at, everything else. In 1999, she finally issued her debut album and single (the latter an immediate No. Lo she could get over singing English-language pop with a Latin flavor. Even then, it took a bit of coaching from Sony Music executive Tommy Mottola, the man who discovered Mariah Carey, to convince the future J. It was only after she recorded a Spanish-language demo on a lark-after winning plaudits for her star turn in the 1997 musical biopic Selena, at age 27-that Lopez began seriously weighing a singing career.
#I MAKE MONEY MOVES SONG SERIES#
As she rose to prominence during the 1990s, Lopez was, variously, a regional theater actress and choreographer a backup dancer for the likes of New Kids on the Block and Janet Jackson a televised backup dancer-a Fly Girl-on the Wayans Brothers’ sketch series In Living Color and a well-regarded actress in midtier Hollywood fare or, in the case of Steven Soderbergh’s Out of Sight, highly acclaimed Hollywood fare.
Oh, and singing-but it was Lopez’s least-pursued talent prior to her mid-twenties. Growing up in the Bronx, a young Jennifer Lopez would dabble in anything that might one day make her famous: acting, dancing, choreography, even gymnastics and track.
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