Jennifer Lopez is a romantic, certain, however she’s not hopeless with it. And undoubtedly not a intercourse addict. A love addict? Now we’re speaking.
That’s the phrase based on Lopez. The pop veteran stopped by Carrie & Tommy’s drive-time Australian radio station drive present on the Hit Community, for an exploration of her two-part This Is Me…Now mission — an album and an Amazon authentic movie, This Is Me…Now: A Love Story, each set for launch this Friday, Feb. 16.
Directed by Dave Meyers (Ariana Grande, Taylor Swift), This Is Me…Now: A Love Story is alleged to showcase “her journey to like via her personal eyes.” For her Australian radio spot, Lopez was requested concerning the second within the official trailer, when her friends stage an intervention, telling the “If You Had My Love” singer that she simply is likely to be a intercourse addict.
“No, no,” she says with fun. “Folks can assume every kind of issues after they’re seeing you from the surface, considering they know what your life is, and also you’re like ‘properly that’s truly the alternative of the reality’, however it was good to toy round with all of these concepts.”
If something, she would characterize herself “extra of a love addict or a workaholic than all the things else.”
Lopez co-wrote the movie, described in an announcement as a “narrative-driven cinematic odyssey, steeped in mythological storytelling and private therapeutic.”
A decade has handed since Lopez’s final studio album, 2014’s A.Okay.A., which peaked at No. 8, considered one of her eight high 10s on the Billboard 200 chart.
Time away from creating music has been restorative. “I really feel like that is the very best album that I’ve ever made,” she tells Carrie & Tommy. “Probably the most sincere and true – it took a very long time for me as a musical artist to get there. I’m actually completely satisfied and pleased with this in a approach that I don’t assume I ever have been earlier than.”
Her ninth studio album, This Is Me…Now completes an idea, an “examination of that journey” from the discharge of This Is Me.. Then again in 2002 when she was relationship Ben Affleck, to her subsequent marriage to the Batman star, and “desirous to share it with the world” via the lens of the mission, she continues. “They’ve adopted me on that journey and watched me make errors and go out and in of relationships and puzzled what was happening.”
Lopez and Affleck break up in 2004, reunited in 2021 and eventually tied the knot in a shock Las Vegas wedding ceremony in July 2022 – 20 years after that album launch. The remaining has been like, properly, a romantic movie.
“I obtained to the purpose in my life the place I felt like I’ve some solutions about this, and really, real love does exist, and a few issues are without end,” she enthuses. “Don’t hand over hope.”
The brand new album includes a sequel to a observe from the primary This Is Me album, “Pricey Ben Pt. II,” plus the beforehand launched, dance-y single “Can’t Get Sufficient.”
Stream the interview right here.