Jennifer Lopez is in her busy period together with her newest album, This Is Me … Now, and an Amazon Unique.
“Of all of the albums I’ve ever made, I really feel like this one is absolutely prepared for the stage due to the Amazon Unique that I did with it,” Lopez, 54, mentioned throughout a Friday, February 16, look on The Tonight Present With Jimmy Fallon. “It’s prepared. All of the choreography, the whole lot’s able to go.”
This Is Me … Now, each the album and the visible, dropped on Friday. “I’m exhausted, however I’m additionally very excited,” she revealed about her two initiatives, which have been impressed by her romance with husband Ben Affleck. “I’ve been engaged on this for 2 years, so it’s a giant deal for me and the entire staff. So we’re all, like, over the moon.”
She confessed that finishing each the album and movie was an actual labor of affection for her.
“This challenge took a lot out of me,” Lopez instructed Fallon, 49. “You already know, you’re so obsessive about one thing and you’ll’t cease, it’s similar to each element and the whole lot. It’s simply draining, and also you’re like, ‘That is it. That is my final hurrah. I’m completed!’”
Whereas the star hasn’t mentioned she’s formally retiring from music, that is her first album in a decade, and she or he says it surprisingly ended up being a sequel in a strategy to her third studio album, This Is Me … Then. The musician, nonetheless, mentioned she had no concept again then that she’d find yourself having one other album that might make issues full circle.
“I didn’t even notice, like, it was capturing a second in time, you understand, the place I form of, like, fell in love for the primary time in that manner and, like, wrote this complete album and it’s very that factor,” she mentioned. “And I used to be like, ‘Oh, I’ll name it This Is Me … Then.’ After which, you understand, as destiny would have it, 20 years later, right here we’re and I’m like — I felt impressed in the identical manner that I did once I made that first report and I used to be like, ‘I’m going to make This Is Me … Now.’ I hadn’t made an album like that in 10 years.”
Lopez and Affleck, 51, famously met on the set of Gigli in early 2002. By the tip of that yr, he had popped the query. The couple have been set to stroll down the aisle in September 2003, however they ended up canceling the marriage on the final minute on account of “extreme media consideration.” Initially of 2004, the 2 introduced their breakup.
Almost 20 years later, in Could 2021, a supply revealed to Us Weekly that the 2 had rekindled their romance. In July 2022, they made issues official and received married in Las Vegas.
Days after their second wedding ceremony anniversary, Lopez will play Vegas’ T-Cell Area as she takes her new music on the street on her This Is Me … Now World Tour, which is about to start in June. Tickets for Lopez’s reveals go on sale Friday, February 23.