Jennifer Lopez Announces New Album ‘This Is Me… Now’ – Jennifer Lopez announced on Friday morning that her new album “This Is Me… Now” will be released in 2023. This will be the singer’s first studio album in eight years. Along with a video depicting her in her “This Is Me Then” era 20 years ago, transforming into the current J.Lo, Lopez released a track listing that includes “Dear Ben Pt. II,” presumably a sequel to “Dear Ben” from her previous album.
This is how the album’s news release reads: “Heralding a new era of music for Jennifer Lopez, ‘This Is Me…Now’ chronicles the emotional, spiritual and psychological journey that she has taken over the past two decades. An emotionally raw and honest project, unlike any she has produced before, she writes and sings about her life and experiences that will resonate with us all. In addition, these autobiographical stories informed by the album will result in other very personal projects that will be released next year… more to come on that.”
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The record is also described to touch on themes of Lopez’s tough childhood, her unsuccessful relationships and “the incredible emotional journey she has been on. … This album is a philosophy, a reflection, a zeitgeist moment. It’s about hope, faith and true love never dying,” the release concludes.
The track list for the collection:
1. This Is Me … Now
2. Be Yours
3. Mad in Love
4. Can’t Get Enough
5. Rebound
6. not. going. anywhere.
7. Dear Ben pt. ll
8. Hummingbird
9. Hearts and Flowers
10. Broken Like Me
11. This Time Around
12. Midnight Trip to Vegas
13. Greatest Love Story Never Told
The singer also recently told Vogue that the upcoming album will be “her most honest work to date” and said her hope for the album was to create a world to go with the music, in the manner of Pink Floyd’s “The Wall,” but with the focus being love. In 2002, Lopez dominated popular culture. Regardless of public opinion, the Bronx native had dabbled in all facets of the entertainment industry (already with two albums and several leading roles) and was linked to co-star Ben Affleck, which heightened the media’s fascination with her.
Exactly 20 years ago today, Lopez’s 13-song third studio album, “This Is Me… Then,” hit the market and gave way to hits like “Jenny From the Block” and “All I Have” to top the charts. The set also included the aforementioned song about Bennifer’s romance (“Dear Ben”), with dedications for the actor on the CD sleeve thanking him for inspiring the record. “When you go back and hear that, you hear the purity and the love there,” Lopez said in a 2021 Apple Music interview.
“Some things do last forever,” she added. In that same conversation, Lopez jokingly said it might be time for “This Is Me… Now,” but there was little inclination that might’ve actually been the case until today. Shortly after releasing her Netflix documentary feature “Halftime,” Lopez and Affleck were married this summer in Las Vegas after the couple rekindled their relationship.
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On the film front, she most recently co-starred with Owen Wilson in the romantic comedy “Marry Me” and will co-star with Josh Duhamel in “Shotgun Wedding,” slated for release in December. Under a multiyear agreement between Netflix and her Nuyorican Productions banner, Lopez will also portray an assassin in the upcoming action film “The Mother.”
