Breaking Down All of Jennifer Lopez'sThis Is Me ... NowLyrics About Ben Affleck: 'We in It for Life'

Mar. 15, 2025

Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez at the premiere of ‘This Is Me … Now: A Love Story’ in Los Angeles on Feb. 13, 2024.Photo:Steve Granitz/FilmMagic

Steve Granitz/FilmMagic

Jennifer Lopezis in love, and she can’t get enough!

On Friday, the actress-singer, 54, dropped her ninth studio album,This Is Me … Now,a follow-up to her 2003 LPThis Is Me … Then.As genre-crossing as it is confessional, the record finds Lopez wearing her heart proudly on her sleeve as she recounts how her broken engagement fromBen Affleck, 51, affected her — and how they rekindled their romance.

The A-list pair first began dating in 2002 and got engaged that same year before beforepostponing their weddingin 2003 and splitting in January 2004. Lopez and Affleck finallyfound their way back togetherin April 2021 andgot marriedin July 2022.

The album — which Lopez adapted into an Amazon Prime Video original musical film featuring the music,This Is Me … Now: A Love Story,also streaming now — offers a look at Lopez’s journey to self-love and provides ponderings on self-discovery. It also lays bare Lopez and Affleck’s private world, offering fans a look at how they made it work the second time around.

Below, a breakdown of some of the most revelatory lyrics about the power couple’s love story.

“This Is Me … Now”

“To Be Yours”

“Met this superstar, and then he changed my life / Don’t you remember you told me you loved me?” Lopez sings on track two, seemingly looking back on her first whirlwind relationship with Affleck. But since reconciling, they’ve put in the work to build a sold bond: “So promise me that we ain’t gonna waste more time / Some days we can lose sight / Then we bring it back and we be kissin’ all night, yeah / Some days we can still fight / But that don’t really matter ‘cause we in it for life … Took a minute, took a break / But it’s our time now … I be loving you until the end of time”

“Mad in Love”

“Can’t Get Enough”

Lopez sounds energized in love on lead single “Can’t Get Enough,” which is a total banger and harkens back to her “Jenny from the Block” days: “When it feels right, nothing else matters / Is this real life too good to be true? / Take me all night, I can feel the passion in your eyes / I’m still in love with you.”

“not.going.anywhere.”

After nearly two decades, “it’s perfect timin’” when Lopez and Affleck reconnected, which she chronicles on “not.going.anywhere.” “You say hey, little one, it’s been a little minute / You’ve been on my mind, please tell me how you been / Wanna feel lovin’, won’t you let me in / I won’t ever leave again,” she sings. “After you I was just a hopeless romantic / And broken and damaged … Now I’m not going anywhere / Eternally yours.”

“Rebound”

After Lopez and Affleck first broke up, they both moved on with different partners, and she acknowledges she had some rebounds and that she went “round and round” and fell “in and out.” “I can’t force a love when I’m only thinkin’ of him / You know what I want / You know where I been / I only ran into you … runnin’ from the pain,” Lopez sings of struggling to find true love after Affleck, adding: “If the love ain’t real, I can’t really stick around.”

“Dear Ben pt. II”

Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez at the Los Angeles Special Screening of “Marry Me” on Feb. 8, 2022 in Los Angeles.Frazer Harrison/Getty

Frazer Harrison/Getty

“Hummingbird”

Lopez celebrates her and Affleck’s true partnership — and how they build each other up — on this sweet love song. “Could you help me be / The best version of me / And all I wanna do / Is help you be the best version of you,” she sings. “I wanna be the wings to help you fly.”

“Hearts and Flowers”

“Gonna make it through the rain / Through the trauma and the pain / For the love and not the fame,” Lopez sings, looking back on how she survived heartbreaks and hardships over the years. “It ain’t all hearts and flowers.”

“Broken Like Me”

“I loved you so much, and that messed me up / Gave what I could, but it wasn’t enough / You drifted away, left me so numb / Tears on my gown, look what you’ve done,” Lopez sings on this ballad, reflecting on her and Affleck’s broken engagement and its effect on her. “And I tried to be honest, but it made me feel weak / And when I think about it, it brings me to my knees / I thought my life was over, I thought hell could be real / Was I all on my own, or did you ever feel / Broken like me.”

Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez at her ‘This Is Me Now … A Love Story’ premiere in Los Angeles on Feb. 13, 2024.Monica Schipper/Getty

Monica Schipper/Getty

“This Time Around”

On “This Time Around,” Lopez embraces her and Affleck’s second shot at love as she opens up about their whirlwind reconciliation — matching tattoos, jet-setting lifestyle and all! “All my cards laid out / I’m going all in right now / No playin’ around / Time to do what we talkin’ about,” she sings. “All that bulls— just don’t faze us / All the hate couldn’t break us / ‘Cause when you know better, you do better / We get to have a do-over, forever … This time around gon’ be a little different.”

“Midnight Trip to Vegas”

“The Greatest Love Story Never Told”

Album closer “The Greatest Love Story Never Told” is a sexy, sensual ode to finally finding her happily ever after with Affleck. “Different roads, two lost souls / Never thought we’d find our way back / Could’ve lost what mattered most / how could I live with that,” she sings. “Twenty years ago, feels like time is froze / We livin’ in the greatest love story ever told / We never let it go / And never told a soul / We could’ve been the greatest love story never told … It’s destiny how we found each other twice in one lifetime / I tried life without ya, been thinkin’ about ya / You don’t know how long / And we got so much time left, this time we won’t let go.”

source: people.com