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This Is Me... Then
Studio album by Jennifer Lopez
Released November 19, 2002
Recorded March–October 2002;
The Hit Factory, Sony Music Studios
(New York City, New York)
The Hit Factory Criteria
(Miami, Florida)
The Record Plant
(Hollywood, Los Angeles, California)
The Studio
(Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
Genre R&B, hip hop, pop
Length 47:15
Label Epic
Producer Cory Rooney (also exec.), Troy Oliver, Dan Shea, Poke & Tone, Davy Deluge, Ron G, Dave McPherson, Rich Shelton, Kevin Veney, Loren Hill, Reggie Hamlet, Focus...
Jennifer Lopez chronology
J.Lo
(2001)		 This Is Me... Then
(2002)		 Rebirth
(2005)
Singles from This Is Me... Then
  1. "Jenny from the Block"
    Released: September 26, 2002
  2. "All I Have"
    Released: December 9, 2002
  3. "I'm Glad"
    Released: August 7, 2003
  4. "Baby I Love U!"
    Released: March 23, 2004

This Is Me... Then is the third English-language studio album by American recording artist and actress Jennifer Lopez, released on November 19, 2002 by Epic Records. The album peaked at number two on the US Billboard 200.

The album spawned four singles: the old school hip hop-influenced "Jenny from the Block" (featuring Styles P and Jadakiss), the Billboard Hot 100 chart-topper "All I Have" (featuring LL Cool J), and the soul-tinged tracks "I'm Glad" and "Baby I Love U!". The track "Dear Ben" was in reference to her then-fiance, actor Ben Affleck.

Contents

[edit] Background

Majority of the songs on This Is Me... Then were dedicated to her relationship with her then-fiancé, actor Ben Affleck.[1] The songs from the album, in particular the fifth track, "Dear Ben" and "Baby I Love U!" detailed her romantic relationship with Affleck.[1] During an interview, Lopez said "I wrote a lot of songs inspired, in a way, by what I was going through at the time that this album was being made, and he [Affleck] was definitely a big part of that."[2]

Lopez's cover version of Carly Simon's 1978 song "You Belong to Me" was released in Brazil, where it appeared on the soundtrack to the telenovela Mulheres Apaixonadas, whereas "The One" was released to radio stations in Europe—charting at number forty-one on the Romanian Top 100 in mid-May 2003[3]—and Brazil.

[edit] Singles
"Jenny From The Block"
an 18-second sample of "Jenny From The Block", in which Lopez insists that she's still "Jenny From The Block", and that fame hasn't changed her.[4] The song was a hit for Lopez, peaking at 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 and number 1 in Canada.
"All I Have"
a 26-second sample of "All I Have" featuring LL Cool J, released as This Is Me... Then's second single, it topped the Billboard Hot 100, and reached the top-10 in Australia and The U.K.
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The album's lead single, Jenny from the Block" (featuring Jadakiss and Styles P) was released and reached the third spot on the Hot 100. The song "intones her (Lopez) modest childhood roots vowing she wishes to remain simple despite her diamonds."[1] Its accommodating music video featured Lopez and her then fiancé, Ben Affleck under the scrutiny of the paparazzi.[5]

This Is Me ... Then spawned three other singles, "All I Have" (featuring LL Cool J) being the second, reached number one on the Hot 100, and "I'm Glad" and "Baby I Love U!" were the final two singles released from the album, peaking at 32 and 72 on the Hot 100 respectively.

