Maybe it's the pressures of motherhood. Perhaps the stress of a couple of poorly selling albums has her worried about the state of her singing and failing acting careers. More likely, she's just too old for it now. But recently, Mrs. Skeletor has decided that she no longer wants to me called J-Lo.
According to TMZ.com, J-Lo recently sold first rights to the baby pictures of her twins, E-Skel and M-Skel, to People Magazine for $6 million. There is a caveat, of course. No one sells baby pictures that cheaply without a condition or two, right? People, not just the magazine but people in general, are no longer allowed to call her J-Lo. Apparently, the "J-Lo" title was good enough to help sell 15 million albums in 2001 and 2002, but now it's just gauche. She's a mommy and has to think about how her career is maturing. She'll never win that Oscar for best actress in a cheesy, overly formulaic romantic comedy with such an immature nickname.
What the artist formerly known as J-Lo doesn't understand is that few people ever outgrow a nickname. She received it, she played it up quite successfully, and she's stuck with it. She's should be proud. It could be a hell of a lot worse. Does anyone think that Big Pussy from "The Sopranos" ever, for one second, considered giving himself that moniker? Hardly. Over time, though, you learn to live with and eventually embrace it. Besides, changing nicknames is a lot like cosmetic surgery; once you open that box it's very hard to close it again. Things can quickly spin out of control. What happened when another famous R&B artist started dabbling in name-changing: Puff Daddy, Puffy, P-Diddy, Diddy, and finally...Sean. Frightening.
Oh well, if J-Lo really doesn't want to be J-Lo anymore, that's fine. Good luck, though, turning that ship around. She'd have better luck just legally changing her name to Mrs. Skeletor. I'm sure those Oscar-worthy roles would start pouring in in no time.
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