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Celeb News: Spring Breakers put Selena on Interscope's radar!
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Spring Breakers put Selena on Interscope's radar!
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Selena Gomez Tilts the Disney Halo With ‘Revival’
As Ms. Gomez sings on the album’s opener:
“What I’ve learned is so vital/
More than just survival/
This is my revival.”
The run-up to the album had to be carefully considered:
The lead single, “Good for You,” featuring a sly verse from ASAP Rocky, is a statement of self-worth and sexual power as breathy come-on, conjuring none of Ms. Gomez’s ghosts. Only after its unexpected summer success — the mid-tempo song recently hit No. 1 on Billboard’s pop chart and landed at No. 5 on the Hot 100 — did Interscope release the more obvious single “Same Old Love,” a defiant but wounded kiss-off about a trampled heart.
When that was set to begin the campaign, “I was like, that’s not right,” Ms. Gomez said. “That’s not going to be my narrative. Not right now.”
“I’m growing and changing. I was in a relationship, and I was being managed by my parents, and I was still under Hollywood and Disney, and I was being held to this expectation of being the good girl.”
I knew deep down that this wasn’t what I wanted to do — being exhausted of forcing something that wasn’t right, even in my personal life. I had to have moments where I was crying and I was like, ‘Why am I not in love with what I do?’ I was forced to get very uncomfortable for a while in order to make the decisions I made.”
Even more liberating than leaving Disney, Ms. Gomez said, was letting her mother go as a manager last year, an experience she called “very awkward” and likened to “a kid going to college.” But suddenly decisions like posing almost naked on the cover of “Revival” became easier, she said.
Poised without seeming robotic, Ms. Gomez can also be a ball of nerves, making her perhaps the most earthbound of her generation’s Disney graduates (Miley Cyrus, Demi Lovato). She said she is prone to overthinking, endures episodes of “angst” and is extra-sensitive to uncomfortable situations.
Rather than shattering her Disney halo and leaving loyal fans, known as “Selenators,” behind, Ms. Gomez matured in fits and starts, always referencing her past eras.
In 2013, she starred in Harmony Korine’s “Spring Breakers,” a neon Florida fever dream of guns, sex and binge drinking, but she played Faith, the corrupted church girl with cherub cheeks and quivering lips, who runs away before things get truly deranged.
Her mother brought her the raunchy script. “She was like, ‘It’s the last season of ‘Wizards,’ and no one will hear about it — it’ll be underground and give you a lot of street cred,’ Ms. Gomez remembered. She laughed. “That’s not what happened.”
But the adult part played just enough against type, putting Ms. Gomez on new industry radars, including that of John Janick, now the chairman and chief executive of Interscope. “I thought it was the perfect thing for her to do,” he said of “Spring Breakers” — “a natural progression” without “completely abandoning what she came from.”
After Mr. Janick popped into a recording session to meet Ms. Gomez in 2013, the pair started a year of discussions about taking her music career in a similar direction. “It was always about empowering her the right way, but making sure you’re not jumping 10 steps ahead,” he said. Ms. Gomez’s album “Stars Dance,” released the same year by Hollywood, was another baby step toward an adult career and featured the Top 10 hit “Come & Get It,” her biggest song to date.
Before signing with Interscope in December 2014, Ms. Gomez took a bigger stride toward independence with a final, contract-fulfilling single for Disney. “The Heart Wants What It Wants” [another Top 10] begins with a tearful monologue and addresses her relationship with Mr. Bieber all but explicitly.
Her openness carried over to sessions for “Revival.” Along with producers and songwriters of the moment (the Max Martin acolytes Mattman & Robin, Hit-Boy, Benny Blanco), Ms. Gomez, who is listed as executive producer and has writing credits on six songs, worked with a slew of young women, including Charli XCX (“Same Old Love”), Julia Michaels (“Revival,” “Good for You”) and Chloe Angelides (the is-it-Bieber anthem “Sober”).
While avoiding speaking Mr. Bieber’s name, Ms. Gomez said she was heartened by their parallel successes. “While people were writing that I was stupid for being in it, this is what I always saw in him,” she said. “I’m like, duh!”
