Selena Gomez Seemingly Confirms New Album Isn’t About Justin Bieber
Selena Gomez seemingly clarified that the songs from her and fiancé Benny Blanco’s new album, I Said I Love You First, were not about her ex-boyfriend Justin Bieber, despite what fans might think.
“Anytime I release anything the interpretation is going to be up to the audience. However, I would like to say that most of this album has nothing to do with what everyone may go to,” Selena, 32, said during an interview alongside Benny, 37, for Spotify’s Countdown To I Said I Love You First on Wednesday, March 19. “I’ve evolved so much and I have experienced life with new people. I’ve had to go through transitions with friends and lose people in my life and gain new people and I’ve had a whole new life forever. So, it’s up for whatever people want, but to me it was about both of our pasts and our history and also just inspired by friends and relationships.”
Selena said that while the interpretation of her songs was “for whatever people want,” but for her it was about both hers and Benny’s “past” and their “history.”
The “Love You Like a Love Song” singer continued, “Some songs were actually meant about friendships in my life, and I think that’s what, to me, the album was about. I just wanted to get that out there because that was very important to me.”
Upon the album’s release, fans rushed to dissect the lyrics of her new tracks and they believed a few songs were traced back to her relationship with Justin, 31.
In “You Said You Were Sorry,” Selena sings about an unnamed ex, “Don’t think about you/Happy without you/More now than I ever was.”
She continues in the chorus, “But I had a dream/You said you were sorry, said you were sorry/Sorry for everything/That you put on me, that you put on me/Our eyes were bawling rain/We finally both forgave ya/I had a dream, that’s all it was/Yeah, that was enough for me.”
Other songs from I Said I Love You First that perked fans’ ears up were “How Does It Feel To Be Forgotten” and “Don’t Wanna Cry.”
“Selena Gomez dropping an entire album shading Justin Bieber is exactly what i‘d do if i was a singer,” wrote one fan on X.
Another person added, “Selena Gomez writing about Justin Bieber with her current fiancé is kinda crazy but the songs are great so.”
Justin and Selena dated on and off over the course of eight years before finally calling it quits for good in 2018. That same year, the “Love Yourself” artist began dating Hailey Bieber (née Baldwin) and thus sparked an ongoing feud that consistently gets reignited by fans whenever they perceive a slight from one party or the other. Even after Justin married Hailey, 28, in 2018, the fans still weren’t convinced that he had truly moved on from Selena.
Selena confirmed that she and Benny were an item in December 2023, and one year later, he proposed. The Wizards of Waverly Place alum shared the good news via Instagram by showing off a photo of her ring and writing, “Forever begins now…”