Christina Milian shuts down Jennifer Lopez beef speculation over song ‘Play’ https://t.co/jEj0YLsYHo pic.twitter.com/iXQwr3cYri
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Christina Milian wants you to know that there is no beef with Jennifer Lopez. Milian co-wrote J Lo’s hit single “Play,” a song originally meant for her own debut album. “Hands down, she killed it. She’s so good. I love that song,” the singer said while promoting her partnership with Lysol Air Sanitizer. “And I couldn’t believe at 19 years old I wrote a song for J.Lo.” Milian revealed that she wrote “Play” the same week she wrote her debut single, “AM to PM,” during songwriting camps in Sweden with Bloodshy & Avant.
Milian explained that the song (“Play) came to her after a night of partying, and she wrote it in about 15 minutes. Although Christina says she was proud of the song, she favored “AM to PM” and figured that her label at the time wouldn’t want to include “two party songs” on her debut album.
That’s when Tommy Motorola heard the song, and immediately gave it to Lopez.
Still, even today, online speculation of a feud persists where fans often call out J Lo for leaving Milian’s vocals on the chorus of “Play” and not giving her a feature credit on the song. “It’s funny when people talk about this being kind of a thing about me singing on the song with Jennifer. I mean, I have background singers on some of my songs,” Milian said. “It’s no different than Michael Jackson having background singers on songs or Britney Spears. This is what music is made of. You want a blend of voices. It makes songs better, to me.”
“I don’t need a feature credit,” she insists. “I’m on the credits for whatever nature, as a writer and for singing backgrounds. There is credit for that. I’m also just so happy that she did it because she’s an icon, she’s amazing.”
Read more of Milian’s interview and her partnership with Lysol at the source.
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