世界で脚光を浴びるジェニファー・ロペスの物語はすでに周知の通りかもしれないが、『This Is Me…Now』は彼女の真の物語、魂の一部を、独自のスタイルで表現している。アルバムの収録曲は、ジェニファー・ロペスとロジェ・チャイエドによって曲が書かれ、制作された。
そしてエンジェル・ロペス、ジェフ "Gitty" ギトルマン、ヒットボーイ、テイ・キース、INKなど、多様なアーティストたちとの共演により、R&B、Pop、ヒップホップビートを織り交ぜた現代的なポップビートに昇華されている。
彼女の特徴的なボーカルは、繊細に作り上げられた歌詞と共に、生活、愛、そして人間関係を率直かつ熟考をもって深く掘り下げ、ジェニファー・ロペスの素顔を表現している。デラックスCDには、40ページのブックレットと20種類の中から選出された2枚のレプリカポラロイド写真が含まれています。

NYはブロンクス出身。グラミー賞受賞のほか全世界でトータル・セールス7,500万枚以上を誇る世界的スーパースター。1999年にデビュー・シングル「マイ・ラヴ」を発売すると、いきなり全米5週連続1位を記録!
続く「ウェイティング・フォー・トゥナイト」でグラミー賞ノミネート&VMA受賞を果たし、デビュー・アルバム『On The 6』(1999)は全世界で700万枚を超えるセールス。音楽界でもいきなりのトップ・スターの地位を確立。歌手・女優業のほかにも、自身の香水、ファッション・ブランド、TV/映画制作会社など多岐にわたる。過去には米経済誌フォーブスが発表する「世界で最もパワフルなセレブ」1位、米芸能娯楽誌ピープルの「世界で最も美しい女性」1位に選ばれている。

発売・販売元 提供資料 （2024/01/26）

A sequel two decades in the making, This Is Me…Now finds Jennifer Lopez returning to the territory she first explored on This Is Me…Then: namely, grappling with the strong emotions generated by her relationship with Ben Affleck. Lopez wrote and recorded This Is Me…Then while in the throes of her romance with the actor, releasing the album in November 2002 at what turned out to be roughly the midpoint of their initial union. By early 2004, their engagement was severed. The next two decades were filled with high-profile love affairs by both parties -- they each started families with subsequent spouses -- but the pair reconnected in 2021, leading to marriage in July 2022. This Is Me…Now chronicles this rekindling, and in no small way: the record is accompanied by a full-length film featuring a music video for each of the albums 13 songs, plus theres a documentary called "The Greatest Love Story Never Told," which borrows its name from a series of love letters written by Affleck to Lopez. Separating the album This Is Me…Now from its two interlocking films isnt quite as difficult as it seems. Where the visual components are rife with celebrity cameos -- Jane Fonda appears in both, while the film finds space for Post Malone, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Trevor Noah, and Sofia Vergara, among others -- the album is relatively streamlined and sleek, containing no guest appearances and showing no overt attempts at chasing trends. While she enlists collaborators with impressive contemporary credits -- Roget Chahayed executive-produced Jack Harlows Come Home the Kids Miss You and produced Doja Cats "Vegas" -- shes intent on having This Is Me…Now be an answer record to This Is Me…Then, so its filled with callbacks to glitzy Y2K pop: "Hearts and Flowers" goes so far as to interpolate "Jenny from the Block," the signature hit from Then. Lopez may be looking back but shes not attempting to re-create the past so much as strengthen the bond between two periods of her life that clearly mirror each other; she underscores the connection by delivering "Dear Ben, Pt. 2," an explicit response to an album cut 20 years prior. Occasionally, Lopez lets herself show signs of vocal wear -- she lets her voice crack on the austere ballad "Broken Like Me" -- but her maturation is evident in how she keeps returning to self-help empowerment throughout the album. Almost all of these words are directed to herself and Affleck -- on "Hummingbird," she proclaims, "Cause you help me be the best version of me/And all I wanna do is help you be the best version of you," while "This Time Around" declares "Were gonna put the house in both our names" -- with a frankness thats simultaneously admirable and slightly alienating. Lopez is so intent on preserving the moment that her love for Affleck reignited that she ended up finding no space for ambiguity or interpretation, a decision that can make This Is Me…Now seem slightly cloistered. In its unapologetic candor, however, it stands as something of a definitive document of celebrity culture in the 21st century. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Rovi