The video for "I'm Glad" recreated scenes from the 1983 film Flashdance, leading to a lawsuit over copyright infringement, which was later dismissed.[6][7]

[edit] Reception

[edit] Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic 4/5 stars[8]
Billboard (positive)[9]
Dot Music (positive)[10]
Entertainment Weekly (B)[11]
Rolling Stone 2/5 stars[12]
Slant 3/5 stars [13]
The Village Voice (unfavorable)[14]
Yahoo! Music UK 7/10 stars[15]

The album garnered mixed reviews. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 52, based on 9 reviews, which indicates "mixed or average reviews".[16] Stephen Thomas Erlewine from Allmusic gave to the album a rating of 4/5 stars, saying that "The feel is sexy, stylish, and fun, and there are numerous highlights, all feeling effortless".[8]

The Billboard review was also positive, saying that "Even naysayers will have to serve props to Lopez for the considerable growth she reveals as both a performer and tunesmith". Ton Sinclair from Entertainment Weekly say that "While no one's likely to confuse anything here with high art, the girl has a way with hooks, even if they're often borrowed".[17] A mixed review came from Rolling Stone who gave the album a rating of 2/5 stars, saying that "Most of the songs are pitched too high for her register, the production sounds cheap, and love has dulled whatever street edge she might have had".[12]

Jon Caramanica from The Village Voice was negative, saying that "Jennifer Lopez makes albums for the same reasons you and I give holiday gifts to people we don't exactly like: vanity and obligation".[14] Sal Cinquemani from Slant Magazine gave a favorable review, saying that "Rather than rehash her previous hip-hop successes with Murder Inc., Jennifer Lopez makes a surprising step toward more adult-oriented R&B on her third studio album". He conclued saying that "This Is Me…Then manages to find the right formula for Lopez's slinky vocal and is more unified than its predecessors".[13]

James Poletti from Yahoo! Music gave also a positive review and a rating of 7/10 stars, saying that: "Lopez' voice frequently sounds a trifle thin accompanied by the sort of sounds that we're better used to hearing behind a Creative Source or Gwen McCrae vocal but the honeyed backing massages any real concerns from your mind. It remains to be seen what her present blissed-out state might do for J-Lo's on-set antics but here it has helped add more than a glimmer of humanity to this Latino Corporation".[15]

[edit] Commercial performance

The album debuted at number six on the U.S. Billboard 200 selling 314,000 copies during its first week, then propelled to number two two months later [18] remaining in the top twenty for twelve weeks and on the chart for thirty-seven weeks. It has sold 2.5 million copies in the United States[19] and over six million copies worldwide.[20] The album remained in the top 10 of the Billboard 200 for 3 months.[21] By February 2003 (5 months following its initial release) it remained in the Top 10, managing to average around 80,000 copies per week.[22]

[edit] Reissue

In Europe and other non North American Countries, the album was issued with "I'm Gonna Be Alright (Trackmasters Remix featuring Nas)" as track 13.[23] A Limited Edition of the album was also issued (as This Is Me...Then: +9 Bonus Tracks!) with 8 more tracks (in addition to the original 12), 7 of the bonus tracks being remixes that originally appeared on J to tha L-O! The Remixes, released earlier that year. In addition to the 7 reissued remixes, a special "Radio Remix" of "Play" was also added as track 20.[24][25]

