After a decade without releasing albums, Jennifer Lopezgraduate with This is me… now, the follow-up to the album of the same name which he composed 20 years ago, when he fell in love with the man who at that time was the love of his life, the actor Ben Affleck.
Having a “second chance” with that love, she says in an interview, inspired her to return to the studio.
“I wrote the album This is me… So 20 years ago, when I fell in love with the love of my life and we ended up breaking up,” explains the Bronx, New York superstar of Puerto Rican origin.
“But 20 years later we met again and I felt very inspired to go back and write about it again. the experience of having a second chance with this kind of love“says Jennifer Lopez, jealous of keeping her relationship with Affleck private, but without hiding it Her history with her now-husband is a powerful force in her music..
TO This is me… now (in Spanish, ‘This is me… now’), which will debut on Friday 16 February together with a film written and starring the singer herself with cameo by Affleck himselfSofia Vergara, Post Malone and Trevor Noah, among others, Lopez describes it as his “most personal project” to date.
The album is “a great love story,” he admits, with similar songs Dear Ben, Part II OR The greatest love story ever told. But it is also much more than that.
Always together. Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck, at the premiere of “This is Me… Now: A Love Story”, the singer’s film about the love that binds them. The relationship is so strong that they released an album and a film. Photo: Robyn Beck/AFPThis is me and my scars
“The idea of This is me… now And the accept yourself, accept who you are now. Sometimes we look back and say “I could have done this better, I could have done that better”. But at the time, maybe you were doing the best you could with what you knew,” she reflects.
“I am like this”, continues the interpreter, 54 years old-, I have accumulated some scars along the way, there are also some amazing things about me, but I love this person. I accept who I am. This is me now. “I showed a part of me that I had never shown before.”
With the simple I just can not get enough As a letter of introduction, the album is also an opportunity for this superstar tell your story on your terms, without the filter of tabloids and paparazzialthough when he began to compose he did not do so with the idea of making great revelations.
“My intention was to share what I’ve learned – he specifies – and share a story that I think is worthwhile, that has something to say and I hope that entertains people, that inspires people and comforts them.”
This process, which makes his fans complicit in the sweet moment he is personally going through, is part of the “responsibilities of an artist”.
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“I shared and bared a part of my soul and showed a part of myself that I had never shown before, with the intention of introducing people to the different types of growth needed to understand love,” he says.
Furthermore, after two months of study, When he finished with the music he felt there were still things to tell.
“It was a beautiful expression of this idea true love exists and “forever” is real. That was represented in the album, but there was also another part of the story that needed to be told about the path we took to get there,” she recalls.
Whole body. Jennifer Lopez says the album and film are about second chance love. Photo: Robyn Beck/AFPThis is how the idea to make the film This Is Me… Now: A Love Story was born., directed by Dave Meyers and also available this Friday the 16th on Amazon Prime. It is an extension of the album that adds the cinematic part of Lopez’s career.
Although it is not a biopic, the singer defines the production as very “meta”, with autobiographical aspects and inspirations. “It’s the story of a hopeless romantic, which is me“, recognize.
Put into the universe This is me… now so many things that involve her personally – music, cinema, love, her growth path – it was a very enriching process that she had never attempted before. But she, she admits laughing, has also absorbed all her energy.
“It was so hard… but it was worth it,” she says.
And while he can’t make any announcements at the moment, he anticipates it He’s excited to be back on tour..
“I miss the fans. I like the people, so I’m excited to get back out there and jump, dance, sing, cry, scream and laugh with them,” he promises.
Source: Clarin
