On Saturday morning, Jennifer Lopez posted a brand new Reel to Instagram which seemingly introduced upcoming visuals for her 2024 album This Is Me…Now. The clip begins with graphics studying, “HEAR IT. SEE IT. LIVE IT. SHARE IT,” over the colour inexperienced, which is J.Lo’s “fortunate” shade and the identical shade as her engagement ring. There’s additionally a picture of a hummingbird, which she has mentioned is one among her favourite birds up to now.
It is adopted by a supercut of pictures of Lopez dancing within the rain, in a manufacturing facility, and at a marriage, together with a number of different expansive set items harking back to a classical musical.
When it ends, there’s one other message to followers: “THIS MUSICAL EXPERIENCE IS A MANIFESTATION, THROUGH MUSIC, FILM, AND REALITY, OF A LIFE’S JOURNEY ON THE SEARCH FOR THE TRUTH ABOUT LOVE.”
The message is signed “Jennifer” and is then adopted by a hyperlink to her web site.
The brand new album is a comply with as much as her third album, This Is Me…Then, launched 21 years in the past. That album was reported to have various songs impressed by her relationship on the time with Ben Affleck. The pair had been engaged earlier than splitting and happening to marry different folks. Affleck married actress Jennifer Garner, with whom he had three youngsters, Violet, Seraphina, and Samuel. Lopez married singer Marc Anthony and so they share twins, Max and Emme.
Followers had been very shocked to listen to that just about 20 years later, Lopez and Affleck had reunited. They had been married in the summertime of 2022 and have gone on to co-mingle their household. The brand new album possible serves as a mirrored image on the journey again to at least one one other, with Billboard reporting names of songs like “To Be Yours,” “Mad in Love,” and “Biggest Love Story By no means Instructed,” plus “Pricey Ben Pt. II.”
There’s additionally a track referred to as “Midnight Prepare to Vegas,” which certain feels like a reference to the couple’s shock marriage ceremony in Las Vegas that was adopted by a extra formal ceremony on Affleck’s Georgia property. That is Lopez’s first album in 9 years, and he or she is clearly pulling out all of the stops. Although it had been reported it might not be launched till 2024, This Is Me…Then got here out on November 25. The brand new Reel suggests Monday is a day to look out for, so it stays to be seen if will probably be the total album or simply some a part of it.
Aimée Lutkin is the weekend editor at ELLE.com. Her writing has appeared in Jezebel, Glamour, Marie Claire and extra. Her first ebook, The Lonely Hunter, will probably be launched by Dial Press in February 2022.
