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Jennifer Lopez reckons American Idol helped her "grow as an artist"

  • July 24, 2012
  • Brad O'Mance

Jennifer Lopez has claimed that sitting next to Steven Tyler and giving advice to strangers for two years has helped her — wait for it — "grow as an artist".

Talking to MTV about her 'stint' on American Idol and why she's decided to leave, she said: "Whenever it's things like that, where you're working with other people, like the audience, or even another artist, like we did with the con­test­ants on the show, you learn, you grow."

"Whatever I'd tell them, it was funny [AIN'T IT FUNNY SURELY??], it was like telling myself," she continued. "And I always feel like whenever I was telling them this over the past two years of doing 'Idol,' that it was helping me grow as an artist as well."

So inspir­a­tional. But it didn't stop there. "[America Idol] was a great exper­i­ence; it was a great exper­i­ence to sit there and do that for a while, and I honestly feel like it was put in my life for a reason, to be part of my journey and part of my growth, because it def­in­itely did that," she went on.

"But as much as I love the show, this is what I do. This is what I do. And that was fun and it was great, but this is what I do."

By "this is what I do" we think she means singing and dancing as opposed to giving long-winded answers to questions in an interview scenario.

J‑Lo's also put a teaser thing for her new video for 'Goin' In' online too and you can see that below.

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