Jennifer Lopez is ready for her next chapter.
The singer invited 30 of her biggest Los Angeles-based fans to a top-secret listening party on Wednesday, July 2, where she debuted six new songs — and Us Weekly has the exclusive details.
“Outreach to fans started on Tuesday, but it was all kept a surprise as to what was happening until they were in the room with Jennifer,” an insider shares.
Lopez, 55, played five upbeat tracks, “Up All Night,” “Regular,” “Free,” “Save Me Tonight” and “Birthday,” and one ballad, “Wreckage of You,” all of which will appear on the setlist for her upcoming international tour alongside greatest hits and fan favorites, including 2001’s “Play.”
“‘Wreckage of You’ is a pop ballad that she told us she cowrote and recorded two weeks ago,” attendee Edgardo Luis Rivera tells Us. “She said she was lying in bed after a long day of tour rehearsals when the idea of the song came to her. She mentioned how last year was a very difficult time for her both personally and professionally. She had to cancel her tour and really focus on herself. Fast-forward to one year later, and she feels better and stronger than ever, so she wanted to write a song about coming out of a bad situation much stronger.”
Lopez, who also divorced Ben Affleck last year, “kept thinking of the word ‘wreck’ because it means destruction, but she wasn’t destroyed,” Rivera shares. “In fact, the lyrics of the song are, ‘I’m stronger after the wreckage of you.’”
A second partygoer tells Us that “Wreckage of You” is a “very emotional, empowering song about walking away from a relationship and coming out a stronger person.”
The other five tunes are “fun, more Jennifer of old in terms of music style,” the first insider says, noting that everyone in the room went “nuts” for “Birthday” in particular. “They’re really good songs. They’ve got a real vibe to them.”
Music wasn’t the only surprise Lopez had in store for her so-called J. Lovers at the intimate, hourlong event; she also treated them to tickets to her New Year’s Eve show in Las Vegas as well as swag bags containing T-shirts, signed posters and JLo Beauty products.
“It was really lovely,” the insider tells Us, describing the party as a “thank you” to the multihyphenate’s most loyal fans for “all their support.”
Lopez is set to kick off her Up All Night tour next Tuesday, July 8, in Spain before taking it to countries including Italy, Turkey, Poland, Egypt and Kazakhstan. Her Vegas residency of the same name debuts on December 30 at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace.
Those who want to hear Lopez’s new songs may have to purchase tickets, though, as Rivera tells Us the Grammy nominee admitted to the crowd at Wednesday’s event that she “didn’t know yet how or if she would release them.”
“She feels very free right now,” he explains, “and on this summer tour, she wants to perform some new material that she’s been working on because a lot of these new songs express how she feels.”
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