Jennifer Lopez is sharing nuggets of details about the brand new music that’s on the way in which in 2023.
In her On the JLo e-newsletter this week, the singer revealed the inspiration behind her upcoming music “Hummingbird” and the symbolism behind the This Is Me… Now observe.
“To me, hummingbirds are messengers of affection,” Lopez wrote. “They’re very agile — can fly ahead, backward, and up and down. They’re additionally the quickest fowl however they all the time have time to cease, eat one thing candy and scent the roses.”
“I determine with them, however greater than something, at any time when I see one, I really feel prefer it’s an indication from God that every little thing goes to be OK,” she added.
“Hummingbird” was additionally the theme of her Christmas dinner, which featured her blended household with husband Ben Affleck: her twins Max and Emme and Affleck’s youngsters Violet, Seraphina, and Samuel.
“I made a decision this yr that the hummingbird could be an ideal theme,” Lopez continued. “I needed to have a tree in the home that was a hummingbird tree, reminding us that every little thing accomplished in love and with love will all the time be OK.”
Her music “Hummingbird” is the eighth observe on her upcoming album This Is Me… Now, which serves as a sequel to her 2002 LP This Is Me… Then. Among the many songs on the upcoming venture are “To Be Yours,” “Rebound,” Hearts and Flowers,” and “Damaged Like Me.”
After saying her venture, Lopez spoke to Zane Lowe on Apple Music One in regards to the inspiration behind her new venture: her rekindling with the “love of my life” Affleck.
“We captured me at this second in time after I was reunited with the love of my life and we determined we have been going to be collectively ceaselessly. The entire message of the album then is that this love exists,” she advised Lowe. “This can be a actual love. Now I believe what the message of the album could be very a lot when you have been questioning in case you have, like me at occasions, misplaced hope, virtually given up, don’t. As a result of real love does exist and a few issues do final ceaselessly and that’s actual.”
“I need to put that message out into the world and that does take loads of vulnerability. However I couldn’t cease myself and a few elements of it scare me,” she added. “And I believe elements of it scare Ben, too. He’s like, ‘Oh, do you actually need to say all these items?’ And I’m like, ‘I don’t understand how else to do it, child.’”