The room is warm, and the afternoon is becoming opaque, and the superstar in front of me is giving off a soft, bruised quality. I find myself, as many fans and casual observers of Gomez have found themselves, wanting to protect her, to make her happy, to cheer her up. Gomez is so invested in preserving a sense of normalcy that she swallows, in most moments, the strange side effects of having been on camera for two-thirds of her life. The confidence came first; then came the confidence to let it drop.
In between, though, there was a non-negligible amount of chaos. At 18, when she was still filming Wizards, Gomez entered a serious relationship with a teen heartthrob, an entanglement whose off-and-on ups-and-downs were dissected constantly and voraciously until it ended in In early , in the middle of an international tour for her first solo album, Stars Dance, Gomez checked herself into a rehab facility.
She was burned out and depressed, she tells me. Gomez had also been diagnosed with lupus, a chronic autoimmune disorder that, in her case, was severe enough to require chemotherapy and send her to the ICU for two weeks.
Eventually she needed a kidney transplant, which caused one of her arteries to break; a six-hour emergency surgery followed. Gomez woke up with two significant scars —one on her abdomen and the other on her thigh, where the surgeon had removed a vein—and the jarring news that she had, for some time there, been fairly close to the edge.
But she also retreated to treatment centers for two more prolonged stays, in and She still has a hard time with late-night anxiety: the kind where you forget how to sleep and start thinking about what you want, what you have to do to get there.
She viewed her recent diagnosis of bipolar disorder as an important step to managing her life more soundly. Gomez maintains steadiness in part by avoiding social media. After that decision, it was instant freedom.
My life in front of me was my life, and I was present, and I could not have been more happy about it. The song hit number one; women came up to Gomez and told her that it got them through their divorces.
One of the side effects of having become so famous so early is the worry that people mainly know you for having become so famous so early. Also, I suggest, her essential Selena Gomez—ness, the way she transmits her selfhood as readily and simply as a lamp gives off light, was there from the beginning.
But now we think of ourselves as the Three Musketeers. For now, though, Gomez remains better known as a singer than as an actor. The Spanish EP, wonderfully, allows Gomez to do both at the same time. And she sounds amazing. You want to leave space around her vocal. Thanks to her paternal grandparents, whom she still—pre-pandemic, at least—visits in Texas frequently, she was fluent in Spanish as a child, but she lost the language after she started going to school.
Gomez has recently spoken about the fact that her paternal grandparents were undocumented. I remember that being such a huge deal. My grandpa was working construction, hiring hundreds of people, and still they were living on the edge, covering up how scary it was.
I cried even more. I thought, I hate that my dad feels so depleted by this. In , she served as an executive-producer for the Netflix series Living Undocumented. They felt like she had our back. I felt like she had our back too.
Several days later, on another frozen afternoon, Gomez and I meet up again in her village hideaway. She and her assistant tried to do a Friends puzzle to pass the time but gave up on it, just tacking up a poster of the cast drinking milkshakes on the living-room wall.
Two days previously, at the behest of President Trump, an armed right-wing mob had stormed the Capitol, fueled by online conspiracy theories about a stolen election. And she gives these issues a broad appeal beyond any individual political party.
Gomez places a premium on what we owe to one another: respect, decency, kindness. In some contexts, this makes her bold, and in others, cautious.
Why do I keep doing this? I want to give it one last try before I maybe retire music. It had felt insensitive, she said, to post anything that felt joyful or celebratory. To cheer them up. I know that all of this is my purpose. It also reached the lower regions of European charts.
It also became the act's third No. The song's accompanying music video features Gomez frolicking around a city, removing makeup, and performing with the band on a beach. As of , the song has sold over 1,, copies in the United States.
After the release of the latter, Gomez said that she was not in a rush to release another album, but after hearing "Who Says", she decided to begin another release, calling the song "amazing" and crediting it for inspiring her. Gomez would later call the song "fun and empowering", commenting, "Every time I sing this song, I'm like, 'I feel better already! She then said that she was "dealing with it, of course" and was "going through it as well.
Gomez herself stated "I am so happy [about recent empowerment songs], 'cause music is a universal language, and it's a quick way to get to everybody. The fact that all these artists are doing that, it's really good. I'm really happy. According to the sheet music published at Musicnotes.
It is composed in the key of E major as Gomez's vocal range spans from the low-note of G 3 to the high-note of C 5. The song contains string accents described as "sympathetic, but not overpowering. According to Brian Voerding of AOL Radio Blog , "Gomez sings about staying true to herself, particularly in the face of doubt that comes from others telling her she can't live up to her dreams.
She has succeeded with quality, straightforward pop songs. Although a writer from The Huffington Post called the song "superfluous" and like many feel-good anthems, "a little bit tepid", the writer said it was "cute" and an "ode to self worth" which "exudes bubblegum confidence in the manner of her man boy Bieber's tune "Never Say Never. The song managed to peak at number 21 on the chart dated June 29, marking the band's highest charting effort to date.
It charted at number 37 on the previous and 27 on the latter. The song debuted at number 17 on the Canadian Hot , becoming their highest charting single on the chart. It also reached number 15 on the New Zealand Singles Chart, becoming their highest charting single on that chart, beating the peak of "Naturally" which reached number twenty there. The song charted in the top 50 in Germany and Ireland, and appeared on the main charts in the United Kingdom, Australia, and Austria.
The song's music video was directed by American music video director Chris Applebaum. An eight-second teaser of the video was released on March 2, , and the full video premiered on VEVO on March 11, The video starts off with Gomez at a photoshoot where she starts singing the first verse.
She then removes her earrings and shoes and exits the studio. She is seen singing while walking through a city, riding in a cab, and eventually walking on the outskirts of the city as lyrics appear in various locations including a theatre marquee, the side of a building, and written in the sky.
Eventually she enters a public restroom, throws on a casual outfit and removes her make-up. After this, Gomez makes her way to a beach, where she is seen singing with her band, surrounded by fans. Who says you're not worth it?
Who says you're the only one that's hurtin'? Trust me, that's the price of beauty Who says you're not pretty? Who says you're not beautiful?
Who says?
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