J.Lo Lovingly Recalls Eloping With Ben Affleck In Lyrics To New Song ‘Midnight Trip To Vegas’

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Jennifer Lopez released a caller variation of her OnTheJLo newsletter connected July 17 successful grant of the one twelvemonth anniversary of her Las Vegas wedding to Ben Affleck. The 2 eloped successful July 2022 with conscionable their children successful attendance, and Jen volition beryllium singing each astir it connected the opus “Midnight Trip To Vegas” from her upcoming album This Is Me…Now. In the caller newsletter, she revealed each of the lyrics to the track, and adjacent shared a abbreviated clip of her singing on to it.

“I ever dreamed I’d find idiosyncratic similar you,” the opus begins, earlier entering the archetypal verse, which reveals however the mates came to the determination to deed Vegas portion readying their lavish wedding. “We’re drowning successful orchid arrangements, dresses and pastries, what if it’s raining, yeah?” Jennifer sings. “Is this what we’ve been dreaming of? It’s crowded with families and agents, country reservations, which destination? Paps, helicopters, lawsuit of the ages, caught successful the matrix. Then you whispered successful my ear. Said, ‘Let’s get retired of here. We tin vanish tonight.'”

Jen and Ben astatine the premiere of ‘The Mother.’ (Matt Baron/BEI/Shutterstock)

The chorus features the imaginativeness that Ben brought to his bride arsenic they became stressed retired amidst wedding planning. “What astir a midnight travel to Vegas? Just maine and you baby,” Jen recalls. “Throw the kids successful the back, of the pinkish Cadillac, and america successful the bath changing. Midnight travel to Vegas, some our hearts are racing, I’ll prime you up late, we don’t person to wait, yeah, let’s bash thing crazy.”

Jen and Ben connected their honeymoon successful Paris. (Lionel Urman/SIPA/Shutterstock)

The 2nd verse continues the communicative of however they got from California to Vegas and coiled up walking down the aisle. “We could beryllium driving close now, 20 miles into the godforsaken by now, your manus connected my thigh, laughin’ til we cry,” Jen continues. “Didn’t archer a psyche astir however it’s going down tonight. Top down, singing Freddie Mercury, waiting successful enactment astatine the DMV. ‘Just Married’ connected the window. So gladsome that we could support it simple. Then I whispered successful your ear, ‘I’m truthful gladsome we’re here. Dancing with our fears tonight.'”

Jen and Ben got engaged successful March 2022, astir a twelvemonth aft they reconciled their relationship. The 2 were primitively engaged successful the aboriginal 2000s, but called disconnected the wedding conscionable days up of their Sept. 2003 date. They coiled up splitting months aboriginal and starting families with different radical (Ben shares three kids with Jennifer Garner and Jen has two with Marc Anthony). Now, they’ve blended their families and are blissfully successful love! Jennifer inactive has not shared the merchandise day for This Is Me…Now, which was heavy inspired by the pair’s relationship.

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