Friday 2 March 2001

Jennifer Lopez spirals out, but "Butterfly" is beautiful

How ironic: Mariah Carey had an insipid little number called "Butterfly" a couple of years ago that was just uhhhhhh ... boring. Columbia Records did what it could to push it along, although it was just more breathy yodeling.

Now Columbia has a single by a new group called Crazy Town - and it's called "Butterfly". What a hit! Very few records jump off what used to be called the turntable these days - or pop out of the CD player. But "Butterfly" is just one of those great, nutty grooves. If it's sampled from something, I don't what it is, but god bless 'em. Crazy Town's members are Shifty Shellshock (vocals), Epic Mazur (vocals), Rust Epique (guitar), Trouble Valli (guitar), Faydoedeelay (bass), DJ AM (turntables) and JBJ (drums).

The record is number two and I predict it will be in the Top Ten for many, many weeks. And it's a regular old single, not an album cut. Between this and Shaggy, hope springs up again for great pop music.

Maybe Crazy Town will bail Columbia out on the disastrous Jennifer Lopez album J-Lo. As of Tuesday, the poor thing had moved only 809,000 copies domestically - a mere 92,000 last week - even though, of course, it has that bogus Recording Industry Association of America platinum certification for 1 million sold.

It sits at number six rather forlornly, a referendum on Jennifer and Puffy's problems. If Puffy is acquitted of various counts of mischief, will it help sales? Something better. Lopez gets millions from Sony/Columbia and they want something back in return.

(Fox 411)



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