Selena Gomez’s new music is about secret romances and ‘experiences I’ve had that people don’t know’

Grammy nominee Selena Gomez revealed she’s written 12 new songs that she loves, which are about secret romances and other private experiences.

‘To be honest, I’m now telling stories that people don’t know,’ the 30-year-old ‘Texican’ pop star told Zane Lowe onstage LA’s Apple Tower Theatre last Friday.

‘People I’ve dated that people don’t know. Experiences I’ve had that people don’t know. I’ve created this private life that’s just mine.’

Selena – who ended her 10-month romance with The Weeknd in October 2017 – has been rumored to be dating producer Andrea Iervolino as far back as 2019.

But Gomez is believed to have originally met the Italian 34-year-old way back in 2015 when he produced James Franco’s dismally-reviewed box office bomb In Dubious Battle, in which she played Lisa London.

‘This has been very weird and tricky because I’m no longer in sad girl world, if that makes sense. And it is kind of all I’ve known,’ the Calm Down singer explained.

‘And that sounds kind of bad, and obviously not all of my music is that. Obviously, I want it to be fun, but I’ve been having a hard time, honestly. I’ve definitely written and have at least 12 songs that I do love, but I don’t know if I just don’t feel confident with it yet for some reason.

‘And I want to continue to keep getting better so that I don’t, obviously, don’t want to go back. I want to be able to be forward thinking and give myself a whole new lane, and just try it. So I’ve been experimenting a lot, but it is getting closer. It’s just a bit frustrating…I want to dance, Zane, so bad because I need to.’

Selena’s newest song shares the name of Alek Keshishian’s critically-acclaimed documentary Selena Gomez: My Mind & Me, which premiered last Friday on Apple TV+.

‘There’s just so much bottled up, and I think that I do a good job, hopefully, of being cautious and being aware of other people’s feelings. And I’m very vague, and I can be very politically correct,’ Gomez said of the track.

‘And in my music, I get to really say what I feel. And I think that’s why this song means so much to me, and in a different way than any of my other songs only because I’ve attached this to my mental health and I’m addressing what it is. I mean, it’s completely cathartic for me and I think it goes so well with the documentary.’