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24-03-2025
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Selena Gomez and Benny Blanco's Adorable Valentine Album
Here's a toast to the happy couple. For Selena Gomez and Benny Blanco, turning their love story into an album is the least they could do. I Said I Love You First is a valentine that delivers exactly what it promises — a pop icon and a superstar producer celebrating a real-life romance that we all can root for. As Selena once sang, it's just like the Battle of Troy — there's nothing subtle here. These two crazy kids are young, they're in love, and they can't keep their hands to themselves — well, they could, but why would they want to? Selena and Benny really had no choice but to make this album, since they've already consummated their romance in the most public and official way — eating spicy wings on their instant-classic episode of Hot Ones. (Benny, after tasting the Sicilian Scorpion sauce: 'I feel like I would have crumbled without her.' Selena: 'You DID crumble.') More from Rolling Stone Rhiannon Giddens Has Complicated Feelings About Playing on 'Cowboy Carter' Selena Gomez and The Marias Sampled a Classic by Spanish Singer Jeanette. She Says It's 'Gorgeous' Selena Gomez, Jessica Simpson, Japanese Breakfast, and All the Songs You Need to Know This Week But there's a long pop tradition of valentine albums like this: who can forget when Cher and Gregg Allman made their newlywed album together as Allman and Woman, Two the Hard Way? Or John Lennon and Yoko Ono making entire albums where they did nothing but sigh each other's names for minutes at a time? Beyoncé and Jay-Z taking over the Louvre for Everything Is Love? So why shouldn't Selena and Benny celebrate their passion with songs about getting naked in the middle of Sunset Boulevard and touching in the summer rain? Selena and Benny have worked together since long before they fell in love, and their musical chemistry is a crucial part of her story. Ten years ago, he was there when she found her adult voice on Revival, one of the era's most innovative and influential pop albums. She spent that album getting a load of the poison bad-relationship mojo out of her system, but hey, now ain't the time for your tears about whatever our girl might have suffered in her past romantic history, because as her pal Taylor likes to sing, all's well that ends well. Since Revival, her music output has been sparing — her 2020 comeback Rare and her 2021 Spanish-language EP Revelacion. But she's just kept building her legend as one of the most universally beloved of pop icons, the one who did a cooking show from her mansion, Selena + Chef, based on the premise that until then she'd never even set foot in her own kitchen. She also revved up her acting career with Only Murders in the Building, stealing scenes from no less than Steve Martin and Martin Short. Remember just last month when the team won at the Screen Actors Guild Awards, and Selena announced, 'Marty and Steve aren't here because, you know, they don't really care'? Who else but Selena could give that line such an angel-face knife twist? I Said I Love You First is crafted as a story spanning the years — it begins with a recording of the young Selena giving her weepy speech at the wrap party for The Wizards of Waverly Place, when she was just a Disney child star. The couple invite plenty of their famous friends along, teaming up with Finneas for 'Scared of Loving You' ('If I lose my shit, promise not to laugh/If I throw a fit and get photographed'). Gracie Abrams bonds with Selena in the boppy pop-rock duet 'Call Me When You Break Up.' There's even 'I Can't Get Enough,' a years-old collab with J. Balvin and Tainy that already charted back in 2019. The album peaks in the middle with a trio of bangers starting with 'Sunset Blvd,' a romantic fantasy of coupling in the middle of the street until the cops arrive to pry them apart. Selena serenades Benny with lines like 'Woman of few words, but for you I'd keep my mouth wide open.' It builds up to the Austin Powers-style raunch of the chorus where she pants, 'I want that big, big, hard…heart!' 'Cowboy' is a sensually lazy sex-on-the-range ballad, one of the album's many tributes to Lana Del Rey, then takes a comic swerve at the end with an out-of-nowhere filthy guest rap from Glorilla. 'Bluest Flame' is their fantastic disco reunion with longtime collaborator Charli XCX, who makes the song feel like a very Brat wedding toast. 'We live in a cruel world, Benny,' Selena informed her man on Hot Ones. So true, but Selena and Benny are doing their best to make it a little less cruel with the hopes and dreams of I Said I Love You First. Let's hope we get many sequels to this album over the years to come, because the world needs all the uplifting pop-star love stories we can get. Best of Rolling Stone The 50 Greatest Eminem Songs All 274 of Taylor Swift's Songs, Ranked The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time
Yahoo
20-03-2025
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Selena Gomez Goes Nonverbal and Takes a Lap on 2nd ‘Hot Ones' Appearance: ‘Why Do People Do This?'
Selena Gomez was at a loss for words and even had to take a lap around the room taking after taking a bite out of 'Da Bomb' sauced wings during her second appearance on 'Hot Ones' with fiancé Benny Blanco on Thursday. 'I hate you so much,' Gomez said to host Sean Evans as he explained the next interview game. The two appeared on the wing-eating talk series to promote their upcoming joint album 'I Said I Love You First.' The couple's next task was to answer questions related to their relationship and their work as musicians. 'Which of my songs, not including the ones we have made together, is all-time favorite?' Gomez read from bucket of questions, garbling her words as she tried to manage the spice of the wings. 'Um, my brain, it just keeps going, 'Oooo,'' Blanco said as he got a gentle nudge from Gomez to hurry up. 'Will you answer the damn question, answer it,' Gomez urged him. 'Ah, 'Good For You,'' Blanco replied. Visibly uncomfortable, Gomez was then seen fanning her hands and trying to keep focus. But eventually, the singer-actress got out of her seat and paced the room in an attempt to collect herself. 'I have to stand up,' Gomez said. 'Yeah, go ahead. Take a lap, take a lap,' Evans told her. It was then Gomez's turn to answer a question about Blanco. 'What would you say my most underrated song is? You don't even know my songs,' Blanco said to Gomez who was rubbing a napkin on her tongue to cool it down. 'What just came out of your nose? What was that?' 'It was my mouth,' Gomez responded as she sat back down. 'God, I'm such a little baby … I don't know, I don't know what song you would have done. I'm sorry, babe. All your songs are amazing … I also don't think I care about anything.' The couple moved on, and by this point, Gomez appeared to have settled in. The next sauce was the 'Sicilian Scorpion.' While Evans said the sauce would not be as devastating as the last, Gomez still struggled. However, the actress straightened up out of fear that viewers would say she was being extra. 'I'm going to stop being this way because everyone's going to go, 'She's being so dramatic.' I can already read the comments. OK. Fine. I'm cool,' she said. In response to Blanco, who appeared to be confused by Gomez's remarks, she said: 'We live in a cruel world, Benny.' In the middle of Blanco detailing his favorite cookbook, the camera zoomed in on Gomez who was in deep thought, breathing heavily and even had to wipe away a tear. 'You had more,' Gomez said. But they made it to the end of the gauntlet. Evans' last question: 'Do you think this experience will have a positive impact on the relationship or cause strife? Like, do you think couples should go through the Hot Wings gauntlet together?' 'I think it would be so fun to do with your partner. You might hate them after but,' Gomez answered. 'No, honestly I feel like having her by my— I feel like I would have crumbled without her,' Blanco said. 'Honey, you did crumble,' Gomez replied. 'Look at me, I did another bite — a double bite!' Blanco said. 'Never mind, couples … don't play this game,' Gomez said as the show closed out. You can watch the full 'Hot Ones' episode in the video above. The post Selena Gomez Goes Nonverbal and Takes a Lap on 2nd 'Hot Ones' Appearance: 'Why Do People Do This?' | Video appeared first on TheWrap.
