Jennifer Lopez’s New Album ‘This Is Me…Now’: Song List, Release Date, & All We Know

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Image Credit: Stephen Lovekin/Shutterstock Jennifer Lopez volition merchandise her ninth workplace album, This Is Me…Now. The medium references her rekindled emotion with Ben Affleck and contains a opus called “Dear Ben Pt. II” In June 2023, J.Lo said she was dropping disconnected the album, meaning it was connected its way.

Fans person been waiting for caller euphony from Jennifer Lopez for astir a decennary and won’t person to hold overmuch longer. J.Lo, 53, revealed that her ninth workplace medium – her archetypal since 2014’s A.K.A. – is successful the hands of the label. “Album present day,” Jennifer captioned a photograph she posted to her Instagram connected June 29. In the picture, J.Lo smiled portion dressed successful an all-white outfit arsenic she sat successful beforehand of a surface bearing the sanction of her caller album: This Is Me…Now.

The quality comes much than six months aft J.Lo announced the companion medium to 2002’s This Is Me…Then. Both albums were inspired by her emotion and narration with Ben Affleck. Ben and Jen reconnected successful 2021, 20 years aft they archetypal met (and astir 2 decades aft they divided successful 2004). In 2022, they announced their 2nd engagement earlier marrying successful a Vegas ceremony successful July of that year. Later that year, they held a ceremonial ceremonial astatine Affleck’s location successful Georgia.

With This Is Me…Now arriving aft Jennifer got her “Happily Ever After” with Ben, here’s what we cognize astir her caller album.

What Is Jennifer Lopez’s New Album Called?  

J.Lo announced successful November 2022 that she would beryllium releasing her ninth workplace medium and that it would beryllium called This Is Me…Now. The album’s rubric and taxable substance notation her 2002 album, This Is Me…Then (and the announcement video included the J.Lo appearing successful the 2002 artwork earlier morphing into the 2023 medium cover.)

“Heralding a caller epoch of euphony for Jennifer Lopez, ‘This Is Me…Now’ chronicles the emotional, spiritual, and intelligence travel that she has taken implicit the past 2 decades. An emotionally earthy and honorable task dissimilar immoderate she has produced before, she writes and sings astir her beingness and experiences that volition resonate with america all. In addition, these autobiographical stories informed by the medium volition effect successful different precise idiosyncratic projects that volition beryllium released adjacent year…more to travel connected that.”

When speaking to Vogue about the medium successful December 2022, she said it’s “kind of a culmination of who I americium arsenic a idiosyncratic and an artist. People deliberation they cognize things astir what happened to maine on the way, the men I was with—but they truly person nary idea, and a batch of times, they get it truthful wrong. There’s a portion of maine that was hiding a broadside of myself from everyone. And I consciousness similar I’m astatine a spot successful my life, finally, wherever I person thing to accidental astir it.”

When Does Jennifer Lopez’s New Album Come Out?  

 J.Lo announced that the medium would get successful 2023. On June 29, 2023, she posted a black-and-white Instagram of her dressed successful each white. “Album transportation day,” she captioned the picture.

In March 2023, she appeared astatine Spotify’s Stream On event. She said her medium is coming retired “this summer,” per Billboard. She spoke astir Spotify’s caller Countdown Pages. “Yes, you heard it present first. I’m ace excited. Spotify is opening to rotation these pages retired to much artists astir the world, letting them bring their ain personalized strategy to each and each album.”

What Songs Are On Jennifer Lopez’s New Album?  

When J.Lo announced This Is Me…Now, she besides shared a tracklist.

This Is Me … Now To Be Yours Mad successful Love Can’t Get Enough Rebound not. going. anywhere. Dear Ben pt. ll Hummingbird Hearts and Flowers Broken Like Me This Time Around Midnight Trip to Vegas Greatest Love Story Never Told

It’s unclear whether oregon not exclusive editions volition incorporate bonus tracks oregon if this volition beryllium the last tracklist erstwhile the medium arrives.

The astir noteworthy opus rubric was “Dear Ben pt. II,” referring to the “Dear Ben” opus connected This Is Me…Then. The archetypal opus was an ode to J.Lo’s emotion for Affleck. “I deliberation God made you for me,” she sings successful the song, per Genius. “A premix of passionate fidelities / Baby, you’re truthful implicit / I constitute this opus to fto you cognize / That you volition ever beryllium to maine / My lust, my love, my man, my child, my friend, and my king.”

What Does Jennifer Lopez’s New Album Sound Like?  

Judging by the tracklist, this medium mightiness dependable happy, joyous, and afloat of emotion songs. At the aforesaid clip that J.Lo announced the album, Zane Lowe of Apple Music 1 published an interrogation with her, successful which she said the caller LP was inspired by her reconnecting with the “love of my life,” Ben Affleck.

 “We captured maine astatine this infinitesimal successful clip erstwhile I was reunited with the emotion of my life, and we decided we were going to beryllium unneurotic forever. The full connection of the medium past is this emotion exists,” she said, per Rolling Stone. “This is simply a existent love. Now I deliberation what the connection of the medium is precise overmuch if you were wondering if you have, similar maine astatine times, mislaid hope, astir fixed up, don’t. Because existent emotion does beryllium and immoderate things bash past everlastingly and that’s real.”

“I privation to enactment that connection retired into the world, and that does instrumentality a batch of vulnerability. But I couldn’t halt myself and immoderate parts of it scare me,” she added. “And I deliberation parts of it scare Ben, too. He’s like, ‘Oh, bash you truly privation to accidental each this stuff?’ And I’m like, ‘I don’t cognize however other to bash it, baby.'”

During the interview, Jennifer spoke astir the caller medium is the companion to This Is Me…Then, which was inspired by her narration with Ben astatine the time. After they split, she said she couldn’t execute immoderate of the aged songs. “It was truthful achy aft we broke up,” she said. “Once we called disconnected that wedding 20 years ago, it was the biggest heartbreak of my life, and I honestly felt similar I was going to die,” she said.

“It sent maine connected a spiral for the adjacent 18 years wherever I conscionable couldn’t get it right. Couldn’t get it right. But now, 20 years later, it does person a blessed ending,” she told Lowe. “It has the astir would-never-happen-in-Hollywood ending. ‘That would ne'er happen. We’re not going to constitute that due to the fact that cipher would judge it’ ending.” She besides said that her hubby “loves” This Is Me…Then.

“He loves that music. He knows each of the words,” she said. “He besides was with maine portion I was creating it… He’s my biggest fan, which is awesome.”

Who Is Featured On Jennifer Lopez’s New Album?  

 When J.Lo shared the tracklist successful 2022, it didn’t notation immoderate featured performers. It’s imaginable that she whitethorn not person immoderate guests connected the album. When speaking with Vogue in December 2022, she said she wanted to make a philharmonic odyssey, a conception medium akin to Pink Floyd’s The Wall but focusing connected anticipation and love.

“I’ve ever felt similar an outsider, successful the manner world, the euphony world, the movie world,” she told Vogue. “I consciousness similar everybody knows each other, and each the artists talk, and you spell to the Met ball, and each the girls are hanging retired together, and I’m not successful that group. Maybe that’s conscionable insecurity. It’s not due to the fact that I’m antisocial oregon I don’t privation to marque friends. I’ve ever been benignant of a march-to-the-beat-of-my-own-drum, loner-type person. I’m like, I’ll conscionable enactment focused connected my thing. I’ve ever benignant of felt similar that. I inactive do.”

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