Cultural impact of Jennifer Lopez

Lopez was named one of Time{{'}}s 100 most influential people in the world in 2018.{{cite magazine|last1=Reilly|first1=Katie|title=Jennifer Lopez and Shawn Mendes to Perform at the 2018 TIME 100 Gala|url=https://time.com/5246023/time-100-2018-jennifer-lopez-shawn-mendes/|magazine=Time.|access-date=April 30, 2018|date=April 19, 2018}} Previously, Time listed her as one of the most influential Hispanics in America, remarking: "...over a decade ago, she was an anonymous background dancer on the second-rated sketch-comedy show. Today she's known by two syllables."{{cite news|url=https://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2008201_2008200_2008207,00.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090301064251/http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0%2C8599%2C1093638%2C00.html |archive-date=March 1, 2009 |title=Jennifer Lopez |first=Josh |last=Tyrangiel |access-date=January 13, 2007 |magazine=Time |date=August 13, 2005 |url-status=live |author-link=Josh Tyrangiel }} In 2012, Forbes ranked her as the world's most powerful celebrity and the 38th most powerful woman.{{cite news|first=Hannah |last=Elliott |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/hannahelliott/2012/05/16/the-real-american-idol-how-j-lo-got-her-mojo-back/ |title=The Real American Idol: How J.Lo Got Her Mojo Back |work=Forbes |date=April 18, 2012 |access-date=May 24, 2012}}{{cite web|last1=Goudreau|first1=Jenna|title=The World's Most Powerful Women: 16 New Faces|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/jennagoudreau/2012/08/22/worlds-most-powerful-women-new-faces-jennifer-lopez-laurene-powell-jobs/|website=Forbes|access-date=November 23, 2016|date=August 22, 2012}} Lopez is considered a pop icon,{{cite web |last1=Lloyd |first1=Sophie |title=Jennifer Lopez's New Career Move Mocked |url=https://www.newsweek.com/jennifer-lopez-career-move-mocked-bob-builder-puerto-rico-film-1864300 |website=Newsweek |access-date=February 9, 2024 |date=January 26, 2024}} with VH1 ranking her at number 15 on their list of 200 Greatest Pop Culture Icons in 2003.{{cite news|title=The 200 Greatest Pop Culture Icons Complete Ranked List|url=http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/the-200-greatest-pop-culture-icons-complete-ranked-list-70807437.html|agency=PR Newswire|access-date=June 30, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170501100900/http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/the-200-greatest-pop-culture-icons-complete-ranked-list-70807437.html|archive-date=May 1, 2017|url-status=dead}}

Lopez has been ranked among the top ten most admired women in the world, according to surveys conducted by YouGov and Gallup.{{cite web |last1=Choi |first1=Inyoung |title=Obamas Chosen As 'World's Most Admired Man and Woman,' New Poll Shows |url=https://www.businessinsider.com/obamas-chosen-worlds-most-admired-man-woman-new-poll-shows-2020-9 |website=Business Insider |access-date=March 4, 2024 |date=September 27, 2020}}{{cite web |last1=Carroll |first1=Joseph |title=George W. Bush Is 2002's Most Admired Man, No Consensus on Most Admired Woman |url=https://news.gallup.com/poll/7486/george-bush-2002s-most-admired-man-consensus-most-admired-woman.aspx |publisher=Gallup, Inc. |access-date=March 4, 2024 |date=December 27, 2002}} Described as "the biggest female star in the world" at the peak of her career,{{cite web |last1=D'addario |first1=Daniel |title="American Idol" gave Jennifer Lopez more than Jennifer Lopez gave "American Idol" |url=https://www.salon.com/2014/06/24/american_idol_gave_jennifer_lopez_more_than_jennifer_lopez_gave_american_idol/ |website=Salon.com |access-date=February 28, 2024 |date=June 24, 2014}} Lopez has been noted for her ability to start trends, which has prompted the usage of the phrase "the J.Lo effect" in popular culture.{{cite journal |last1=Hauser |first1=Brooke |title=The Lopez Effect |journal=Allure |date=November 2007 |pages=196–201 |url=https://www.brookehauser.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Jennifer-Lopez-ALLURE-NOVEMBER-2007.pdf |access-date=February 13, 2024}}{{cite web |last1=Bakar |first1=Faima |title=What Is The J-Lo Effect And How Can You Channel It? |url=https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/what-is-the-j-lo-effect-and-how-can-you-channel-it_uk_61164766e4b07c140313d3de |website=The Huffington Post |access-date=February 13, 2024 |date=August 17, 2021}}{{cite web |last1=Bahr |first1=Sarah |title=What Is the 'J. Lo Effect'? |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/05/style/j-lo-effect.html |website=The New York Times |access-date=February 13, 2024 |date=August 5, 2021}} The phrase has been used in numerous different contexts, including in relation to Lopez's impact on reality competition programming, celebrity overexposure,{{cite web |last1=Carlin |first1=Flora |title=Seeing by Starlight: Celebrity Obsession |url=https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/articles/200407/seeing-starlight-celebrity-obsession |website=Psychology Today |access-date=March 4, 2024 |date=July 1, 2004}} a phenomenon resembling mate choice copying, and a "fashion craze that promoted curvaceousness and redefined mainstream ideals of feminine beauty". Journalist Michael Joseph Gross posits that Lopez's stardom, unlike other celebrities, is more about her life story than her work. Gerrick Kennedy of the Los Angeles Times describes Lopez as having "unbridled omnipresence in pop culture", while being a "consummate performer who is more famous than any one of their works".{{cite web |last1=Kennedy |first1=Gerrick |title=Jennifer Lopez gives all she's got -- and more -- in Vegas |url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/music/posts/la-et-ms-jennifer-lopez-vegas-20160124-story.html |website=Los Angeles Times |access-date=March 6, 2024 |date=January 24, 2016}}

Lopez's film career has been credited with paving the way for greater representation of Latino Americans in Hollywood.{{cite web |last1=Gonzalez |first1=Irina |title=How Jennifer Lopez Paved the Way for a Generation of Latinas |url=https://www.oprahdaily.com/entertainment/a28179945/jennifer-lopez-latina-influence/ |website=Oprah Daily |access-date=February 10, 2024 |date=July 10, 2019}}{{cite web |last1=Roginson |first1=Mia |title=In appreciation of Jennifer Lopez: The triple-threat star continues to break barriers and pave roads |url=https://www.uscannenbergmedia.com/2019/10/03/in-appreciation-of-jennifer-lopez-the-triple-threat-star-continues-to-break-barriers-and-pave-roads/ |publisher=USC Annenberg Media |access-date=February 11, 2024 |date=October 3, 2019}}{{cite web |last1=Le Marquand |first1=Sarrah |title=Jennifer Lopez on her 'worst' heartbreak and being a role model at 52 |url=https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/lifestyle/stellar/jennifer-lopez-on-her-worst-heartbreak-and-being-a-role-model-at-52/news-story/ |website=The Daily Telegraph |access-date=March 1, 2024 |date=February 5, 2022}} Biographer Kathleen Tracy opined that "Lopez blazed a trail no openly Latin actress had gone before", noting that previous Latina stars like Raquel Welch had cosmetically downplayed their ethnicity and changed their names.{{harvnb|Tracy|2008|p=ix}} Cindy Pearlman of The Record said Lopez brought a "Latina presence to a film industry which for most of its history has been a whites-only preserve."{{cite news |last=Pearlman|first=Cindy|title=For the record; Very hot and ambitious actress Jennifer Lopez has music on her mind|newspaper=The Record |issn=0824-5150|date=August 14, 1999|location=Kitchener, Ontario |id={{ProQuest|275649460}}}}

Lopez is the highest-paid Latina actress in history,{{cite magazine|title=Jennifer Lopez - Biography|url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/304444/jennifer-lopez/biography|magazine=Billboard|access-date=November 19, 2016|archive-date=February 2, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170202231211/http://www.billboard.com/artist/304444/jennifer-lopez/biography|url-status=dead}}{{cite magazine|title=Solid as a Rock|magazine=Vibe|date=July 2003|page=96|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3yYEAAAAMBAJ|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200728234655/https://books.google.com/books?id=3yYEAAAAMBAJ|url-status=dead|archive-date=July 28, 2020|access-date=August 25, 2017}} making up to US$15 million per film during the 2000s.{{harvnb|Cottrell|2009|p=219}} With her role in Selena (1997), she became the first Latin actress in history to earn $1 million for a film role. Writer Camila Barbeito said Lopez was "a pioneer in helping Latina stars get paid their true worth, and changed the game forevermore."{{cite web |last1=Barbeito |first1=Carmen |title='Selena' Movie Made J.Lo the First Latina Actress To Earn $1 Million for a Role |url=https://wearemitu.com/wearemitu/entertainment/selena-movie-turns-26-jlo-role/ |website=Mitú |access-date=February 10, 2024 |date=March 21, 2023}} In her early films such as Blood and Wine (1996), Lopez played stereotypical roles which signified her as a "racialized, exoticized" other,{{cite journal |last1=Valdivia |first1=Angharad N. |last2=Molina Guzmán |first2=Isabel |title=Brain, Brow, and Booty: Latina Iconicity in U.S. Popular Culture |journal=The Communication Review |date=2004 |volume=7 |issue=2 |pages=205–221 |doi=10.1080/10714420490448723 |publisher=Routledge}} and was typecast as the "maid" and "dishwasher".{{cite web |last1=Rosa |first1=Christopher |title=Jennifer Lopez Says She Had to Fight to Get Her Role in The Wedding Planner |url=https://www.glamour.com/story/jennifer-lopez-says-she-had-to-fight-to-get-her-role-in-the-wedding-planner |website=Glamour |access-date=March 1, 2024 |date=October 29, 2020}} This shifted with Selena, which "affirmed her Latinx identity, and won her the loyalty of that significant section of the US and global audience."{{cite web |last1=Martin |first1=Laura |title=Why Jennifer Lopez is Hollywood's most underestimated star |url=https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20220907-why-jennifer-lopez-is-hollywoods-most-underestimated-star |publisher=BBC |access-date=February 12, 2024 |date=September 27, 2022}} She was the first Hispanic actress to lead a "major Hollywood film" since Rita Hayworth.{{harvnb|Bruns|2008|p=298}} Her next film Anaconda, which co-starred Ice Cube, was the highest-grossing film of 1997 which starred a Latino. Critic Joe Leydon said Anaconda subverted genre conventions by being "the first movie of its kind to have a Latina and an African-American" as its stars.{{cite news |last=Leydon |first=Joe |url=https://variety.com/1997/film/reviews/anaconda-1117341403/ |title=Anaconda |work=Variety |date=April 20, 1997 |access-date=October 1, 2021}}

With Out of Sight (1998), where her character's ethnicity is a mere sidenote, Lopez became an "anomaly in the traditionally white space" of mainstream Hollywood at the time.{{cite journal |last1=Beltrán |first1=Mary |title=The Hollywood Latina Body as Site of Social Struggle: Media Constructions of Stardom and Jennifer Lopez's 'Cross-over Butt' |journal=Quarterly Review of Film and Video |date=January 2002 |issue=19 |pages=71–86 |doi=10.1080/10509200214823 |publisher=Routledge}} Scholar Frances Negrón-Muntaner observed that Lopez had "achieved what generations of Hollywood Latino actors continue to dream about: ethnic 'blind' casting", adding that "[If Selena] made her the top Latina actress in Hollywood, Out of Sight secured her place as a top talent, period."{{harvnb|Negrón-Muntaner|2004|pp=244–245}} By deliberately avoiding stereotypical roles, biographer James Robert Parish said Lopez "helped minimize racial boundaries in show business." Other Latin actresses such as Jessica Alba were said to be "following in the path set by Lopez" by securing "non-ethnic-specified roles", which contrasted with their earlier work.{{cite book |last1=Beltrán |first1=Mary |last2=Fojas |first2=Camilla |title=Mixed Race Hollywood |date=2008 |publisher=New York University Press |isbn=9780814799895 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0nsTCgAAQBAJ |access-date=February 29, 2024|page=263}}

Lopez's role in her first romantic comedy, The Wedding Planner (2001), was a "major departure" from stereotypical parts for Latina actresses.{{cite book |last1=Mottola |first1=Tommy |title=A New America: How Music Reshaped the Culture and Future of a Nation and Redefined My Life |date=2016 |publisher=Penguin Group |isbn=9780698143302 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bWqeDAAAQBAJ |access-date=March 1, 2024 |chapter=Chapter Nine: The Latin Explosion}} Wanting to break away from her earlier typecasting, Lopez and her agents had to convince director Adam Shankman and studio executives to cast her. Lopez said: "...the idea of a Latina girl starring in a romantic comedy was like, what? ... Why can’t I be the girl in the movie? Just the girl." She would later become known for starring in romantic comedies, and has been described as the "Queen of Romantic Comedies".{{cite web |last1=Tangcay |first1=Jazz |title=Jennifer Lopez's Rom-Coms Ranked, From 'Maid in Manhattan' to 'Shotgun Wedding' |url=https://variety.com/lists/jennifer-lopez-romantic-comedy-movies-ranked/ |website=Variety |access-date=February 12, 2024 |date=January 27, 2023}}{{cite web |last1=Keates |first1=Emma |title=Jennifer Lopez is releasing a film to accompany her first album in a decade |url=https://www.avclub.com/jennifer-lopez-this-is-me-now-date-1851049046 |website=The A.V. Club |access-date=February 12, 2024 |date=November 27, 2023}} Lopez's perceived Academy Award snub for Hustlers (2019), which led to "renewed focus" on the academy's diversity issues,{{cite web |last1=Maxouris |first1=Christina |title=As Oscars struggle with a dearth of minority nominees, Los Angeles mayor wants to double Latino representation in Hollywood |url=https://edition.cnn.com/2020/01/14/entertainment/los-angeles-latinx-representation-hollywood-trnd/index.html |publisher=CNN |access-date=February 11, 2024 |date=January 14, 2020}} was referenced by Los Angeles mayor Eric Garcetti when announcing a new initiative to increase Latino representation in Hollywood.{{cite web |last1=Hipes |first1=Patrick |title=Los Angeles Mayor Calls On #JusticeForJLo After Oscar Snub At Event Launching LA Collab To Boost Latino Involvement In Hollywood |url=https://deadline.com/2020/01/la-collab-hollywood-latinos-erik-garcetti-industry-program-1202828618/ |website=Deadline Hollywood |access-date=February 11, 2024 |date=January 13, 2020}}

