Jennifer Lopez has gotten a lot of flak for her new music video "Booty" with Iggy Azalea. And two weeks after the hyper-sexualized music video was released, the American Idol judge and pop star is firing back at her critics in a new interview.
Among other criticisms of the clip, which features Lopez and Azalea wearing lingerie and rubbing their butts up against each other, feminists have argued that while the music video claims to be empowering, it's really just playing into the male-dominated music industry with cheap booty pandering (even The Distillers singer Brody Dalle got in on the criticism).
But, Lopez is dismissing those claims. In a new interview with Yahoo!, Lopez said that criticism of the video was "good for women," though she is instead focusing on people who say she was "acting too young" in the salacious video.
"You have to know that you don't disappear after you're 28 years old. You can be here, you can be vital and young and sexy and feel good about yourself," Lopez said. "You don't have to worry about competing with anybody. We weren't competing in the music video, me and Iggy, we're coexisting in kind of a beautiful way and owning it."
Though Lopez's claims about empowerment do hold up, she doesn't seem to have answered critics claims that the video is not sexualizing but demeaning.
But, as long as you're owning it, you do you, girl.
Watch the music video for "Booty" below:
