JLO has been dragged through the mud for the past few weeks on our mobile tracking devices. “How muddy is the mud…?” she asks. I don’t know JLO, but I think it’s “muddier than [you] want it to be.”
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“You seem to talk a lot about JLO for someone who claims she’s not really a fan,” Andrew has mentioned. I hear you, but the internet has spoken and down the muddy hole I go.
For not being JLO’s biggest fan, he’s right. I have put a lot of effort into the ongoing stories that are swirling, and watching the film she put 20 million of her own dollars into. I have a lot to say about JLO, but I will start with this.
Nobody works harder than her.
Who else would hire bots to comment on their own instagram photo and a team to copyright check TikTok creators that have used any piece of This is Me…Now footage in a TikTok? JLO. Unless, she really does eat 10 salads in one meal.
In the wake of all this, last year’s Vogue 73 Questions Interview with JLO has resurfaced, and TikTok is in an uproar about her bodega order. “Ham and cheese on a roll with an orange drink, IYKYK, and a small bag of chips.” No, JLO we do not know…you know?
The discourse about what in the hell the orange drink is has me in goddamn stitches.
But wait! it gets better. TikToker Gianna Christine ran up and down the block 3x trying to figure out JLO’s cryptic bodega order.
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After watching so many of these videos and spending an embarrassing amount of time in the comments section, which we will not discuss, I’m going to guess that the orange drink in question is quarter water. Ugh, I hated the orange flavor as a kid.
JLO’s intentions for her film, This is Me…Now, and the accompanying documentary about the making of, The Greatest Love Story Never Told, surely were not to be made fun of incessantly for trying as hard as she has to keep up her image, but it has the internet talking. I have to wonder if maybe she should just embrace all of this “bad press” and play along. People are talking about her. Isn’t that JLO’s biggest thing…wanting to stay relevant?
I can’t be mad at the woman for putting 20 million of her own dollars into a film that is full of very obvious symbolism and some I’m sorry hilarious? musical numbers because I’ve done it too. I have not put 20 million dollars into a movie, I’ve never even had 20 million dollars pass through my bank account, but I’ve invested in myself and my own film. That’s what we do as filmmakers and creators. We put our blood, sweat, tears, and our hard earned cash into our creative projects. Hers was just not well-received.
Yes, JLO is out of touch. Yes, she is as deLuLu as one can be, but isn’t that part of her charm?
JLO is the example of the amount of delusional thinking we women must aspire to. If we don’t believe in ourselves as much as JLO believes in herself, who else is going to?