After a yearlong drought of news about Jennifer Lopez’s ninth studio album, This Is Me…Now, we’re basking in 2024, wetter than ever! So is J.Lo, if the trailer for the album’s cinematic visual accompaniment is anything to judge from. And I only say that because there’s a specific moment in this jam-packed teaser where Lopez’s friends host an intervention for her sex addiction.
That’s right: Lopez is baring it all (emotionally) in This Is Me…Now: A Love Story, which will combine the album’s music with out-of-this-world visuals fit for a Marvel movie—which is to say, it’s almost entirely CGI. But given that Lopez isn’t exactly known for her impressive videography, the movie could be a step in the right direction for her music career, after a full decade without a proper LP release. The film looks beyond corny, nauseatingly romantic, wildly dramatic, and downright earth-shattering. So, as far as I’m concerned, all of the things that make up the true human experience. This kind of schmaltzy melodrama is exactly what Lopez does best, and the whacked-out trailer is enough to have us fellow open-hearted lovers shouting from the rooftops.
The trailer starts with Lopez narrating to the viewer. “I know what they say about me,” she says over a shot of her riding on the back of a lover’s motorcycle—on top of a lake. (The “J” in “J.Lo” stands for “Jesus.”) “And [what they say] about hopeless romantics: that we’re weak. But I’m not weak.” Bold, golden text flashes across the screen, alerting us that what we’re about to see is from the “heart, soul, and dreams” of Jennifer Lopez. Fitting, since the bonkers phantasmagoric landscape that follows is reminiscent of the visuals from her 2000 film The Cell; perhaps Jenny really did learn how to enter into people’s unconscious minds to solve crimes! In this case, it seems to be a crime of passion.