9), a moody R&B- and rap-inflected pop record stacked with power collaborators like A$AP Rocky and Charli XCX, is her most spare and emotionally raw album yet. She also says that in the past year she signed with a new label (Interscope) and manager, wrapped five films (including The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving with Paul Rudd and The Big Short with Brad Pitt) and, for the first time, executive-produced her own album. With a voice that sounds as deep and rich as barrel-aged bourbon and a plucky sense of self-awareness, she tells me she’s fighting hard to be seen for her accomplishments rather than for her very famous ex, whom neither of us mention by name. After talking to the 23-year-old singer, actor and Pantene ambassador, there’s no doubt: Gomez is in control. A beautiful baby bird caught out in a storm-or at least that’s how I imagined her. It’s her adorable heart-shaped face, the way she sometimes tears up mid-performance, almost a decade’s worth of paparazzi footage in which she’s just trying to get to her car, guys, plus a tender and tumultuous young love played out in spectacular fashion at the dawn of the social media age. (Photo: Danielle Levitt Styling: Truc Nguyen)įew pop stars make you want to take care of them as much as Selena Gomez does.
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