4 years after dropping her emotional monitor “Lose You to Love Me,” Selena Gomez is revisiting the track in a uncooked video.
“Making of … me attending to know myself,” the singer, 30, wrote in a TikTok video shared on Monday, July 17.
Gomez went on to preemptively tackle criticism of her voice, writing: “This isnt [sic] the best i do know so i hope nobody minds me turning the feedback off for my head however this was the most effective, most honest moments with lose you to like me.”
Within the candid video, Gomez recorded herself creating the monitor whereas seated at a piano. “You promised the world and I fell for it / I put you first and also you adored it / Set fires to my forest / And also you let it burn / Sang off-key in my refrain / ‘Trigger it wasn’t yours,” she sings within the clip. “I noticed the indicators and I ignored it / Rose-colored glasses all distorted / Set hearth to my goal / And I let it burn / You bought off on the hurtin ‘/ When it wasn’t yours.”
The video ends with Gomez taking a deep breath earlier than starting to sing the track’s refrain, which fits: “We’d at all times go into it blindly / I wanted to lose you to search out me / This dancing was killing me softly / I wanted to hate you to like me, yeah.”
Although Gomez didn’t specify when the video was initially recorded, she penned the track following her break up from ex-boyfriend Justin Bieber. They ended issues for good in Might 2018 and Justin moved on together with his now-wife, Hailey Bieber (née Baldwin), that June.
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“The track was impressed by Selena’s breakup from Justin, however it could be incorrect to say it’s completely about Justin,” a supply solely advised Us Weekly in October 2019. “It’s truly about lastly having the ability to love your self and transferring on from a poisonous relationship.”
The monitor earned Gomez reward from not solely followers however her superstar mates. “This track is an ideal expression of therapeutic and my absolute favourite track she’s put out but,” Gomez’s BFF Taylor Swift wrote through her Instagram Story in October 2019. “A triumph. I really like you a lot @selenagomez.”
Niall Horan — whom Gomez was romantically linked to up to now — additionally praised the previous Disney Channel star by commenting two coronary heart emojis on Gomez’s Instagram publish in regards to the track.
Gomez opened up in regards to the writing course of behind the track in her 2022 Apple TV+ documentary, My Thoughts & Me. “I texted Julia Michaels and Justin Tranter and mentioned, ‘I feel I’m prepared to simply say I’m unhappy.’ … The quickest track I’ve ever written. It’s about greater than only a misplaced love. It’s me studying to decide on myself, to decide on life, but additionally hoping that individuals can discover grace and peace in that too,” she shared. “The track is about realizing that you just utterly misplaced each a part of who you might be simply to rediscover your self once more.”
She continued: “I really feel haunted by a previous relationship that nobody wished to let go of, however then I simply moved previous it. And I wasn’t afraid anymore. I really feel like I needed to undergo the worst potential heartbreak ever, after which, simply forgetting every part on the drop of a hand, it was actually complicated. However I simply suppose that wanted to occur. And in the end, it was the most effective factor that ever occurred to me.”
