It’s been almost a decade since Jennifer Lopez‘s final studio album, 2014’s A.Okay.A., and 22 years since 2002’s This Is Me… Then. The latter was partly impressed by her past love affair with actor Ben Affleck, and after breaking apart in 2004 and reuniting in 2021, the pair at the moment are married and Lopez is getting ready to launch her ninth album, This Is Me… Now.
So, go determine, JLo tells ET that Now was additionally fueled by her relationship with the actor. “When Ben and I obtained again collectively, it was similar to, ‘I need to make music once more, I need to get again within the studio,’” Lopez mentioned. “I used to be very, very impressed.”
The album and an accompanying narrative-driven quick movie directed by Dave Meyers (Ariana Grande, Taylor Swift) titled This Is Me… Now: A Love Story — which can air on Amazon Prime — will each drop on Feb. 16. “Half the time, I used to be considering, like, ‘That is wonderful! I’m so excited that I’m doing this!’ After which half time time I used to be like, ‘Why are you doing this? You might be so loopy,” Lopez mentioned of her trepidation about stepping again into music after specializing in performing for the previous decade. “However I feel that’s what being an artist is about, you already know, it’s a must to. That’s the distinction between being an artist and never being an artist, how weak you will get.”
Then she and Affleck reunited and their rekindled love impressed the romance-drenched LP. “As soon as the music was accomplished, it felt so particular to me,” she mentioned. “It felt like one thing very completely different than I had ever accomplished, despite the fact that I’ve written about love my complete profession.” The objective, she added was to seize the enjoyment of their love in music on a set she described as “a little bit bit extra advanced and healed… [and] type of magical.”
To date, Lopez has dropped the dance-y single “Can’t Get Sufficient” from the album that additionally incorporates a sequel to a monitor from the primary This Is Me album, “Pricey Ben Pt. II.”
Watch the “Can’t Get Sufficient” remix video with Latto under.
