2023 plans to bring in a brand new era for Jennifer Lopez, which will take flight with the release of her new album, This Is Me … Now. Opening up in her latest newsletter, J.Lo delves into one of the album’s tracks, and how it inspired her blended-family Christmas celebrations.
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“I wrote a song called ‘Hummingbird’ for my new album. To me, hummingbirds are messengers of love,” Jennifer’s excerpt from On The JLo newsletter explained. “They’re very agile — can fly forward, backward, and up and down. They’re also the fastest bird but they always have time to stop, eat something sweet and smell the roses.”
“I identify with them, but more than anything, whenever I see one, I feel like it’s a sign from God that everything is going to be OK,” she added.
Lopez, who also went on to note she’d been “hunkering down at home” after wrapping up her newest movie Atlas, also shared that she likes to create a different theme for each holiday she celebrates. “I decided this year that the hummingbird would be a perfect theme,” she continued. “I wanted to have a tree in the house that was a hummingbird tree, reminding us that everything done in love and with love will always be OK.”
“We have blended families, doubled the people, doubled the fun, doubled the love, doubled the presents and tripled the chaos,” added Lopez, who married Ben Affleck this July. Now their household includes his three children with ex-wife Jennifer Garner -- 17-year-old Violet, 13-year-old Seraphina, and 10-year-old Samuel -- as well as Lopez’s two children with ex-husband Marc Anthony, 14-year-old twins Max, and Emme.
While the exact release date has yet to be announced, This Is Me … Now is expected to drop sometime next year. A follow up to her 2002 record This Is Me … Then, which she wrote and released during the first Bennifer era, which Lopez first announced with a late November Instagram post.
Lopez first announced the album — a follow-up to her 2002 record This Is Me … Then, in a late November Instagram post. In the post's caption, J.Lo kept things simple; just the album title and its tracklist, which lists “Hummingbird” at number 8. Check out the This Is Me … Now album announcement below, and a few shots from her hummingbird-themed Christmas above.
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