Jennifer Lopez - On the Floor

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I'm curious to know how this song is perceived two years on: a potential classic of the current decade, or simply a big - but ultimately not enduring - hit single?

(I'm sure there will be much ridicule for this topic appears in The Classics at all, but hey ho.)



I honestly think it's up there with We Found Love, not strictly in terms of the quality of the song (although I prefer this), but cultural impact... third-most viewed video EVER on youtube, for example. But as I said, I'd like to know what others think.
 
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I'm sure the jealous Mariah loons will be sniping about it being a 'novelty single' (as opposed to the PJ Harvey-esque 'Touch My Body') but seriously, what a fucking amazing pop song.
 
It was a comeback on par with 'Believe'. That she's still getting top 20 hits as a result of it, is a testament to it's success.
 
Agnetha said:
It was a comeback on par with 'Believe'. That she's still getting top 20 hits as a result of it, is a testament to it's success.
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I was just thinking, again gays of a certain age will probably bristle at the comparison, but it really *is* the Believe of the 00s. She was absolutely DEAD IN THE WATER before this, and had been for years. She'll probably never score a hit of that magnitude again, but I have a feeling she'll probably always be around in some form or other now. It totally justified her existence at a time when she was on the brink of being consigned to has-been status.
 
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Agnetha said:
It was a comeback on par with 'Believe'. That she's still getting top 20 hits as a result of it, is a testament to it's success.
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It is quite easy to forget just what how badly tits up her career had gone prior to that.

Get Right - #12 US, #1 UK
Hold You Down - #64 US, #6 UK
Do It Well - #31 US, #11 UK
Hold It, Don't Drop It - didn't chart US, #72 UK
Louboutins - didn't chart ANYWHERE

I do feel this song is mostly responsible for cementing her as basically a popular culture superstar, regardless of how future music sells.
 
I still love it but I think she's made a mistake by trying to re-create the same song at least twice over, it has seriously limited her as a pop act (and once upon a time she dished out an excellent string of singles).

For me it's all about that extended outro.
 
She was DEAD in the WATER since about 05. That it was a delayed hit in the UK, took the impact of the comeback away. It really was a MONSTER HIT. Not quite sure of the WHY there's any gay hate...
 
It's a weird one because whilst the chart positions, sales and YouTube views undeniably say HIT, it doesn't really feel like THAT big of a single two years down the line to me - certainly nowhere near the likes of 'We Found Love'. I always feel like it came and went; big for the few months that it was riding high in the chart but it just seemed to die out in the aftermath.

I think it's perhaps the fact that it was never really consolidated with subsequent hits or a convincing album performance. Of course, it was all a rather impressive turnaround from her diminishing chart fortunes, but in the wider context of other pop acts, 'Love?' still didn't perform THAT well. I feel exactly the same about Britney's 'Till The World Ends' as well - massive single (in America) but attached to an album whose success was only ever mediocre at best which removes from its legacy somewhat.
 
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But Jennifer is a singles artist now. Isn't that just a natural by-product of making the transition into club-friendly dance-pop music, changing her sound so significantly after over a decade etc.? I don't think it reduces the impact of a huge hit single at ALL.
 
I don't think I was even THAT agog that she'd scored a hit. I mean, I like her music as much as the next casual fan, but a lot of the stuff that flopped prior to 'On The Floor' did so because it was rubbish. I don't think SHE ever really fell out of favour as much as the music just lost direction and she wasn't scoring hits because she didn't deserve to.
 
VoR said:
I'm sure the jealous Mariah loons will be sniping about it being a 'novelty single' (as opposed to the PJ Harvey-esque 'Touch My Body') but seriously, what a fucking amazing pop song.
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Amazing. I won't ever be able to think of Touch My Body as anything different from now on.
 
For JLo it's a pretty badass hit with a really hot beat. But for pop as a whole, it's just another catchy pop song that got tired shortly after it was out.
 
