Jennifer Lopez discusses about 'This is Me... Now: A Love Story'

Pop staractor Jennifer Lopez says she wanted to do a surrealistic escapist kind of funny look at a hopeless romantics journey through life and her show This Is MeNow A Love Story is her effort at itLopez one of the biggest stars in showbiz said the Amazon Original show is a hybrid of her personal and professional journey over the yearsMarried to actorfilmmaker Ben Affleck they broke off their engagement in 2004 went on to marry different people before getting back together Lopez said her husband understood what she wanted to say in the showPeople didnt understand what I was trying to do because it wasnt something that had been done before I think people are used to seeing a collection of videos when you talk about a musical project They are not used to seeing a narrative story that has music drama has visual effects and has all of these different elements to it Lopez told PTI in response to a question during a roundtable interview She said she is confident fans globally will connect with this visual and musical odysseyIts kind of a hybrid of many things It was like heres what I want to do I want to do a surrealistic romantic escapist kind of funny look at one hopeless romantics journey through life and figuring out love Theyre like Ha okay I was like Its going to be great youre going to love it she saidThis is Me Now A Love Story will be released on February 16 on Prime Video alongside Lopezs ninth studio album This is Me NowThe album a sequel to her 2002 record This is Me Then is inspired from Lopezs personal life including romance breakup reconnection and marriage with AffleckI had director Dave Meyers who totally got what I wanted to do and was my partner through this And my husband who understood that as an artist I had a story that I wanted to tell besides just the music of the album which inspired the whole thing she addedAccording to the streamer This Is Me Now A Love Story features great costumes breathtaking choreography and starstudded cameos in Affleck Sofia Vergara Post Malone Jay Shetty Trevor Noah Derek Hough and Sadhguru among othersAsked whether the story will connect with Indian audiences Lopez 54 said she hopes the story she is trying to tell inspires her fans everywhereIm hoping they enjoy the visual and musical odyssey that it is Everybody loves dance singing and understands and doesnt understand love They want to kind of go on journeys like that where they can watch something and come out on the other side Theres messages in there that I hope inspire people and comfort them she saidLopez has penned This is Me Now A Love Story with Matt WaltonThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever