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SC88 wrote:

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I agree that the lola thing is kinda corny, but a lot of sites/blogs wouldn't have even bothered listening to the song it if it wouldn't have been combined with some controversy. It did what it was supposed to do, get her name out there again. Almost everyone is talking about bad publicity here, but I really don't think it is. I don't think this has anything to do with people not wanting Urban Jennifer or anything, cause I've seen a lot of blog/ news paper reviews of which most were positive about the song. Most of negative press was about the whole Lola thing. Besides I see more and more people on twitter & boards starting to like this song after a few listens.

From my perspective the song is just the story of Lola and Jennifer is singing in name of that person, it isn't necessarily a alter-ego of Jen. It's just to create more buzz around the song. They could have better just named the song Lola it wouldn't have caused this much confusion, but it wouldn't have got that much publicity either. I still think this song could be a hit. The video looks like it's gonna be really good.

The whole thing kind of reminds me of what Benny did for Mariah back in 2005. Everyone expected her to either flop or make a big comeback. People did not expect a just okay song like "It's Like That" to be released. Everyone expected more for a comeback. So people started talking about her flopping again. Until they released the next single, which was much better. The "just ok" first single made the second single (or the real first single whatever you want to call it) & comeback seem even bigger than it really was.

Besides I don't want the next album to be too serious. I need feel good & uptempo songs on the album too. All songs being like What Is Love would get boring fast. We need a next classic song like WFT & LGL too. But from the info we got already, I shouldn't be to worried about that.