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After self-financing ($20 million) the production of two movies alongside her album This Is Me… Now, Jennifer Lopez came crashing back to reality as the concert was selling so few tickets that they were forced to cancel multiple dates.
Specifically, Lopez had to cancel shows in the South that were scheduled to take place in late August in Nashville, Raleigh, Atlanta, Tampa, and New Orleans.
On a recent episode of his Hollywood insider podcast The Town, Puck News and former The Hollywood Reporter editor Matthew Belloni said that Lopez’s “sad situation is super embarrassing.”
“This is super embarrassing,” Belond said “I asked a big music industry person, like, ‘What the hell is going on with J-Lo?’ The response was she way overshot. Great person, great work ethic, nice team but they over-reached… She was never as big as she was in her own mind. This is a sad situation.”
Although the tour was rebranded from being the This Is Me… Live to being called the This Is Me… Live/The Greatest Hits, Belloni says that the show is “still not selling.”
As for how the 54-year-old pop star and actress feels about it, sources tell US Weekly that she’s “disappointed” and that she’s trying not to “let the bad press get to her head.”
While Lopez’s music career may be faltering, her acting career remains plenty active: In 2023, she starred in the Netflix film The Mother, and this summer she’ll be starring in the action film Atlas for the streamer. She’s also got movies such as Unstoppable (produced by her husband Ben Affleck’s company) and Kiss of the Spider Woman.
Lopez has actually only done three headlining tours in her career: the Dance Again World Tour in 2012, the It’s My Party Tour in 2019, and the current This Is Me… Live. She also co-headlined a tour with Enrique Iglesias in 2012 and had a residency at the Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino in Las Vegas from 2016 to 2018.