[edit] Track listing

No. Title Writer(s) Producer(s) Length
1. "Still"   Jennifer Lopez, Rich Shelton, Kevin Veney, Loren Hill, Leonard Huggins, LeRoy Bell, Casey James Rich Shelton, Kevin Veney, Loren Hill, Cory Rooney 3:41
2. "Loving You"   Troy Oliver, Rooney, James Mtume, Michael Garvin, Tom Shapiro Troy Oliver, Cory Rooney 3:45
3. "I'm Glad"   Lopez, Oliver, Rooney, Andre Deyo, Jesse Weaver, Jr. Troy Oliver, Cory Rooney 3:42
4. "The One"   Lopez, Rooney, Linda Creed, Davy Deluge, Thom Bell Cory Rooney, Davy Deluge, Dan Shea 3:36
5. "Dear Ben"   Lopez, Rooney, Bernard Edwards Jr. Focus..., Cory Rooney 3:14
6. "All I Have" (featuring LL Cool J) Lopez, Makeba Riddick, Curtis Richardson, Ron G, Lisa Peters, William Jeffrey Cory Rooney, Ron G, Dave McPherson 4:14
7. "Jenny from the Block" (featuring Styles and Jadakiss) Lopez, Oliver, Deyo, Samuel Barnes, Jean-Claude Olivier, José Fernando Arbex Miró, Lawrence Parker, Scott Sterling, Michael Oliver, David Styles, Jason Phillips Troy Oliver, Cory, Rooney, Poke and Tone 3:08
8. "Again"   Lopez, Rooney, Oliver, Reggie Hamlet Troy Oliver, Reggie Hamlet, Cory Rooney 5:47
9. "You Belong to Me"   Carly Simon, Michael McDonald Cory Rooney, Dan Shea 3:30
10. "I've Been Thinkin'"   Lopez, Rooney, Shea Cory Rooney, Dan Shea 4:42
11. "Baby I Love U!"   Lopez, Rooney, Shea, John Barry Cory Rooney, Dan Shea 4:29
12. "The One (Version 2)"   Lopez, Rooney, Creed, Deluge, Bell Cory Rooney, Davy Deluge, Dan Shea 3:32
Notes
  • Track listing and credits from album booklet.[26]
  • "Still" — Contains elements of Teddy Pendergrass' "Set Me Free" (LeRoy Bell, Casey James)
  • "Loving You" — Contains a sample of Mtume's "Juicy Fruit" (James Mtume) and George Benson's "Never Give Up on a Good Thing" (Michael Garvin, Tom C. Shapiro)
  • "I'm Glad" — Contains a sample of Schoolly D's "P.S.K. What Does It Mean?" (J.B. Weaver, Jr.)
  • "The One" — Contains an interpolation of The Stylistics' "You Are Everything" (Thom Bell, Linda Creed)
  • "All I Have (song)" — Contains a sample of Debra Laws' "Very Special" (Lisa Peters, William Jeffrey)
  • "Jenny from the Block" — Contains an interpolation of Enoch Light and the Light Brigade's "Hi-Jack" (Fernando Arbex), a portion of Boogie Down Productions' "South Bronx" (Lawrence Parker, Scott Sterling), and a portion of 20th Century Steel Band's "Heaven and Hell Is on Earth" (Michael Oliver)
  • "Baby I Love U!" — Contains an interpolation of John Barry's "Midnight Cowboy" (John Barry)

[edit] Charts

Chart (2002) Peak
position
Australian ARIA Albums Chart 14
Austrian Albums Chart 7
Belgian Ultratop 50 Albums (Flanders) 6
Belgian Ultratop 50 Albums (Wallonia) 6
Canadian Albums Chart 5
Danish Albums Chart 13
Dutch Albums Chart 1
European Top 100 Albums[27] 3
Finnish Albums Chart 10
French SNEP Albums Chart 4
German Albums Chart[28] 4
Greek International Albums Chart[29] 1
Hungarian Albums Chart[30] 9
Irish Albums Chart 15
Italian Albums Chart 11
Japanese Oricon Albums Chart[31] 9
Norwegian Albums Chart 13
New Zealand RIANZ Albums Chart 19
Polish Albums Chart[32] 19
Portuguese Albums Chart 22
Swedish Albums Chart 7
Swiss Albums Chart 3
UK Albums Chart 13
U.S. Billboard 200 2
U.S. Billboard Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums 5
U.S. Billboard Top Internet Albums 1

[edit] Certifications

Territory Certifier Certification Sales
Australia ARIA Platinum[33] 70,000
Austria IFPI Gold[34] 15,000
Belgium Gold[35] 15,000
Canada CRIA 2× platinum[36] 200,000
Europe IFPI Platinum[37] 1,000,000
Finland Gold[38] 19,998
France SNEP 2× gold[39] 320,000[40]
Germany IFPI Gold[41] 150,000
Greece IFPI Gold[42] 15,000
Hungary Mahasz Gold[43] 3,000
Netherlands NVPI Gold[44] 30,000
New Zealand RIANZ Gold[45] 7,500
Portugal AFP Gold[46] 10,000
Sweden IFPI Gold[47] 20,000
Switzerland Platinum[48] 40,000
United Kingdom BPI Platinum[49] 300,000
United States RIAA 2× platinum[50] 2,500,000[19]

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