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Jennifer Lopez confirmed fan suspicions and revealed she is releasing a brand new album.
Lopez, 53, wiped her Instagram of all of its posts, sending her fan base into a frenzy that she was on the verge of a new announcement.
Titled This Is Me ... Now the 13-track record celebrates the 20th anniversary release of her third studio album, This Is Me... Then.
The singer revealed the big news on Instagram, including the track listing and a short video that saw her recreate the 2002 album cover.
It seemed as though it was a photo of the cover until Lopez looks up towards camera and says "this is me then."
Her face begins morphing from the younger version of herself and ends into present-day Lopez, with long straight hair and a strapless corset which she wore under a baggy leather coat and pants.
Lopez says to camera, "this is me now."
The star also updated her Instagram profile picture to the new look, which will presumably be the album cover upon its release in 2023.
It will be Lopez's first album release since 2014's A.K.A and appears to be an ode to her husband.
At least one of the songs refers to new husband Ben Affleck after they rekindled their romance last year.
Entitled Dear Ben pt. ll, the new song is a follow-up to Dear Ben on the This Is Me... Then album that she released when the pair first began their original relationship.
Other songs which could refer to her new marriage include To Be Yours, Mad in Love, Can't Get Enough, Greatest Love Story Never Told and not. going. anywhere.
The song This Time Around could be a reference to their second shot at love after ending their engagement in 2004 and Midnight Trip to Vegas is likely to be about their July 16 elopement to Las Vegas.
Lopez and Affleck later held a formal wedding ceremony at his estate in Georgia on August 20.
Lopez—known as a "triple-threat" because of her prowess at acting, singing and dancing—opened up on more details of her big day in her On The J-Lo email newsletter on Friday.
She revealed she had designed every aspect of the three-day event and surprised her husband-to-be with a live performance by Marc Cohn as she walked down the aisle preceded by his three children and her twins.
"Ben and I talked about Marc Cohn's 'True Companion' as the perfect wedding love song in this very house more than twenty years ago," Lopez wrote.
"The twenty years between those dreams of youth and the adult world of love and family we embraced that day, brought more to this marriage than either of us ever could have imagined. We weren't only marrying one another; we were marrying these children into a new family. They were the only people we asked to stand up for us in our wedding party. To our great honor and joy, each one did."
Lopez concluded the email: "Years ago, we had no idea the road ahead would mean navigating so many labyrinths and hold so many surprises, blessings, and delights. It all culminated in this moment, one of the most perfect of our lives. We couldn't have been happier. I wish all of you the same kind of happiness...the hard-earned kind that's all the sweeter for the journey that came before it."
She recently revealed she had her surname legally changed to Affleck for "tradition and romance."
"People are still going to call me Jennifer Lopez. But my legal name will be Mrs. Affleck because we're joined together. We're husband and wife. I'm proud of that. I don't think that's a problem," Lopez told Vogue.
Newsweek reached out to Lopez for comment.
Update 11/25/22 10:00 a.m. EST: This article was updated to add quotes and context.
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