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With her musical debut, Lopez helped drive the "Latin explosion" occurring in entertainment during the late 1990s.{{cite news |last=Tarradell|first=Mario|title=Latin aftershocks Music's ethnic boom reshapes the Grammy landscape|newspaper=The Dallas Morning News|date=February 20, 2000}}{{cite web |last1=Chrisoulakis |first1=Naomi |title=JLo: 'The bodies we see have changed — and I helped' |url=https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/lifestyle/stellar/jlo-the-bodies-we-see-have-changed-and-i-helped/news-story/37741d70fa481347a842551444c43b7d |website=The Daily Telegraph |access-date=March 22, 2024 |date=December 2, 2018}} Historian Roger Bruns considered her "an influential force in driving a growing Latin cultural influence in popular music" at the time,{{harvnb|Bruns|2008|p=299}} and The Recording Academy credited her with helping propel the Latin pop movement in American music.{{cite web |last1=Haack |first1=Brian |title=1999: The Year Latin Pop Conquered America |url=https://www.grammy.com/news/1999-year-latin-pop-conquered-america |publisher=The Recording Academy |access-date=June 17, 2018 |date=October 6, 2017}} Considered "one of the most important Latina pop stars",{{cite web|last1=Lockett|first1=Dee|title=Once overrated, Jennifer Lopez is now underrated|url=https://stltoday.com/entertainment/music/once-overrated-jennifer-lopez-is-now-underrated/article_0f7d6b7f-36f9-55da-9dc1-b96af888704d.html|website=St. Louis Post-Dispatch|access-date=January 8, 2015|date=June 26, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140830073703/http://www.stltoday.com/entertainment/music/once-overrated-jennifer-lopez-is-now-underrated/article_0f7d6b7f-36f9-55da-9dc1-b96af888704d.html|archive-date=August 30, 2014|url-status=dead}} Rolling Stone said she paved "the way for other American-born Latina pop stars" including Selena Gomez and Becky G.{{cite magazine |title=50 Greatest Latin Pop Songs |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-latin-lists/50-greatest-latin-pop-songs-695776/jennifer-lopez-waiting-for-tonight-1999-695915/ |magazine=Rolling Stone |date=July 9, 2018}} Scholar Aida Hurtado observed that Lopez's "transnational focus" also influenced Latin American pop artists to enter the U.S. market by recording English music, including Shakira, Thalía and Paulina Rubio.{{cite journal |last1=Hurtado |first1=Aida |author1-link=Aida Hurtado |title=Much More Than a Butt: Jennifer Lopez's Influence On Fashion |journal=Spectator |date=Spring 2006 |volume=26 |issue=1 |pages=149–155 |publisher=University of Southern California}} Along with Ricky Martin, Lopez helped increase the visibility of Latin music in international markets including East Asia and Canada.{{cite magazine|title=Asia Pacific Quarterly|magazine=Billboard|date=August 7, 1999|volume=111|issue=32|page=56|publisher=Nielsen Business Media|issn=0006-2510}}{{cite book|title=Sexual Teens, Sexual Media: Investigating Mediás Influence on Adolescent Sexuality|year=2002|publisher=Routledge|isbn=0805834907|page=260|first1=Jane Delano |last1=Brown |first2=Jeanne R. |last2=Steele |first3=Kim |last3=Walsh-Childers }}{{cite magazine |last1=LeBlanc |first1=Larry |title=Martin, Lopez Help Pick Up the Pace of Canada's Latin Beat |magazine=Billboard |date=June 12, 1999 |volume=111 |issue=24 |page=41 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uw0EAAAAMBAJ |publisher=Nielsen Business Media, Inc.}} In 2002, the Chicago Tribune opined that Lopez had "emerged as the next-generation Madonna" due to her "multitasking career".{{cite web |title=From the block . . . to the top |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/2002/12/15/from-the-block-to-the-top/ |website=Chicago Tribune |access-date=February 23, 2024 |date=December 15, 2002}}{{cbignore}} In 2024, the New Statesman wrote: "She was the first woman to demonstrate that a Madonna could be a Latina, and Latina voices are one of the dominant forces in global pop now."{{cite web |last1=Mossman |first1=Kate |title=Jennifer Lopez's beautifully unhinged visual album |url=https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/music/2024/02/jennifer-lopez-new-album-review-beautifully-unhinged |website=New Statesman |access-date=February 23, 2024 |date=February 9, 2024}}

Lopez's music has been credited with helping influence the trajectory of 2000s music.{{cite web |last1=Shemesh |first1=Yasmine |title=J.Lo At 20: Celebrating The Album That Made Jennifer Lopez An Icon - MTV |url=http://www.mtv.com/news/3173486/jennifer-lopez-jlo-20th-anniversary-hip-hop-pop/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210115215840/http://www.mtv.com/news/3173486/jennifer-lopez-jlo-20th-anniversary-hip-hop-pop/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=January 15, 2021 |website=MTV News |access-date=January 25, 2021 |date=January 15, 2021}} With songs like "Waiting for Tonight" and "Let's Get Loud", the St. Louis Post-Dispatch regarded her as the lead artist in the dance-pop genre at the time. Her music has also been noted for its impact on Latin dance music,{{cite magazine |title=Jennifer Lopez |url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/jennifer-lopez/ |magazine=Billboard |access-date=February 15, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240122175817/https://www.billboard.com/artist/jennifer-lopez/ |archive-date=January 22, 2024}} electronic dance music,{{cite news|last=Barker|first=Andrew|title=Jennifer Lopez Receives Star for Music on Hollywood Walk of Fame|url=https://variety.com/2013/scene/features/jennifer-lopez-receives-star-for-music-on-hollywood-walk-of-fame-1200493728/|work=Variety |access-date=June 25, 2013|date=June 20, 2013}} and R&B.{{cite web |title=Christina Milian: 'Things have evolved when it comes to culture, when it comes to respect, when it comes to women' |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/features/christina-milian-interview-step-up-naya-rivera-b2202850.html |website=The Independent |access-date=February 22, 2024 |date=October 15, 2022}} Lopez's collaboration with rapper Ja Rule, "I'm Real (Murder Remix)", had an influence on future pop rap collaborations,{{cite web|last1=Azzopardi|first1=Chris|title=Jennifer Lopez's 'I'm Real' 15 Years Later: How the Rule-Breaking Duet With Ja Rule Prevented a Sophomore Slump|url=http://www.etonline.com/features/196835_jennifer_lopez_im_real_oral_history/|website=ETonline|publisher=CBS Studios, Inc.|access-date=November 23, 2016|date=September 1, 2016}} having "helped cement the lasting power of the pop/hip-hop composite." "I'm Real" reached number one in the United States based on airplay of both the remix and original, which are essentially different songs sharing the same title. This led to a change of Billboard policy, whereby identically named songs with substantially different melodies are not combined when computing chart positions.{{cite magazine|last=Taylor|first=Chuck|title=Reviews & Previews|magazine=Billboard|date=December 22, 2001|volume= 113| issue = 51|page=18|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dhIEAAAAMBAJ&q=Jennifer+Lopez+Ain%27t+it+Funny|access-date=April 9, 2013|publisher=Nielsen Business Media, Inc|issn=0006-2510}} In 2022, U.S. Congressman Joaquin Castro and the Congressional Hispanic Caucus nominated 33 works by Latino musicians to be inducted into the Library of Congress's National Recording Registry, which included Lopez's J.Lo (2001).{{cite web |title=Rep. Castro, Congressional Hispanic Caucus Nominate 33 Latino Works for Inclusion in National Recording Registry |url=https://chc.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/rep-castro-congressional-hispanic-caucus-nominate-33-latino-works-for |publisher=Congressional Hispanic Caucus |access-date=February 29, 2024 |date=November 29, 2022}}{{cite web |last1=Flores |first1=Edwin |title=These Latino musicians have been nominated to the National Recording Registry |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/latino-musicians-are-nominated-national-recording-registry-rcna59239 |website=NBC News |access-date=February 29, 2024 |date=November 30, 2022}}

Lopez's discography is noted for its diversity and borrowing "liberally" from various genres.{{harvnb|Nakamura|2008|p=26}} Her music often blends English and Spanish;{{cite web |last1=Belson |first1=Ken |last2=Jacobs |first2=Julia |title=Jennifer Lopez and Shakira to Perform at Super Bowl LIV |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/26/sports/football/jennifer-lopez-shakira-super-bowl.html |website=The New York Times |access-date=March 7, 2024 |date=September 26, 2019}} Billboard said she has "never been one to downplay her Latinidad, and always makes sure to display it" in her music, "regardless of genre".{{cite magazine |last1=Malone |first1=Chris |title=Jennifer Lopez's 'On the 6' at 20: All the Tracks Ranked |url=https://www.billboard.com/music/pop/jennifer-lopez-on-the-6-album-tracks-ranked-8513814/ |magazine=Billboard |access-date=February 22, 2024 |date=June 1, 2019}} A hallmark of Lopez's music has been the theme of "staying grounded", and lyrics about her Bronx upbringing. The title of her debut album On the 6 (1999) references the subway service she took when travelling from the Bronx to Manhattan, while J.Lo, titled after the nickname her fans gave her, was a "reminder that the mainstream success had not affected her connection with her roots." Several artists were noted to follow this trend with their album titles, including Janet Jackson with Damita Jo and Mariah Carey with The Emancipation of Mimi.{{cite web |last1=Parker |first1=Ashley Joy |title=Jennifer Lopez's Iconic 'J.Lo' Album Celebrates Its 20th Anniversary |url=https://graziamagazine.com/us/articles/jennifer-lopez-j-lo-album/ |website=Grazia |access-date=March 7, 2024}}{{cite web |last1=Vivinetto |first1=Gina |title=Free your mind and name change will follow |url=https://www.tampabay.com/archive/2004/11/30/free-your-mind-and-name-change-will-follow/ |website=Tampa Bay Times |access-date=March 7, 2024 |date=November 30, 2004}} Themes of social class, immigrant success and remaining humble are apparent in "Jenny from the Block". This prompted a trend of artists releasing songs which juxtaposed their "upbringing to their celebrity status", including Gwen Stefani ("Orange County Girl"), Faith Hill ("Mississippi Girl"—described as a "countrified 'Jenny from the Block'"{{cite magazine|title=Reviews|magazine=Billboard|date=August 6, 2005|volume=117|issue=32|page=39|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lhQEAAAAMBAJ|access-date=October 2, 2015|publisher=Nielsen Business Media, Inc.}}), and Fergie ("Glamorous").{{cite book |last1=Rose |first1=David |title=Sexually, I'm More of a Switzerland: More Personal Ads from the London Review of Books |date=February 2, 2010 |publisher=Simon & Schuster |isbn=9781439131497 |page=99 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fSNpHWBeHucC&pg=PA99 |access-date=March 7, 2024}}

Often described as a triple threat performer,{{cite web|last1=Steiner|first1=Amanda Michelle|title=PEOPLE Magazine Awards: Jennifer Lopez Wins Triple Threat Award|url=http://people.com/awards/jennifer-lopez-at-the-people-magazine-awards-wins-triple-threat-award/|website=People|access-date=January 10, 2020|date=December 18, 2014}}{{cite news|last1=Feeney|first1=Nolan|title=Review: Jennifer Lopez's New Residency Turns Las Vegas Into Destination Diva|url=https://time.com/4217043/jennifer-lopezs-new-show-turns-las-vegas-into-destination-diva/|magazine=Time|access-date=January 10, 2020|date=February 11, 2016}} Lopez was one of few actors to successfully cross over into music.{{cite magazine |last1=Bronson |first1=Fred |title=Actress Lopez Out of Sight on Hot 100 |magazine=Billboard |date=June 12, 1999 |volume=111 |issue=24 |page=90 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uw0EAAAAMBAJ |access-date=February 19, 2024 |publisher=Nielsen Business Media, Inc. |issn=0006-2510}} Rolling Stone acknowledged the "extraordinary difficulty for a film star of Lopez’s calibre" to transition into music. Rachel Sklar of The Huffington Post called Lopez a "trailblazer" and noted the influence of her crossover: "Beyoncé, Miley, Gaga, any actress who's ever released an album — they are all standing on the shoulders of J.Lo. She was a true triple threat — actress, singer, dancer ... and packaged it sometimes outrageously but always sexily."{{cite web |last1=Sklar |first1=Rachel |author1-link=Rachel Sklar |title=The J. Lo Decade |url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/the-j-lo-decade_b_409078 |website=The Huffington Post |access-date=February 19, 2024 |date=March 18, 2010}} With her second album J.Lo and film The Wedding Planner, Lopez became the first and only woman to have a number one film and album simultaneously in the United States. She was described as the third female performer, after Barbra Streisand and Whitney Houston, "to achieve such a level of success" in both industries.{{cite book |last1=Méndez-Méndez |first1=Serafín |last2=Cueto |first2=Gail |title=Notable Caribbeans and Caribbean Americans: A Biographical Dictionary |date=July 30, 2003 |publisher=ABC-CLIO |isbn=9780313093203 |pages=256–258 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wubEEAAAQBAJ |access-date=February 29, 2024}}

Making her television debut on the sketch comedy series In Living Color in 1991, Lopez's "role as one of the leading 'Fly Girls' helped expose mainstream American audiences to urban dance styles, music, and fashion."{{cite book |last1=García |first1=Justin D. |editor1-last=Leonard |editor1-first=David J. |editor2-last=Troutman Robbins |editor2-first=Stephanie |title=Race in American Television: Voices and Visions That Shaped a Nation |date=January 26, 2021 |publisher=ABC-CLIO |isbn=9781440843068 |pages=411–413 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JETPEAAAQBAJ |access-date=February 29, 2024}} In 2011, Lopez began starring as a judge on American Idol, which made her one of the highest-paid American television stars. She became a "major audience draw" for the series, and the ratings success of her casting led to a trend of networks hiring high-profile judges for similar shows such as The X Factor and The Voice, which The Hollywood Reporter branded "the J.Lo effect".{{cite web|title=The J.Lo Effect: $15 Million Becoming the New Standard as Reality Salaries Soar|url=https://hollywoodreporter.com/news/reality-salaries-american-idol-jennifer-lopez-howard-stern-290871|work=The Hollywood Reporter|access-date=July 4, 2013|author=Lacey Rose, Shirley Halperin|date=February 15, 2012}} She was also credited with beginning the trend of musicians using shows like American Idol to "raise their musical profiles".{{cite news |last1=Setoodeh |first1=Ramin |title=How Jennifer Lopez Learned to Dance Again |url=https://variety.com/2019/music/features/jennifer-lopez-hustlers-its-my-party-the-godmother-1203313001/ |access-date=October 9, 2021 |work=Variety |date=August 26, 2019}}{{cite magazine |last1=Anderson |first1=Kyle |title=Pop Stars-turned-reality TV Judges: How are they selling? |url=https://ew.com/article/2012/11/30/pop-stars-turned-reality-tv-judges-how-are-they-selling/ |magazine=Entertainment Weekly |access-date=February 28, 2024 |date=November 30, 2012}} This paved the way for other high-profile stars to join judging panels on reality television shows, including Christina Aguilera, Britney Spears, Mariah Carey and Katy Perry. Lopez parlayed her return to prominence on American Idol into what Billboard called "the most impressive reality-TV-based rejuvenation of a music career ever."{{cite magazine |last1=Lipshutz |first1=Jason |title=Jennifer Lopez And Her 'American Idol' Rejuvenation: An Appreciation |url=https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/jennifer-lopez-and-her-american-idol-rejuvenation-an-appreciation-480738/ |magazine=Billboard |access-date=February 27, 2024 |date=July 27, 2012}} She was deemed the "world's greatest musical comeback act", based on a study which analysed over one billion Google searches since 2004.{{cite web |last1=Kennedy |first1=Gerrick D. |title=Jennifer Lopez named 'world's greatest musical comeback act' -- seriously |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/blogs/pop-hiss/story/2011-12-13/jennifer-lopez-named-worlds-greatest-musical-comeback-act-seriously |website=Los Angeles Times |access-date=February 15, 2024 |date=December 13, 2011}} Lopez had other successful television ventures in the late 2010s, including the series Shades of Blue and World of Dance.

