Selena Gomez appears to have thrown jabs at Justin Bieber on her new album, “I Said I Love You First.”
On a track called “How Does It Feel To Be Forgotten,” the pop star sings, “You’re so embarrassing / Go cry when no one’s watchin’ / I can’t imagine it / How does it feel to be forgotten (Ah), forgotten? (Ah-ah).”
Although the lyrics are open to interpretation, Bieber, 31, has publicly shed a few tears on social media.
Gomez, 32, also sings on the melodic track, “‘Cause you walked in, big-ass grin / Talkin’ like we’re friends, honey, what were you thinkin’? / He loves me, I love him / Look at you, just look at you now.”
According to lyric breakdown site Genius.com, the phrases “Look at you, just look at you now” are “similar interplay on words” used in her 2020 song “Look at Her Now,” which was believed to be about her breakup from Bieber two years prior.
The former Disney star and “Baby” singer had a storybook romance when they first started dating in 2010. They split for the first time in 2012, but were then on and off for a while until they called it quits in 2015.
Gomez and Bieber rekindled their romance one last time from 2017 to early 2018 but broke up for good over “trust issues.” The “Sorry” singer then married Hailey Bieber in September of that year.
Because of all the back and forth between the former couple, some also believe that Gomez references her rocky romance with Bieber on “Don’t Wanna Cry” off her fourth studio album.
She sings on the track, “Left the door wide open for the whole wide world to see you / Then you kiss her right in front of me like I’m not even there / I should cause a scene for s–t you’ve done to me / The saddest part is we both know that I would never leave.”
It is also believed that “Younger and Hotter Than Me” could be about the “Yummy” singer being stuck between two women, as she references an earlier time in her life in which she was younger and naive.
“Begging for more / X on my hand drawn in Sharpie / Now I use my own ID,” the lyrics state. The “X” on her hand allegedly references the stamp a person gets at a club when they’re underage, per Genius.com.
Gomez was only 18 when she first started dating Bieber and he was 16 years old.
Page Six has reached out to the “Only Murders in the Building” star’s rep for comment but did not immediately hear back. There has been no confirmation that the aforementioned songs are about Bieber.
Gomez also cautioned in an interview for Spotify, “The whole album isn’t just about my life.”
Speaking to her fiancé, Benny Blanco — who was also a producer and songwriter for the record — she added, “It’s about your experiences. Our experiences together.”
The “Calm Down” singer also pointed out later in the sit-down, “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.
“Some songs were actually meant [to be] about friendships in my life and I think that’s what to me the album was about, and I just wanted to get that out there because that’s very important to me.”
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