Backing singer Jennifer Lopez calls out a “problem” with one of her songs

For years, Jennifer Lopez has been dogged by claims that she didn’t sing some of her recorded songs, and a former backup singer recently said there was a “problem” with one of the singer’s most famous songs.

The rumor that Lopez was using ghost singers began circulating early in her profession, with artists similar to Ashanti and Christina Milian saying that after they created her music, Lopez relied on their vocals.

Now Natasha Ramos, one of Lopez’s former backup singers, has fueled those rumors even further by saying she lent her voice to the singer’s 2002 hit single “Jenny From the Block.”

Newsweek reached out to Ramos and Lopez’s spokesperson for comment via TikTok and email, respectively.

“My name is Natasha Ramos and I am the voice of ‘Jenny From the Block,’” the previous backing vocalist said in a TikTok video posted on March 26.

IN one other movie in published on April 2, Ramos stated that she sang on Lopez’s songs “Jenny From the Block”, “I’m Glad”, “The One”, “Loving You” and “Baby I Love U!”

“I feel like all the others except ‘Jenny From the Block’ are true blue background vocals,” she said within the second video.

“I think the problem with ‘Jenny From the Block’ is that they didn’t let me laugh, they kept the commercials on, and they kept her vocals down until the very end, and the ‘from the Bronx’ part was me,” Ramos added.

The second video, which received greater than 340,000 views on TikTok, was posted on X, formerly Twitter, where it received 6.1 million views.

This is not the primary time Ramos has claimed that the voice listeners hear on most of “Jenny From the Block” is hers, posting on X in 2020 that she still loves Lopez but thinks she “doesn’t check some things.”

IN one other moviealso posted to TikTok on March 26, Ramos detailed her experience recording the song.

“I don’t know what year – 2001, 2002, I don’t know – but I had the opportunity to sing a reference song for Jennifer… for ‘Jenny From the Block.’ Many people say they stole the song from me. She didn’t steal this song from me. This song was written for Jennifer. “It was called ‘Jenny From the Block’ – it was obviously for her,” she said.

“So I recorded it. They bought it for her. She liked it very much. She loved the background vocals. They told me they wanted to keep me there and wanted me to sing backing vocals on more songs on this album,” Ramos continued.

She added: “So she went into the studio and recorded some background vocals on me. “I’m convinced they turned her vocals down completely because it sounds almost identical to the reference track.”

Ramos said industrial backing tracks aren’t considered background vocals, but lead vocals. She also said that her manager on the time made a deal during which she was paid $3,500 to record backing vocals on five songs. She said she didn’t blame Lopez and believed the fault lay with her manager and label.

In 2020, she wrote on i.e. my laugh etc. and the constant use of my vocals during her performances.”

“But she is a busy, bossy woman. I understand that she loves my voice and located that she didn’t should do an excessive amount of to make the song sound and be great… She worked smarter, not harder. The label screwed her up – that is what that is all about,” she wrote in one other post.

In a video posted on March 31, Ramos explained what it was like working with Lopez.

“I had the opportunity to work with Jennifer in the studio many times,” she said, adding: “I met an brisk, down-to-earth, great person – she was just laid back. Like she was Jenny from the block. “

Ramos added: “She had a ‘cool chick who lived in your neighborhood’ vibe.”