"It wasn't some grand master plan we had — it just kind of worked out that way," she says. "I was working on a record, looking at some films. The American Idol thing was offered to me months and months before. I really wasn't considering it. They came back again. Then I started thinking about it."
A fan of the show, she made a decision to join Idol.
"Now, it just got busy. The record came out, the show was on and it's been so much fun. I really feel blessed and lucky."
Lopez's On the Floor music video, which premiered March 3 on Fox's top-rated Idol, has generated more than 30 million You Tube views. The single is No. 2 on Billboard's digital songs chart, with 609,000 downloads sold, according to Nielsen SoundScan. Her seventh studio album, Love?, hits the streets in April. And Lopez, along with fellow Idol judge Steven Tyler, is part of what many praise as the revitalization of a singing competition that had been in a slump.
Throw in high-profile endorsement deals with L'Oréal and Gillette, along with a Fox deal that includes a movie component, and the spotlight is shining brightly on the singer/actress.
Married to singer Marc Anthony and the mother of 3-year-old twins, Lopez, 40, is at a different point in her life than she was in the '90s as a determined rising star or later as a ubiquitous celebrity whose personal life attracted as much attention as her professional one.
Lopez says the album reflects her current state. "It's very much me, but it's the evolution of me. It's not me in 2000 when I did Waiting for Tonight. It's me today. And I'm very proud of that."
Looking, sounding good
Seated in a hotel suite, the fashionable Lopez is outfitted in a royal-blue-and-white floral frock ("a flirty summer dress," she says) with a yellow patent belt and blue suede snakeskin platforms. She's energetic in conversation, raising her voice for emphasis and even breaking briefly into one of her songs — "I was down for the count, feeling like I've come to the end" — to illustrate one of the many facets of love expressed in her new cassette.
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