Low and breathy, her understated vocals are better suited for intimate contemplation than big, belted catharsis. Gomez’s biggest hurdle as a musician has long been her voice. When Gomez looks back on toxic relationships wracked with mistrust or self-sabotaging anxiety spirals, her perspective is more grateful than regretful, as if to say that everything in life is a valuable lesson. But Rare doesn’t dwell on heavy realities like chronic illness or the ice-cold grip of depression or, really, any sadness lingering after heartache.
After waving goodbye to a lover who does not respect her worth on the blissed-out self-titled opener, Gomez cleanses her heart with an electro-pop party on “Dance Again.” Dancing through pain is by now a tried-and-true motif in pop music, but the sentiment holds extra weight for Gomez, who undoubtedly knows from her lupus how it feels to be powerless over your body. It feels spiritually in tune with the woman who once cheerfully told Vogue that people would be surprised to learn how much she loves “depressing things.”īut Rare’s celebration of autonomy, resilience, and growth is overwhelmingly upbeat. While none of these 13 songs attempt the subtle weirdness of “Bad Liar” and the emotional thesis-self-love!-can be a bit one-note, Rare is the 27-year-old’s most cohesive record to date. Though the song’s drama is an exception, its moral of losing love and gaining self is the guiding ethos of her third record, Rare. Her anguished soul-searching struck a nerve: “Lose You to Love Me” became Gomez’s first Billboard No. While dropping hints at which supposedly “ Sorry” singer had been dragging her down, Gomez reclaimed her own narrative. The song looks at the ways she lost herself in a relationship and solemnly promises to never make that mistake again. When Gomez shared the ballad “Lose You to Love Me” last fall, it seemed like the work she put into her physical and emotional wellness had clicked. “I just needed to let my old self go,” Gomez told Zane Lowe this month.
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Besides popping up for the occasional movie role or fashion collaboration, Gomez focused on herself.
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But in 2017, the same year she underwent a risky kidney transplant due to complications from the autoimmune disease lupus, Gomez shared a series of genre-curious singles including the Talking Heads-sampling “ Bad Liar.” After checking the cultural pulse, the then most-followed woman on Instagram logged off, removing herself from the public eye once more. “Body Heat” brings Latin fusion into Gomez’s mix like never before and proves that she doesn’t need Zedd (the German producer behind her recent dance chart-topper “I Want You to Know”) to make a genuine club banger.Over the next five years, Gomez’s journey towards emancipation would be challenged by serious struggles with anxiety, depression, and chronic illness that sidelined her music career and threatened her life. Soaring past the harsh-though-catchy EDM beats of 2013’s Stars Dance and the shallow angst of her previous work with the pop-rock project the Scene, the former Disney star finds a new comfort zone in this album’s warm, tropical beach-pop sound. Her brand of sexiness has a coy, subtle quality that never tries too hard, from the fun, flirty “Hands to Myself” to the blissed-out “Survivors” to the intoxicating “Me & the Rhythm” - a riff on the classic theme of losing yourself on the dance floor (“Everybody wants to be touched/Everybody wants to get some”) that nonetheless finds her sounding completely in control of her own euphoria. Where some former child stars tack toward aggressive maturity when they reach their twenties, Gomez finds ways to transcend that cliche.
“It’s my time to butterfly,” she sings on the self-care anthem “Revival.” The Gomez of this relaxed, confident pop collection butterflies with such ease that it feels like she’s revealing her true personality for the first time. Selena Gomez wills a new era of her career into existence within the first two minutes of her second solo album.
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