Selena Gomez is Releasing More Music! | Exclusive Interview

You know what's crazy is I actually took some time off last year. There was a lot happening in my personal life and I think creatively I'd felt a little stumped and when I went into the studio I've been recording for about a year and writing and working on new music and we had Bad Liar for about a year and it was more about just the timing of where I was and what I wanted my music to sound like and how I wanted it to feel different and separate from everything else. I was very much single when I was working on the song and I think I was missing that feeling. It's a story. It starts off telling exactly what you feel when you're in that initial rush of being into someone and I think that that feeling is something I've always been a sucker for because I just think it's addicting and it's beautiful and it's complicated and I loved that. So that's kind of the birth of it and then we're sampling one of the greatest bands of all time which is a lot of pressure but we got the blessing you know we sent it to David Byrne and the whole band liked it and it was it was a surreal moment. It was just kind of one of those moments where it happened. It was just you know Psycho Killer is an amazing song and the bass line is it's totally separate from what the actual song is but it is one of those things where it either works or it doesn't work and luckily in this case I think it came out really well and it did it justice and I really hope that you know some of my fans who maybe weren't really familiar with that kind of music would be introduced to that so it was exciting. I think the simplicity of the song you know for me I've always tried to figure out what separates me and I think I'm always constantly searching for that whether it's in film or acting or creative or content I've always tried to find what really makes me feel unique and I think the storytelling and how simple it is at the end of the day it's really just as a song that's talking about something very basic but it's beautiful and it's kitschy and I think that's what I wanted it to kind of capture. I think it's that feeling where it's like the beginning of it and I like the ohs it's not a traditional melody when you're singing the song I mean when I sing the song it's kind of you don't really catch on to it until you capture those moments it's like when you're walking down the street and then you think you see someone and then you don't that's like the story of my life because I'm on Instagram or I'm on my page or I'm on something and there's just those simple moments that capture you and can totally affect your day and I think that's something that a lot of people can relate to. I do yeah I kind of hovered away a little bit because I'm really trying to find the balance in my life I think it's really important for me to figure out what makes me happy and I don't really want to be all over the place I want to pick the things that I'm passionate about and I want to make them great and I think that's where I'm at in my life and in my career and so I take the moments for myself like I said I spent a year in the studio and now I'm putting all of these pieces together and it's coming a lot faster than people think but that's what makes it great is because there's a little mystery to it and it sounds so separate from everything else I've done I mean from the Kygo record to Bad Liar and the next thing that's after Bad Liar is so separate from that it's just it's me trying to figure out where it's going to go and I don't really have a set plan but a lot of new music is coming for sure