Often referred to as the "Queen of Dance",Publications referring to Lopez as the "Queen of Dance":

• {{cite web |last1=Al Saafin |first1=Aziz |title=Jennifer Lopez on love, heartbreak, and her new musical film |url=https://www.1news.co.nz/2024/02/15/jennifer-lopez-on-love-heartbreak-and-her-new-musical-film/ |website=1News |access-date=March 7, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240214221219/https://www.1news.co.nz/2024/02/15/jennifer-lopez-on-love-heartbreak-and-her-new-musical-film/ |archive-date=February 14, 2024 |date=February 15, 2024 |quote=Lopez, frequently dubbed the Queen of Dance...}}
• {{cite web |last1=Carras |first1=Christi |title=Dance to Jennifer Lopez and Maluma for a good cause with the #PaTiChallenge |url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/music/story/2020-09-29/jennifer-lopez-maluma-pati-dance-challenge |website=Los Angeles Times |access-date=September 30, 2020 |date=September 29, 2020 |archive-date=November 17, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201117134745/https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/music/story/2020-09-29/jennifer-lopez-maluma-pati-dance-challenge |url-status=live }}
• {{cite web |last1=May |first1=Naomi |title=Jennifer Lopez Is Officially The Queen Of Dancing Like Nobody's Watching |url=https://www.elle.com/uk/life-and-culture/culture/a44710648/jennifer-lopez-birthday-dancing/ |website=Elle |access-date=March 6, 2024 |date=August 2, 2023}}
• {{cite web |last1=Walsh |first1=Lara |title=J.Lo Still Looks Flawless While Getting Dance Lessons from Adorable Toddlers |url=https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/j-lo-still-looks-flawless-123000508.html |website=InStyle |access-date=March 7, 2024 |date=May 23, 2017}}
• {{cite web |last1=Wasilak |first1=Sarah |title=Of Course J Lo's Monogrammed Gym Bag Costs Over $3K |url=https://www.popsugar.com/fashion/jennifer-lopez-dior-book-tote-bags-48914045 |website=PopSugar |access-date=March 7, 2024 |date=August 10, 2022}}

Lopez has received acclaim for her highly choreographed dancing.{{cite journal |last1=Amorosi |first1=A.D. |title=J-Lo's doing it well, singing and dancing in A.C. |journal=The Philadelphia Inquirer |date=July 31, 2012 |url=https://www.inquirer.com/philly/entertainment/20120731_J-Lo_s_doing_it_well__singing_and_dancing_in_A_C_.html |access-date=February 22, 2024}} Her music videos, which made her the first Latin performer to receive the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award, are known for including dance breaks; MTV writer Ross McNeilage said: "We struggle to think of one artist who has shown such dedication over two decades to keep dance alive in visuals".{{cite web |last1=McNeilage |first1=Ross |title=Why Jennifer Lopez Deserves The VMA Video Vanguard Award |url=https://www.mtv.co.uk/news/1ya4gx/why-jennifer-lopez-deserves-the-vma-video-vanguard-award |publisher=MTV |access-date=March 6, 2024 |date=August 16, 2018}} In 2015, Michael Cragg of The Guardian stated that with dancing "going out of fashion" in the music industry, "there are very few pop stars who still perform like she does".{{cite web |last1=Cragg |first1=Michael |title=10 things we learned from the American Music awards |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/nov/23/american-music-awards-meghan-trainor-taylor-swift-one-direction |website=The Guardian |access-date=March 7, 2024 |date=November 23, 2015}} Brian Schaefer of The New York Times noted that her series World of Dance, unlike other American dance competition programs, foregrounded dancers and allowed them to craft their own performances. Lopez said her goal was to create "a venue for dancers to actually be the stars".{{cite web |last1=Schaefer |first1=Brian |title=In Jennifer Lopez's 'World of Dance,' the Dancers Are the Stars |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/25/arts/television/in-jennifer-lopezs-world-of-dance-the-dancers-are-the-stars.html |website=The New York Times |access-date=March 6, 2024 |date=May 25, 2017}} Lopez's performance as a stripper in Hustlers, which she shared the training process of online, led to a surge in interest in pole dancing which Fox Business dubbed a "fitness craze"; this resulted in a spike in business for dance studios.{{cite journal |last1=Wojciechowska |first1=Magdalena |title='I was ashamed, and now I am proud as I finally know how to let go.' How Female Polers Perceive, Experience, and Give Meanings to Their Bodies—An Ethnographic Case Study |journal=Qualitative Sociology Review |date=October 2023 |volume=19 |issue=4 |pages=26–51 |doi=10.18778/1733-8077.19.4.02|hdl=11089/48314 |hdl-access=free }}{{cite web |last1=Settembre |first1=Jeanette |title=Jennifer Lopez's pole dancing for 'Hustlers' sparks fitness craze |url=https://www.foxbusiness.com/features/jennifer-lopez-pole-dancing-hustlers-fitness-craze |website=Fox Business |access-date=March 6, 2024 |date=September 6, 2019}} Choreographer Johanna Sapakie said: "There's so much more widespread attention about pole dancing in and out of the clubs right now because of the movie and J. Lo."

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Kerry Washington, who grew up in the same neighborhood as Lopez, said she would not have "taken a risk in [her] career" if not for Lopez,{{cite news |title=Kerry Washington: Lopez inspired me |url=http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/entertainment/news/kerry-washington-lopez-inspired-me-16111987.html |newspaper=The Belfast Telegraph |access-date=February 4, 2012 |date=February 1, 2012 |archive-date=February 4, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120204122210/http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/entertainment/news/kerry-washington-lopez-inspired-me-16111987.html |url-status=dead }} calling her "a powerful example—not just for women of color but for anyone who has been made to feel 'other'".{{cite magazine |last1=Washington |first1=Kerry |title=Jennifer Lopez Is on the 2018 TIME 100 List |url=https://time.com/collection/most-influential-people-2018/5217628/jennifer-lopez/ |magazine=Time |access-date=March 3, 2024}} Brie Larson stated that seeing Lopez in Selena made her want to be an actor.{{cite web |last1=Thomas |first1=Carl |title=Brie Larson Gets Emotional Meeting Jennifer Lopez for First Time at Golden Globes: "It's Been a Dream of Mine" |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/brie-larson-emotional-meeting-jennifer-lopez-golden-globes-2024-1235781518/ |website=The Hollywood Reporter |access-date=January 23, 2024 |date=January 27, 2024}} Her performance in Selena also inspired the careers of Selena Gomez and Q'orianka Kilcher.{{cite news |url=https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/selena-gomez-gets-racy-in-elle-photoshoot | work=Fox News | title=Selena Gomez Gets Racy in 'Elle' Photoshoot | date=June 8, 2012 | access-date=December 26, 2021 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160624114525/http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/entertainment/2012/06/08/selena-gomez-gets-racy-in-elle-photoshoot/ | archive-date=June 24, 2016 | url-status=dead | df=mdy-all }}{{cite web |url=http://www.crushable.com/2008/09/19/entertainment/flashback-qorianka-kilcher-thanks-j-lo-at-the-alma-awards/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131105220340/http://www.crushable.com/2008/09/19/entertainment/flashback-qorianka-kilcher-thanks-j-lo-at-the-alma-awards/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=November 5, 2013 |title=Flashback: Q'orianka Kilcher Thanks J-Lo at the Alma Awards |publisher=Crushable |date=September 19, 2008 |access-date=April 19, 2013 }}

Actress Eva Longoria credited Lopez with breaking barriers for Latin actors, stating that she "broke down so many doors so that we could walk through them."{{cite web |last1=Neira |first1=Daniel |title=How Jennifer Lopez inspired Eva Longoria to pursue her dreams in Hollywood: 'The reason I do what I do' |url=https://www.hola.com/us/entertainment/20231206353369/eva-longoria-jennifer-lopez-hollywood/ |website=¡Hola! |access-date=February 10, 2024 |date=December 6, 2023}} America Ferrera said there was "no roadmap" for succeeding in Hollywood as a Latin actress before Lopez.{{cite web |last1=Mazzeo |first1=Esme |last2=Pajer |first2=Nicole |title=Jennifer Lopez Honors America Ferrera at Celebratory Barbie Screening: 'Your Role in This Film Is Truly Authentic' |url=https://people.com/jennifer-lopez-honors-america-ferrera-celebratory-barbie-screening-8423297 |website=People |access-date=February 10, 2024 |date=January 7, 2024}} She has also been credited for paving the way for Latinas by Jessica Alba and Kat DeLuna, with the former saying Lopez "opened doors for ethnic girls like me". Gwen Stefani studied Lopez's Vegas residency while developing her own, saying that she "always looked up to her".{{cite web|last1=Mahjouri|first1=Shakiel|title=Gwen Stefani Admits 'I'm Obviously At The End Of My Journey Of Being A Musician'|url=https://etcanada.com/news/330123/gwen-stefani-admits-im-obviously-at-the-end-of-my-journey-of-being-a-musician/|website=Entertainment Tonight Canada|access-date=May 25, 2018|date=May 21, 2018|archive-date=May 25, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180525133621/https://etcanada.com/news/330123/gwen-stefani-admits-im-obviously-at-the-end-of-my-journey-of-being-a-musician/|url-status=dead}}

Other entertainers who have cited Lopez as an influence or inspiration include Adrienne Bailon, Camila Cabello,{{cite web |last1=Dresdale |first1=Andrea |title=Camila Cabello reveals to Jennifer Lopez that she sings a J-Lo song in 'Cinderella,' credits Jen for her success |url=https://www.wrmf.com/camila-cabello-reveals-to-jennifer-lopez-that-she-sings-a-j-lo-song-in-cinderella-credits-jen-for-her-success/ |publisher=WRMF |access-date=February 14, 2024}} Sofia Carson,{{cite web |title=Sofia Carson Details Meeting Jennifer Lopez For The First Time: 'I Stood There And I Stared' |url=https://www.accessonline.com/videos/sofia-carson-details-meeting-jennifer-lopez-for-the-first-time-i-stood-there-and-i-stared |website=Access Hollywood |access-date=February 14, 2024 |format=Video |date=March 28, 2022}} Mike Doughty,{{cite magazine|last=Letkemman|first=Jessica|title=Mike Doughty Opens 'Book of Drugs,' Says J.Lo & Music Thieves Saved His Life|url=https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/mike-doughty-opens-book-of-drugs-says-jlo-music-thieves-saved-his-life-464820/|magazine=Billboard |access-date=December 26, 2021|location=New York|date=December 7, 2011}} Fifth Harmony,{{cite web|url=http://www.teennick.com/blog/teennick-top-10-an-interview-with-fifth-harmony.html |title=TeenNick Top 10: An Interview With Fifth Harmony |work=Teen Nick |date=August 22, 2013 |access-date=March 28, 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130822150229/http://www.teennick.com/blog/teennick-top-10-an-interview-with-fifth-harmony.html |archive-date=August 22, 2013 }} Becky G,{{cite web|url=https://www.accessonline.com/articles/becky-g-talks-working-with-jennifer-lopez-i-still-get-goosebumps-when-i-watch-the-video-131241 |title=Becky G Talks Working With Jennifer Lopez: 'I Still Get Goosebumps When I Watch The Video' |publisher=Access Hollywood |date=April 14, 2013 |access-date=December 26, 2021}} Ryan Guzman,{{cite web|title=Ryan Guzman pushed by 'inspirational' Jennifer Lopez|url=http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/entertainment/news/ryan-guzman-pushed-by-inspirational-jennifer-lopez-35266903.html|website=The Belfast Telegraph|access-date=December 6, 2016|date=December 4, 2016|archive-date=December 20, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161220084909/http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/entertainment/news/ryan-guzman-pushed-by-inspirational-jennifer-lopez-35266903.html|url-status=dead}} Vanessa Hudgens,{{cite web |title=AMAs 2018: Vanessa Hudgens Is Feeling 'Classic, Chic and Here for J.Lo' (Exclusive) |url=https://www.etonline.com/media/videos/amas-2018-vanessa-hudgens-is-feeling-classic-chic-and-here-for-jlo-exclusive-111261 |website=ETonline |access-date=February 14, 2024 |date=October 9, 2018}} Jessie James Decker,{{cite web |title=Jessie James Decker Reveals How Jennifer Lopez Inspired Her Career: 'Why Can't I Do It All' |url=https://news.yahoo.com/jessie-james-decker-reveals-jennifer-150000797.html |website=Yahoo! News |access-date=February 14, 2024 |date=September 12, 2021}} Kelly Key,{{cite web|url=http://www.universomusical.com.br/materia.asp?mt=sim&id=170&cod=po|title=Kelly Key busca o sucesso de Christina Aguilera, Jennifer Lopez, Britney Spears, Madonna e Janet Jackson|work=Universo Musical|access-date=January 7, 2012|archive-date=March 7, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160307031750/http://universomusical.com.br/materia.asp?cod=po&id=170&mt=sim|url-status=dead}} Demi Lovato,{{cite news |title=Demi Lovato inspired by Jennifer Lopez|url=http://indianexpress.com/article/entertainment/music/demi-lovato-inspired-by-jennifer-lopez/|website=The Indian Express |access-date=September 21, 2015|date=March 6, 2015}} Maluma,{{cite web |last1=Lee |first1=Tionah |title=Maluma set to star alongside Jennifer Lopez in 'Marry Me' |url=https://www.hola.com/us/celebrities/2019071525964/jennifer-lopez-maluma-movie-marry-me/ |website=¡Hola! |access-date=February 14, 2024 |date=July 15, 2019}} Tate McRae,{{cite web |last1=Fields |first1=Taylor |title=Tate McRae Names Zendaya & Jennifer Lopez As Women Who Inspire Her |url=https://www.iheart.com/content/2021-03-25-tate-mcrae-names-zendaya-jennifer-lopez-as-women-who-inspire-her/ |publisher=iHeartRadio |access-date=February 14, 2024 |date=March 25, 2021}} Camila Mendes,{{cite web |last1=Mendez |first1=Lola |title=From Upgraded to Música, Camila Mendes Is The New Leading Lady of Rom-Coms |url=https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/camila-mendes-upgraded-musica-rom-coms |website=Refinery29 |access-date=February 14, 2024 |date=February 8, 2024}} Normani,{{cite web|last1=Viswanath|first1=Jake|title=Normani Is Finally Stepping Out On Her Own|url=https://vmagazine.com/article/normani-finally-stepping/|website=V|access-date=March 6, 2018|date=February 14, 2018|archive-date=June 22, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180622084057/https://vmagazine.com/article/normani-finally-stepping/|url-status=dead}} Rita Ora,{{cite web |title=Rita Ora 'inspired' by Jennifer Lopez and Beyonce |url=https://apnews.com/article/aa11c32f41644b8eb5071c7f2887bb83 |website=Associated Press |access-date=June 14, 2021 |date=April 19, 2018}} Pitbull,{{cite news|last=Kit|first=Zorianna|title=Pitbull on music, Jennifer Lopez and 'Epic'|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/pitbull-on-music-jennifer-lopez-and-epic/2013/05/23/bc108dbc-c314-11e2-914f-a7aba60512a7_story.html|newspaper=The Washington Post |access-date=May 26, 2013|date=May 26, 2013}} Princess Nokia,{{cite web |last1=Daly |first1=Rhian |title=Watch Princess Nokia's JLo-inspired new video for 'It's Not My Fault' |url=https://www.nme.com/en_au/news/music/watch-princess-nokia-jlo-inspired-new-video-its-not-my-fault-2909590 |website=NME |access-date=February 12, 2024 |date=March 26, 2021}} Keke Palmer,{{cite web |last1=Beck |first1=Lia |title=Keke Palmer Is Hustling Into Her Next Chapter — And It Includes Culinary School |url=https://www.bustle.com/p/keke-palmer-on-hustlers-working-with-jlo-her-unexpected-next-step-18726998 |website=Bustle |access-date=February 14, 2024 |date=September 13, 2019}} Francia Raisa,{{cite web|last1=Rodriguez|first1=Priscilla|title=10 Stars J.Lo Influenced|url=http://www.latina.com/entertainment/stars-celebrities-jennifer-lopez-influenced|website=Latina|access-date=December 8, 2015|date=August 31, 2013|archive-date=December 8, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151208122404/http://www.latina.com/entertainment/stars-celebrities-jennifer-lopez-influenced|url-status=dead}} Naya Rivera,{{cite news |last=Cosgrove |first=Sheila |url=https://people.com/tv/naya-rivera-hopes-to-follow-in-jennifer-lopezs-footsteps/|title=Naya Rivera Hopes to Follow in Jennifer Lopez's Footsteps|work=People |date=September 6, 2013|access-date=February 24, 2019}} Bebe Rexha,{{cite magazine|last=Schiller|first=Rebecca|title=Bebe Rexha Talks New Album 'Expectations,' Her Love of Jennifer Lopez at Billboard Music Awards: Watch|url= https://www.billboard.com/music/awards/bebe-rexha-billboard-music-awards-video-interview-8457118/|magazine=Billboard|access-date=December 26, 2021|date=May 21, 2018}} Rosa Salazar,{{cite web |url=https://us.hola.com/celebrities/2019020819950/rosa-salazar-alita-battle-angel-hola-usa-interview/ |title=Alita: Battle Angel's Rosa Salazar on Flying the Nest at 15 to Leading This Star-studded Latinx Cast |first=AliSandra |last=Puliti |date=February 8, 2019 |website=Hola!}} Britney Spears,{{cite web |title=Move Over Madonna! Britney Spears Reveals Jennifer Lopez As Her 'Idol' |url=https://uk.news.yahoo.com/omg/news/madonna-britney-spears-reveals-jennifer-lopez-39-idol-120632405.html |website=Yahoo! News |access-date=February 14, 2024 |date=December 29, 2013}} and Taylor Swift.{{cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/taylor-swift-sings-jenny-from-the-block-with-jennifer-lopez-172918/|title=Taylor Swift Sings "Jenny From the Block" With Jennifer Lopez - Taylor's favorite song growing up|magazine=Rolling Stone|first=Miriam|last=Coleman|date=August 25, 2013 |access-date=October 15, 2022}}{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_n16wPVPHs|title=Taylor Swift Congratulates J. Lo|work=YouTube|date=May 22, 2014|access-date=October 15, 2022}}

