The songstress opens up to ET about her new musical cinematic experience, ‘This Is Me… Now: A Love Story.’
Jennifer Lopez is tapping into her own love story for her latest album and the unique musical cinematic experience, This Is Me… Now: A Love Story.
The celebrated songstress recently sat down with ET’s Denny Directo, and got candid about being more “vulnerable” and open than ever with her new music.
“Half the time, I was thinking, like, ‘This is amazing! I am so excited that I’m doing this!’ And then half time time I was like, ‘Why are you doing this? You are so crazy,” Lopez shares. “But I think that’s what being an artist is about, you know, you have to. That’s the difference between being an artist and not being an artist, how vulnerable you can get.”
For Lopez, finding love once again with husband Ben Affleck was one major source of inspiration for this romantic new album, and drove her to want to capture this moment in time through music.
Lopez and Affleck first dated in 2002, and got engaged shortly after. That same year, Lopez released her third studio album, This Is Me… Then. In hindsight, Lopez realized that the project “captured that moment in time with me realizing it.”
Their romance took the world by storm, but after constant media scrutiny, the pair called off their engagement and split up in January 2004.
Nearly two decades later, the couple reconnected and sparked their love once again. They made it to the altar, tying the knot in 2022. Now, Lopez says, “I wanted to capture this moment in time” through music.