“In the last two years, I’ve seen Selena start to make her career her own,” Ms. Swift said. “She’s separated her opinion out and prioritized it above anyone else’s. Her childhood was defined by working hard, with the major business decisions primarily being made by others. The coolest part of watching her grow up has been seeing her gradually take the creative reins and start to steer the ship.”
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full @ http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/27/ar...=tw-share&_r=1
So she always knew Stars Dance/For You just had to be released, so she can be over with HWR since Spring Breakers. Didnt finish the Stars Dance tour too. She REALLY didnt like what they were offering her.
Spring Breakers!
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As Ms. Gomez sings on the album’s opener:
“What I’ve learned is so vital/
More than just survival/
This is my revival.”
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Stripped, ha power.
And I LOVE Spring Breakers.
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god i cant wait for Oct 9th.
OT: such a good article, love hearing her perspective and seeing how much she has matured. So proud of her 
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Loved this article. I need 10/9 to get here already!
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I think Spring Breakers will be a cult classic in the future, underrated film.
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It was already in many best movies lists. Including Rolling Stone if Im not wrong. And it broke records for indie movies, so yeah its AMAZING.
Hope Selena can top it with the upcoming roles! 
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Spring Breakers is easily one of the most unique and clever movies I have ever seen. Marketed as a Project X/21 and Over type movie but it was actually a dark, thrilling, and poetic piece of art. Selena did amazing in it.
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People are underestimating her power.
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Spring Breakers is one of my favorite movies of all time and the reason I became a Selena fan. Such a beautifully-made movie.
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"without completely abandoning what she came from.”
So she came from drugs, guns, drunken 3somes and robbery?... interesting.... 
EDIT:  yall calling spring breakers 'a piece of art' and 'beautifully made' a mess 
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Originally posted by Elliot
"without completely abandoning what she came from.”
So she came from drugs, guns, drunken 3somes and robbery?... interesting....
EDIT: yall calling spring breakers 'a piece of art' and 'beautifully made' a mess |
Have you seen the movie? Selena was the good girl. And it is an extremely well made film.
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Spring Breakers is such a great flim + will become a classic tbh
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Originally posted by Elliot
"without completely abandoning what she came from.”
So she came from drugs, guns, drunken 3somes and robbery?... interesting....
EDIT: yall calling spring breakers 'a piece of art' and 'beautifully made' a mess :jonny: |
Not when critics and many fans agree. You clearly aren't familiar with the director who makes art-house movies. Maybe you should read these to get a better understanding of the film:
http://imgur.com/gallery/AQGDC
http://openinterpretation.tumblr.com...-the-emotional
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Haters gonna hate.
Selena plays Faith. And the movie has enough praise & standing ovations tbh. 
Won a special award at the Venice Film Festival and nominated for a Golden Lion.
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Originally posted by Elliot
"without completely abandoning what she came from.”
So she came from drugs, guns, drunken 3somes and robbery?... interesting....
EDIT: yall calling spring breakers 'a piece of art' and 'beautifully made' a mess |
It's not for everyone but if you can't see the artistic value in it, especially from a technical standpoint, then you're simply missing out.
I've written like 5 essays on Spring Breakers for my film classes...there's so much to talk about in that movie. From the editing, to the lighting, to the cinematography, to the symbolism. You don't have to like it but there's much more to it than most give it credit for.
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Originally posted by ksmith
It's not for everyone but if you can't see the artistic value in it, especially from a technical standpoint, then you're simply missing out.
I've written like 5 essays on Spring Breakers for my film classes...there's so much to talk about in that movie. From the editing, to the lighting, to the cinematography, to the symbolism. You don't have to like it but there's much more to it than most give it credit for.
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The dedication. It's my second or third fave movie of all-time and I've wrote two essays on it. I would love to read them.
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Quite funny that I see you Elliot in a lot of Selenas threads, but cute at the same time that you try to keep with everything our fave does. What a dedication!
I'm really glad that she's signed with Interscope. Can't wait to hear Revival and I hope she does another iconic movie like Spring Breakers soon.
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Originally posted by Eluchi
Quite funny that I see you Elliot in a lot of Selenas threads, but cute at the same time that you try to keep with everything our fave does. What a dedication!
I'm really glad that she's signed with Interscope. Can't wait to hear Revival and I hope she does another iconic movie like Spring Breakers soon.
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Gurl its no secret i dont like her
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