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Journalists have recognized Lopez's cultural significance to the Latino community, with BBC News and People en Español describing her as the world's most famous Hispanic person.{{cite web |last1=Pérez-Feria |first1=Richard |title=Jennifer López: The interview |url=https://peopleenespanol.com/article/jennifer-lopez-interview/ |website=People en Español |access-date=March 8, 2024 |date=April 25, 2006}}{{cite web |title=Latino culture sweeps across US |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3238523.stm |website=BBC News |access-date=March 6, 2024 |date=November 5, 2003}} In Race in American Television: Voices and Visions That Shaped a Nation (2021), anthropologist Justin D. García wrote that, with Latinos becoming the nation's largest minority in the late 1990s, "Lopez’s ascent to international fame gave a public face to the dramatic growth and social, cultural, and economic influence of Latinos in the United States." Lopez contributed to increased Latino visibility in the media, which "enhanced group consciousness and identity" among Latinos.{{harvnb|Navarro|2005|p=614}} Scholars have considered Lopez a symbol of the American Dream during a period of "revoking affirmative action and other propositions against Latinos in the United States".{{cite book |last1=Bernardi |first1=Daniel |author1-link=Daniel Bernardi |title=The Persistence of Whiteness: Race and Contemporary Hollywood Cinema |date=2007 |publisher=Taylor & Francis |isbn=9781135976446}} Writer Michelle Herrera Mulligan said "to see someone with a wide nose and a big [rear] — I felt like I was being born. That simply didn’t exist before in popular culture."

Lopez was among a group of Latin entertainers whose cultural impact was attributed to their being part of "Generation Ñ", "young Latinos who were bilingual and bicultural", speaking Spanglish or English rather than Spanish.{{harvnb|Navarro|2005|p=423}}{{cite web |last1=Larmer |first1=Brook |title=Latino America |url=https://www.newsweek.com/latino-america-168474 |website=Newsweek |access-date=March 1, 2024 |date=July 11, 1999}} Lopez's Spanish itself has been criticized; it is described as "classic Nuyorican" and "Bronx-inflected Spanish".{{harvnb|Negrón-Muntaner|2004|p=233}} Latina magazine founder Christy Haubegger attributed Lopez's influence to her being "the first icon that generationally fits" young Latino Americans who followed celebrity culture.{{cite news |last1=Fernandez |first1=Sandy M. |title=Jenny's Image On the Block: Latinos Say Lopez Is Selling a Shift in Culture |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=May 21, 2005 |page=4}} Lopez was featured on the first cover of Latina in 1996, with editor Galina Espinoza writing in 2011 that there is "no recounting of modern Latina history without Jennifer".{{cite web|last1=Espinoza|first1=Galina|title=Lessons Learned From 15 Years of Jennifer Lopez|url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/lessons-learned-from-15-y_b_957796|website=HuffPost|access-date=December 26, 2021|date=September 12, 2011}} Journalist Isabel González Whitaker opined that Lopez "opened the door to [Latino culture having a] broader appeal". However, Sandy M. Fernandez of The Washington Post said she is also "a figure who straddles an amazing number of Latino fault lines, areas of often vehement disagreement about what is and isn't Latino."

The publicity surrounding Lopez's body was considered a sign of her social power in "changing cultural standards within the mainstream media as a whole".{{harvnb|Redmond|2007|pp=282–283}} Academic Jillian Báez suggested that "Lopez and her body functions as a site of struggle as a contestation for debating larger issues concerning the everyday lives of Latinas in the U.S."{{cite journal |last1=Baez |first1=Jillian M.|title=Speaking of Jennifer Lopez: Discourses of Iconicity and Identity Formation Among Latina Audiences |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/community.28040739.pdf |access-date=March 4, 2024 | journal=Media Report to Women |date=Winter 2007 |volume=35 |issue=1 |pages=5–11|jstor=community.28040739 }} Described as "arguably the most visible Latina in contemporary mainstream popular culture" by Helene Shugart of the University of Utah, Lopez has been the subject of considerable scholarly analysis in relation to ethnicity, class, "body politics",{{harvnb|Shugart|2007|p=116}} Latin culture,{{harvnb|Negrón-Muntaner|2004|p=232}} gender, and race. The Guardian reported that Lopez was among the reasons for British students increasingly electing to learn Spanish for their GCSEs.{{cite web |last1=McVeigh |first1=Tracy |title=Britons fall for the lure of Spanish |url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2001/aug/26/languages.highereducation |website=The Guardian |access-date=March 6, 2024 |date=August 26, 2001}}{{cite web |last1=Wight |first1=Emily |title=From J-Lo to Strictly: why more students are learning Spanish |url=https://www.theguardian.com/education/2014/sep/09/spanish-more-students-learn-gcse-languages-latino-culture |website=The Guardian |access-date=March 6, 2024 |date=September 9, 2014}}

In 2019, she was presented with keys to the city of Miami Beach, with July 24 being declared "Jennifer Lopez Day".{{cite web |title=Miami Beach Honors J-Lo On Her 50th Birthday, Making July 24th 'Jennifer Lopez Day' |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/miami-beach-jennifer-lopez-day-50th-birthday/ |website=CBS News |access-date=February 15, 2024 |date=July 24, 2019}} Lopez's Super Bowl halftime show performance in 2020, which she co-headlined with Shakira, was considered a "culturally historic moment" for the Latin community.{{cite web |last1=Hendrik |first1=Joris |title=Why Jennifer Lopez & Shakira's Super Bowl Half-Time Show Was A Culturally Historic Moment |url=https://www.vogue.co.uk/arts-and-lifestyle/article/2020-super-bowl-halftime-show |website=British Vogue |access-date=March 5, 2024 |date=February 3, 2020}}{{cite web |last1=Santiago |first1=Fabiola |title=Shakira, J.Lo empower Latinos with Super Bowl halftime show |url=https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/news-columns-blogs/fabiola-santiago/article239911538.html |url-access=subscription |website=Miami Herald |access-date=March 5, 2024 |date=February 3, 2020}} Their "mere presence" was described as "a rebuke against weaponizing racism and xenophobia for political gain" in light of the Trump administration family separation policy.{{cite news |last1=Richards |first1=Chris |title=At the Super Bowl halftime show, Jennifer Lopez lived the American Dream |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/at-the-super-bowl-halftime-show-jennifer-lopez-lived-the-american-dream/2020/02/02/9c315a8a-4616-11ea-bc78-8a18f7afcee7_story.html |newspaper=The Washington Post |access-date=March 5, 2024 |date=February 2, 2020}} In 2023, a wax figure based on Lopez's opening look at the Super Bowl was unveiled by Madame Tussauds New York.{{cite web |last1=Herndon |first1=Ayana |title=Madame Tussauds Reveals Jennifer Lopez's New Wax Figure Inspired by Her 2020 Super Bowl Halftime Show Versace Look |url=https://wwd.com/pop-culture/celebrity-news/madame-tussauds-jennifer-lopez-wax-figure-super-bowl-1235748069/ |website=Women's Wear Daily |access-date=March 5, 2024 |date=July 19, 2023}} Lopez has worked closely with Latina small business owners,{{cite web |last1=DeSantis |first1=Rachel |title=Jennifer Lopez Steps Out in Hometown of the Bronx to Support Latina-Owned Small Businesses |url=https://people.com/music/jennifer-lopez-steps-out-in-hometown-of-the-bronx-to-support-latina-owned-small-businesses/ |website=People |access-date=March 6, 2024 |date=September 13, 2021}} and in 2022 partnered with Grameen America to help disburse $14 billion in loan capital and 6 million hours of education to low-income Latina entrepreneurs; Chloe Melas of NBC News called the initiative "unprecedented".{{cite web |last1=Melas |first1=Chloe |title=Jennifer Lopez returns to the Bronx to meet with Latina entrepreneurs |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/jennifer-lopez-returns-bronx-meet-latina-entrepreneurs-rcna104582 |website=NBC News |access-date=March 6, 2024 |date=September 14, 2023}}

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Due to her Puerto Rican heritage, Lopez has become a "symbol" for the U.S. territory.{{cite web |last1=Saraiva |first1=Augusta |title=Jennifer Lopez Bridges Gap Between Puerto Rico and Washington |url=https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2021/01/21/Jennifer-Lopez-bridges-gap-between-Puerto-Rico-and-Washington/4441611182686/ |publisher=United Press International |access-date=March 2, 2024 |date=January 21, 2021}} According to scholar Frances Negrón-Muntaner, Lopez was among the entertainers who "made their Puerto Rican identity an important part of their star personas and at times conspired to raise the value attributed to boricuas in American culture. After decades of being ignored or humiliated by government institutions and the mass media, boricuas ... finally seemed to be blessed by God, civilization, and Billboard magazine."{{harvnb|Negrón-Muntaner|2004|pp=xii-xiii}} Puerto Rico was the setting of Lopez's first concert, which was broadcast by NBC to twelve million viewers.{{cite magazine |last1=Hay |first1=Carla |title=Music & Showbiz |magazine=Billboard |date=January 19, 2002 |volume=114 |issue=3 |page=76 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1Q8EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA76 |access-date=February 27, 2024 |publisher=Nielsen Business Media, Inc.}} Her clothing line prominently featured the Puerto Rican flag on various items. She has also taken part in the National Puerto Rican Day Parade multiple times. In 2014, scientists named a species of aquatic mite found in Puerto Rico, Litarachna lopezae, after Lopez.{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/jul/17/scientists-name-new-species-of-water-mite-after-jennifer-lopez |title=Scientists name new species of water mite after Jennifer Lopez |first=Harriet |last=Gibsone |date=July 17, 2014 |website=The Guardian |access-date=July 19, 2014 }}

After the island was impacted by Hurricane Maria in 2017, Lopez promoted fundraising initiatives and donated $1 million of her concert proceeds to the island. Vogue said she was "the celebrity who perhaps worked the hardest and fastest toward getting aid to Puerto Rico."{{cite web |last1=Garcia |first1=Patricia |title=All the Ways Celebrities Are Doing More for Puerto Rico Than President Trump |url=https://www.vogue.com/article/pitbull-jennifer-lopez-celebrities-aid-puerto-rico |url-access=subscription |website=Vogue |access-date=March 2, 2024 |date=September 27, 2017}} She later hosted a telethon which raised $35 million for the island.{{cite web |title=Jennifer Lopez's Disaster Relief Telethon Raises Over $35 Million |url=https://www.hollywood.com/tv/jennifer-lopezs-disaster-relief-telethon-raises-over-35-million-60699912 |publisher=Hollywood.com |access-date=March 3, 2024 |date=October 17, 2017}} The Puerto Rican flag was featured prominently in her Super Bowl performance, where Lopez wore a reversible cape featuring the Puerto Rican flag on one side, and the American flag on the other; she was joined by her daughter singing "Born in the U.S.A.".{{cite magazine |title=How Did Puerto Ricans React to Jennifer Lopez Sporting the Flag During Super Bowl Halftime Show? |url=https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/puerto-ricans-react-jennifer-lopez-flag-cape-super-bowl-halftime-show-8550025/ |magazine=Billboard |access-date=March 5, 2024 |date=February 3, 2020}} Variety writer Cata Balanzo said the performance shined "a light on the grief and difficult circumstances her island and her people have endured the past few years."{{cite web |last1=Balzano |first1=Cata |title=How the Super Bowl Halftime Show Brought Politics and Pride to the Stage |url=https://variety.com/2020/music/opinion/super-bowl-halftime-show-jennifer-lopez-shakira-political-message-latin-experience-1203490882/ |website=Variety |access-date=March 4, 2024 |date=February 3, 2020}} Julia Ricardo Varela of The Washington Post said it offered a "glimmer of hope" for Puerto Rico after natural disasters and political strife.{{cite news |last1=Varela |first1=Julio Ricardo |title=This is an exhausting time to be Puerto Rican |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/02/04/this-is-an-exhausting-time-be-puerto-rican/ |newspaper=The Washington Post |access-date=March 5, 2024 |date=February 4, 2020}} The U.S. flag featured on the outside of Lopez's cape "intensified a longstanding political debate on the island" over the Puerto Rico statehood movement.

