Christina Milian Opens Up About Alleged Feud With Jennifer Lopez Over Her Song “Play”
“The guy comes in and hears ‘Play,’ loves it and says, ‘I want that as their single,'” Milian recalls Tommy Mottola. “And the next thing I know, she’s in New York recording the song and I came over to help rewrite some stuff.”
Christina Milian clears the air about their alleged feud Jennifer Lopez.
Milian, co-writer of Lopez’s 2001 hit “Play,” said Page six that she agrees with the song’s placement on J.Lo’s second album, even though she originally recorded it for her own LP.
“There’s no doubt she did it. She is that good. I love this song,” says Milian, who helped write the title when she was just 19 years old. “I’m so happy she made it.”
The song was written in just 15 minutes during a studio session the morning after Milian’s 19th birthday after a night of partying in Sweden.
“I thought, ‘That just sounds too easy.’ “It was just too easy to write at that moment,” she remembers. “I wrote the song in about 15 minutes and it was a joke to me because I had just started becoming a writer.”
It had the makings of an instant hit, but since “AM to PM” was already included on her self-titled LP, the singer feared the label wouldn’t approve the two party tracks that headline the project.
Before the album could even be completed, former Sony Music Entertainment chairman and CEO Tommy Mottola heard “Play” and immediately claimed it as his artist Lopez, who was then signed to Epic Records.
“The guy comes in and hears ‘Play,’ loves it and says, ‘I want that as her single,'” Milian recalls. “And the next thing I know, she’s in New York recording the song and I came over to help rewrite some stuff.”
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Milian, now 41, not only co-wrote the hit, but also lent her vocals to the track’s chorus, with her backing vocals clearly featured in the song.
Many fans are upset that Lopez didn’t credit Milian as a main cast member, which is why speculation about feuds still abounds more than 20 years after the title’s release.
The singer and actress passed it off as a relative norm, saying it was a collaborative effort that wasn’t unusual in the music industry.
“It’s funny when people talk about how it’s somehow about me singing on the song with Jennifer. I mean, I have backup singers on some of my songs,” Milian says.
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She continues: “It’s no different than Michael Jackson having backup singers on songs or Britney Spears. This is what music is made of. You want a mix of voices. That’s what makes songs better for me.”
Milian also has no interest in getting a feature credit for the title, telling the outlet, “I don’t need a feature credit. I’m in the credits for whatever kind, as a writer and for the vocal background. There is recognition for that. I’m also just so happy that she did it because she’s an icon, she’s amazing.”