As Jennifer Lopez was working on her ninth studio album, she looked to her own life – including her decades-long, winding love story with husband Ben Affleck – for creative inspiration. “[It was] a moment in life that I wanted to capture, that seemed very kind of magical and even surreal at times,” she tells WHO as part of a global media event. “I went in the studio, and I made this album. And when it was done, I thought to myself, there’s more to this story, there’s something bigger I want to do with this music … it felt like there was a bigger message.”
The result is the tandem release of her 13-track album This Is Me… Now – a follow-up to her 2002 hit album This is Me… Then – as well as her new musical cinematic experience, This Is Me… Now: A Love Story.
The 65-minute movie is a hyper-stylised account of her much-publicised personal life. “There’s not a project that I’ve ever been involved with, music or movies or anything, that I didn’t put a bunch of my life into and a lot of my personal experience,” she says. “I think as an artist, that’s all you really have to draw on, the experience you have and the personal experience and the experience of other people around you that you’ve born witness to.“
This story is from the February 26, 2024 edition of WHO.
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