Hip hop culture has featured prominently in Lopez's music, fashion, and personal life. Scholar Michelle González posits that "the highs and lows of her relationship with the black community reflect a broader ambiguity within black–Latino/a relations." Lopez became known for her foray into hip hop music and collaborations with rappers;{{cite magazine |last1=Platon |first1=Adelle |title=Jennifer Lopez's 10 Best Rap Collaborations |url=https://www.billboard.com/music/rb-hip-hop/jennifer-lopez-best-rap-collaborations-7541099/ |magazine=Billboard |access-date=March 1, 2024 |date=July 24, 2019}}{{cite web |last1=Gabbara |first1=Princess |title=Jennifer Lopez's Best Hip-Hop Songs And Moments, Ranked |url=https://www.vibe.com/features/viva/jennifer-lopezs-best-hip-hop-songs-and-moments-ranked-598199/ |website=Vibe |access-date=March 1, 2024 |date=July 26, 2018}} her adoption of the stagename J.Lo was a "culmination of her hip hop persona". The hip hop community was viewed as her "core fan base" in the early 2000s, while her relationship with Sean Combs gave her "elevated status" in the black community. In New York Ricans from the Hip Hop Zone (2003), Raquel Z. Rivera observed that Lopez "loomed large in the hip hop collective conscious as the embodiment of Latina desirability", with articles about her appearing regularly in hip hop magazines such as Vibe, XXL and Ego Trip.{{harvnb|Rivera|2003|p=117}} In 2017, Las Vegas Weekly credited Lopez's Las Vegas residency for bringing "more hip-hop than the Strip has ever seen".{{cite web |last1=Radke |first1=Brock |title=The JLo show brings more hip-hop than the Strip has ever seen |url=https://lasvegasweekly.com/nightlife/industry-weekly/2017/sep/06/jlo-show-brings-more-hip-hop-to-strip/ |website=Las Vegas Weekly |access-date=March 12, 2024 |date=September 6, 2017}} Lopez's husband and filmmaker Ben Affleck said she assisted in the scriptwriting process of his film Air (2023) by helping him understand the impact of Black culture in the US.{{cite web |last1=Keegan |first1=Rebecca |title=Ben Affleck on 'Air,' New CEO Gig and Those Memes: "I Am Who I Am" |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/feature/ben-affleck-air-production-company-grammys-memes-justice-league-1235353301/ |website=The Hollywood Reporter |access-date=March 6, 2024 |date=March 16, 2023}}

Lopez has attracted accusations of cultural appropriation.{{cite web |last1=Brown |first1=Helen |title=Why Jenny From the Block backfired on Bennifer |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/music/artists/why-jenny-from-the-block-backfired-on-jennifer-lopez/ |website=The Daily Telegraph |access-date=February 29, 2024 |date=February 15, 2024}}{{cite web |last1=Tahseen |first1=Ismat |title=From Adele to Beyonce: List of celebs who got called out for cultural appropriation |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/english/hollywood/news/adele-kim-kardashian-and-other-famous-names-accused-of-cultural-appropriation/articleshow/77907406.cms |website=Times of India |access-date=March 6, 2024 |date=September 3, 2020}} Her controversial use of the racial slur nigga in her song "I'm Real" generated significant debate in 2001. Some protesters accused her of racism,{{cite web |title=Can Only African-Americans Use the 'N' Word? |url=https://transcripts.cnn.com/show/tl/date/2001-09-03/segment/00 |website=CNN |access-date=March 1, 2024 |format=Transcript |date=September 3, 2001}} and demanded the song be pulled from radio.{{cite web |last1=Hutchinson |first1=Earl Ofari |title=The war against J-Lo |url=https://www.salon.com/2001/07/19/lopez/ |website=Salon.com |access-date=March 1, 2024 |date=July 19, 2001}} Author Earl Ofari Hutchinson felt that protesters "must aim the same fire at black entertainers who make a fetish out of using racially degrading words as they do at Lopez." Scholar Miriam Jiménez Román suggested that Lopez, who "represents an often-suppressed history of hip hop culture that in its inception was as much Jamaican and Puerto Rican as African American", was "able to traverse the difficult racial boundaries" by emphasizing "her connection to Bronx street culture."{{cite book|title=The Afro-Latin@ Reader: History and Culture in the United States|year=2009|publisher=Duke Press|isbn=978-0822391319|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mSJpaNVnazQC| page=548| first1=Miriam Jiménez |last1=Román |first2=Juan |last2=Flores |access-date=July 2, 2013}}

In 2020, controversy arose over Lopez using the term negrita in her song "Lonely" with Maluma, the literal translation of which is "black girl".{{cite web |last1=Méndez |first1=Lola |title=Twitter Reacts To JLo Calling Herself 'Tu Negrita del Bronx' on Maluma's 'Lonely' |url=https://remezcla.com/music/twitter-reacts-jlo-calling-tu-negrita-del-bronx-malumas-lonely/ |website=Remezcla |access-date=February 28, 2024 |date=October 19, 2020}}{{cite web |last1=Telusma |first1=Blue |title=Jennifer Lopez slammed for calling herself a 'Black girl from the Bronx' |url=https://news.yahoo.com/jennifer-lopez-slammed-calling-herself-184500379.html |website=Yahoo! News |access-date=February 28, 2024 |date=October 21, 2020}} This fuelled debates surrounding "dissections of language and culture" and "literal versus figurative translations". Some pointed out that negrita is a Spanish term of endearment which has extended to non-black people, while others labelled it problematic and offensive.{{cite web |last1=Deaderick |first1=Lisa |title=Latina professors discuss use of 'negrito' and 'negrita' in Latin culture, after J.Lo controversy |url=https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/columnists/story/2020-11-01/latina-professors-discuss-use-of-negrito-negrita-in-latin-culture-after-j-lo-controversy |website=The San Diego Union-Tribune |access-date=February 28, 2024 |date=November 1, 2020}}

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Scholar Todd Boyd describes race as an "important cultural marker" for Lopez's rise to fame,{{cite book |last1=Boyd |first1=Todd |author1-link=Todd Boyd |title=The New H.N.I.C.: The Death of Civil Rights and the Reign of Hip Hop |date=August 4, 2004 |publisher=New York University Press |location=New York |isbn=9780814798966 |page=121}} though perceived changes in Lopez's image over the years, including "weight loss and lightening her hair", have been criticized in the context of race. Petra Rivera-Rideau of The Washington Post observed that while Lopez's music "stressed her urban Puerto Rican roots, her film career benefitted from her associations with whiteness" or "racially ambiguous" roles.{{cite news |last1=Rivera-Rideau |first1=Petra |title=What J-Lo and Shakira missed in their Super Bowl halftime show |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=February 4, 2020 |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/02/04/what-j-lo-shakira-missed-their-super-bowl-half-time-show/ |access-date=March 3, 2024}} Scholar Priscilla Peña Ovalle attributes Lopez being "massively marketable" to her "moving toward whiteness in Hollywood and blackness via MTV".{{harvnb|Ovalle|2011|pp=141–143}} In film, Lopez has played a range of ethnicities including Cuban, Mexican, mestiza, and ethnically ambiguous parts. Her portrayal of an Italian woman in The Wedding Planner was criticized as "a case of classic Hollywood whitewashing."{{cite web |last1=Zaragoza |first1=Alex |title=That's Not Amore: Everything That's Wrong With 'The Wedding Planner' |url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/thats-not-amore-everything-thats-wrong-with-the-wedding-planner/ |website=Vice |access-date=February 12, 2024 |date=February 19, 2020}}

In Digitizing Race: Visual Cultures of the Internet (2008), Lisa Nakamura posited that the "If You Had My Love" music video showcased "J. Lo's readiness to fill different musical, national, and ethnic niches", noting her "shifts from cornrowed hip-hop girl with baggy pants and tight shirts to high-heeled Latina diva to generic pop star with straightened hair and yoga pants".{{harvnb|Nakamura|2008|p=26}} Scholar Mayra Rivera found Lopez's "performative fluidity" problematic, arguing that it is "never some final transgressive liberating crossing of borders", as some Latinas argue.{{harvnb|Pinn|Valentin|2009|p=77}} Discussing the "Jenny from the Block" video, which plays into Lopez's "urban identity", Vanity Fair critic Sonia Saraiya observed "how cannily Lopez has played with the categories assigned to her throughout her career, even though at least at the beginning, those categories tended to play with her—Latina bad girl, hip-hop dancer, thoughtful performer, sexy, silly, sweet."

Ovalle posited that Lopez popularized a trend of utilizing racial ambiguity for branding purposes, writing: "In a post-Lopez period, a wave of brown women ― from Shakira to Beyoncé to even Hilary Duff in Middle Eastern brownface ― are utilizing the codes of in-betweenness in hopes of tapping the fashion or cosmetics industries."{{harvnb|Ovalle|2011|p=144}} The promotional campaign for her perfume Still Jennifer Lopez saw Lopez sporting a "platinum blond wig" and mimicking Marilyn Monroe, though the media focused on Lopez's ethnicity, "describing it as a 'Latina take' on the vintage sex symbol".{{harvnb|Shugart|2007|p=124}}

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Widely discussed for her curvaceous figure and beauty, Lopez has been credited with influencing a shift in mainstream body image and redefining cultural beauty standards.{{cite book|title=Mi Voz, Mi Vida/ My Voice, My Life: Latino College Students Tell Their Life Stories|year=2007|publisher=Cornell University Press|isbn=978-0801473869|page=179|first1=Andrew |last1=Garrod |first2=Robert |last2=Kilkenny |first3=Christina |last3=Gómez }}{{cite web |last1=Sayej |first1=Nadja |title='Halftime' Director Amanda Micheli on Capturing Jennifer Lopez's Resilience |url=https://www.shondaland.com/inspire/a40437720/halftime-director-amanda-micheli-on-capturing-jennifer-lopezs-resilience/ |publisher=Shondaland |access-date=February 21, 2024 |date=June 28, 2022 |quote=Amanda Micheli: She practically redefined our cultural ideal of beauty by embracing her body when it didn’t fit the mold.}}{{harvnb|Ovalle|2011|p=131}} She is often celebrated for her hourglass figure,{{harvnb|Mendible|2007|p=2}}{{harvnb|Negrón-Muntaner|2004|pp=235–237}} with Vanity Fair describing her buttocks as "in and of themselves, a cultural icon".{{cite news|title=Marisa Meltzer:For Posteriors' Sake|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/18/fashion/more-women-seeking-curvaceous-posteriors.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220103/https://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/18/fashion/more-women-seeking-curvaceous-posteriors.html |archive-date=January 3, 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|date=September 17, 2014}}{{cbignore}} Early in her career, Lopez's body was viewed as a problem, and required hiding by Hollywood costume designers.{{harvnb|Rivera|2003|p=131}} Her body would soon be embraced by mainstream American media, her buttocks becoming "a national obsession".{{cite journal |last1=Britt |first1=Donna |author1-link=Donna Britt (writer) |title=It's ethnic America through a rear-view mirror |journal=Newsday |date=October 14, 1998 |location=New York}} While curvaceous bodies were already the "standard of beauty" in black and Latino communities, Lopez introduced it into the "mainstream (white) public discourse".{{harvnb|Shugart|2007|pp=127–128}} The subsequent surge in popularity of buttock augmentation surgery in the early 2000s was attributed to Lopez.{{harvnb|Mendible|2007|p=1}}{{cite web |last1=Studeman |first1=Kristin Tice |title=Cultural Obsession With Butts |url=https://www.vogue.com/article/butts-vma-doctors-weigh-in |website=Vogue |access-date=February 17, 2024 |date=August 27, 2014}}

In Latin Sensations (2001), Herón Marquez wrote: "Because she wasn't rail thin, Lopez had broken the mold and allowed millions of women to feel good about their bodies. Suddenly, it was okay for women to have hips, curves, and a big backside."{{harvnb|Marquez|2001|pp=47-48}} Anthropologist Justin D. García opined that "Lopez’s most profound cultural impact may have been her influence in prompting a shift in U.S. ideals of feminine beauty", noting: "Media attention on Lopez’s curvy figure and caramel complexion challenged pre-existing Eurocentric standards of feminine beauty dominant in North American society at the time, which emphasized a fair complexion, a tall stature, and a slender build." In the 1990s, Lopez dressed to accentuate her curves and publicly embraced her body;{{harvnb|Marquez|2001|p=59}} author Mary Beltrán said this was a potentially "revolutionary act with respect to Anglo beauty ideals". According to Negrón-Muntaner, Lopez embracing her body―a "sign of her lowliness as a racialized Latina"{{harvnb|Negrón-Muntaner|2004|p=243}}—was a way to upset "'white' notions of beauty and good taste".{{harvnb|Negrón-Muntaner|2004|p=32}}

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In 2020, Vox noted the "thriving academic sub-discipline of peer-reviewed articles on the discourse about Jennifer Lopez, her body, and especially her butt."{{cite web |last1=Grady |first1=Constance |title=Jennifer Lopez's body |url=https://www.vox.com/culture/2019/9/29/20884151/jennifer-lopez-hustlers-body |website=Vox |access-date=March 5, 2024 |date=September 29, 2019}} According to scholar Traci C. West, Lopez defying mainstream standards of beauty signalled a possible "breakthrough in the public's imagination of racial norms." However, West said this also created "yet another means for valuing the capacity to be seen by whites as desirable".{{harvnb|Pinn|Valentin|2009|pp=102–103}} Journalist Dream Hampton said the objectification of Lopez's body "has everything to do with white America's gaze on ethnic bodies", noting: "The objectification of black (and brown) women's bodies is complicated not only by the history of slavery (yes, slavery existed in Puerto Rico) and those bodies in property, but also by rape."{{cite journal |last1=Hampton |first1=Dream |title=Boomin' System: Dancing. Acting. Singing. Butt-Kicking. Bombshell |journal=Vibe |date=August 1999 |url=https://www.dreamhampton.com/post/boomin-system-dancing-acting-singing-butt-kicking-bombshell |access-date=March 5, 2024}} Mayra Rivera described the media attention around Lopez's body as provoking "primitivist fetishization", which evokes issues of "colonial sexualization of mestizaje".{{harvnb|Pinn|Valentin|2009|p=78}} Jocelynne Scutt criticizes the fact that figures like Lopez "are seen as leading the 'trend'" of curvaceous bodies, "rather than linking it with its predominantly African source".{{cite book |last1=Scutt |first1=Jocelynne A. |author1-link=Jocelynne Scutt |title=Beauty, Women's Bodies and the Law: Performances in Plastic |date=November 17, 2020 |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan |isbn=9783030279981 |page=219 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4KAJEAAAQBAJ |access-date=February 29, 2024}}

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Lopez has been recognized for challenging and redefining norms around ageing, including through her fashion and stage performances.{{cite web |last1=Wood |first1=Dana |title=Can Women Really Look Like Jennifer Lopez at 50? |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/can-women-really-look-like-jennifer-lopez-at-50-11584042051 |website=The Wall Street Journal |access-date=March 2, 2024 |date=March 12, 2020}}{{cite web |last1=Cronin |first1=Emily |title=How J-Lo is redefining 50-something style |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/fashion/people/j-lo-redefining-50-something-style/ |url-access=subscription |website=The Daily Telegraph |access-date=March 2, 2024 |date=July 26, 2021}}{{cite web |last1=Vivinetto |first1=Gina |title=Jennifer Lopez and 'Golden Girls' meme shows how 50 has changed |url=https://www.today.com/popculture/jennifer-lopez-golden-girls-meme-shows-how-50-has-changed-t173065 |website=Today |access-date=March 2, 2024 |date=February 4, 2020}} In 2019, she was outspoken about turning 50, launching a tour titled It's My Party to celebrate her birthday.{{cite web |last1=Boucher |first1=Ashley |title=Jennifer Lopez Opens Up About Why Celebrating Her 50th Birthday Was So Important to Her |url=https://people.com/music/jennifer-lopez-opens-up-why-celebrating-50th-birthday-so-important/ |website=People |access-date=March 4, 2024 |date=August 28, 2019}} Psychology Today noted: "She wants to make a statement on how women don’t stop existing after age fifty."{{cite web |last1=Lis |first1=Lea |title=J-Lo: Prioritizing Boss Over Beauty |url=https://www.psychologytoday.com/sg/blog/the-shameless-psychiatrist/201908/j-lo-prioritizing-boss-over-beauty |website=Psychology Today |access-date=February 29, 2024 |date=August 30, 2019}} Althea Legaspi of the Chicago Tribune wrote: "... in the entertainment world, sexism and ageism have hampered careers. But Lopez impressively defies convention."{{cite web |last1=Legaspi |first1=Althea |title=Review: Jennifer Lopez in high-octane party mode at United Center |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/2019/06/30/review-jennifer-lopez-in-high-octane-party-mode-at-united-center/ |website=Chicago Tribune |access-date=March 2, 2024 |date=June 30, 2019}}

