In August 2024, it was introduced that Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck have been getting divorced. Then, the singer and actor finalized their break up in early 2025, actually placing an finish to their relationship. Now, JLo is engaged on new music, and considered one of her newest songs is seemingly impressed by the “wreckage” of this case and different challenges.
This all got here to mild throughout a small listening occasion Lopez held for her followers in Los Angeles on July 2. In accordance with Us Weekly, she performed six songs on the occasion. This included 5 upbeat tracks referred to as “Birthday,” “Common,” “Up All Evening,” “Save Me Tonight” and “Free.” She additionally debuted a ballad referred to as “Wreckage of You.” Edgardo Luis Rivera was an attendee on the occasion, and shared what it was like to listen to the emotional track together with a few of the feedback JLo made about it, explaining:
‘Wreckage of You’ is a pop ballad that she instructed us she cowrote and recorded two weeks in the past. She mentioned she was mendacity in mattress after a protracted day of tour rehearsals when the concept of the track got here to her. She talked about how final 12 months was a really troublesome time for her each personally and professionally. She needed to cancel her tour and actually concentrate on herself. Quick-forward to 1 12 months later, and she or he feels higher and stronger than ever, so she needed to put in writing a track about popping out of a foul scenario a lot stronger.
Final 12 months was undoubtedly a tricky one for Jennifer Lopez. Together with working to finalize her divorce from Affleck, she additionally needed to cancel her This Is Me Reside tour final summer season. On the time, the singer defined that the selection to not go ahead together with her live shows made her “heartsick and devastated.” Nevertheless, she additionally promised to “make it up” to her followers.
Going via each skilled and private hardships, I can see why she’d write a track referred to as “Wreckage of You.” Lopez and Affleck have a protracted and sophisticated historical past, and their divorce solely added to that. Additionally, canceling a tour is a large and exhausting choice. So, working via all that should have been troublesome.
Nevertheless, in line with Rivera the entire level of the track is to relay how she’s grow to be stronger amid all this, they defined:
[She] stored considering of the phrase ‘wreck’ as a result of it means destruction, however she wasn’t destroyed. Actually, the lyrics of the track are, ‘I’m stronger after the wreckage of you.’
Together with that remark, one other attendant defined that “Wreckage of You” dives into concepts about strolling away from a relationship, they mentioned:
[It’s] very emotional, empowering track about strolling away from a relationship and popping out a stronger individual.
Now, it looks as if JLo is in an incredible place and shifting onward and upward. She’s been exhibiting her gratitude for her physique, family members and extra, and it’s clear that she confirmed that appreciation to her followers at this occasion too.
Whereas going via a breakup and divorce isn’t ever straightforward, it looks as if Lopez’s new music is reflecting on all of it and explaining how she’s shifting ahead.
Not solely is she singing about it although, she’s exhibiting how she’s shifting ahead in different methods too. After canceling her tour final 12 months, she’s set to begin on her Up All Evening Tour on July 8 in Spain. Then, she’ll begin her Vegas residence at The Colosseum at Ceasars Palace in late December.
On prime of all that, she additionally has a undertaking on the 2025 film schedule. It’s a musical referred to as Kiss of the Spider-Lady, and JLo mentioned she’s “been ready” for one thing like this for her complete life.
So, throughout, whereas she’s been working via the “wreckage” of her divorce from Ben Affleck and extra, it looks as if she’s rising stronger on the opposite facet.