Jennifer Lopez on How Ben Affleck Inspired Her Return to Music! (Exclusive)

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00:00 You have an important story to tell that so many people can relate to, right?

00:02 We're all connected by love and loss.

00:04 Yes.

00:04 And, you know, that's what's so amazing about this project now.

00:07 Because this is me then, I mean, that was released over 20 years ago.

00:10 And I know you said there wasn't a plan to do a follow-up, right?

00:12 No.

00:13 Like two decades later.

00:14 So what was it like reflecting back on that time and then reuniting with Ben

00:18 and being inspired to do more music?

00:20 Yeah, I mean, that's exactly what happened.

00:22 When Ben and I got back together, it was just like,

00:26 I want to make music again.

00:27 I want to get back in the studio.

00:28 I was very, very inspired.

00:30 And when I think about, I was like, the same way this is me then,

00:33 captured that moment in time without me realizing it.

00:36 The first time we kind of fell in love, I wanted to capture this moment in time.

00:40 Once the music was done, it felt so special to me.

00:44 It felt like something very different than I had ever done.

00:48 Even though I've written about love my whole career

00:52 and sang about it and everything, this was something different.

00:55 This was something a little bit more evolved and healed and kind of magical.

00:59 And so I wanted to do something special to go along with it.

01:03 [MUSIC - "I'M STILL IN LOVE WITH YOU BOY"]

01:05 (SINGING) I'm still in love with you boy.

01:11 Third time's the charm.

01:12 This guy don't stand a chance.

01:13 I loved how much you were able to laugh at yourself, poke fun at your past,

01:18 even the media scrutiny of the past, which feels like almost cathartic.

01:22 Was it for you?

01:24 It was.

01:24 But it was also a very vulnerable place to be all the time.

01:28 It's like half the time I was thinking, this is amazing.

01:31 I'm so excited that I'm doing this.

01:33 And then half of the time I was like, why are you doing this?

01:36 You are so crazy.

01:37 Because you're baring your soul.

01:38 Yeah.

01:39 Yeah.

01:40 But I think that's what being an artist is about.

01:43 You have to.

01:44 That's the difference between being an artist and not being an artist.

01:49 It's like, how vulnerable can you get?

01:51 How much can you bear your soul?

01:53 And that's not an easy thing as humans.

01:56 It's never enough for you.

01:57 He's a liar.

01:58 I've never lied to you.

01:59 The constant criticism.

02:00 She thinks I'm her employee.

02:02 Being with you feels like home.

02:05 But I left home for a reason.

02:07 The cameos with Jane Fonda, Kiki Palmer, Derek Hough.

02:09 I mean, was it deliberate to kind of almost do

02:11 this visual retrospective of your life and your career?

02:15 Yeah, it's funny.

02:16 The Zodiacs were really meant to kind of represent

02:20 the people in our lives who are always commenting,

02:23 whether your mom or your friends or your aunts or your co-workers

02:27 or your whatever.

02:28 And it was a really kind of fun way to do that.

02:31 And I was lucky to get all of the people that--

02:35 I really loved their philosophies on life and love and their music

02:40 and everything.

02:41 To be able to get them in there, they were all very special,

02:44 heartful, spiritual people that I chose,

02:47 who were all very, very different.

02:49 And funny.

02:51 Super funny.

02:51 So good.

02:52 Whenever someone asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up,

02:57 my answer was always in love.

03:02 And that's what I took away from this project.

03:04 And the record, too, is that it's not really

03:06 just about this epic love story.

03:08 It's about self-love, too.

03:09 No, yeah.

03:10 In this healing journey, right?

03:11 Yeah, it's very different than that.

03:12 Like, I had to kind of make this other musical experience

03:15 to go with it because it didn't tell the whole story.

03:17 Because if you think about "This Is Me Then,"

03:19 you think about "This Is Me Now," there was 18,

03:22 20 years between those two moments.

03:24 That being said, what would Jennifer now tell Jennifer then?

03:28 I think I would say knowing what I know now is very difficult, right?

03:32 Because I would say, oh my god, it's going to be better than you ever thought.

03:35 You know?

03:36 I feel like just believe.

03:42 Don't give up.

03:44 I mean, on that note, I know you didn't choose this life

03:47 to represent Latinos ever.

03:49 But if I never get the chance to tell you,

03:51 thank you for being a forever constant source of inspiration for us.

03:54 Because watching your success and your story,

03:57 it's like there's no dream that's too big.

03:59 And today you watched mine come true just sitting here with you.

04:01 Aw, thank you.

04:02 Thank you so, so much.

04:04 [MUSIC PLAYING]

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