Lopez generated admiration and debate after her Super Bowl LIV halftime show performance, where she wore revealing costumes and performed a pole dance routine. Samantha Brennan, a scholar of women's studies, wrote: "When I watched J.Lo slide across the stage and jump back up again and keep dancing, it was like watching Olympic athletes perform at their peak during competition. That J.Lo can still perform at that level at 50 provides hope for all us who want to keep on doing our best — in mid-life and beyond."{{cite web |last1=Brennan |first1=Samantha |title=J.Lo's body: Distressing or inspiring for mid-life women? |url=https://theconversation.com/j-los-body-distressing-or-inspiring-for-mid-life-women-131351 |website=The Conversation |access-date=March 2, 2024 |date=February 13, 2020}} Vanessa Friedman of The New York Times called it "an in-your-face demonstration of a woman glorying in her own physicality, and a dare to anyone who might render judgment based on a number."{{cite web |last1=Friedman |first1=Vanessa |title=J.Lo and the Power of 50 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/03/style/jennifer-lopez-super-bowl.html |website=The New York Times |access-date=March 2, 2024 |date=February 3, 2020}} On the other hand, journalist Jennifer Weiner said she felt "personally judged" by Lopez's appearance, suggesting that it was an unrealistic representation of women in their 50s and celebrity bodies should be viewed "like art galleries".{{cite web |last1=Weiner |first1=Jennifer |title=I Feel Personally Judged by J. Lo's Body |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/04/opinion/jlo-superbowl-performance.html |website=The New York Times |access-date=March 2, 2024 |date=February 4, 2020}}

In 2021, Lopez was identified as one of 10 celebrities whose personal style choices drive the greatest spikes in searches and news coverage for brands, being the only celebrity above 35. The Daily Telegraph called her the "world's most powerful" midlife celebrity in fashion.{{cite web |last1=Abraham |first1=Tamara |title=How Jennifer Lopez became the world's most powerful midlife style star |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/fashion/style/jennifer-lopez-became-worlds-powerful-midlife-style-star/ |website=The Daily Telegraph |access-date=February 18, 2024 |date=November 16, 2021}} Friedman noted that Lopez was "fashion's favorite celebrity", having contracted with major brands like Versace, Coach and Guess, which is "no small thing in an industry famously obsessed by youth". Lopez became the oldest spokeswoman in Guess's history, which redefined the image of a "Guess girl" according to Vogue.{{cite web |last1=Satenstein |first1=Liana |title=Jennifer Lopez Becomes a Guess Girl at 48 |url=https://www.vogue.com/article/jennifer-lopez-guess-campaign-at-48 |url-access=subscription |website=Vogue |access-date=March 2, 2024 |date=November 27, 2017}}

Described by Billboard magazine as the "ultimate sex symbol" of the early 21st century,{{cite magazine |last1=Unterberger |first1=Andrew |title=Greatest Pop Star of Every Year: 1981 to 2020 – 2001: Jennifer Lopez |url=https://www.billboard.com/greatest-pop-star-every-year/ |magazine=Billboard |access-date=March 5, 2024}} Lopez has routinely been ranked as the world's sexiest or most beautiful woman by different media publications.{{harvnb|Woog|2020|p=7}} The Guardian noted that Lopez pushed "the boundaries of public sexuality" with her public appearances and fashion in the early 2000s. On stage and in her music videos, she has been noted for her sex appeal and provocative choreography.{{harvnb|Ovalle|2011|pp=3–4}} Lopez has been described as a "trendsetter in twenty-first century body politics", with scholar Michelle Gonzalez writing: "I don't know if Shakira and Beyoncé would have been able to shake it in our faces had Lopez not done so first."

Her provocative music videos and stage performances have also drawn scrutiny.{{cite news |last=Costanza|first=Ashley Justine|title=Jennifer Lopez's 'Dance Again' Video Stirs Controversy: Her Five Trashiest Videos|url=http://www.ibtimes.com/jennifer-lopezs-dance-again-video-stirs-controversy-her-five-trashiest-videos-435170|work=International Business Times |access-date=June 30, 2013|date=April 9, 2012}}{{cite web|title=Nobody Puts J.Lo's Booty in a Box|url=http://www.etonline.com/news/151961_jennifer_lopez_defends_her_booty_video_talks_scary_car_accident/|website=ETOnline |access-date=December 27, 2014|date=October 1, 2014}} Robin Givhan of The Daily Beast criticized Lopez's performance at the 2011 American Music Awards where she wore a nude bodysuit, stating that it "cried out for attention in all the wrong ways" and was "banal exhibitionism".{{cite web |last1=Givhan |first1=Robin |title=Jennifer Lopez's Fashion Blunder at American Music Awards |url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/jennifer-lopezs-fashion-blunder-at-american-music-awards |website=The Daily Beast |access-date=February 16, 2024 |date=November 21, 2011}} In 2012, she received backlash for premiering her music video for "Dance Again" on the eleventh season of American Idol; the video, which depicts an orgy, caused a "frenzy" among conservative organizations and viewers.{{cite web |last1=Gratereaux |first1=Alexandra |title=JLO to Perform Controversial Song "Dance Again" on American Idol |url=https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/jlo-to-perform-controversial-song-dance-again-on-american-idol |website=Fox News |access-date=March 6, 2024 |date=April 24, 2012}}{{cite web |title=Jennifer Lopez' 'skanky' vid slammed for orgy scene (+video) |url=https://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/jennifer-lopez-skanky-vid-slammed-for-orgy-scene-video/7URAVMZRFYJ6GEL4BFHT5E3HRA/ |website=The New Zealand Herald |access-date=March 6, 2024}} In May 2013, her performance on the finale of the television series Britain's Got Talent was deemed inappropriate for family-friendly television, and drew viewer complaints to Ofcom.{{cite web |url=https://www.digitalspy.com.au/british-tv/s107/britains-got-talent/news/a486003/jennifer-lopez-britains-got-talent-producers-said-to-wear-outfit.html |title=Jennifer Lopez: 'Britain's Got Talent producers said to wear outfit' |work=Digital Spy |access-date=May 31, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130604123052/http://www.digitalspy.com.au/british-tv/s107/britains-got-talent/news/a486003/jennifer-lopez-britains-got-talent-producers-said-to-wear-outfit.html |archive-date=June 4, 2013 |url-status=dead}} Her 2020 Super Bowl performance drew over 1,300 complaints to the Federal Communications Commission, many of which criticized Lopez's pole dancing and "grabbing her crotch".{{cite web |last1=Elassar |first1=Alaa |title=Over 1,300 complaints were sent to the FCC about Shakira and J.Lo's Super Bowl halftime show |url=https://edition.cnn.com/2020/02/25/us/shakira-jlo-super-bowl-halftime-show-fcc-complaints-trnd/index.html |publisher=CNN |access-date=March 6, 2024 |date=February 26, 2020}}{{cite web |title=1,300 complaints lodged over Jennifer Lopez and Shakira's Super Bowl halftime show |url=https://www.christiantoday.com/article/1300-complaints-lodged-over-jennifer-lopez-and-shakiras-super-bowl-halftime-show/134322.htm |website=Christian Today |access-date=March 6, 2024 |date=February 27, 2020}}

File:Transformations in the Arab World Abdelilah Benkirane (8414805712).jpg demanded legal action be taken following Lopez's "provocative" performance at Mawazine in 2015]]

In 2015, Lopez performed at the musical festival Mawazine in Morocco, where she generated controversy for her "suggestive" choreography and being "scantily dressed".{{cite web |last1=Porter |first1=Tom |title=Jennifer Lopez is too hot for Morocco: Islamist official outraged by J.Lo's 'suggestive' performance at festival |url=https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/jennifer-lopez-too-hote-morocco-islamist-official-outraged-by-j-los-suggestive-1503874 |website=International Business Times |access-date=March 2, 2024 |date=June 1, 2015}}{{cite web |last1=Wilkinson |first1=Emma |title=JLo Sued In Morocco, Concert Was 'Breach of Public Decency' |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/jlo-sued-morocco-concert-was-breach-public-decency-n371726 |website=NBC News |access-date=March 2, 2024 |date=June 9, 2015}} Moroccan writer Leïla Slimani described the performance as pornographic.{{cite book |last1=Slimani |first1=Leïla |title=Sex and Lies |date=February 18, 2020 |publisher=Faber and Faber |isbn=9780571355051}} A Moroccan education group filed a lawsuit against Lopez, claiming her performance "disrupted public routine and stained the respect and integrity of Moroccan women", having been broadcast to over 2 million viewers. Members of the Islamic ruling party in Morocco at the time, and Minister of Communications Mustapha El Khalfi, said it was a "breach of public decency" and "goes against broadcasting law". Moroccan Prime Minister Abdelilah Benkirane later called it "indecent" and "disgraceful", and called for legal action to be taken against those responsible.{{cite news|last1=Shepherd|first1=Jack|title=Jennifer Lopez concert: Moroccan PM demands investigation into 'provocative' performance|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/jennifer-lopez-moroccan-pm-demands-investigation-into-provocative-performance-10304831.html|website=The Independent|access-date=November 23, 2016|date=June 8, 2015}}

Lopez has been a polarizing figure in popular culture.{{cite web |last1=Halperin |first1=Shirley |title=Secrets Behind 'American Idol's' Incredible Comeback |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/secrets-american-idols-incredible-comeback-189263/ |website=The Hollywood Reporter |access-date=February 23, 2024 |date=May 19, 2011}} Jonathan Van Meter of Vogue described her as having "changed the face of modern celebrity."{{cite web |last1=Van Meter |first1=Jonathan |title=Jennifer Lopez: Venus Rising |url=https://www.vogue.com/article/jennifer-lopez-venus-rising |website=Vogue |access-date=February 12, 2024 |date=March 15, 2012}} With her moniker J.Lo, Lopez started a trend of celebrities being given abbreviated nicknames.{{cite web |title=Robert Pattinson disdains 'hypocritical' activist celebrities |url=https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/celebrity/robert-pattinson-disdains-hypocritical-activist-celebrities-20120613-2095m.html |website=The Sydney Morning Herald |access-date=February 15, 2024 |date=June 13, 2012}} A tabloid fixture,{{cite news|last1=Johnson|first1=Steve|title=Will Lopez, Tyler be good for 'American Idol'?|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/ct-xpm-2010-09-22-chi-100922-american-idol-judges-strengths-story.html|access-date=January 28, 2015|work=Chicago Tribune|date=September 22, 2010}} much of the media coverage surrounding Lopez in the 2000s "focused on her dramatic private life".{{harvnb|Parish|2009|p=2}} Negrón-Muntaner wrote that as early as 1999, she became "one of the easiest moving targets for cheap laughs as well as anxieties about working-class ‘loud’ sexuality and specifically Latino visibility." Despite this, Andrew Unterberger of Billboard described 2001 as "the peak of her all-consuming celebrity ... she was still America's sweetheart, still believable as a plucky rom-com underdog, still ultra-approachable even at her most glamorous." In 2002 and the years that ensued, however, Lopez was viewed as overexposed.{{cite news |last=Holloway|first=Lynette|title=Keeping J. Lo in Spotlight Has Risks for Her Career As Well as Rich Rewards|newspaper=The New York Times|date=December 9, 2002|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/09/business/keeping-j-lo-in-spotlight-has-risks-for-her-career-as-well-as-rich-rewards.html|access-date=June 30, 2013}}{{harvnb|Riley|2010|p=242}}

Throughout her career, she has received a bad reputation as being a demanding and outspoken "diva",{{cite news |title=Demanding diva Jennifer Lopez bans domestic staff from speaking to her|url=https://www.standard.co.uk/showbiz/celebrity-news/demanding-diva-jennifer-lopez-bans-domestic-staff-from-speaking-to-her-8134190.html|work=London Evening Standard|access-date=January 8, 2013|date=September 13, 2012}} something which Lopez has often denied, attributing it to sexism.{{cite web |last1=Lee |first1=Esther |title=Jennifer Lopez Addresses Sexism in Hollywood, Being Branded a Diva: 'Am I Difficult Because I Care?' |url=https://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/jennifer-lopez-on-sexism-in-hollywood-being-branded-a-diva-w207010/|website=US Magazine |access-date=June 6, 2022 |date=May 18, 2016}} Some of the backlash and fabricated tabloid stories surrounding Lopez have been attributed to her 1998 interview with Movieline, in which she was quoted as criticizing various actors and directors. Lopez, who "cried for hours" after the article was published, said the comments were made in jest and she was "so misquoted and so taken out of context". In 2003, Lawrence Donegan of The Guardian posited that misogyny and racism were to blame for her "bilious" coverage, writing: "Lopez must wonder what heinous crime she committed to become the most vilified woman in modern popular culture."{{cite news |title=Observer profile: J-Lo |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2003/sep/14/popandrock |access-date=October 3, 2021 |work=The Guardian |date=September 14, 2003 |language=en}} In 2021, Ben Affleck said: "... sexist, racist, ugly vicious shit was written about her in ways that if you wrote it now, you would literally be fired for saying some of the things you said."{{cite magazine|first=Scott|last=Feinberg|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/awards-chatter-podcast-ben-affleck-the-way-back-4115884/|title='Awards Chatter' Podcast — Ben Affleck ('The Way Back')|magazine=The Hollywood Reporter|date=January 14, 2021|access-date=January 1, 2023}}

Lopez's popularity and chart success waned in the latter half of the 2000s.{{cite magazine |last1=Anderson |first1=Trevor |title=Greatest Pop Star of Every Year: 1981 to 2020 – 2011: Adele|url=https://www.billboard.com/greatest-pop-star-every-year/ |magazine=Billboard |access-date=March 5, 2024}} Her media coverage and public image later shifted when she joined American Idol in 2011,{{cite magazine|last1=Markovitz|first1=Adam|title=Love? review – Jennifer Lopez|url=https://ew.com/article/2011/05/04/love-review-jennifer-lopez-music-ewcom|magazine=Entertainment Weekly|access-date=November 20, 2016|date=May 4, 2011}} which was seen as humanizing her. People editor Peter Castro said American Idol made her "a celebrity of the people" whereas before, "there was a huge distance with the American public."{{cite web |last1=La Porte |first1=Nicole |title=Jennifer Lopez, the People's Pop Star |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/15/fashion/jennifer-lopez-the-peoples-pop-star.html|url-access=subscription |website=The New York Times |access-date=February 26, 2024 |date=May 15, 2011}} Writing for CNN, Holly Thomas opined: "No matter what knocks her popularity or her credibility, she always wins her audience back. The noughties saw Lopez go from seemingly invincible to near laughingstock, and the 2010s saw her catapult herself back to superstardom."{{cite web |last1=Thomas |first1=Holly |title=Super Bowl headliner Jennifer Lopez is the star of bouncing back |url=https://edition.cnn.com/2020/01/31/opinions/super-bowl-jennifer-lopez-comeback-thomas/index.html |publisher=CNN |access-date=March 6, 2024 |date=January 31, 2020}}

{{see also|Bennifer}}

File:Time 100 Jennifer Lopez and Marc Antony.jpg, 2006]]

Media coverage of Lopez's relationships has depicted her as "erratic, hyperemotional, tempestuous, flamboyant, and out of control."{{harvnb|Shugart|2007|p=129}} Lopez's high-profile relationship with Sean Combs was described as having "defined an age", with Vanity Fair writing that they entered "the pantheon of slightly notorious celebrity couples: Liz and Dick, Frank and Ava."

