Jennifer Lopez hints at retiring from music: ‘This might be my last album ever’
Jennifer Lopez’s new album, out Friday, is called “This Is Me … Now.”
But apparently, a better title for J.Lo’s first studio LP in 10 years — since 2014’s “A.K.A.” — might have been “This Is It.”
“The truth is I don’t even know if I’ll ever make another album after this,” Lopez, 54, told “Entertainment Tonight” as she explained the different album covers that they did especially for the JLovers — as her faithful fans are known.
“It’s such the kind of quintessential kind of Jennifer Lopez J.Lo project, and I really feel very fulfilled, so they really will be collector’s items at a certain point.”
After hinting at her possible retirement from the recording studio, Lopez quipped, “Don’t tell Benny [Medina, her longtime manager] that that’s what I’m thinking — this might be my last album ever.”
Lopez’s ninth studio album, “This Is Me … Now,” is a sequel to 2002’s “This Is Me … Then,” her third studio LP, which featured the hits “Jenny from the Block” and “All I Have.”
Lopez’s now-husband, Ben Affleck, was infamously featured in the “Jenny from the Block” video, and the singer dedicated “Dear Ben” to him.
Similarly, “This Is Me … Now,” led by the first single, “Can’t Get Enough,” will reflect their relationship today — two years after they finally got married after calling off their first engagement in 2004.
“Our relationship crumbled under the weight of the pressure,” Lopez told Variety.
“We lost a sense of ourselves, and we needed to separate because we didn’t know how to survive it. I had to figure myself out, and he had to figure himself out,” she added.
“This Is Me … Now” — which will be accompanied by the Prime Video short film “This Is Me … Now: A Love Story,” also out Friday — brings things full circle.
“I feel like it’s the end of a kind of an era for me and the beginning of a new one, so I would never say never,” she told “ET.” “But right now I feel like I really put my heart and soul into this, and I’m very excited — and it definitely took a lot out of me.”
