Jennifer Lopez Talks This Is Me...Now, Touring, Ben Affleck and Her Amazon Original Film (Extended)

Our first guest is one of the biggest music icons in the world. Her new album, This Is Me Now, is officially out. And her Amazon original, This Is Me Now, A Love Story, is streaming on Prime Video. Please welcome Jennifer Lopez. Come on, now. This is a big day. It's launch day. This is a big launch day. Your album and your Amazon original both dropped today. How does it feel? Are you exhausted? Are you happy it's out? I'm exhausted, but I'm also very excited. I've been working on this for two years, so it's a big deal for me and the whole team. So we're all, like, over the moon. I want to know how you pulled the Amazon thing off. But first, let's talk about the album. This Is Me Now, you came out with This Is Me Then. Did you plan on having This Is Me Now? Like, when you put out This Is Me Then? No. You didn't? Because it's perfect. I know. And, you know, sometimes, you know, you have these moments in life where you feel like, oh, this was meant to be somehow. And I didn't know that when it was happening then, when I decided to call it This Is Me Then. No. And capture kind of, and didn't even realize, like, it was capturing a moment in time, you know, where I kind of, like, fell in love for the first time in that way, and, like, wrote this whole album, and it was very that thing. And I was like, oh, I'll call it This Is Me Then. And then, you know, as fate would have it, you know, 20 years later, here we are. Yeah. And I'm like, I felt inspired in the same way that I did when I did that first record. I was like, I'm going to make This Is Me Now. And I went in, I hadn't made an album like that in 10 years. Yeah. This is my first album like that in 10 years. You said that this, you think this is your best album you've ever made. It's my most honest, for sure. You know, and I believe it's the best thing that I've ever done musically. I love it. Thank you. Thank you. It's fantastic. I love it. I also read somewhere that you said this might be the last album. You know, this project took so much out of me. You're like, I don't know if I can do it again. You're just so obsessed with something and you can't stop. And you're just like every detail and everything. And it turned into, you know, the Amazon original musical that I made. And then it turned into this documentary. And it was like all of these things together and every single lyric, you know, I was part of on this record and I wrote. And it was just, it's just draining. And you think to yourself, this is it. This is my last hurrah. Have you been making music for 25 years? I know. You've paved the way for so many. Thank you. Do you ever like, have a time to reflect as I was watching this to even just go back and go like, look at what I've accomplished, look at what I've done. Look at the, look at what I've made, all the hits and the movies. I don't think about that. But what I did do when I was in the studio and I started making this record, it did make me look at the past 20 years and that journey that I'd been on. And more my own kind of personal private journey that really nobody knew about, you know, which is my private life and the growth and all the falling down and getting up. And I think you guys were a little bit kind of witnessing it and wondering and stuff like that and going, what the is she doing right now? And this was me kind of reconciling with all that. And I realized that my music was always very much born from that personal side of myself. Like I got to act and do movies and play characters, but my music was always very, very personal. And this is kind of like, this is not an album, like this is like a 20 year journey. This project is a 20 year project of my whole entire music career and where, how I got to from then to now. It's fun, it's beautiful, it's, but you just announced that this is being now the tour. Yes, yes we did. This summer, you're going right back in. We're going in, my last hurrah. I mean, really, you don't even have any time off. I mean, you're going right back in. I've seen you firsthand on tour. If you ever want to go see a show, nobody, nobody, you're dancing, the singing, the choreography, the surprises that you just go, this is the most entertaining show I've ever seen in my life. I was exhausted. That's my goal when people come to my show. It's like, I always want people to leave and be like, that's the best show I ever saw. Yeah, ever. That's what I want when you're there. And this one is very, of all the albums I've ever made, I feel like this one is really ready for the stage because of the Amazon original that I did with it. It's ready. Like all the choreographies, it's all ready to go. Do you think about that when you play the album back and you're mixing, you're like, I can see myself on stage performing it? I, because I think I started as a dancer, everything I do is about movement. Everything is about kind of like, how will I perform this? And even as I'm creating music, I tell the producers, I was like, I got to be able to perform this on stage. Like we got to pick it up, like come on. Yeah, you know it. And even though I have kind of like an R&B mid-tempo feel to my music in a way, I always try to get that little funk in there. I always try to get a little bit of that stinkiness in there because I got to be on stage and doing my thing. Tickets go on sale February 23rd for the This Is Me Now, the tour. Let's talk about this Amazon original, This Is Me Now, a love story. How did you find the time to do all this? It is a, it's a masterpiece. You're doing everything. You're this, I don't want to spoil it for anyone, but it's like, it's a story, it's music videos, it's choreography, it's crazy shots, beautifully shot. Yeah, I did it. Dave Myers directed it with me and he really brought the vision that I had to life in a way that, you know, elevated it. You describe it as a musical experience. It is a musical experience because it's really about a hopeless romantic. Sound like anybody? Yeah, a hopeless romantic's journey through life in their search for love. And, you know, it's, if that's how I would describe it, and then, you know, you kind of go on this surrealistic, magical, very artistic and creative way of how I decided to tell that story. Well, lots of great cameos, by the way. Oh, yeah. Post Malone. Yes. Is in it a lot. Yes. Jane Fonda. Yes. Kiki Palmer. Yes. Neil deGrasse. Neil deGrasse Tyson, oh my God, Neil deGrasse Tyson. It's funny. It's, it's, it's. Kim Petras. It's just, when you see it. Jay Shetty, Trevor Noah. Trevor Noah's great. Yeah, yeah. And then also, there's this guy, too, makes a cameo, too. But I, I forget his name. But he, you got Ben Affleck in there. Did Ben, did Ben like playing this character? He loved playing that character. He's funny. He is funny. By the way, the Duncan commercial, can we just talk for two seconds? It was so, it was so funny. You were phenomenal. Thank you. No, I didn't do anything. He, he was all him. No, no. He was funny, but you reacted like, honey, please stop doing this. It's so good. Everyone loved it. Everyone related. It's very funny. But this is it. I want to show everyone a clip. Here's Jennifer Lopez. And this is me now, a love story. Take a look. I know what they say about me, about hopeless romantics, that we're weak. And I'm not weak. It takes strength to keep believing in something after you keep falling flat on your face. And I do. I do, Joe. I believe in magic. I believe good things happen if you're a good person. I believe in soulmates and signs and hummingbirds. I believe that love never dies and that forever is real. And that as long as I can. Time's up. Let's pick this back up. Thanks, sweet. I mean, come on. Who else? What do you do? You brought us a bottle of, of Delola. Because it's launch day. I mean, it is launch day. We have to celebrate, okay? On the, on the, on the album, on the Amazon original. Let's do a little toast to this is me now. This is us now, baby. This is us now. It's perfect. It's really good. It's so refreshing. It's really good. I love this. But wait, that's not the only thing you brought. I just happened to notice this over here. This is, your album has six, six different album covers. Yes. Now look at this. This is, only you can do this. How did you pull all this off? No, I'm not the only one. No, you are. Look at this. There's this gorge right there. What I did was I did. No, I was loving, come on, dude. I can't, I can't get enough. We can't get enough. We want exclusives nowadays. They're like, the Amazon exclusive, the Spotify exclusive, this exclusive. So you wind up making like, you do this. Special thing. Yeah, you make special things for everybody. But I was really happy. I love doing this. I shot this with Norman Jean Roy, who's a legendary photographer who I love. I noticed that you autographed these as well. I did. I think it'd be kind of fun if we give it out to some audience members. You are. Our love stories are both out right now. Tonight, right back with more Tonight Show. Have fun with that.