For the ultimate time: Christina Milian has no beef with Jennifer Lopez over “Play.” The 41-year-old singer who co-wrote the 2001 JLo hit in quarter-hour when she was simply 19-years-old informed New York Publish gossip web site Web page Six that the persistent rumors that she has an issue with how she was credited on the music that appeared on the singer/actress’ sophomore album, J.Lo.
Milian mentioned she initially recorded the dance pop monitor that hit No. 18 on the Billboard Scorching 100 for her personal album throughout the identical week she penned her debut single “AM to PM” at a songwriting camp in Sweden with Bloodshy & Avant, Anders Bagge and another early 2000s songwriting aces.
“Fingers down, she killed it. She’s so good. I like that music,” Milian mentioned of Lopez’s model. “And I couldn’t imagine at 19 years outdated I wrote a music for J.Lo.” The truth is, Milian mentioned she wrote the monitor in round quarter-hour after a late evening of partying. “I went to mattress late that evening, awoke the following morning and needed to go to the studio. I had the monitor and I didn’t write something [to it],” she mentioned. “So I sat down within the mattress, I had this monitor, I used to be actually drained and I performed the monitor and I used to be like… ‘This sounds too straightforward.’”
Milian mentioned she actually favored each “Play” and “AM to PM,” however thought her then-label, Def Soul, wouldn’t need two celebration songs on her 2002 self-titled debut. The choice was made for her, although, she mentioned, when former Sony Music Leisure chairman/CEO Tommy Mottola heard “Play” and claimed it for Lopez, who was signed to his label Epic Data on the time.
“The man is available in and he hears ‘Play,’ loves it and is like, ‘I need this as her single,’” Milian mentioned. “And the following factor I do know, she’s in New York, she’s recording the music and I got here in to assist rewrite a number of the stuff.”
The Publish claimed that there are nonetheless rumblings right this moment from Milian followers who name out Lopez for together with Milian’s sultry backing vocals on the monitor however not giving her a function credit score. Milian, although, mentioned she doesn’t sweat it. “It’s humorous when individuals speak about this being form of a factor about me singing on the music with Jennifer. I imply, I’ve background singers on a few of my songs,” she mentioned. “It’s no completely different than Michael Jackson having background singers on songs or Britney Spears. That is what music is product of. You desire a mix of voices. It makes songs higher, to me.”
Milian mentioned she doesn’t want the function credit score on prime of the songwriting and backing vocal credit as a result of, frankly, she’s simply blissful that Lopez recorded the music, “as a result of she’s an icon, she’s superb.”
Lopez is slated to launch her ninth studio album, and first as a solo artist in 9 years, This Is Me… Now, later this yr.
