Not each and every love tale will get a sequel, so Jennifer Lopez celebrated her second probability at love with Ben Affleck on her new album.

Lopez, 54, launched This Is Me … Now on Friday, February 16, at the side of a fantastical film titled This Is Me … Now: A Love Story. The album is a sequel to 2002’s This Is Me … Then, and just like the album she dropped twenty years ago, her new LP includes an ode to Affleck, 51.

“And after I think you let me down, you lift my hopes / And if I try to pull away, you pull me shut,” Lopez sings on “Dear Ben, Pt. II,” adding that the Gone Girl actor all the time reminds J. Lo why he’s “the man I chose.”

In the first verse, Lopez immediately addresses Affleck, singing, “You showed me what it's / You confirmed me what I need / I was missing a component / You was once the missing piece.”

Affleck and Lopez famously met on the set of Gigli in early 2002. By the top of the year, he had already proposed. The duo had been set to walk down the aisle in September 2003, however they canceled the wedding on the ultimate minute due to “over the top media attention.” At the beginning of 2004, the 2 introduced their breakup.

Over the following Sixteen years, Affleck and Lopez pursued different relationships and started households.: Lopez married Marc Anthony in 2004, they usually welcomed twins Max and Emme, now 15, in 2008. Affleck married Jennifer Garner in 2005, they usually welcomed daughters Violet, 18, and Seraphina, 15, and son Samuel, 11. Lopez break up from Anthony, 55, in 2011, while Affleck and Garner, 51, introduced their separation in 2015.

By May 2021, both Lopez and Affleck had been unmarried and decided to offer their romance a 2nd probability. Affleck proposed in April 2022, and so they tied the knot that July on the Little White Chapel in Las Vegas. In August 2022, they held a more formal, elaborate marriage ceremony at Affleck’s Georgia place of dwelling.

Lopez remarked on the pair’s reconciliation on “Dear Ben, Pt. II,” wondering, “How did we finally end up here with out a rewind?” ahead of declaring that she’s “committed” to this existence. “I’m in it, admit it, I adore you,” she sings on the monitor.

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“Dear Ben, Pt. II” offers a extra mature perspective than the 2002 original, which has a more lovesick vibe. “I believe God made you for me / A mix of passionate fidelities,” the younger Lopez sang on “Dear Ben” ahead of addressing him as, “My lust, my love, my man, my child, my pal and my king.”

Affleck and Lopez’s romance is on the center of This Is Me … Now: A Love Story, which is a fictionalized portrayal of Lopez’s existence over the past twenty years. “There’s parts of it that feel more or less very autobiographical, after which there’s parts of it that are kind of meta,” Lopez defined all over a press convention previous this month.

In addition to monitoring every celebrity cameo in the movie, Us Weekly compiled a breakdown of the entire real-world references to Lopez’s life. Some moments allude to her a couple of marriages, her initial breakup with Affleck, and the infamous 1999 shooting that took place at a nightclub the place she and her then-boyfriend Sean “Diddy” Combs were partying.

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