What's a better way to celebrate a Friday (May 6) than with a fun new music video? Jennifer Lopez debuted the visuals for her latest single, "Ain't Your Mama," where she explores beauty throughout various decades and takes a stand against injustice and issues of women's inequality.
The 46-year-old entertainer proves that women are strong dynamic beings with more to offer the world than their physical appearance and domestic abilities. Lopez opens the video in a phone booth during a rain storm. She's heard engaging in a heated conversation with a lazy boyfriend. She then proceeds to leave the booth and make her way to a news desk to make a big announcement.
A loop of Democratic presidential hopeful Hilary Clinton's memorable 1995 speech, "Women's Rights are Human Rights" is heard playing in the background. Lopez tells her female viewers they've been ignored and overlooked for too long, encouraging them to make a change.
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“Look, I don’t have to tell you things are bad," Lopez said in her music video. "Everybody knows things are bad. Taken for granted, ignored, overlooked, unappreciated,” an exasperated J.Lo tells her female viewers. “We have a big, big problem, ladies.”
Lopez, who just so happens to be the mother of two beautiful children (eight-year-old twins, Emme Maribel Muñiz and Maximilian David Muñiz), channels everyone from Leave it to Beaver's June Cleaver to Mad Men's Joan Holloway.
The Shades of Blue portrays a blonde '50s housewife tired of cooking and cleaning for a unappreciative husband. She then maneuvers through the '60s, '70s, and '80s as typewriting secretary, an assembly line worker, and a business executive. Lopez emerges in her final look as an independent woman with a voice, rocking a skintight white bodysuit with jean boots by Rihanna for Manolo Blahnik, gifted by the singer herself.
