This Is Me... Now

This Is Me... Now is the ninth studio album by American singer Jennifer Lopez. It was released on February 16, 2024, via Nuyorican Productions and BMG Rights Management, marking her first release under this partnership. The album is heavily inspired by the rekindled romance between Lopez and Ben Affleck as well as their subsequent marriage, with themes of love and self-healing throughout. It is a sequel to Lopez's third studio album, This Is Me... Then (2002), and her first studio album in a decade since A.K.A. (2014). It was recorded between May and August 2022 and completed on June 29, 2023. It is the first Lopez album to feature no rappers on its standard edition since J.Lo (2001). Lopez contributed rap verses to three of the album's songs and co-wrote every one on the album, with production primarily from Rogét Chahayed, Jeff "Gitty" Gitelman and Angel Lopez. Part of a three-part project documenting Lopez's search for love, self-healing, and her reunion with actor Ben Affleck, This Is Me... Now is accompanied by two further components. The second is a similarly titled, narrative-driven musical film, This Is Me... Now: A Love Story, co-written by Lopez, Affleck, Dave Meyers and Chris Shafer, with Meyers also directing. Aside from containing choreographed visuals for songs from the album, the film is a stylized and fictionalized narrative loosely based on Lopez's own life and her trials as a serial romantic. It features a cast of celebrities, including Fat Joe, Trevor Noah, Jane Fonda, Post Malone, Keke Palmer and Sofía Vergara, among others. The project's third component, a behind the scenes documentary called The Greatest Love Story Never Told was inspired by a collection of letters from Affleck to Lopez of the same name and explores the making of the music, film and documentary. It was...