Selena Gomez’s fourth studio album is prepared for the recording studio. Speaking with “Only Murders within the Building” cocreator John Hoffman and Anthony D’Alessandro of Deadline’s “Crew Call” podcast on May 23, Gomez revealed that her full-time return to tv – together with her function on the comedic murder-mystery collection and her internet hosting gig on HBO Max’s “Selena + Chef” – hasn’t stopped her from creating new music. “I simply completed season 4 of my cooking present and I’m in LA engaged on my album now,” she stated, confirming that “S4,” a follow-up to her 2020 album, “Rare,” is formally on its means.
On July 6, Gomez teased followers by sharing a TikTok video of herself within the recording studio. “New,” she captioned it.
“I’m so used to writing sad-girl songs as a result of I’m good at that, however I’m able to have some enjoyable, and I feel persons are going to love it.”
On Dec. 5, Gomez additionally made an look on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon,” the place she confirmed fan hypothesis about her upcoming album. “Mm-hmm, that is correct. Finally,” she replied when Fallon requested if her “My Mind & Me” single was a sign of recent music to come back. “I’m so used to writing sad-girl songs as a result of I’m good at that, however I’m able to have some enjoyable, and I feel persons are going to love it.” Gomez additionally revealed that she’s been exhausting at work within the studio at 30 Rockefeller Plaza in New York City.
News of Gomez’s upcoming album comes one yr after the singer hinted at “retiring” from music to present herself a possibility to pursue different passions. “I feel there are lots of people who take pleasure in my music, and for that I’m so grateful, for that I preserve going, however I feel the subsequent time I do an album it will be completely different,” Gomez stated in her Vogue 2021 cowl story. “I need to give it one final strive earlier than I possibly retire music.”
The new album might be Gomez’s first solo launch since her 2021 Spanish EP, “Revelación.” In August 2020, the singer additionally launched an “Ice Cream” collab with Okay-pop big Blackpink. She adopted the candy single with “999,” a 2021 collab with Camilo, and “Let Somebody Go,” a 2022 collab with Coldplay. With so many nice musical partnerships below her belt, we absolutely anticipate some badass artists to land options on the brand new album.
During the “Crew Call” interview, D’Alessandro additionally questioned whether or not Gomez would contemplate a singing scene in “Only Murders within the Building,” to which the star replied, “I need to be sort of cautious. I like being Mabel and I like that she’s an extension of me however she is not essentially me. Sometimes my fear – to not say that I’m against it in any means, form, or type – is that it’d flip right into a pop-star factor, and that is clearly not me. [But] I’m not opposed.”
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