Not each love story will get a sequel, so Jennifer Lopez celebrated her second probability at love with Ben Affleck on her new album.
Lopez, 54, launched This Is Me … Now on Friday, February 16, together with a fantastical film titled This Is Me … Now: A Love Story. The album is a sequel to 2002’s This Is Me … Then, and just like the album she dropped twenty years in the past, her new LP consists of an ode to Affleck, 51.
“And after I suppose you let me down, you raise my hopes / And if I attempt to draw back, you pull me shut,” Lopez sings on “Expensive Ben, Pt. II,” including that the Gone Woman actor at all times reminds J. Lo why he’s “the person I selected.”
Within the first verse, Lopez instantly addresses Affleck, singing, “You confirmed me what it’s / You confirmed me what I want / I used to be lacking an element / You was the lacking piece.”
Affleck and Lopez famously met on the set of Gigli in early 2002. By the top of the 12 months, he had already proposed. The duo have been set to stroll down the aisle in September 2003, however they canceled the marriage on the final minute because of “extreme media consideration.” Initially of 2004, the 2 introduced their breakup.
Over the subsequent 16 years, Affleck and Lopez pursued totally different relationships and began households.: Lopez married Marc Anthony in 2004, they usually welcomed twins Max and Emme, now 15, in 2008. Affleck married Jennifer Garner in 2005, they usually welcomed daughters Violet, 18, and Seraphina, 15, and son Samuel, 11. Lopez cut up from Anthony, 55, in 2011, whereas Affleck and Garner, 51, introduced their separation in 2015.
By Could 2021, each Lopez and Affleck have been single and determined to offer their romance a second probability. Affleck proposed in April 2022, they usually tied the knot that July on the Little White Chapel in Las Vegas. In August 2022, they held a extra formal, elaborate marriage ceremony at Affleck’s Georgia residence.
Lopez remarked on the pair’s reconciliation on “Expensive Ben, Pt. II,” questioning, “How did we find yourself right here with no rewind?” earlier than declaring that she’s “dedicated” to this life. “I’m in it, admit it, I am keen on you,” she sings on the observe.
“Expensive Ben, Pt. II” presents a extra mature perspective than the 2002 authentic, which has a extra lovesick vibe. “I feel God made you for me / A mixture of passionate fidelities,” the youthful Lopez sang on “Expensive Ben” earlier than addressing him as, “My lust, my love, my man, my baby, my buddy and my king.”
Affleck and Lopez’s romance is on the coronary heart of This Is Me … Now: A Love Story, which is a fictionalized portrayal of Lopez’s life over the previous 20 years. “There’s components of it that really feel form of very autobiographical, after which there’s components of it which are form of meta,” Lopez defined throughout a press convention earlier this month.
Along with monitoring each celeb cameo within the movie, Us Weekly compiled a breakdown of all of the real-world references to Lopez’s life. Some moments allude to her a number of marriages, her preliminary breakup with Affleck, and the notorious 1999 capturing that occurred at a nightclub the place she and her then-boyfriend Sean “Diddy” Combs have been partying.
