{"id":2304,"date":"2022-11-29T13:57:49","date_gmt":"2022-11-29T18:57:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/read.streamapse.com\/?p=2304"},"modified":"2022-11-29T13:57:49","modified_gmt":"2022-11-29T18:57:49","slug":"selenas-first-album-in-four-years-turns-growing-pains-into-pop-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/?p=2304","title":{"rendered":"Selena\u2019s First Album In Four Years Turns Growing Pains Into Pop Gold"},"content":{"rendered":"

After her last album, Revival, the superstar weathered a rocky four years during which her love life and personal health were the subject of intense media scrutiny, eventually leading her to check into a treatment center. \u201cI purged multiple different things, but it was specifically who I was then,\u201d she says. Hitting rock bottom revealed a new way forward: She rid her life of toxic relationships, quit social media, and vowed to trust her gut on album three. Flanked by two of her most trusted collaborators and friends\u2014pop hitmakers Julia Michaels and Justin Tranter\u2014Gomez, now 29, wrote Rare, her third solo LP and a well-earned fresh start.<\/p>\n

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The project\u2019s back-to-back lead singles\u2014the gutting ballad \u201cLose You to Love Me\u201d and the more celebratory \u201cLook at Her Now\u201d\u2014effectively bookend the highs and lows of Gomez\u2019s adolescence and trace her journey through recovery. \u201cTook a few years to soak up the tears\/But look at her now\/Watch her go,\u201d she sings on the latter. From then on, it\u2019s all about release: Gomez spends the rest of Rare relishing the joy and lightness found in finally moving on. \u201cI kickstart the rhythm\/All the drama\u2019s in remission,\u201d she coos on the sultry club cut \u201cDance Again,\u201d which casts her newfound independence as a strobe-lit night out. \u201cI\u2019m high off the weight off of my shoulders.\u201d On \u201cFun,\u201d she pokes fun at her health struggles by turning them into come-ons (\u201cMy kind of trouble likes your kind of trouble,\u201d she sings to a love interest who keeps her \u201chigher than the medication\u201d), flipping a perceived weakness into a power source.<\/p>\n

Crucially, Rare is more about self-love than anything\u2014or anyone\u2014else. Marked by playful, exuberant production and thoughtful assists from 6LACK and Kid Cudi, it feels confident, optimistic, and free\u2014as if Gomez is seeing the world with fresh eyes. She may be, but the album\u2019s power is rooted in how far she\u2019s come. Listen to songs like \u201cLet Me Get Me\u201d and \u201cCut You Off\u201d and find an artist who is older, wiser, stronger, and all grown up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After her last album, Revival, the superstar weathered a rocky four years during which her love life and personal health were the subject of intense media scrutiny, eventually leading her to check into a treatment center. \u201cI purged multiple different things, but it was specifically who I was then,\u201d she says. Hitting rock bottom revealed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4386,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,134],"tags":[898,899,900],"class_list":["post-2304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles","category-playlist","tag-gomez","tag-needed","tag-selena"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2304\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}