Selena Gomez and Benny Blanco have released their new album, I Said I Love You First.
The 15-track album – released through SMG Music, Friends Keep Secrets and Interscope Records – is the couple’s first collaborative album. It chronicles and celebrates the couple’s love story, coming together “organically as a direct result of the comfort that they both felt when working together creatively,” according to a release. The couple announced their engagement late last year.
I Said I Love You First includes the latest music video from the pair, “Younger and Hotter Than Me.” The cinematic and melancholy video follows Gomez around a studio lot, seemingly reflecting on her life of young stardom. The video often finds Gomez returning to an abandoned set on a sound stage.
“When you’re young and a star, and you’re thrown into this whirlwind of being so many people’s favorite thing in the world, eventually, people find new things to hold. They find new things they can pick up,” Blanco said in a behind-the-scenes video released Thursday ahead of the album’s release.
“You’re kind of left in this world where you’re kind of in limbo,” he continued. “You’re either going to make it to this next chapter in your life or you’re going to fade off into obscurity. It’s a lot of pressure, I feel, put on people at such a young age.”
Gomez asserted that “Younger and Hotter Than Me” could have many different meanings. “I think that’s how I feel,” Gomez said in the behind-the-scenes video. “It reflects kind of everything I’ve felt before, if that makes sense. I’m so bad at parties. I’m socially awkward. I sit in the corner and talk to the one person who’s usually alone. I don’t feel like I’ve always fit in.”
Gomez and Blanco have already released three singles – “Scared of Loving You,” written by the couple and Finneas, “Call Me When You Break Up,” featuring Gracie Abrams and “Sunset Blvd.”
Charli XCX also collaborated as a songwriter on “Bluest Flame,” the album’s eighth track. “She has such an amazing way of putting you in an immediate zone. It’s cool because one of our first songs [Gomez and himself], probably like 11 years ago or 10 years ago, was ‘Same Old Love’ and we did that with Charli too,” Blanco said in an interview with Spotify’s Countdown To series.
Watch the couple’s latest music video for “Younger and Hotter Than Me” below. The album is available to stream on Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music and more.
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