ENTERTAINMENT: J-Lo Moves into Planet Hollywood Las Vegas for a Four-Month Spectacular / “We Belong Together” Turns 10! Mariah Carey, Jermaine Dupri, and L.A. Reid on Making the Smash Hit @voguemagazine

Confirming rumors that have been circling for months, Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino will soon shine a little brighter with the landing of a new star. Jennifer Lopez announced during this week’s “American Idol” Season 14 finale that she will begin a Las Vegas headlining residency show beginning Wednesday, January 20, 2016.

In a spectacular show created just for the Vegas stage, Lopez will bring her star power to the resort’s AXIS Theater.  Lopez will further elevate Las Vegas as an entertainment destination, creating a must-see show.
“I’ve been preparing for this moment my entire life,” said Lopez. “The show is going to be a multifaceted high energy Jenny from the Block party, mixing all aspects of what my fans and I love: Dance, Hip Hop, Latin and Pop. It’s going to be the show I’ve always dreamt of creating.”

The nearly two-hour show will feature all her hit songs, supported by a live band and dancers, extravagant costumes, and state-of-the-art technology in sets, lighting, video and special effects.  Lopez’s show inside The AXIS at Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino will be the only opportunity to see her perform live in North America. It will be a totally unique production, where the audience will be able to experience Lopez up close and personal, yet larger than life.

This summer marks the tenth anniversary of the unprecedented run of Mariah Carey’s “We Belong Together,” a smash hit that spent a record-breaking fourteen weeks at number one on the Billboard singles chart. The song was Carey’s sixteenth number-one single, and is largely credited for reviving her career after a brief series of less-than-successful releases. With a new Las Vegas residency underway (the song gets prime position on her set list) and a new greatest hits package, Number 1 to Infinity,forthcoming, Vogue.com asked all the players—record executive L.A. Reid, producer Jermaine Dupri, video director Brett Ratner, songwriter Johntá Austin, and Carey herself—about writing and recording the song, watching it blow up, and why it still resonates today.