The always attractive Jennifer Lopez still has a smile on her dial despite her recent label drama, showing up looking glamorous yesterday at the CBS Films luncheon held in Las Vegas.

The singer-actress was at the luncheon to promote her upcoming rom-com The Back-up Plan, which hits theaters in April.

Jen has also opened up in a recent interview about how good it feels to be back singing and performing after a long time out of the spotlight.

“When I was finishing up my album and the music was feeling right, everything just came together. It’s been nice to be back on stage and doing my thing. It’s like coming back into the ring.”

Jenny better finalise her new record deal quick smart or there won’t be an avenue for her to release this new album!

Now that Jennifer Lopez has cut ties with her label Epic right before the release of her new album Love?, there’s bound to be a lot of leaks coming our way soon, and the latest one being a Stargate production titled “Story of My Life”.

As with most Stargate tunes “Story of My Life” doesn’t add up to much more than an average and uninspired urban-pop radio record. Jennifer sounds like she’s on auto-pilot and the song is too safe and predictable to warrant any emotional connection to it from the listener.

Not to worry though, because according to Jen she’s now at a point in her life where she understands what the “important” things are.

“I guess I am [more relaxed in my career now],” she told OK magazine. “You start out young and confident, thinking you want to be an actress and singer. Then you actually do it and it’s great for a while, but then you have all this success and other things start becoming more important.”

“As I’ve gotten older, I’ve realized that the harder things are, the better things are. Where you’re test, that’s where you get to the next level in your life. You do things because your gut tells you to do them; then they can never be wrong because they’re right for you, no matter how [things are] perceived. The important thing is that you did it and you did it in the best way you could.”

In addition to the possible release of a new album this summer, Jennifer will appear on an upcoming episode of Glee and also has her new rom-com The Back-up Plan hitting theaters next month.

How do you think the movie is gonna do?

Jennifer Lopez had a bit of a bad week after splitting with her record label right before the release of her new album Love?, but the light at the end of the tunnel was her scheduled appearance on Saturday Night Live where she would not only be hosting and participating in skits, but also performing as well.

SNL was Jenny’s chance to brush off the critics and ease concerns over her future as a recording artist and a star, but instead of focusing on her strengths such as her tight choreography and electric stage presence, Jenny decided to slow things down with two stripped-back ballads; live vocals included.

The results were less than impressive, and that’s putting it nicely. The subject matter of the songs came across like a bizarre and misguided attempt to show the world that she was ready to dust herself off and keep fighting after all her career setbacks, but the whole thing just fell flat and felt underwhelming, and dare I say it – cringeworthy.

Jennifer also performed in some skits on the show, one being a parody of the “We Are The World” remake which saw Jennifer dressing up and spoofing Rihanna. You’d think that JLo dressing up as Rihanna would be hilarious, but, well, it wasn’t.

Sorry Jen! Better luck next time I guess.

In a statement released to the media Jennifer Lopez has confirmed that she has indeed split with her record label, but has insisted that the split won’t affect the status of her upcoming album Love? which is still due out this Summer.

“I am making this statement to put an end to any confusion in regards to my next album, titled ‘Love.’ I have belonged to the Sony family since the beginning of my career as a singer and together we’ve had great success. I have fulfilled my contractual responsibilities with Sony/Epic up to this point, and we have both reached friendly terms about my departure from the label. I’m also happy to say that we’ve found a new home for my album, ‘Love,’ and that it is slated for release in the summer of 2010.” {source}

Saying that your album is still coming out, and actually having it do so are two different things, but it’s good that Jenny has clarified the situation after reports indicated the whole album may have been scrapped.

The statement also adds weight to the rumors of Jennifer signing with Def Jam, so get ready for some drama with a capital ‘D’ because Def Jam is also home to Mariah Carey, and as everybody knows the pair have been mortal enemies ever since they fell out during Jlo’s heyday.

Besides some major catfights though what does the future hold for Jennifer and her new label (whichever it turns out to be)? Could the drastic change give Jennifer the media attention that could help her crack the charts again, and will it give her an excuse to release a brand new single, or is it all too little too late?

According to Deadline singer-actress Jennifer Lopez has split with her label Epic Records.

The split was supposedly amicable, but rumors are saying that Jennifer was dropped after the singles from her upcoming album Love? all bombed on the charts despite receiving heavy promotion.

Deadline are claiming that Lopez’s manager Benny Medina confirmed the split to them via e-mail earlier today.

“Jennifer had a wonderful relationship with the Sony Music group, and they have shared many successes together, but the time was right to make a change that best serves the direction her career as an actress and recording artist. She is grateful and appreciative to everyone Sony for all that they accomplished together.”

Surprisingly though Lopez is said to be okay with the decision, and is even in talks with L.A. Reid about signing a new deal at Def Jam as we speak.

Read all the juicy details on the split over at Deadline here.

Despite the drama the 40-year-old is still scheduled to host and perform on Saturday Night Live this weekend to promote her upcoming film The Back-up Plan and what was supposed to be her new album.

