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Selena Gomez opened up about how a lot her music “Who Says” means to her — and why she fought to sing it within the first place.
“It’s really a joke: I used to be working with Disney on the time, and so they had been really giving the music to a different artist,” Gomez, 31, mentioned whereas talking at Twilio’s SIGNAL convention on Wednesday, August 23. “And I cried — I keep in mind, I used to be with my mother — as a result of I liked the music a lot.”
Whereas Gomez didn’t reveal which musician was in line to obtain the only she went on to elucidate why she instructed her label she could be the most effective individual to carry out it’s highly effective message of self-love.
“I principally mentioned to my label, ‘I really feel like my followers are younger and so they want it.’ That’s all I stored saying as a result of I used to be 16 on the time,” she mentioned on Wednesday. “I used to be like, ‘I feel my followers really want it; inform [them] my followers really want the music.’”
The 2011 music was the lead single off Gomez and her band The Scene’s third album, When the Solar Goes Down. The monitor — which ended up going platinum — was cowritten by Emanuel S. Kiriakou and Priscilla Renea Hamilton. Gomez shared on Wednesday that the music’s message resonated along with her and felt like “a present” that she “didn’t know [she] wanted.”
“And I like, love that music, and it has carried with me by my entire profession, and I fought for it,” Gomez admitted.
Within the ballad, Gomez sings about accepting your self for who you might be and ignoring the detrimental feedback from others that diminish your self-worth.
“Who says / Who says you’re not good / Who says you’re not value it / Who says you’re the one one which’s hurting / Belief me / That’s the worth of magnificence / Who says you’re not fairly / Who says you’re not stunning / Who says,” Gomez sings.
Whereas discussing her third album’s tracklist with Billboard in 2011, Gomez gushed about “Who Says.”
“It’s most likely my favourite I’ve ever recorded,” she confessed on the time. “I feel it’s actually significant and it’s form of a giant anthem. It went platinum so it’s my second music ever that’s platinum. I used to be actually excited, I used to be within the automobile after I came upon selling the third album. It gave me a giant increase.”
Lately, Gomez introduced she could be returning to the music world with a brand new solo single whereas she works on her upcoming solo album. Up to now few years, she’s been featured on a sequence of tracks together with her newest hit “Calm Down” with Rema.
“Y’all have been asking for brand new music for some time,” she wrote through Instagram on August 17. “Since I’m not fairly executed with SG3, I needed to place out a enjoyable little music I wrote some time again that’s good for the top of summer time. SINGLE SOON. August twenty fifth. Presave it now. 😘.”
