Valerie Delgado

Yes, this is a long review b/c it’s on all three projects. I felt that the ‘This is Me..Now’ project as a whole was extremely relatable, raw, truthful, well planned and executed and all-around high quality in a time where lots of movies and music feel rushed and poorly completed. Everyone’s negative comments always focus on J.lo’s stardom or supposed continual reach for it, but they never actually analyze the narrative. Has no one ever been in an unhealthy relationship in which they stayed in too long? Has no one put their search for love and validation in the external over self respect at some point in time? I guess I relate with J.lo in those aspects and this project. I’m also a middle child that felt left out from my siblings and parents and didn’t realize all my wonderful qualities until later in life. I truly listened to the album many times and connected with many of the songs, but especially ‘Broken in Me.’ I hope that J.lo doesn’t listen to any of the noise and realizes that her art has touched people and she is just a beautiful soul, blessed and meant to be exactly where she is. For the documentary, I thought it was also raw and vulnerable. I don’t feel like other artists have been as vulnerable as J.lo has been. Obviously it’s going to paint J.lo, her staff and her relationship how she wanted, but don’t all of them do? Who in their right mind is going to sabotage themselves by depicting themselves negatively, but J.lo always gets this significantly higher amount of horrible backlash about the things she does. Why? As for J.lo’s acting being one-dimensional I totally disagree. The best actors don’t have to speak any lines, their facial expressions can tell you a whole story and J.lo is one of the top dogs in that arena. The only critique I can give is that I wished I had a little more movie to get a little more substance and more songs, but I understand she was paying for the project on her own. Although she was working with a smaller budget J.lo still delivered quality. I mean how many flops have we seen out there and ‘The Greatest Love Story Never Told’ was definitely not a flop. If you can’t appreciate the internal struggles or heartache that an individual can experience in their lives, this movie is not for you. If you’ve had the perfect parents and had the perfect childhood and perfect relationships and easy to come career, I guess this movie is not for you either. On a side note since it was brought up by other reviewers, the chances that J.lo has had in her life (Selena role, Tommy Mottola and others in the industry supporting her) was a result of her talent and that X-factor she has inside her—beauty, brains, funny, body upon body, passion/work ethic and swag—she is one of those people that was always going to be a star one way or another. Look at her when she was a fly girl on In Living Color and a back up dancer to Janet Jackson—she always stood out from the rest, sorry it’s the truth.