Label Dropping Lopez?
Jennifer Lopez’s extravagant demands may cost her a record label. The diva is facing the axe from her record label—Epic Records— after disappointing sales of her latest album Brave which only sold 53,000 in its first week.
The label is reportedly fed up with the extravagant costs to maintain the artist— including an album cover that cost $60,000 in hair and makeup, lighting, photographers, re-touching, etc. Her makeup fee alone is nearly $8,000 for each promotional appearance. Hey, it’s costs to look as good as JLo does—after all, she is a brand.
But that’s not all! The shirts behind the label were astounded that the video budget for her album was “in the neighborhood of $300,000.” Couple that with the costs Jennifer demands to promote the album—which include a sizable entourage—including, very often, her husband, plus body guards, wardrobe mistresses, back-up singers, rigging, lighting, sound etc. and you’re talking millions Epic records has to eat— for just one appearance—one artist!
A source at Epic Records, a subsidiary of Sony BMG, says, “(Lopez) costs too much money and doesn’t sell enough. The woman requires everything short of flying monkeys to get on a stage.”
Jennifer Lopez’s career as an actress isn’t faring much better. Her latest movie El Cantante failed to bring in enough money at the box office. As for her next movie— Bordertown is going straight to DVD after it was booed at the Berlin International Film Festival.
JLo surprised her husband Marc Anthony by confirming her pregnancy at the conclusion of their concert tour, in Miami, yesterday. Now she says they plan to just disappear for a while.
After postponing her original San Diego concert, due to the fires and destruction, Lopez has decided to just cancel it. The San Diego concert would have been the last concert of her tour. However, The San Diego Tribune reports that either the lack of ticket sales or—up until yesterday, the “unconfirmed” pregnancy was the real reason for the cancellation. Ticket holders will be refunded. Stay tuned.
- Jan Lamback
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