What Does J.Lo Actually Want?

Culture Study Podcast

Anne Helen Petersen

Fashion & Beauty, Society & Culture, Arts

4.6 • 637 Ratings

🗓️ 10 July 2024

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

J.Lo is, as we say in the Culture Study universe, a rich text. There is so much history, so many layers of accumulated meaning, so many relationships, and so little in terms of actual revelations. She gives so much and yet offers so little! Chelsea Devantez is a celebrity memoir aficionado, a humor writer, and a newly-minted J.Lo scholar — and the absolute perfect co-host to unpack all of your J.Lo questions, like why does Mariah hate her, why can’t she and Ben be happy, what the hell is going on with the new movie, and what does she actually want?

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0:00.0	I know I knew her before this, but my most vivid J-Lo imprint on my life is when a very cool
0:09.1	girl freshman year decided to have a butt measuring context in the hallway.
0:14.5	And this was the year 2000.
0:17.3	So this is when Abercrombie jeans were supposed to stay up by hanging on those little hip bones.
0:22.6	You weren't supposed to have a butt.
0:24.3	So whoever was going to have the biggest butt was going to lose.
0:27.4	And I lost.
0:29.1	And then like an angel on a float covered in fairy dust, J-Lo entered pop culture and having a butt and having curves
0:41.8	and suddenly we could wear juicy sweatpants, which are elastic.
0:46.2	And I just remember her as a savior to body image.
0:51.5	You know, it's so funny because that's been so normalized, like, vis-a-vis the Kardashians,
0:55.3	but it was very disruptive at the time. Extremely, she made the Kardashians. And now it's funny
1:00.8	because with all of her, you know, all the work she has done, but she sells a skincare line,
1:05.9	but then she says it's olive oil and it's like, obviously not olive oil. She's doing perhaps a
1:10.4	disservice to all of our
1:11.7	body images. But in the year 2000, 2001, 2002, she was, she was the first woman with curves
1:18.4	that I knew of as a teenager who was treated as just as hot as Kate Moss's heroin cheek.
1:31.0	This is the Culture Study podcast, and I'm Anne Helen Peterson.
1:35.2	And I'm Chelsea DeMontes.
1:36.9	I am the author of The Memoir I Shouldn't Be Telling You This, and I host the podcast,
1:42.1	Glamorous Trash, where we read female celebrity memoirs.
1:45.9	It's so good. I don't even like celebrity memoirs except for one. We can talk about this later.
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