Tag Archives: Selena Gomez

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Song of the Day #5,738: ‘Love On’ – Selena Gomez

Selena Gomez is a modern renaissance woman. At just 31, she has found enormous success as a TV and movie actress, singer, philanthropist, and business leader. She is the most followed non-soccer player on Instagram (and third overall) and in the top ten on Facebook and Twitter. She’s also best friends with Taylor Swift.

Gomez has released three albums with her band The Scene, and three more as a solo artist. All three solo albums topped the Billboard 200, and the last one (2020’s Rare) produced her first #1 single in ‘Lose You to Love Me.’

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Song of the Day #5,409: ‘Calm Down’ – Rema & Selena Gomez

Remixes are the order of the day on the back half of the top ten this week on the Billboard Hot 100. In the eighth spot, Nigerian singer Rema is joined by Selena Gomez for a new take on his song ‘Calm Down.’

In its original form, this song did well in Europe in early 2022, prompting the team-up with Gomez to attract an American audience. The new version was released last August and has spent 30 weeks on the chart, peaking at its current position.

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Song of the Day #4,223: ‘Camouflage’ – Selena Gomez

Selena Gomez just released a new album, Rare, that I played once in the background the day it came out. It’s receiving some of the best reviews of her career, and I owe it another listen.

In the meantime, here’s a track from Gomez’s 2015 album Revival, which I like very much.

Following this album, Gomez suffered from physical and mental health issues tied to lupus. She checked herself into rehab to treat her depression and anxiety attacks.

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Song of the Day #4,158: ‘Lose You To Love Me’ – Selena Gomez

Selena Gomez makes her first appearance in Billboard’s Top Ten in two and a half years with a minor key ballad in the same whispery vein as her well-received 2015 album Revival.

‘Lose You To Love Me’ is pretty enough, but I’m surprised that it has become Gomez’s highest-charting song. She has never climbed higher than #5 before now, yet this track made it all the way to #1. It held the top spot for one week before dropping to #5 on this week’s chart.

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Song of the Day #3,477: ‘Bad Liar’ – Selena Gomez

Selena Gomez taps into the acting chops she honed during her years on Wizards of Waverly Place for her ‘Bad Liar’ video.

Gomez plays four roles here, including a high school student, the girl’s mother and father, and a female gym teacher. This thing has a plot worthy of a telenovela: the girl has a crush on the gym teacher, with whom her father is having an affair seemingly with her mother’s knowledge.

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