Selena Gomez desires to launch music that makes folks completely happy. In her new cowl story with Vainness Truthful, the “My Thoughts and Me” singer shared new particulars about what her upcoming album goes to sound like, saying she’s choosing a “very pop” sound.
“If I had my means, I might most likely write ballads my entire life, however I wish to produce music that can make folks smile,” she stated. “The music I’m doing proper now could be about actual issues that I’m strolling by. It’s actually highly effective, robust, very pop.”
“The theme usually is freedom — freedom from relationships, freedom from the darkness,” she added.
It’s the same tease to what she shared with Rolling Stone for a canopy story late final 12 months, the place she revealed that she had already written 24 songs for the mission and hoped to have extra writing classes forward of its launch.
“‘My Thoughts and Me’ is a little bit unhappy,” she informed Rolling Stone, “nevertheless it’s additionally a very nice means of placing a button on the documentary a part of life, after which it’ll simply be enjoyable tales of me residing my life and happening dates and having conversations with myself.”
She added, “I really feel prefer it’s going be an album that’s like, ‘Oh, she’s not in that place anymore; she’s really simply residing life.’”
In her Vainness Truthful interview, the Solely Murders within the Constructing actress defined how she’s utterly rid herself of social media, and as a substitute has opted for her assistants to run her digital accounts.
“The world was my highschool for the longest time, and I began getting inundated with info that I didn’t need. I went by a tough time in a breakup and I didn’t wish to see any of the [feedback] — not essentially concerning the relationship, however the opinions of me versus [someone] else,” she informed the journal. “There’d be 1000’s of very nice feedback, however my thoughts goes straight to the imply one.”
She added, “Individuals can name me ugly or silly and I’m like, No matter. However these folks get detailed. They write paragraphs which might be so particular and imply. I might always be crying. I always had anxiousness…I couldn’t do it anymore. It was a waste of my time.”
Together with collaborating with Nigerian star Rema on “Calm Down” and Coldplay on “Let Any person Go,” Gomez launched her monitor “My Thoughts and Me” final 12 months. Her forthcoming album will comply with her 2021 Spanish-langauge EP Revelación and 2020’s Uncommon.