I’ve already contacted Lopez’s label for an official statement or confirmation on the split, as I’m sure many others have, so I’m sure we’ll get a definite answer regarding the article some time today or tomorrow.

The news is pretty dire though, but it’s actually not a huge shock considering not only how her Love? singles are doing, but also the poor reception towards her past two albums Rebirth and Brave (the latter didn’t even crack the top 10 on the Billboard 200).

It seems like Jen has really hit that trademark slump that all female pop stars do when they’re around forty. Now many women besides Madonna have been able to maintain the same amount of success  that they had when they were younger once they reach forty. It’s a curse, and also reflective on how people are always looking for the next hot thing. One minute you’re a huge star, the next minute you’ve been dropped by your label. Unfortunately that’s just how it works in pop music.

Fierce and fabulous at forty the original triple threat diva Jennifer Lopez was in Italy on Friday evening to perform at the 60th Sanremo Song Festival.

Jenny took the stage to perform her song “What Is Love” for the first time ever, which is set to be the lead single from the soundtrack to her new film The Back-up Plan. The performance was lip-synced but still fantastic, especially after Jen showed off her dancing skills with a mean dance break.

The 40-year-old (who looks better than most 18-year-olds) also banged out a medley of her biggest hits including “Jenny from the Block’, “Waiting for Tonight”, “Love Don’t Cost a Thing”, “Get Right” and “Let’s Get Loud”.

Do ya thang girl!

Jlo’s heavy (and so far unsuccessful) promotional schedule will continue next Saturday (Feb 27) when she does double duties on Saturday Night Live as both a host and a musical guest. {source: OnlineJLoFan}

Looking like almost half of her forty years, a casually dressed Jennifer Lopez attended the Fourth Annual DIRECTV Celebrity Beach Bowl this weekend wearing a t-shirt with the word “Love” on it, which is also the title of her upcoming album. {pic source}

Jenny’s first single “Louboutins” has still failed to make any significant impact on the charts, but it did just debut at uh… #50 on the club charts.

*blank stare*

Meanwhile her buzz single that she didn’t even promote “Fresh Out The Oven” managed to reach #1 on the charts a few weeks back. I wonder how her next single “Everybody’s Girl” will do?

A new, presumably unfinished, song has leaked from Jennifer Lopez’s struggling sixth album Love?.

The Tricky Stewart produced “The Greatest Part of Me” has the same kind of happy upbeat vibe as a lot of the music from Jennifer’s previous albums This Is Me Then and Brave, so it should please her long time fans. The song would make a great addition to Love? and would probably slot in comfortably amongst the albums other tracks, but it certainly isn’t single material.

The majority of Love?, tentatively due this April, is so far sounding like a typical Jennifer Lopez album with the triple threat diva deciding to stick to her tried-and-tested formula and not step too far outside the box. Whether or not that’s a good thing… Well, I haven’t quite decided yet!

With her lead single “Louboutins” still failing to chart since its release in late December, could Jennifer Lopez be having second thoughts about her new album Love? Some recent comments she made to Extra below certainly seem questionable.

“I’m working on my album that will be out… hopefully this year, we’ll see if I get it done… You know how it is, you go in your there non-stop, you leave it alone for a minute and you come back – you’re like, okay, this is what I need.”

It’d be easy to take something she said out of context though, so I wouldn’t be jumping to any huge conclusions just yet.

Moving on now to some more factual information that Jennifer mentioned is that she’s still recording Love? and will spend more time in the studio with The-Dream & Tricky, and when asked who she would love to collaborate with Jlo eagerly mentioned Fergie’s name.

I’ll keep my fingers crossed for that one because a duet between Fergie & Jlo would be out-of-control, and would certainly give “Telephone” a run for it’s money!

According to a new article in CBS Love? is scheduled to drop in April so she better get to work if she wants to finish it up in time. In non-music news look out for Jennifer’s new movie The Back-Up Plan, as well as appearances on both Glee and How I Met Your Mother.

After her first single “Louboutins” was met with a poor reception by the charts Jennifer Lopez has made her return to dance-pop with her new single “Everybody’s Girl”. The song will serve as the official international single from Jenny’s upcoming new album Love?, but I wouldn’t be surprised if it gets released in the US soon either.

The opening of the Mike Caren produced song is reminiscent of Daft Punk, before heading in a more euro-pop dance direction similar to a more uptempo version of Leighton Meester’s “Somebody to Love” which Caren also produced.

I can also hear a lot of elements of Wynter Gordon’s sound after the singer-songwriter recently made the move to dance music, which isn’t surprising since she actually wrote the song.

“Everybody’s Girl” definitely attaches itself to the current wave of club-ready dance music that’s storming the airwaves at the moment, but the song itself is good enough to transcend any fads and stand on it’s own.

Now all that’s left is for this to become a hit because so far the only success Jennifer has seen from her new album is “Fresh Out The Oven” hitting #1 on the club charts.