Jennifer Lopez is reflecting on her development. The multi-hyphenate celebrity unveiled her ninth studio album, This Is Me… Now, on Friday (Feb. 16).
This Is Me…Now is the sister album to 2002’s This Is Me…Then, which was devoted to her companion on the time, Ben Affleck. Lopez and Affleck have since rekindled their romance, and the couple married in 2022. It’s additionally Lopez’s first full-length solo launch in almost a decade. Her final album, 2014’s A.Okay.A., reached No. 8 on the Billboard 200.
“This Is Me…Then was one thing that I wrote at that time limit that wound up capturing a second the place I fell deeply in love for the primary time in that method, and I didn’t know that I might look again and I feel. ‘What a form of poetic factor to say,’” Lopez advised Billboard in a latest interview.
She continued, “Then to have this type of loopy, unusual, magical, surrealistic plot twist the place I wound up again with that particular person, it was insane and it was additionally very inspiring. So I went again within the studio, and in the best way that This Is Me… Then captured that first second in time, I needed to seize this second in time. It’s much more lovely and provoking than the primary time. I’ve one thing to say about love now that I’ve been searching for which is — I’m certain folks marvel as a result of I did — does real love exist? Is that kind of affection actual? Does something final perpetually? Once I felt like I had the solutions to that, I needed to share that with all of the individuals who’ve been on this journey with me, who watched me rise up and fall down, out and in of relationships. It is probably not a straight highway, however the love is there.”
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