The relationship between Lopez and Ben Affleck was noted to have started the "2000s tabloid boom".{{cite web |last1=Malone |first1=Clare |title=For Better and for Worse, the Original Bennifer Birthed the 2000s Tabloids Boom |url=https://www.theringer.com/2022/2/14/22932644/just-like-us-episode-1-tabloids-podcast-jennifer-lopez-ben-affleck-bennifer |website=The Ringer |access-date=March 3, 2024 |date=February 14, 2022}} Tabloids referred to the couple as "Bennifer", a portmanteau Vanity Fair described as "the first of that sort of tabloid branding".{{cite news|url=https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2011/09/jennifer-lopez-201109 |title=Jenny Back on the Block |first=Lisa |last=Robinson |magazine=Vanity Fair |date=August 4, 2011 |access-date=April 14, 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160714073057/http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2011/09/jennifer-lopez-201109 |archive-date=July 14, 2016 }} This subsequently created the trend of celebrity couple name blending. The 6.1-carat pink diamond ring from the couple's first engagement (2002) has been described as "the most talked about engagement ring" in modern times, prompting a surge in the popularity of colored diamonds and increasing the value of pink diamonds.{{cite web |last1=Jamal |first1=Alfea |title=Jennifer Lopez kept Ben Affleck's $1.2m pink diamond ring from their engagement? |url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/lifestyle/fashion/jennifer-lopez-kept-ben-affleck-s-1-2m-pink-diamond-ring-from-their-engagement-101621306785586.html |website=Hindustan Times |access-date=February 20, 2024 |date=May 18, 2021}}{{cite web |last1=Volandes |first1=Stellene |title=Jennifer Lopez's Pink Diamond Made Her an Engagement Ring Influencer |url=https://www.townandcountrymag.com/style/jewelry-and-watches/a26871521/jennifer-lopez-pink-diamond-engagement-ring-colored-diamond-trend/ |website=Town & Country |access-date=February 20, 2024 |date=May 12, 2021}}

The negative media coverage of Lopez peaked during her first engagement to Affleck, which several commentators attributed to issues of race and class.{{cite web |last1=Grady |first1=Constance |title=The redemption of Bennifer |url=https://www.vox.com/culture/22629442/bennifer-jennifer-lopez-ben-affleck-reunion-explained |website=Vox |access-date=March 3, 2024 |date=August 24, 2021}} Vanity Fair described the reaction as "moral panic", attributing it to "a perceived mismatch; how could a guy like him go for a girl like her, with all the racist baggage that implied."{{cite magazine |last1=Saraiya |first1=Sonia |title='Rumors Got Me Laughing, Kid': Looking Back on 'Jenny From the Block,' the Bennifer Anthem That Explains 2021 |url=https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2021/05/ben-affleck-jennifer-lopez-jenny-from-the-block-bennifer |magazine=Vanity Fair |access-date=February 29, 2024 |date=May 19, 2021}} Affleck's appearance in Lopez's "Jenny from the Block" music video became notorious, with The Daily Telegraph writing: "On another level, considering this was an era when only men were encouraged to flaunt their conquests, J Lo’s boasts were political ... Here was a confident Latin woman with a trophy white male film star on her arm." Entrepreneur magazine said the couple's 2021 reunion "triggered a cultural earthquake".{{cite web |last1=Dodds |first1=Frances |title=Jennifer Lopez Thinks Latina Entrepreneurs Are Undervalued, So She's Giving Them $14 Billion in Loans |url=https://www.entrepreneur.com/leadership/jennifer-lopez-is-done-with-happy-to-be-here-she-thinks/435859 |website=Entrepreneur |access-date=March 6, 2024 |date=October 4, 2022}} Following their marriage in 2022, Lopez changing her legal surname to Affleck generated widespread debate and polarized reactions,{{cite web |last1=Lustig |first1=Hanna |title=Why Do We Care So Much About Jennifer Lopez Affleck's Last Name? |url=https://www.glamour.com/story/jennifer-lopez-affleck-last-name |website=Glamour |access-date=March 1, 2024 |date=July 21, 2022}}{{cite web |last1=Gill |first1=Sarah |title=J.Lo is now J.Aff, and it's reopened an age-old debate: should a woman take her husband's last name? |url=https://www.image.ie/agenda/j-lo-is-now-j-aff-and-its-reopened-an-age-old-debate-should-a-woman-take-her-husbands-last-name-462015 |website=Image |access-date=March 1, 2024 |date=July 25, 2022}} garnering both support and criticism from feminists.{{cite news |last1=Cohen |first1=Kate |title=No, Jennifer Affleck's name change isn't 'feminist' |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/08/17/lopez-affleck-name-change-feminist-sexist-choice/ |newspaper=The Washington Post |access-date=March 1, 2024 |date=August 17, 2022}}{{cite web |last1=Richards |first1=Victoria |title=No woman should be changing her name after marriage in 2022 |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/name-change-marriage-jennifer-lopez-ben-affleck-b2125407.html |website=The Independent |access-date=March 1, 2024 |date=July 18, 2022}}

Lopez and Marc Anthony were described as a "Latin power couple".{{cite web |last1=Noe |first1=Cristina |title=Jennifer Lopez says daughter Emme won't launch music career |url=https://www.hola.com/us/celebrities/20200212fklgk3a72q/jennifer-lopez-daughter-emme-music-singing-career/ |website=¡Hola! |access-date=March 3, 2024 |date=February 13, 2020}} Following the birth of their twins in 2008, they appeared with Lopez on the cover of People, which the magazine paid $6 million for; this became the most expensive celebrity photograph at the time.

Considered a fashion icon, Lopez is known for her sense of style and "breaking fashion rules".{{harvnb|Deanne|Kenyatta|Lowery|2005|pp=107–109}}{{cite web |last1=Curran |first1=Amanda |title=Jennifer Lopez Just Wore a Sheer Button-Front Dress Over Pants |url=https://www.glamour.com/story/jennifer-lopez-long-button-down-shirt |website=Glamour |access-date=February 11, 2024 |date=January 13, 2023}} She is recognized for her "bold" red carpet fashion and her everyday street style, which is "discussed ad infinitum by the fashion press."{{cite web |last1=Allaire|first1=Christian |title=Nobody Does Athleisure Style Quite Like J.Lo |url=https://www.vogue.com/article/jennifer-lopez-best-athleisure-style-moments |website=Vogue |access-date=February 23, 2024 |date=July 24, 2020}}{{cite web |last1=Yotka|first1=Steff|title=Jennifer Lopez Will Receive the Fashion Icon Honor at the CFDA Awards |url=https://www.vogue.com/article/jennifer-lopez-fashion-icon-award-cfda |website=Vogue |access-date=February 23, 2024 |date=April 6, 2019}} British Vogue said she "added megawatt glamour to every outfit she wore".{{cite web|url=https://www.vogue.co.uk/fashion/gallery/jennifer-lopez-90s-fashion|title=Every Time Jennifer Lopez Wrote Her Own Style Rules In The '90s|work=British Vogue|first=Susan|last=Devaney|date=July 24, 2021 |access-date=June 25, 2022}} Early in her career, her "curve-hugging" fashion sense was described as "revolutionary" and "unconventional".

File:Donatella Versace and Jennifer Lopez in 2019.jpg, and Donatella Versace (right) in 2019]]

Recognized for her influence on fashion,{{harvnb|Woog|2020|p=60}} the Council of Fashion Designers of America presented Lopez with its Fashion Icon Award in 2019 for her "long-standing and global impact on fashion".{{cite web |last1=Bateman |first1=Kristen |title=CFDA Fashion Awards 2019: Jennifer Lopez and Barbie among winners |url=https://edition.cnn.com/style/article/cfda-fashion-awards-2019/index.html |publisher=CNN |access-date=July 20, 2019 |date=June 4, 2019}} Her green Versace "Jungle Dress" was voted the fifth most iconic red carpet dress of all time in a poll run by The Daily Telegraph.{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/celebritynews/3167702/Liz-Hurley-safety-pin-dress-voted-the-greatest-dress.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220110/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/celebritynews/3167702/Liz-Hurley-safety-pin-dress-voted-the-greatest-dress.html |archive-date=January 10, 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|first=Urmee|last=Khan|title=Liz Hurley 'safety pin' dress voted the greatest dress |work=The Daily Telegraph |date=October 9, 2008|access-date=May 1, 2011|location=London}}{{cbignore}} The dress had a significant impact on the fashion industry, celebrity endorsements, and the evolution of red carpet fashion.{{cite web |last1=Fury |first1=Alexander |title=Alexander Fury: How JLo's Green Versace Dress Changed History |url=https://www.anothermag.com/fashion-beauty/12205/alexander-fury-jlo-jennifer-lopez-green-versace-jungle-dress-grammy-show |website=Another Magazine |access-date=February 13, 2024 |date=January 28, 2020}}{{cite web |last1=Brookins |first1=Laurie |title=Jennifer Lopez Is CFDA's 2019 Fashion Icon |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/jennifer-lopez-is-cfdas-2019-fashion-icon-1202559/ |website=The Hollywood Reporter |access-date=February 13, 2024 |date=April 16, 2019}}{{harvnb|Riley|2010|p=241}} The images of Lopez wearing the dress became the most popular search query of all time at that point, and subsequently led to the creation of Google's image search.{{cite web |last1=Schmidt|first1=Eric |author-link=Eric Schmidt |title=The Tinker's Apprentice|url=http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/google-european-commission-and-disruptive-technological-change-by-eric-schmidt-2015-01 |publisher=Project Syndicate|access-date=January 25, 2015|date=January 19, 2015}} Donatella Versace credited Lopez wearing the dress with "reviving" the Versace brand after the death of her brother, Gianni Versace.{{cite web |title=Why Jennifer Lopez's Grammy's Dress Was Responsible For Google Images |url=https://nz.news.yahoo.com/why-jennifer-lopezs-grammys-dress-was-responsible-for-google-images-27027625.html |website=Yahoo! News |access-date=February 16, 2024 |date=April 9, 2015}}

Lopez has been credited with popularizing various fashion trends and brands throughout her career,{{cite web |last1=Halabian |first1=Layla |title=Never forget that Jennifer Lopez was the queen of early-'00s style |url=https://www.thefader.com/2018/08/07/jennifer-lopez-style-music-video-style-early-aughts-early-2000s-video-vanguard |website=The Fader |access-date=February 18, 2024 |date=August 7, 2018}}{{cite web |title=Jennifer Lopez: style icon of the decade |url=https://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/fashion/jennifer-lopez-style-icon-of-the-decade-20100426-tmpk.html |website=Sydney Morning Herald |access-date=March 3, 2024 |date=April 26, 2010}} including velour shorts,{{cite web |last1=Keeler |first1=Janet K. |title=Choice words for short shorts |url=https://www.tampabay.com/archive/2003/04/15/choice-words-for-short-shorts/ |website=Tampa Bay Times |access-date=February 16, 2024 |date=April 15, 2003}} baby pink coats,{{cite web |last1=Slater |first1=Jack |title=35 of Jennifer Lopez's best looks: from iconic music video moments to times she shut down the red carpet |url=https://www.womanandhome.com/life/news-entertainment/35-of-jennifer-lopezs-best-looks-from-iconic-music-video-moments-to-times-she-shut-down-the-red-carpet/ |website=Woman & Home |access-date=February 16, 2024 |date=November 15, 2023}} Juicy Couture tracksuits,{{cite web |last1=Cerini |first1=Marianna |title=Remember when J.Lo made Juicy Couture tracksuits cool? |url=https://edition.cnn.com/style/article/jennifer-lopez-pink-tracksuit-juicy-remember-when/index.html |publisher=CNN |access-date=February 16, 2024 |date=April 27, 2020}} cargo pants, newsboy caps,{{cite web |last=Escobedo Shepherd |first=Julianne |date=February 22, 2024 |title=Jennifer Lopez: This Is Me... Now Album Review |url=https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/jennifer-lopez-this-is-me-now/ |website=Pitchfork |access-date=February 22, 2024}}{{cite journal |last1=Horyn |first1=Cathy |author1-link=Cathy Horyn |title=Hats Are for Hiding, Yes, but How They Can Show Off |journal=The New York Times |date=June 25, 2002 |issue=151 }} athleisure wear, and nude clothing.{{cite web |last1=Spencer |first1=Tallie |title=25 Celebrities Who Had the Best Style of the 2010s |url=https://www.businessinsider.com/celebrities-who-defined-2010s-style-2019-11#jennifer-lopez-wore-one-show-stopping-look-after-another-1 |website=Business Insider |access-date=February 23, 2024 |date=December 3, 2019}} She also sparked beauty trends including sunless tanning, monochromatic makeup, contouring and mink eyelashes.{{cite web |last1=London |first1=Lela |title=Meet Makeup Artist Scott Barnes, The CEO Who Turned Jennifer Lopez Into J-Lo |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/lelalondon/2020/07/22/meet-makeup-artist-scott-barnes-the-man-who-turned-jennifer-lopez-into-j-lo/ |website=Forbes |access-date=February 16, 2024 |date=July 22, 2020}} Vogue wrote that "Lopez was deciding Y2K beauty at its origin point".{{cite web |last1=Van Paris |first1=Cailin |title=Jennifer Lopez's 19 Best Hair Moments of All Time |url=https://www.vogue.com/slideshow/jennifer-lopez-hair-moments-best-of-all-time |website=Vogue |access-date=February 29, 2024 |date=November 8, 2022}} In 2004, she inspired a trend of curvier mannequins being manufactured, with mannequin designers such as Ralph Pucci basing their designs on her body.{{cite web |title=Dummy's guide to fashion |url=https://www.theage.com.au/lifestyle/fashion/dummys-guide-to-fashion-20050801-ge0m00.html |website=The Age |access-date=February 12, 2024 |date=August 1, 2005}} This fuelled a rise in sales for manufacturers and retailers.{{cite web |title=Big-bottomed mannequins boost profile in New York |url=https://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/big-bottomed-mannequins-boost-profile-in-new-york/FF6X5YR3UC6WLIEIKKZFQ2STIM/ |website=The New Zealand Herald |access-date=February 13, 2024 |date=December 13, 2004}}{{cite web |title=Shapely dummy helps maker's bottom line |url=https://www.smh.com.au/national/shapely-dummy-helps-makers-bottom-line-20050129-gdkl4x.html |website=The Sydney Morning Herald |access-date=February 12, 2024 |date=January 29, 2005}}

Lopez has been in demand as a fashion brand ambassador.{{cite web |last1=Deeley |first1=Rachel |title=Why the Fashion Industry Is Betting Big on Jennifer Lopez |url=https://www.businessoffashion.com/articles/marketing-pr/why-the-fashion-industry-is-betting-big-on-jennifer-lopez/ |website=Business of Fashion |access-date=February 17, 2024 |date=January 16, 2020}} In the early 2000s, her personal style choices had a direct bearing on sales in the fashion industry, with the Chicago Tribune writing: "More than abstract entertainment, her style influence goes straight to the bottom line." The success of Louis Vuitton's fall 2003 campaign, for which Lopez was the brand's model, led to an influx of Hollywood stars "becoming image models of fashion and cosmetic labels".{{cite news |title=More Hollywood endorsers |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2qZjAAAAIBAJ&pg=PA119 |access-date=March 20, 2024 |newspaper=Philippine Daily Inquirer |date=December 25, 2004 |page=119}} Her appearance at Milan Fashion Week in September 2019, wearing an updated version of green Versace dress, generated over $31.8 million in total media impact value.{{cite web |title=Jennifer Lopez revives dress behind the invention of Google Images |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-49780020 |website=BBC News |access-date=December 30, 2019 |date=September 21, 2019 }}{{cite web |last1=Lockwood |first1=Lisa |title=Jennifer Lopez Gives Big Boost to Media Impact Value at Milan Fashion Week |url=https://wwd.com/business-news/media/jennifer-lopez-media-impact-value-milan-1203320114/ |website=Women's Wear Daily |access-date=September 30, 2019 |date=September 27, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190930233801/https://wwd.com/business-news/media/jennifer-lopez-media-impact-value-milan-1203320114/ |archive-date=September 30, 2019 |url-status=dead }} After she wore a white Chanel coat at the 2021 presidential inauguration, searches for "long white coats" grew by 119%.

