Selena Gomez

Interviewer: You said it happened by accident. You said the songs just, I guess, got finished, and in this day and age, why hold onto them? Selena Gomez: I had been working on the album for four years.

I didn't wanna release anything that was mine, just 'cause I didn't feel like it was the right timing. I learned a lot from the last album, and I wanted to take what I've learned and turn it into something even better. And I'm glad I did, because this year, everything kinda just started pouring out of me.

I started saying things in a way that I've never been able to articulate them before. So it was actually exactly when it needed to happen. Yeah. Like I told you earlier, we shot the videos just a week ago, and that's really unheard of.

Interviewer: What got you to a place where you could start to tell your truth? Selena Gomez: I have. I've been in therapy for years. I've also taken breaks, and gone places to recollect my thoughts and my emotions and my wellbeing.

And but I've always been pretty transparent about what I've gone through. I just, I just choose how I'm gonna do it, because it would be inauthentic for me to just not say what I felt in the beginning of the year or last year or. It just wouldn't seem real to me.

Interviewer: And I wonder what your relationship is like when you're writing a song like that, knowing that the kind of human being that you are with the level of passion that you instill in your fan base, and also the level of attention that comes with that, if that ever affects your creative process. I know you try to block it out. Yeah. But does it sneak itself in?

Selena Gomez: I mean, I spent years living in fear of speaking up or saying things, and I guess that's just the people pleaser in me. And there was a huge moment where I just, I just kind of stopped caring, and I can't tell you when that moment was. I really can't. But it's not that I'm trying to make it specifically about just one subject in my life.

It's more just how I embody all of the experiences into one. Interviewer: We spoke a little bit about some of the artists and the music that moved you when you were younger, and you mentioned some real timeless influences, Bread, Fleetwood Mac. How does a young artist or a young person who loves that kind of music find themselves in this whirlwind of fast-paced pop culture, where it's, where it's bright and colorful and sparkly and smiley?

Those are artists that break hearts. Selena Gomez: My mom was in theater, and she. I mean, she just had this huge music library.

I mean, from Ella Fitzgerald to Reba McEntire to, you know, then again, going to Frank Sinatra, The Eagles, and all of that. My mom, Rolling Stones. Mm. She was very She's a song fan, huh?

Oh, for sure. And I definitely get some of that from her. But then my dad was a DJ, so he would do all kinds of stuff. And he was on the radio for a bit doing Tejano music and that.

So I had this experience in my life where I experienced the beautiful colors of music and where it can take you and I think it naturally happened for me. I remember I wanted to be, like, Paramore at one point. I thought, "This is my lane.

I feel it." that lasted about three months. We're big Paramore fans here. I literally love her.

Interviewer: So I guess we should focus on that song, Look At Her Now. I mean, that really is the. That's a moment of absolute self-empowerment.