It’s been nearly four years since Selena Gomez released her last full-length album, Revival. But with two new singles released a day apart from each other, it’s safe to say that she’s ready to get back in the game.
Gomez released her highly anticipated single ‘Lose You to Love Me’ with a music video to go along with it on Oct. 23. If you haven’t noticed by all the ads on Gomez’s Instagram, it was shot on the new iPhone 11 Pro.
The ‘Lose You’ music video was released at midnight and Gomez scored almost 5 million views that Wednesday morning. The video for this song is simple; it’s black and white with Gomez sitting in a chair singing directly towards the camera with all of her emotions. Because Gomez lays it all out there, you can’t help but feel a person connection with her in the video.
It’s hard to love the slow pace of the single, but you can love the lyrics. Gomez throws shade at her ex-boyfriend Justin Bieber with, “In two months, you replaced us/Like it was easy/Made me think I deserved it.” When Bieber dumped her and got engaged to model Hailey Baldwin just two months after, it’s clear Gomez felt pain. But after a long time of healing, she declares she’s moving on with the final lyrics of, “And now the chapter is closed and done/And now it’s goodbye, it’s goodbye for us.”
While ‘Lose You’ is a slow ballad with a grand piano and modern synthesizer, Gomez dropped another single with a completely different tone on Oct. 24.
In ‘Look at Her Now,’ Gomez thanks her fans for being her “ride or dies.” The lyrics in this song are far more upbeat that you’ll want to get up and dance. This music video was released at the same time as the song and is entirely different from its prequel.
There’s no doom and gloom; it’s much more colorful with Gomez dancing in a white dome with a bunch of flashing colors from LED lights, where she again flexes the iPhone 11 Pro camera. At this point, I wouldn’t be surprised if Tim Cook was one of the dancers.
While she was broken in ‘Lose You,’ on this single she’s got her spunk back with lyrics like, “Of course she was sad/But now she’s glad she dodged a bullet.” And what a bullet she dodged!
It has some catchy lyrics like that, but the chorus is a little uninspired with, “Mm-mm-mm, mm-mm-mm, mm-mm/Look at her now, watch her go.” The “mms” sound more like a squeaky chair than the kind of “mm” you say when eating a good piece of pie.
It’s the kind of chorus that can get stuck in your head, but not in a good way.
With these two new singles, Gomez is closing a chapter in her life and wrapping it up into a bow and being done with it. She manages to look back in two different tones: one of solemnness and another of excitement.
Considering how much tea Gomez spilled in these two singles, we can expect much more to make headlines. There’s no official date for an album yet, but hopefully Gomez has saved the best for last.
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