Rebirth (Jennifer Lopez album)
Rebirth (English for " rebirth " ) is the fourth studio album by American singer Jennifer Lopez. It was released on their record label Epic Records on March 1, 2005. The album includes the hit single Get Right known, the front seats occupied in the charts worldwide.
Formation
Originally, the album title should read Call Me Jennifer because Lopez did not want to be referred to by their abbreviations " J.Lo ". The new title " Rebirth " should after the failure of her film Love with risk - Gigli usher in a fresh start for Lopez's career from 2003. Musically Lopez showed no new approaches and moving toward the last albums. It uses " typical American Urban music with heaping radio - elements and gentle soulful pop and R & B ballads ." This time includes the album, unlike its predecessors, no hip-hop approaches. Her husband Marc Anthony wrote and produced the title ( Can not Believe ) This Is Me
Rebirth was released in DualDisc format, which contains all the songs of the album in stereo format, the music video for Get Right, the remix version to Get Right with the rapper Fabolous and documentation for the album, in the DA Pennebaker directed.
Cherry Pie was supposed to be released as the third single from the album, but by the low albums sales Lopez drew the publication later.
Title list
Get Right contains elements of Maceo & the Macks ' James Bond Song Soul Power '74. Hold You Down quotes Shirley Murdock As We Lay by the author team Larry Troutman and Billy Beck. Whatever You Wanna Do finally Samplet Con Funk Shun by The Nite- Liters from the pen of Delma Anthony Churchill, Harvey Fuqua and Kenneth L. Hawkins.
Reception
Rebirth got an average rating of 52 /100 from Metacritic. Allmusic gave the album four out of five stars and said: " Musically, Lopez follows its three predecessors, this album can be difficult to describe as rebirth, but song for song Rebirth has more energy and better hooks than its predecessors. It need not be profound, but fun -. According to the failures in 2003 and 2004, Lopes has now earned fun "
Charts
Rebirth debuted on March 19, 2005 to # 2 on the Billboard 200 ( behind 50 Cent's The Massacre ), with 261,000 units sold in its first week. In Japan, it was Lopez's most successful album. It reached there 3rd place with 244 689 units sold. Rebirth in Turkey was the best selling album of 2005. Worldwide the album sold around 3 million copies.