Saving All My Love for You Vocal Performance in 1986. She also won the American Music Award for Favorite R&B/Soul Video for "Saving All My Love for You". The song also entered the list of her best songs. While listing her "25 Best Songs", editors from "Entertainment Weekly" placed the song at number 21, writing that, "The stuff that's been piped into thousands of dentist offices, it was also her first No. 1 hit." BET placed the song at number 7 on their "40 Best Whitney Houston Songs", writing that, "The song has it all: her breathy come-ons, her trademark epic high notes, her delicate runs."
If You Had My Love Drivers." "Rolling Stone" noted that the single marked the beginning of Lopez's own media empire. Writing for "Dazed," Kat George opined that Lopez was celebrity feminist, a premise that was defined by "If You Had My Love," which had a "succinct and demanding message about womanhood". The success of "If You Had My Love," which was considered unlikely, coincided with the "Latin explosion" of 1999, which was led by Ricky Martin. Some critics assumed that Lopez was attempting to capitalize on the growing popularity of Latin music in the United States. Her subsequent success on the charts came as a