She's still Jenny from the block (kind of)

At the beginning of her new album, “Love?”, J Lo intones “It’s a new generation of party people” in her signature breathiness. Perhaps it is, but it’s up for debate as to whether Mrs. Lopez is a part of this glamorous group.

Though a valiant comeback effort, her narration seems insincere given that she just popped out a few kids, is happily married and probably not pursuing the shenanigans with random men in the club she sings about.

Nonetheless, J Lo has put out a frothy compilation of dance floor-ready tunes. Like her female Top-40 peers, she seems to be hopping on the party-pop train, cranking out mindless tracks with heavily produced, pulsing beats underneath them. On “Run the World,” she sounds like a slightly more in-tune Rebecca Black and on “Villain” and “Good Hit,” she calls to mind a more melodic Britney Spears. Needless to say, Lopez’s best songs surface when she stops trying to mimic her fellow divas and lets her signature Latina flavor come out.

The Lil Wayne-assisted, reggaeton-influenced, Jenny-from-the-Block-recalling, “I’m Into You” is stupid (“you’ve got me hooked with your love controller”) and grammatically questionable, yet these elements are what make it fun. “Papi” is a somewhat sexist gem, and “Hypnotico” is another sassy, thumping dance tune that sums up her album well: “We just some silly heartbreakers tonight.”

If you stay away from her slower tunes and conveniently ignore most of her lyrics, it’s not half bad. Though “Love?” isn’t the most original album out right now, it is mindless, decadent fun and it’s J Lo. What else could we expect?