When I first saw the video for “Jenny from the block” I thought that although a river may be able to divide two districts, it certainly cannot prevent a talent like Jennifer Lopez from making her way through wealth and the glitter of Manhattan. In addition to representing the launch single of her career, this song aims to reassure the people of her neighborhood: the Bronx.
If on the one hand it represents the business card to make yourself known and make your way in the world of music, on the other hand the singer certainly has no intention of forgetting her origins and her path.
“Used to have little, now I have a lot, no matter where I go, I know where I came from.”: it is precisely in this phrase, present several times within the song, that the singer suggests that they will not be certainly the fame, the expensive clothes, the men of high society or the blinding lights of the Big Apple that make her forget that before jumping to the other side of the Harlem River she was a simple girl from the Bronx, who did something hip hop its social and personal revenge.
But today, twenty-two years after the release of this single, J-Lo has still remained so attached to her origins, or success and fame have taken over, transforming the Bronx into a distant memory abandoned in one of the many drawers of his life?
