Jennifer Lopez nips her toxic relationships in the bud in the video for ‘Rebound’

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Jennifer Lopez He has already released the most ambitious project of his entire career. This is me… now was released on February 16, two days after Valentine’s Day with a double release: the album and the special A love Story for Prime Video. In this unique feature film, the singer openly shows her great vision of love, which ranges from the search for self-love to the romantic love you feel towards the person with whom you share the rest of your life.

Before, he had already shown a fragment—or video clip—corresponding to Can’t Get Enough and, now that he is still promoting this work so unique in its kind, The diva from the Bronx has published the music video for Rebound. In it, the artist reflects on the ties of a relationship; what you are willing to give and receive (in the most literal sense and in the worst possible scenario) to move on with a partner who hurts you.

JLo is placed in a fragile glass building that seems to crack just by looking at it. Within the four walls of her home, our protagonist lives with a partner who is abusive: He mistreats her, attacks her and insults her… until Jennifer can’t take it anymore and decides nip in the bud the habits that kept her tied hand and foot to this relationship with the first crack that occurs in the core of your home.

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In this way, the clip also shows other types of relationships and other types of links. All represented by the erotic practice of bondage: ropes that hang from the ceiling and also surround the bodies of the different people who appear in different colors in a flat plane.

Finally, the house jumps into the air while the singer screams of pain, stress, overwhelm… And she leaves on her own two feet amidst cuts, scars and disorder. “Don’t sit there playing the victim. You know what it was like. You’re older, you made a decision. It’s what it is,” Lopez says as she leaves her and her ex-boyfriend.

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