Selena Gomez and Benny Blanco have introduced a brand new collaborative album, ‘I Stated I Love You First’ – discover out extra beneath.
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To rejoice Valentine’s Day, the couple – who just lately received engaged – shared the blockbuster announcement that may mark Selena Gomez’s anticipated return to music. ‘I Stated I Love You First’ is due for launch on March 21 – you’ll be able to pre-save and pre-order the album right here.
The album is previewed by the brief however candy ballad ‘Scared Of Loving You’, which is accompanied by an official lyric video that includes footage of the facility couple. The track was written by Blanco, Gomez and Finneas.
‘I Stated I Love You First’ will chronicle the couple’s “love story” – they labored collectively on a number of of her hit songs relationship again to 2015’s ‘Identical Previous Love’. The pair confirmed their romantic relationship in December 2023, with Gomez confirming that she had been seeing the producer for about six months. They introduced their engagement in December 2024.
Gomez – who has lengthy been requested about her return to music, however has regularly denied having something deliberate – wrote on Instagram: “I at all times trick you guys 🥰 my NEW album I Stated I Love You First with my finest pal @itsbennyblanco, is out on 3/21”
Most just lately, she revealed to fellow actor Saoirse Ronan that whereas she thinks she’s “a bit of too previous for the pop star life” now, she’ll “at all times have music in my life as a result of my accomplice’s a musician, and I really like having moments to do it for enjoyable.”
She continued: “I undoubtedly suppose my sturdy go well with might be appearing. However one factor I’m happy with in music is with the ability to inform a narrative — my favourite songs are principally ballads, and so they’re very clear and sincere. However I believe I may be a bit of too previous for the pop-star life. I’m genuinely so glad to only be on this new period of my life, as a result of in a number of methods, it’s only the start.”
She beforehand stated that her music profession “isn’t going away”, however that she’d wish to give attention to appearing as she will get to carry on to her “sanity” as appearing would enable her to inform different folks’s tales reasonably than her personal by way of music.
Beforehand talking to NME‘s Alex Flood to advertise her newest movie Emilia Perez with Zoe Saldaña, she was requested for an replace on new music as her final album, ‘Uncommon‘, had arrived again in 2020. When requested a few new album, Gomez replied: “Properly, if I had one, I might love to speak about it. I believe proper now it’s been very nice specializing in this facet of the enjoying subject. We’ll see, you by no means know.” – learn NME‘s full chat with Gomez and Saldaña right here.
In a three-star overview of Emilia Perez, Sophia Butcher wrote for NME: “You’ve most likely by no means seen a film like Emilia Perez earlier than – and while there’s sufficient meat within the performances to make you considerably glad you probably did, you may not need to once more.”
Emilia Pérez has achieved a file 13 nominations for this yr’s ceremony, together with Finest Movie, Finest Supporting Actress for Saldaña, and Finest Actress for Karla Sofía Gascón – the primary overtly Transgender individual to be nominated for the class.