The Original Manhattanite : The Bronx Bombshell, Jennifer Lopez will accept the Video Music Vanguard Award for 2018

Wednesday, August 15, 2018

The Bronx Bombshell, Jennifer Lopez will accept the Video Music Vanguard Award for 2018

MTV Video Music Awards Live Monday- 8.20.2018

Remember Anything and Everything can happen in one night at this show let's go MTV and Moonman!

I remember when I was a kid coming home everyday after school I used to watch a lot of music videos growing up MTV, BET, VH-1 these are networks are household staples to all of us. The children who grew up around the 1980s-2000s they know about music videos. How a music video in the early 1980s was a way to connect to your audience. People would sit and prepare to watch the videos with their families. Whether if that was watching Madonna, Michael Jackson, Prince, Janet Jackson, The Beastie Boys, or any other group, musician, artist, or director who paved the way during that time to set a statement, to give someone an opportunity to express their abilities and themselves. You just knew this was one other way of an a recording artist or group to get a chance to express their creativity. Other than of course memorizing lyrics, I studied movements, dance moves, you would get ideas on the latest trends happening in fashion, pop culture, and so much more all from watching music videos. Videos are now not just showing an artist singing where you can see them. They have become these mini intricate films in a way, you get to see the visual part of a song, you get to see an artist transform himself or herself from singer, songwriter, into an actress, a dancer, and also see how they expand their message and brand. In the late 1990s and early 2000s videos became more magnified, more diverse, and even highly detailed. You can now transform viewers from a high tech website where your artist is dancing inside in the internet on your laptop let’s say and then take them into a funky outside nightclub. This recording artist has exemplified that you can do so much within a music video it’s no longer about the song, it’s about the message, the story, and most of all what you want to translate as a full fledge artist and musician.

I am talking about the 2018 Video Music Award recipient Jennifer Lynn Lopez. Along with her dancing skills we all know Jennifer evolved into an actress and came from a film background as well. She used her experience, her knowledge, her power, and skills. She put it all into her music videos from the moment she debuted her first single, “If you had my love” from her 1999 debut album, “On the 6” to now 9 albums deep she has proven herself within a career that expands 30 plus years. The Bronx Bombshell has evolved from Fly Girl on “In Living Color” and wears a multitude of hats that can make all of us want to lend her a hand. She has become a businesswoman, a brand, she promotes many different brands, and also is one of the judges of “World of Dance” along with running a production company Nuyorican productions. I heard one of her fans ask her recently when the announcement was made “Jennifer when do you have time to sleep?” she confirmed “Yes, I take time from my schedule to sleep because it’s necessary to as well”. One of the hardest working women confirms that yes she does indeed sleep and takes time for herself. She enjoys the fruits of labor and enjoys everything. All while maintaining her humility, grace, her realness, and her poise. I am very influenced by people who can wear a lot of hats because it shows that there are no limitations on anything in life at all. You must simply find your strengths, find your passions, follow what just makes you happy, and of course make your vision become a reality. She along with many strong powerful women around the world show us all that you can do it all. Plus you can do it like that quote from Ginger Rogers says “I did it everything Fred Astaire did but backwards in heels”. Well if Ginger Rogers did that imagine what this woman can do and she wears Christian Louboutins heels when she’s dancing on stage. I know because I have seen her perform live transform from Timberland boots to high heels rocking the stage with all of her dancers, band, and team. It’s an amazing show her current “All I have “ tour which is wrapping up soon was definitely an era don’t want to forget. I am sure there will be many tours to come. This was a highlight because it shows you just powerful a woman can be. She’s able to take herself from role to role and does it all while never missing a single beat. So I have to hand it to this woman who with an incredible background still continues to amaze all of us around the world. Her drive is unstoppable and she is hands down a boss and is relentless. So congratulations to this amazing woman I am so proud and excited. Go Jlo!!!!!

For more information visit http://www.caesars.com for more information her final shows in Las Vegas Visit , http://www.jenniferlopezinglot.com her beauty, cosmetic, and fragrance line, www.guess.com you probably have seen her new Guess campaigns too, and most all visit http://www.mtv.com for more information on the show coming up August 20, Monday the MTV Awards takes place in NYC Get ready it’s going down it’s going to be a fabulous great night! Congratulations to all of the nominees, everyone behind the scenes too. Very excited to watch this year. Also make sure you check out her new movie, "Second Act" coming to theaters too.