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Described as a "branding pioneer", Lopez is said to have ushered in a new era of celebrity branding. In Icons of American Popular Culture (2009), Robert C. Cottrell described Lopez as a "multidimensional artist who had turned into a financial powerhouse". Vogue wrote that she broadened "the possibilities of what a superstar can be: a global brand", while Adweek observed that Lopez began building her personal brand at a time when "'personal brand' was not yet part of the cultural lexicon".{{cite web |last1=Granatstein |first1=Lisa |title=Jennifer Lopez Is Adweek's 2021 Brand Visionary |url=https://www.adweek.com/brand-marketing/why-jlos-star-wont-stop-rising/ |website=Adweek |url-access=subscription |access-date=February 22, 2024 |date=September 19, 2021}} She has also been described as a "corporate entity", and a "walking lifestyle brand",{{cite magazine |last1=Hampp |first1=Andrew |title=J. Lo's $40M+ Cash Flow: Inside Jennifer Lopez's Diverse Earnings Portfolio |url=https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/j-los-40m-cash-flow-inside-jennifer-lopezs-diverse-6121554/ |magazine=Billboard |access-date=March 6, 2024 |date=June 17, 2014}} with The Guardian writing in 2003: "Jennifer Lopez was no longer Jennifer Lopez; she was bootylicious J-Lo the actress, musician, the perfume, the clothes label, the handbag."

Journalists have noted Lopez's diversification strategy and multimedia focus,{{cite web |last1=Allen |first1=Terina |title=This Is How Jennifer Lopez Hustled Her Way To The Top |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/terinaallen/2019/11/23/this-is-how-jennifer-lopez-hustled-her-way-to-the-top/?sh=577d31434dcb |website=Forbes |access-date=February 28, 2024 |date=November 23, 2019}}{{cite web |last1=Molanphy |first1=Chris |title=What Cardi B's New No. 1 Has in Common With J. Lo's First, and Taylor Swift's Last |url=https://slate.com/culture/2017/09/why-cardi-bs-bodak-yellow-is-1-on-the-hot-100.html |website=Slate |access-date=March 2, 2024 |date=September 29, 2017}}{{cite web |title=Hollywood Reporter Names the Top 25 Latinos in Entertainment |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/nina-tassler-jennifer-lopez-more-738489/ |website=The Hollywood Reporter |access-date=March 8, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211127154507/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/nina-tassler-jennifer-lopez-more-738489/ |archive-date=November 27, 2021 |date=October 13, 2014}} and creating a "new standard of fame marked by self-branding and multidisciplinary ambitions". Salon.com said Lopez understood "that she could parlay her time in the public eye in various directions." In 2013, Forbes wrote: "She's everywhere– from cosmetics and automobiles, to catering and telecommunications. Over the past few years, JLo has grown into one of the most complex brands in the world." According to Ann Powers of Slate, Lopez "pioneered 21st century stardom by being an excellent floater, welcome in every entertainment stream from film to dance to fashion, but unwilling to settle within any of them."{{cite web |last1=Powers |first1=Ann |title=The Return of J. Lo |url=https://slate.com/culture/2011/05/the-return-of-j-lo-how-did-this-happen.html |website=Slate |access-date=March 8, 2024 |date=May 11, 2011}}

Her first fragrance, Glow by JLo, influenced the rise of celebrity fragrances in the 2000s,{{cite web|last=Naughton|first=Julie|title=Getting to the Heart of J.Lo|url=http://www.wwd.com/beauty-industry-news/people/jennifer-lopez-maintains-foothold-in-fragrance-5642440?page=2|work=WWD|access-date=October 21, 2012|date=February 9, 2012}}{{cite web|url=https://www.instyle.com/glow-by-jlo-20-year-anniversary-6744523|title=How Glow by J.Lo Forever Changed the Celebrity Fragrance Market|work=InStyle|first=Audrey|last=Noble|date=September 28, 2022|access-date=September 28, 2022}} an industry which had been dormant. Perfume critic Chandler Burr wrote: "Elizabeth Taylor was one of the first [to have her own scent], but Glow kicked the whole thing into overdrive."{{cite web |last1=McIntosh |first1=Steven |title=Is this the end of celebrity fragrances? |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-38756997 |website=BBC News |access-date=July 5, 2018 |date=February 28, 2017}} Her fragrance line became the most successful celebrity line in the world, with sales exceeding $2 billion {{as of|2012|lc=y}}.{{cite news |url=http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/jennifer-lopez-and-nuvotv-announce-exclusive-creative-production-and-marketing-partnership-169416666.html |title=Jennifer Lopez and nuvoTV Announce Exclusive Creative, Production and Marketing Partnership |location=Los Angeles |date=September 12, 2012 |agency=PR Newswire |access-date=July 20, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140906133814/http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/jennifer-lopez-and-nuvotv-announce-exclusive-creative-production-and-marketing-partnership-169416666.html |archive-date=September 6, 2014 |url-status=dead }} Lopez was one of the first celebrities to have a lifestyle brand,{{cite web |last1=Brown |first1=Annie |title=It was always J. Lo |url=https://www.vogue.com.au/culture/it-was-always-jlo/news-story/df9a7f4c01687a29957d1c25b28bcb20 |website=Vogue |access-date=March 8, 2024 |date=July 28, 2022}} and her clothing brand was one of the first celebrity fashion lines;{{cite web |last1=Kaplan |first1=Julee |title=Jennifer Lopez Exits Apparel in the U.S. |url=https://wwd.com/feature/jennifer-lopez-exits-apparel-in-the-us-2187085-1481062/ |website=WWD |access-date=February 13, 2024 |date=June 24, 2009}} scholar Aida Hurtado wrote that she "redefined how fashion is produced and entwined with other artistic endeavors", influencing other artists to adopt a similar approach.

Lopez has worked with U.S. politicians on a number of occasions. In 2009, she met with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Congresswoman Nydia Velázquez on Capitol Hill to "discuss education in the Latino community and college affordability legislation".{{cite web |title=Jennifer Lopez's rise to fame |url=https://www.today.com/slideshow/amp/jennifer-lopezs-rise-fame-34651801 |website=Today |access-date=February 29, 2024}}{{cite web |last1=Lorber |first1=Janie |title=Pop Stars on the Hill |url=https://archive.nytimes.com/thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/16/pop-stars-on-the-hill/ |website=The New York Times |access-date=February 28, 2024 |date=September 16, 2009}} In 2013, she met with the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, the National Council of La Raza and Senators Harry Reid and Bob Menendez to lobby for greater diversity and representation of Latinos in television programming.{{cite web |last1=Anderson |first1=Stacy A. |title=Jennifer Lopez on Latinos in the U.S.: 'We're realizing our power' |url=https://www.statesman.com/story/news/2013/06/14/jennifer-lopez-on-latinos-in-the-us-were-realizing-our-power/10133908007/ |website=Austin-American Statesman |access-date=February 28, 2024 |date=June 14, 2013}} She also spoke at the NCTA's The Cable Show convention, where she said there is "a media and cultural revolution of Latinos here in the United States. We're realizing our power."

Lopez sampled a speech from Hillary Clinton in her music video for "Ain't Your Mama", which received praise from Clinton.{{cite web |last1=Jensen |first1=Erin |title=Hillary Clinton tweets praise for JLo's 'Ain't Your Mama' video |url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/entertainthis/2016/05/09/hillary-clinton-tweets-praise-jennifer-lopez-aint-your-mama-video/84133256/ |website=USA Today |access-date=February 29, 2024 |date=May 9, 2016}} Clinton also used "Let's Get Loud" throughout her 2016 presidential campaign,{{cite web |last1=Vulpo |first1=Mike |title=Hillary Clinton Caught Dancing to Jennifer Lopez's Hit Single |url=https://www.eonline.com/news/697590/hillary-clinton-shows-off-her-dance-moves-to-jennifer-lopez-s-let-s-get-loud-during-campaign-stop-watch |website=E! News |access-date=March 2, 2024 |date=September 20, 2015}}{{cite web |last1=Gambino |first1=Lauren |title='I love being La Hillary': Clinton lays out vision to Latino crowd in Texas |url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/oct/15/hillary-clinton-latinos-rally-texas |website=The Guardian |access-date=March 2, 2024 |date=October 16, 2015}} and Lopez appeared alongside Clinton in an interview after endorsing her.{{cite web |title='Extra' Exclusive with Hillary Clinton & Jennifer Lopez, Plus: Hillary Gushes Over First Lady Michelle Obama |url=https://extratv.com/2016/10/31/extra-exclusive-with-hillary-clinton-jennifer-lopez-plus-hillary-gushes-over-first-lady-obama/ |website=Extra |access-date=February 29, 2024 |date=October 31, 2016}}

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Lopez was outspoken in her criticism of President Donald Trump during his presidency.{{cite web |last1=Azzopardi |first1=Chris |title='Halftime' Review: Jennifer Lopez, Making Headlines |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/14/movies/halftime-review.html |url-access=subscription|website=The New York Times |access-date=March 6, 2024 |date=June 14, 2022}} During her Super Bowl halftime show performance in 2020, she performed "Let's Get Loud" while cloaked in a large Puerto Rican flag, with children in metal cages displayed on the field. It was interpreted as a statement about the Mexico–United States border crisis, Trump's immigration policy, and his response to Hurricane Maria.{{cite news |last1=Butler |first1=Bethonie |title=Jennifer Lopez sang 'Lets Get Loud' at inauguration. The dance track actually made perfect sense |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2021/01/20/jennifer-lopez-lets-get-loud-inauguration/ |url-access=subscription|newspaper=The Washington Post |access-date=February 24, 2024 |date=January 20, 2021}}{{cite web |last1=Evelyn |first1=Kenya |title=Super Bowl show's Latino flavor and political edge hits home with audience |url=https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2020/feb/03/jennifer-lopez-shakira-super-bowl-half-time-show-latino-political |website=The Guardian |access-date=March 2, 2024 |date=February 4, 2020}} The NFL attempted to remove the cages from the performance but Lopez refused.{{cite AV media |date=2022 |title=Jennifer Lopez: Halftime |type=Documentary |language=English |publisher=Netflix|url=https://www.netflix.com/au/title/81031929|url-access=subscription|access-date=February 25, 2024}} She later performed at the inauguration of Joe Biden in 2021, where she sang "This Land Is Your Land" and "America the Beautiful", while reciting the last phrase of the Pledge of Allegiance in Spanish. She also worked "Let's Get Loud" into the performance as a "reprise" to her political message at the Super Bowl. Scholar Carlos Vargas-Ramos from the Centro de Estudios Puertorriqueños found Lopez's performance symbolic, stating that it helped raise awareness for Puerto Rico.

In 2013, Lopez controversially performed for President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow of Turkmenistan, an authoritarian ruler accused of widespread human rights violations.{{cite web |last1=Elder |first1=Miriam |title=Jennifer Lopez sparks controversy with show for Turkmenistan president |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/30/jennifer-lopez-performance-turkmenistan |website=The Guardian |access-date=March 3, 2024 |date=July 1, 2013}} Lopez's publicist said she was unaware of the country's human rights record. It emerged that the performance was organized by the China National Petroleum Corporation, as a possible bribe by the Chinese government to "boost access to abundant gas supplies in Turkmenistan".{{cite web |last1=Spegele |first1=Brian |title=Jennifer Lopez Turkmenistan Gig Shines Light on Chinese Oil Firm |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424127887324251504578579484286462430 |website=The Wall Street Journal |access-date=March 3, 2024 |date=July 1, 2013}}{{cite web |last1=Camm |first1=George |title=Was J.Lo a Chinese Bribe to Turkmenistan? |url=https://eurasianet.org/was-jlo-a-chinese-bribe-to-turkmenistan |website=Eurasianet |access-date=March 3, 2024 |date=July 2, 2013}} In 2024, she received backlash for receiving a reported $5 million to perform in the United Arab Emirates, where homosexuality is illegal; politician Peter Tatchell called it "sad that a long-time LGBTQ ally like Jennifer Lopez is prepared to put money before human rights."{{cite web |last1=Norton |first1=Taylor |title=Jennifer Lopez Receives Backlash for 'Putting Money Before Human Rights' After Accepting $5 Million Paycheck to Perform in 'Anti-Gay' Dubai |url=https://okmagazine.com/p/jennifer-lopez-backlash-money-human-rights-5-million-anti-gay-dubai/ |website=OK! |access-date=March 6, 2024 |date=February 11, 2024}}

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• {{cite book |last1=Parish |first1=James Robert |author1-link=James Robert Parish |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lh1Y2OK-VdsC |title=Jennifer Lopez |date=2009 |publisher=Infobase Publishing |location=New York |access-date=February 22, 2024|isbn=9781438111919}}
• {{cite book |last1=Riley |first1=Sam G. |title=Star Struck: An Encyclopedia of Celebrity Culture |date=2010 |publisher=ABC-CLIO |isbn=9780313358135 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9k3EEAAAQBAJ |access-date=February 24, 2024}}
• {{Cite book

|first = Priscilla Peña

|last = Ovalle

|title = Dance and the Hollywood Latina: Race, Sex, and Stardom

|publisher = Rutgers University Press

|year = 2011

|isbn = 978-0813548807

}}

• {{Cite book

|first = Jennifer

|last = Lopez

|title = True Love

|publisher = Celebra

|year = 2014

|isbn = 9780451468680

}}

• {{Cite book

|first = Adam

|last = Woog

|title = The Great Hispanic Heritage Series: Jennifer Lopez, Updated Edition

|publisher = Infobase Publishing

|year = 2020

|isbn = 9781438197999

}}

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Category:Jennifer Lopez

Lopez, Jennifer

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