Selena Gomez is Good For You

I don't need her to remake Bad Liar a hundred times from here on out, but I liked that it stood out from what everybody else in her particular sphere is doing. Fetish is like the residue at the bottom of that sphere.

Video inspired by Beckett's 'Not I'? Actually, a young pop star version of Beckett on film would be awesome.

ok listen Fetish is not great but i definitely didn't want her to try and imitate Bad Liar.

i love 'Trust Nobody' so much

xp ha!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=199&v=STO4-8vkG0U

this is... intense.
still don't like that song much.

i have to tell you that i'm not upset that "it ain't me" is still playing all over the radio

New single out now.

I’m generally not into ballads but I like the vocal production on the chorus, it’s slightly weird and gives it a distinctive sound.

https://smarturl.it/LoseYouToLoveMe

Everything about this is magnificent.

Hum it's nice but it doesn't really take off.
And a second new single !

https://youtu.be/8u-_64S7plI

Cool video, song is trash.

Yeah, this is bad.

i like the song a lot! (but not the video)

The second one??

I like the midtempo track more than the ballad... Neither hold a candle to “Bad Liar”/“Fetish,” though

xpost - yeah, the second one! the first one did nothing for me (weirdly, given how much you liked it)

When the super layered chorus vocals really kick in during the last third of Lose You... I get dem goosebumps.

I'm digging "Look At Her Now" (both song and video).

always had a weak spot for selena gomez. love the ballad.

"look at her now" is decent but "lose you to love me" does nothing for me

^^^ this but the opposite of it

I actually like both for different reasons. They’re definitely not as good as Bad Liar / Fetish were.

Btw are all of these singles supposed to end in the same album? Or were they just released for streaming as standalone songs?

if one becomes a hit with staying power (seems likely for "lose you to love me" currently) an album will be announced. if not there won't be and they'll remain standalone singles. this is how it works now

tho occasionally even a smash hit single will lead to no album announcement and will end up being standalone (e.g. halsey "without me")

oh jk i guess halsey eventually announced an album w/ "without me" on it, but way way after the fact (+ after followup singles had already bombed and been downgraded to standalone)

I mean it makes sense specially in pop as in electronic music to just release a song when it’s finished, if you wait too long until a whole album is finished the trends you were trying to set and/or follow might have shifted. There’s not that many people that still buy physical albums or even play an album instead of standalone songs, specially with youtube and playlist culture.

Selena stans are swarming Lizzo on Twitter, b/c their singles are dueling on the iTunes US chart, and Lizzo tweeted a request for more dl’s to get her track to #1.

Also, it's easier for pop stars to bounce back from a bad single as opposed to a bad album cycle. Katy Perry has also just shifted to dropping random singles after the disaster that was Witness.

twitter standom is profoundly silly at best and toxic at worst. like really, dogpiling someone because of the itunes chart. in 2019? digital download sales volumes are way too low to mean much these days.

poor katy perry. it's like people stopped fucking with her music heavy as soon as she stopped having seemingly effortless success

Yeah, the numbers at issue here for each track are around 1,000 sales (in 24 hrs.)

Now, THIS one I like!:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ia1iuXbEaYQ

(The album is out today.)

F%^&, this is a good track

Try "Dance Again.

I'm not digging that one as much.....

"Crowded Room" (feat. 6LACK) is nice. Her voice is so thin -- I think the more minimalist tracks suit it best, somehow.

I think I'm allergic to her sonic preferences ("Bad Liar" excepted)

not feeling this but it was prob the wrong move to listen to it after the poppy record

like Ariana Grande, she's taken with brevity, to my relief.

I am pretty into this

I'm taken with the way she and her producers use bass.

omg i'm excited, i was just talking about her this AM

I'm taken with the way she and her producers use bass.

Me too

"Fun" is also a kinda cool track. I feel like she goes in a for a lot of Swift-isms...

Nothing else on here comes close to the opening track for me (sadly)!

That calypso-ish beat just kills me

new album is really good!

really into Crowded Room

bottom heavy album for sure! i'm into it!

not enough explicit criticism of the male gaze for me tbh - while there's something despairing (and desperate) about the way she sings + the synth drone, it still seems all too besotted with phallocentricity of objectification

It's Selena Gomez ffs, not Huggy Bear.

gimme more phallocentricity with a side of objectification