Selena Gomez and Benny Blanco have launched their new album, I Stated I Love You First.
The 15-track album — launched by way of SMG Music, Mates Preserve Secrets and techniques and Interscope Information — is the couple’s first collaborative album. It chronicles and celebrates their love story, coming collectively “organically as a direct results of the consolation that they each felt when working collectively creatively,” in keeping with a launch. The couple introduced their engagement late final yr.
I Stated I Love You First consists of the newest music video from the pair, “Youthful and Hotter Than Me.” The cinematic and melancholy video follows Gomez round a studio lot, seemingly reflecting on her lifetime of younger stardom. The video usually finds Gomez returning to an deserted set on a soundstage.
“Whenever you’re younger and a star, and also you’re thrown into this whirlwind of being so many individuals’s favourite factor on the planet, finally, individuals discover new issues to carry. They discover new issues they will choose up,” Blanco stated in a behind-the-scenes video dropped Thursday forward of the album’s launch.
Selena Gomez and Benny Blanco have launched their first collaborative album, I Stated I Love You First.
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“You’re type of left on this world the place you’re type of in limbo,” he continued. “You’re both going to make it to this subsequent chapter in your life otherwise you’re going to fade off into obscurity. It’s lots of strain, I really feel, placed on individuals at such a younger age.”
Gomez asserted that “Youthful and Hotter Than Me” might have many alternative meanings. “I feel that’s how I really feel,” Gomez stated within the behind-the-scenes video. “It displays type of all the pieces I’ve felt earlier than, if that is sensible. I’m so unhealthy at events. I’m socially awkward. I sit within the nook and speak to the one one who’s often alone. I don’t really feel like I’ve all the time slot in.”
Gomez and Blanco have already launched three singles — “Fearful of Loving You,” written by the couple and Finneas, “Name Me When You Break Up,” that includes Gracie Abrams, and “Sundown Blvd.”
Charli XCX additionally collaborated as a songwriter on “Bluest Flame,” the album’s eighth observe. “She has such a tremendous manner of placing you in an instantaneous zone. It’s cool as a result of certainly one of our first songs [Gomez and himself], most likely like 11 years in the past or 10 years in the past, was ‘Similar Outdated Love’ and we did that with Charli too,” Blanco stated in an interview with Spotify’s Countdown To sequence.
Watch the couple’s newest music video for “Youthful and Hotter Than Me” beneath. The album is on the market to stream on Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music and extra.
