Selena Gomez in December 2022.Photo:Cindy Ord/Getty Images
Cindy Ord/Getty Images
Selena Gomezis peeling back the layers of her music-making process.
On Monday, the singer and actress, 30, shared a raw TikTok video of herself singing “Lose You to Love Me” and playing the piano.
She also wrote in text over the video, “Making of… me getting to know myself.”
In the clip, Gomez is seen wearing a light gray jumper with her hair scraped back into a bun.
Toward the end of the video, she appears to get emotional as she stops singing and playing the keys. She then grimaces and exhales before saying, “Um,” before the clip ends.
Gomez released the heartfelt ballad back in 2019. Appearing onOn Air with Ryan Seacrestin October 2019, she said that she felt a“sense of relief”when she finally released the track.
Gomez shared some raw footage on TikTok.Selena Gomez/TikTok
Selena Gomez/TikTok
“I wrote this song over a year ago … and I feel completely different from when I wrote it. It’s more beautiful for me because I know exactly where I was when I wrote it and how I felt.”
Adding that she would “absolutely not” have released the song at the time she wrote the track, she revealed it took her a “long time” to heal from her wounds. But now, “I’m smiling,” she continued.
In another TikTok, Gomez sang “Lose You to Love Me” to a child.Selena Gomez/TikTok
“I want people to feel hope and to know you will come out the other side stronger and a better version of yourself,” she added.
In one verse of the track, Gomez seemingly alludes to heron-and-off relationship with ex-boyfriend Justin Bieber. “Set fire to my purpose and I let it burn,” she sings, a possible reference to Bieber’s 2015 albumPurpose.
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In a later verse, she also sings, “In two months you replaced us like it was easy.” After calling it quits again with Gomez in March 2018, the “Sorry” singer moved on quickly — and publicly — with hisnow-wife Hailey Bieber,proposing to the modeljust months later.
The pair thentied the knotin September 2018 in a New York City courthouse, before celebrating their marriage just over a year later with alarger ceremonyin front of 154 family and friends at theMontage Palmetto Bluffin Bluffton, South Carolina.
source: people.com
