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Originally posted by Minty Mouth
I assumed that the situation might have been like this but never found any information regarding it. Is there an interview or something where she talks about it?
I can understand from a marketing point of view why they added her name, but I think that the mood has generally just relaxed into it being a solo deal.
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Yeah, actually. She did a series of videos showing the making of the album, and in one of them she says that the record company didn't want her to be in a band. So, Selena Gomez & The Scene was the happy medium. Also, in an interview at their record release party, she said she hoped the name would eventually go to being just The Scene or Selena & The Scene... Their wikipedia also says something about it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selena_Gomez_&_the_Scene
Also, as far as the mood relaxing into that, I've actually found that more people thought of it as a solo career than a band in the beginning, but now more people are starting to think of it as a band.
And I'll just add that at the very least, the band is always in the music videos. In "Round & Round" they were all spies, as well. Although, most people didn't notice...
Ahh, and one other thing, in an interview with, I think it was Jimmy Kimmel, he asked her if The Scene was her backing band, and she said "That's my band." So, she doesn't think of them as her
backing band.