Jennifer Lopez is definitely a romantic, but she's not desperate about it. And definitely not a sex addict. A love addict? Now we're talking.
That's the word according to Lopez. The pop veteran stopped by Australian radio station Carrie & Tommy's Hit Network drive-in show for an exploration of her two-part This is me… Now project — an album and an Amazon Original Movie, This Is Me… Now: A Love Storyboth will be released this Friday, February 16th.
Directed by: Dave Meyers (Ariana Grande, Taylor Swift), This Is Me… Now: A Love Story It is said to present “her journey to love through her own eyes.” For her Australian radio spot, Lopez was asked about the moment in the official trailer when her friends step in, telling the “If You Had My Love” singer that she might just be a sex addict.
“No, no,” he says, laughing. “People can think a lot of things when they see you from the outside, thinking they know what your life is like, and you're like, 'well that's actually the opposite of the truth,' but it was nice to play with all those ideas.” .
If anything, she would describe herself as “more of a love addict or a workaholic than anything.”
Lopez co-wrote the film, which is described in a statement as “a narrative-driven cinematic odyssey steeped in mythological narrative and personal healing.”
It's been a decade since Lopez's last studio album, in 2014 AKAwhich peaked at No. 8, one of her eight top 10s on the Billboard 200 chart.
The time away from making music was restorative. “I feel like this is the best album I've ever made,” he tells Carrie & Tommy. “The most honest and true – it took me a long time to get there as a music artist. I'm really happy and proud of it in a way I don't think I've ever been before.”
Her ninth studio album, This is me… Now completes an idea, a “review of this journey” since its release This is me.. Then in 2002 when she was dating Ben Affleck, in her subsequent marriage to him Batman star, and “wanting to share it with the world” through the lens of the project, he continues. “They followed me on that journey and watched me make mistakes and go in and out of relationships and wonder what was going on.”
Lopez and Affleck split in 2004, reunited in 2021 and finally tied the knot in a surprise Las Vegas wedding in July 2022 – 20 years after the album's release. The rest was like a romantic movie.
“I got to the point in my life where I felt like I had some answers for that, and actually, true love does exist and some things are forever,” she enthuses. “Don't give up hope.”
The new album includes a continuation of a track from the first That's me album, “Dear Ben Pt. II', as well as the previously released dance single 'Can't Get Enough'.
Stream the interview here.
