This is not the girl you used to know, sings Jennifer Lopez at the start of her eighth album, but anybody who heard 2011’s Love? won’t find much new here, forgettable EDM-by-numbers floor-fillers jostling with marginally more inspired ballads.
Happily, none of the 20-odd special guests or producers seems to have given any thought to the reliably duff lyrics, which make A.K.A. a far more interesting experience than it might otherwise have been.
On Never Satisfied, she reveals that her “appetite is keeping her up at night” — can she not afford a fridge? Booty finds her and Pitbull celebrating big arses in spectacularly risible fashion.
