Selena Gomez and Benny Blanco are engaged to be married, however the couple began out as collaborators.
Blanco coproduced two songs on Gomez’s 2015 album, Revival: “Kill Em With Kindness” and “Similar Outdated Love.” The pair rapidly grew to become pals, and at one level, Gomez even requested Blanco whether or not he had anybody he might set her up with. It wasn’t till Blanco introduced Gomez to fulfill one in all his pals at a celebration that she began to see him in a romantic mild.
“It simply occurs if you least anticipate it,” she stated throughout a Might 2024 interview with Time.
The twosome confirmed their relationship in December 2023 and introduced their engagement the next December.
“Endlessly begins now,” Gomez captioned an Instagram publish that included a photograph of her engagement ring.
Blanco wrote within the feedback part, “Hey wait … that’s my spouse.”
Years earlier than Gomez and Blanco teamed up for Revival, they crossed paths in knowledgeable capability on the very starting of Gomez’s post-Disney Channel music profession.
“Neither one in all us remembered the assembly,” Blanco stated throughout an April look on SiriusXM’s Hits 1. “However [Gomez’s] mother remembered it and was identical to, ‘Yeah, you guys have been 18.’”
Preserve scrolling for a glance again in any respect of Gomez and Blanco’s musical collaborations:
‘Kill Em With Kindness’
Blanco, who has additionally labored with artists together with Ed Sheeran, Katy Perry, Kesha, Rihanna, Ariana Grande and Gomez’s ex Justin Bieber, coproduced the 2015 monitor with manufacturing staff Rock Mafia.
‘Similar Outdated Love’
The Revival single peaked at No. 5 on the Billboard Sizzling 100. Blanco coproduced the track with Norwegian manufacturing duo Stargate and Charli XCX served as one of many cowriters.
‘Belief No person’
Cashmere Cat’s 2016 electropop track featured vocals by Gomez and Tory Lanez. Blanco coproduced the tune with Cashmere Cat and Frank Dukes.
‘I Can’t Get Sufficient’
Gomez and Blanco teamed up with Tainy and J Balvin for the 2019 tune. Within the music video, Gomez and Blanco pranced round a comically big mattress wearing silk pajamas and a white teddy bear swimsuit, respectively.
“Can’t imagine we pulled it off in a single take — even when I did fall a few times making an attempt,” Gomez wrote through Instagram on the time.
‘Single Quickly’
Simply months earlier than Gomez and Blanco hard-launched their relationship, they paired up once more for Gomez’s track “Single Quickly,” which was launched in August 2023. Blanco coproduced the anthem of singledom with Cashmere Cat. On the time, Gomez stated she was comfortable on her personal.
“I believe all people goes by means of the part of, ‘Oh, it’d be good to, like, have somebody,’ and I get that,” she stated whereas selling “Single Quickly” on Hits 1. “However you recognize, I’m simply having fun with the place I’m at, and I simply need to be pleased with who I’m, in order that at any time when that particular person comes into my life, I can simply have them add on to me as an alternative of being this insecure person who I usually was.”