For Selena Gomez, make Emilia Pérez Was so formative for an experience that she was “ready to just concentrate” on acting instead of releasing more music.
“It will be very difficult for me to ever go back to music afterwards,” said Gomez at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival on February 9.
Less than a week later, on February 13, Gomez fans surprised with the news that her upcoming joint album, I said I love you firstWith fiancé Benny Blanco, would be released on March 21.
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“I am always fooled by guys … My new album I said I first love you with my best friend @itsbennyblanco, is 21-3,” she wrote on Instagram. “Our first song, afraid to love you is now out. … we can’t wait to share this special project with you soon! “
On ‘afraid of loving you’, Gomez sings about her fears to have a relationship. “If I broke your heart, would you take me back?/ If I broke my arm, would you sign my cast?/ When I was young, I would like to keep too fast. I hope I don’t repeat my past. “
Gomez wrote the song together with Blanco and Singer-Songwriter producer Finneas. Blanco and Finneas produced it.
First album in 5 years
While Gomez has continued to release singles over the years, including her 2024 blank-produced hit, “love on”, ” I said I love you first Marks the first full album from Gomez in five years.
“I didn’t feel any pressure at all,” Gomez told the interview to work on the album. “I might just be nervous with jitters in the beginning, and then it happened slowly but surely and it fell a bit in place with a lot of hard work and love.”
Despite the fact that they are catapulted to Teen -Superster in the Disney Channel series Wizards of Waverly PlaceGomez also has a legendary history of making music. Her most recent album, Rarewas released in 2020 and debuted at number 1 in the 200 -graph of Billboard. The Only killing in the building Actress has two more solo albums in her discography: 2013 Stars dance and 2015 Revival. Gomez is also no stranger to fronating a band.
From 2008-2012, Gomez was the singer of pop rock band Selena Gomez & The Scene. The former Disney Channel star has also released three albums with the band – 2009s Kiss & Tell2010 A year without rain and 2011s When the sun sets – Before you finally decide to pursue a solo career of solo music.
Her first joint album
Selena Gomez and Benny Blanco attend the 2025 Golden Globe Awards on January 5 (Jason Armond/Los Angeles Times via Getty images)
I said I love you first Marks another remarkable first for Gomez – her first joint album. When Gomez and Blanco first discussed the idea of working together on an album, they agreed to cancel immediately if things ever became ‘weird’.
“We also just made it to this house,” Blanco told the interview. “We didn’t go to a studio every day. I would say, “Hey, I have this cool agreement.” Then she arrived. We were not fun: ‘Today is the studio. We are going to write this song and that. “So often it was so mishmash. It was just like two hours here, two hours there. I had never worked with anyone. I usually work that way when I’m alone, but it was so cool to be able to do that with her. ‘
Turning ‘Emilia Pérez’
In 2024, Gomez and Karla Sofía Gascón and Zoe Baldaña played in the musical thriller of Netflix Emilia Pérez. The Spanish -language film, who tells the story of a Mexican cartel boss who lives his death and transitions in life, was an immediate favorite after the premiere of the Cannes film festival, where it won the jury prize and best actress award for his ensemble Cast of women.
The film, which dominated by Jacques Audiard-missed with the Golden Globes and is also the most nominated film at this year’s Oscars, came under fire at the end of January after an earlier series of racist, Islamophobic and xenophobe X reports written by Gascón came to the light.
At the Santa Barbara Film Festival on 9 February, where she belonged to one of the recipients of the Virtuosos Award, Gomez admitted that “some of the magic has disappeared” Emilia Pérez’s controversy.
“But I choose to stay proud of what I did and I am just grateful. I live without regrets, and I would do this movie again and again if I could, “she said. ‘The director [Audiard] I just trusted myself, and I was so grateful because I was able to show people that I am able to do more. I hope this is just the beginning for me. “
Work with blank I said I love you firstHowever, it seems to have been a revitalizing experience for Gomez, who previously said that she felt ‘too old for pop star life’. Although the final genre of the album remains unknown, some fans have noticed that the first single from the album ‘Scared of Loving You’ has more a folk sound than the other music of Gomez.
“Music is not leaving,” said Gomez de Hollywood Reporter in November 2024. “I just put it down for a second.”
