A handful of Selena Gomez followers consider that her track “Youthful and Hotter Than Me” may function a refined nod to BFF Taylor Swift.
Gomez, 32, dropped her new album I Mentioned I Beloved You First, a collaboration with fiancé Benny Blanco, on Friday, March 21. On the emotional ballad “Youthful and Hotter Than Me,” Gomez addresses her youngster star previous — and former failed romances.
“For thinkin’ you have been totally different / Want I by no means cherished you,” Gomez sings. “We’re not gettin’ any youthful / However your girlfriends appear to.”
It, naturally, didn’t take eagle-eyed followers lengthy to leap to the conclusion that the refrain lyrics (see above) appeared to reference a success written and carried out by Swift, 35.
“And I used to be by no means good at tellin’ jokes, however the punch line goes / ‘I’ll grow old, however your lovers keep my age,’” Swift sings on the 10-minute model of “All Too Effectively,” a observe broadly rumored to be about Swift’s temporary age-gap fling with Jake Gyllenhaal. (The prolonged model of the Purple track dropped in 2021 on its rerecorded album.)
Neither Gomez, Blanco, 37, nor Swift have addressed whether or not “Youthful and Hotter Than Me” was meant to copy “All Too Effectively,” although the ladies have been shut associates because the early 2000s.
Gomez and Swift initially met in 2008 whereas courting brothers Nick Jonas and Joe Jonas, respectively.
“I knew from after I met [Selena] I’d all the time have her again,” Swift informed The Wall Road Journal in 2020. “In my life, I’ve the power to forgive individuals who have harm me. However I don’t know if I can forgive somebody who hurts her.”
Gomez, for her half, informed the outlet that they “clicked immediately.”
“That was my woman,” Gomez gushed on the time. “We each went by means of s— on the similar time. She taught me rather a lot about how I needs to be handled at a younger age.”
Gomez and Swift have additionally had front-row seats to one another’s present respective relationships with Blanco and NFL star Travis Kelce. (Each {couples} have been collectively since 2023.)
“It was really actually humorous. As a pair, we went to Taylor’s social gathering after some award present. I don’t know, it was form of cute, however I used to be mortified,” Gomez stated on Spotify’s Countdown To sequence earlier this week. “Apparently, cool individuals don’t present as much as events on time.”
Blanco, in the meantime, famous that he and Gomez are sometimes the “first individuals at each single social gathering” they attend as a pair.
“You, like, present up when my mom reveals as much as a celebration,” he recalled. “I believed you have been going to speak about that no one knew we have been courting and we have been hiding the truth that we have been courting, so we, like, didn’t even contact one another or actually have a look at one another.”
Blanco proposed to Gomez in December 2024, and Swift was one of many first people to pitch herself for the bridal social gathering.
“Sure, I would be the flower woman,” Swift wrote by way of Instagram touch upon the pair’s proposal reveal.