Jennifer Lopez is hitting the road this summer for her This Is Me Now… The Tour. On Thursday morning (Feb. 15), the singer announced the 30+ city tour in support of her new album, This Is Me… Now, which is due out on Friday (Feb. 16).
The North American outing is slated to kick off on June 26 with a show at the Kia Center in Orlando, before criss-crossing the nation for shows in Miami, San Antonio, Phoenix, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Las Vegas, Denver, Indianapolis, Pittsburgh, Detroit, Boston and Philadelphia, winding down with an August 31 gig at the Toyota Center in Houston.
The Live Nation-produced tour is Lopez’s first tour in five years and it will support both the album and the accompanying Amazon Original short film, This Is Me Now: A Love Story, also out on Friday. Tickets for the tour will be available starting with a JLo fan club presale beginning Feb. 20 at 9 a.m. local time, with Citi and Verizon presales beginning at 10 a.m. local time on Feb 20 through Feb. 22 at 10 p.m. local time.
In an interview this week, Lopez said her first studio LP since 2014’s A.K.A. is “the best album that I’ve ever made… The most honest and true – it took a long time for me as a musical artist to get there. I’m really happy and proud of this in a way that I don’t think I ever have been before.”
Lopez’s ninth album is a sequel of sorts to her 2002 This Is Me… Then collection, which she released when she was first dating Ben Affleck, to whom she is now married. “They’ve followed me on that journey and watched me make mistakes and go in and out of relationships and wondered what was going on,” JLo said about her fans.
Lopez and Affleck split in 2004, then reunited in 2021 and tied the knot in a surprise Las Vegas wedding in July 2022 – 20 years after the original album’s release. The new album also features a sequel to a track from the first This Is Me album, “Dear Ben Pt. II,” plus the previously released dance-y single “Can’t Get Enough.”
