“I needed to hate you to love me,” Gomez sings as grandiose balladry swells around her. As a consequence of her battle with lupus, she famously received a kidney transplant from her friend in 2017, and further complications from the disease led her to check herself into a mental health treatment facility for a few weeks in late 2018.Īll that tumult was the implied context for “Lose You To Love Me,” the titanic melodrama that became Gomez’s first #1 hit when it debuted atop the Billboard Hot 100 two months ago. (Their breakup supposedly inspired much of his EP-length 2018 project My Dear Melancholy.) The relational drama coincided with some intense health struggles. Romantically, there were a handful of presumed reunions with Bieber (before he settled down with Hailey Baldwin) and an entanglement with the Weeknd that lasted most of 2017. If you follow celebrity news blogs, you are probably familiar with the various twists and turns. As this Billboard career overview points out, some of that probably had to do with “Bad Liar” and “Fetish” fizzling commercially in 2017, but that’s not the only way the interim since Revival has been rocky. Yet despite suggesting the so-called #SG2 was “ very close” in 2016, it has not materialized until now. Since then, she’s remained a consistent presence at Top 40 radio thanks to a steady stream of singles, some of them hits. Revival completed Gomez’s transition into full-fledged adult pop stardom, sent three songs to the top 10, and helped steer mainstream pop away from an aggressive EDM influence toward a softer, smaller, more graceful palette of sounds. (Her first for Interscope after parting ways with the teeny-bopping Hollywood Records, Gomez considers it her proper debut album, 2013’s Stars Dance and a trio of Selena Gomez & The Scene albums be damned.)
Her most recent collection, the slinky career highlight Revival, dropped in October 2015. Gomez, the former Disney Channel teen actress turned pop superstar and tabloid fixation, is part of the class of big-time pop singers who haven’t released a full-length project since the middle of last decade - a group that includes Adele, Rihanna, and her former boyfriends Justin Bieber and the Weeknd.
Rare is an accurate title for a Selena Gomez album.
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