Wall Street Journal: J-Lo the conglomerate tanks
(Paywalled article. Excerpts below.)
This Was Supposed to Be JLo’s Year. What Happened? A flop album, a canceled tour and troubles at Jennifer Lopez’s beauty brand have demonstrated the challenges of being a mature pop star.
Lopez has flooded the zone with releases that haven’t created big cultural moments. “This Is Me…Now,” her first studio album in a decade, debuted in February to a lackluster response. She also put out a music film and documentary that same month, sparking a mix of awe and snark. Tickets for an announced U.S. tour were slow to sell at some venues. Just weeks after the concerts were announced, Lopez canceled several dates and recast the tour as a greatest-hits show. On May 31, Lopez called off the tour altogether.
Toward the end of last year, beauty retailer Sephora notified Lopez’s cosmetics brand that it would have to vacate its retail stores by the end of 2024. The brand, launched in 2021 and marketed with Lopez’s enviably glowy skin, had failed to gain traction with Sephora shoppers, people familiar with the beauty line said. JLo Beauty’s annual sales—about $75 million, according to a person familiar with the business—are small in comparison to other celebrity brands like Rare Beauty, Selena Gomez’s brand, which reportedly generates $400 million in sales.
“Jennifer Lopez remains a super celebrity, but she has not been a relevant hit maker in a long time,” said Louis Mandelbaum, host of the podcast “Pop Pantheon.” “There’s a dissonance between her fame and how much currency she has as a pop star in 2024.”
| by Anonymous | reply 27 | June 26, 2024 6:49 PM
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Couldn't happen to a bigger, hateful cunt.
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | June 20, 2024 2:10 PM
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taco, taco...burrito, burrito...taco, taco...
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | June 20, 2024 2:42 PM
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If it weren’t for her now fading looks, she’d be working the afternoon shift at a Nathan’s Hot Dogs, sneering at customers through her mustache.
Talentless twat.
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | June 20, 2024 2:49 PM
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She's never been known as particularly talented in any of the things she does. Her movies are always barely successful or outright flops. Her music career is seen as kind of a joke. All the other shit she sells is junk. Her personal life is constant drama.
People are tired of her.
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | June 20, 2024 4:39 PM
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I've always thought she should've stuck solely to acting and honed her skills.
She got raves for SELENA (1997) and OUT OF SIGHT (1998) and was nominated for a Golden Globe for the former.
Afterward, she dabbled mainly in rom-coms and cheap thrillers, while she focused entirely on becoming a pop star with the release of ON THE 6 (1999).
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | June 20, 2024 5:01 PM
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J-lo spotted flying economy!
The 54-year-old actress was seen sitting in an economy seat on a KLM flight while traveling from Naples to Paris by herself over the weekend.
tbh that's a pretty short flight
| by Anonymous | reply 7 | June 25, 2024 4:16 PM
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At least she is better than Beyonce.
| by Anonymous | reply 8 | June 25, 2024 8:09 PM
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I'll send her some free samples..
| by Anonymous | reply 9 | June 25, 2024 8:26 PM
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Doesn’t she have enough money to retire and just live the life of an occasional TikTok video or podcast guest. Embrace the fact that your time in the spotlight is quickly fading and move on to the next phase of life - quietly sitting.
| by Anonymous | reply 10 | June 25, 2024 9:33 PM
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[quote] J-lo spotted flying economy!
PR stunt to humanize her.
I can’t imagine the pushback her publicists got from her for suggesting she go sit with the commoners for a two-hour flight.
Maybe one of them had the balls to essentially say “Everyone hates you. You think you’re better than the rest of the world. You need to act humble for a day.”
Never mind that she’s flying from Naples to a Paris, a decadence that countless millions in the U.S. will never experience.
This for her is rock bottom.
| by Anonymous | reply 11 | June 25, 2024 10:03 PM
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[quote] flying from Naples to a Paris
Flying from Naples to Paris is decadent?
| by Anonymous | reply 12 | June 25, 2024 10:05 PM
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[quote] Flying from Naples to Paris is decadent?
For normal, middle-class people in Missouri who have to save for years to go to Disney World, yes it is, Zia Zsa.
| by Anonymous | reply 13 | June 25, 2024 10:10 PM
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[quote] For normal, middle-class people in Missouri who have to save for years to go to Disney World, yes it is, Zia Zsa.
It’s $22 for basic economy on Ryanair and $32 on Easyjet. Of course flying on Ryanair is too high a price in itself.
| by Anonymous | reply 14 | June 25, 2024 10:24 PM
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R12 You’re forgetting the cost of actually flying to Europe from the U.S.
And Ryanair is worse than Spirit.
| by Anonymous | reply 15 | June 25, 2024 10:45 PM
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An experienced flight attendant told me that it's not uncommon to see major celebrities on US domestic flights. That makes sense because who wants to pay 150k to fly from LA to Denver. That's a fuckload of money for basically nothing, even if the person is rich. I'm not surprised to see JLo taking a two hour commercial flight.
| by Anonymous | reply 16 | June 26, 2024 1:41 AM
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A decadent two-hour flight, R16.
| by Anonymous | reply 17 | June 26, 2024 2:04 AM
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She may be a “super celebrity” but she doesn’t have talent- although the Kardasians would seem to be proof that you don’t need a wit of talent to make big bucks… what a strange world we live in. Fake entertainment and soaking the gullible.
| by Anonymous | reply 18 | June 26, 2024 2:07 AM
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Disingenuous promotion machine.
| by Anonymous | reply 19 | June 26, 2024 2:12 AM
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She's fucking exhausting.
| by Anonymous | reply 20 | June 26, 2024 2:12 AM
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You just wait...Spider Woman'll put her back on top!
| by Anonymous | reply 21 | June 26, 2024 2:36 AM
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Doubtful. The public is sick of her shit and they're in the process of canceling her.
| by Anonymous | reply 22 | June 26, 2024 5:43 AM
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Why did she have to fly economy at all? Was the bitch’s broom out of gas or something?
| by Anonymous | reply 23 | June 26, 2024 5:52 AM
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J. Lo has been doing shitty for years. Her big rollout for her album with the accompanying movie, documentary, and tour is what made it so noticeable.
| by Anonymous | reply 24 | June 26, 2024 5:56 AM
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I still say this whole marriage meltdown is some kind of coverup for her involvement with the Diddy scandal. My autocorrect uses “Duffy” ha.
| by Anonymous | reply 25 | June 26, 2024 5:44 PM
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