Pop-culture history is littered with the wreckage of movie stars who made bad pop records that are, for some reason (hello, William Shatner), usually available only in Japan. If nothing else, with her fluffy, engaging debut, On the 6, Jennifer Lopez has already managed to make the transition from budding movie diva to budding music diva with more conviction than, say, Jennifer Love Hewitt.
Lopez has a voice that, while not exactly barn-busting, is perfectly serviceable for 6's melding of Latin-tinged pop and hip-hop (even if she does sound, in the record-opening "If You Had My Love," a little like Paula Abdul).

People have done more with less, certainly, many of whom weren't already famous to begin with. Lopez wisely surrounds herself with top-drawer molders and shapers like Emilio and Gloria Estefan, Puff Daddy, Brandy collaborator Rodney Jerkins, and, most notably, Latin star Marc Anthony, who comes onboard for two versions of the otherwise-unremarkable ballad "No Me Ames."