It's absolutely blinding. I always think of it as her "Hung Up" but I suppose you're all right, it is more of a "Believe" than a "Hung Up". Or maybe a bit of both.
 
Slave said:
It's a weird one because whilst the chart positions, sales and YouTube views undeniably say HIT, it doesn't really feel like THAT big of a single two years down the line to me - certainly nowhere near the likes of 'We Found Love'. I always feel like it came and went; big for the few months that it was riding high in the chart but it just seemed to die out in the aftermath.
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That's how I feel about it. I totally get the 'Believe' comparison in terms of reviving a dead career, but in terms of the impact of the hit, it doesn't feel to me to have had anywhere near the same impact, at least in the UK. Although I just looked on wikipedia and didn't quite appreciate just how massive a hit it was globally.
 
Believe reinvented pop music. What did On The Floor bring about? Wasn't there already a trend for novelty samples?
 
Comparing this to Believe is insanity, in my opinion.

A massive hit, yes, but from a popstar who hadn't been dead in the water anywhere near as long as Cher, and a song that has had nowhere near the cultural impact of Believe.
 
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I was just thinking, again gays of a certain age will probably bristle at the comparison, but it really *is* the Believe of the 00s.
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Whilst conforming to your stereotype, this is possibly the most RIDICULOUS statement I've EVER HEARD! One of the biggest selling singles of all time from someone in her 50s who'd not had a hit in nearly a decade vs a woman still very much in the public eye, just over 40, who'd had a hit a few years earlier...

"Believe" was also a total game changer whereas "On The Floor" was as generic as they come!
 
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Passable but not as good as either The Lambada nor Stereo Love, the latter of which it clearly ripped off.
 
VoR said:
I was just thinking, again gays of a certain age will probably bristle at the comparison, but it really *is* the Believe of the 00s.
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It was released in 2011, hun.

I have to echo some of the sentiments here. I guess it's a quarter of the way there to being the Believe of the 10s but Believe is in the top 20 best sellers EVER in the UK, whereas this track falls way short of anything close to that mark.
 
Didn't this cheap Casio instrumental featuring added nocals only get to #3 on the Billboard Charts! Don't call it a 16 week chart-topping comeback :basil:
 
Sheena said:
Whilst conforming to your stereotype, this is possibly the most RIDICULOUS statement I've EVER HEARD! One of the biggest selling singles of all time from someone in her 50s who'd not had a hit in nearly a decade vs a woman still very much in the public eye, just over 40, who'd had a hit a few years earlier...

"Believe" was also a total game changer whereas "On The Floor" was as generic as they come!
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Cher had a top ten hit just two years before Believe.
 
VoR said:
Cher had a top ten hit just two years before Believe.
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I meant on a global basis...she'd really done FUCK ALL since "Mermaids", and even then that was mostly in Europe
 
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Cher's last top 10 in America was Just Like Jesse James in 1990.
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8 years then. J.Lo's last before On The Floor was All I Have in 2003 -8 years.

I'm not saying On The Floor was the game changer that Believe was, just that there are parallels in terms of what it did in terms of the respective careers of the two women.
 
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Darling, if we want to talk comparisons, let's compare Believe to the blockbuster that was We Belong Together. Both classics established their respective artists as icons for the ages. On The Floor was just a cheap Gloria Estefan knock-off!
 
VoR said:
Does anyone outside the USA even REMEMBER We Belong Together?
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VoR said:
8 years then. J.Lo's last before On The Floor was All I Have in 2003 -8 years.

I'm not saying On The Floor was the game changer that Believe was, just that there are parallels in terms of what it did in terms of the respective careers of the two women.
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She was on the highest rated TV show in the world at the time- it hardly dragged her up from the DEPTHS OF DESPAIR, VoR :D
 
The only way Madge will have another hit is if it's credited to Timbaland and Justin Timberlake vs Katy B featuring MIA, Ashanti, Shola Ama, Ishani and Madonna
 
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